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Pretty sad when the taxpayers of one country are funding both sides' weapons...
Was my first thought, too. It should be Boomer, not Gen X (although my Mom was born in 1926, and she did plenty of rumble seat and pickup cruising, too), but that said, I always sat flat in the bed to avoid ejection when the driver pranked us with a bunny-hop. It was also just more relaxing to laze back against the bed wall than to perch on the wheel well.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr surveyor
In my much younger youth I was thoroughly chastised but not cited or arrested when I was going to jump from the back of one friends' pickup into the back of another friend's pickup. Don't know where the lawman came from, but he was quick with the lights. We were instructed to plant our backsides on the deck and keep them there.
In the mid-1950s when we were stationed in St. Louis, I “played Army” with a real BAR - it was a “bringback” from France by my dad in 1945.
It was a Belgian FN licensed copy of the Browning, but with a few modifications like the pistol grip and in 7.9mm.
We guess it was captured bythe Germans when they overran the Low Countries early in WW2, then recaptured by our GIs in ‘45.
Looked just like this one below.
It was pretty heavy lugging it around the woods behind our house, but nobody in the neighborhood gave it, or me, a second look.
Knew a guy in high school that had a 52 Chevy pickup. He and three other guys (2 I grew up with) took off down the road with 2 in the back. Never heard exactly what happened, but he went in the culvert and rolled it. One guy I grew up with broke his leg after ejection. One other guy broke his jaw. They had just got done asking me and a buddy of mine if we wanted to hop in the back and I remember we looked at each other. I don't know why common sense appeared at the right time, but we decided to pass. Could have been one of our luckier days..............I knew a couple crazy characters from down south that used to crawl from one car to another on the highway doing over 100.................Quote:
Originally Posted by Bawanna
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I love YouTube for how to fix a car, it doesn’t matter what is wrong there will be a couple dozen videos on how to fix the problem…..During this past winter my Silverado pickups heater switch messed up, had off and full high with nothing in the middle…..Found the fix on YouTube, seems it’s a common problem….Went to AutoZone and got a circuit board that plugged in under the dash and presto, my heat/air switch works again……It was a PITA for my old ass to get down there and contort myself to get to it but for less than twenty bucks I fixed it myself but without YouTube I wouldn’t of had a clue what the problem was……….
Most of those videos are 20 minutes of yakking and two minutes of fixing.