The Old Blue West

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Posted by: @jack-dodds

@perrone1 Rowdy's critics say the only reason he got the part was because he could drive a 4-speed.

That Clint; because of him, I took my driver's test with a 4-speed as well! Them's were da days!!

a corvette most likely......Ehhhhh Tony ?............a handful of years later,I took my test in a refitted Bake-o-Mat

@john-barry a handful of years later,I took my test in a refitted Bake-o-Mat

Hmmmmmm.........I smell something in the air with this comment JayBee and it ain't bread baking!

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Posted by: @jack-dodds

@perrone1 Rowdy's critics say the only reason he got the part was because he could drive a 4-speed.

That Clint; because of him, I took my driver's test with a 4-speed as well! Them's were da days!!

a corvette most likely......Ehhhhh Tony ?............a handful of years later,I took my test in a refitted Bake-o-Mat

No John, my first Corvette didn't come along until 1971 when I bought a 1972 convertible. I took my driving exam in this car:

@perrone1 ...........I know,that I would have relished the opportunity to saw such an event

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@perrone1 ...........I know,that I would have relished the opportunity to saw such an event

Relished...LOL! I actually learned, and then took my driver's test, in mom's car; an automatic.

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Posted by: @john-barry

@perrone1 ...........I know,that I would have relished the opportunity to saw such an event

Relished...LOL! I actually learned, and then took my driver's test, in mom's car; an automatic.

thank you for coming clean Tony........we`ll suspend the witness inquiries at once

I (actually) tested in the plain vanilla `61 Fairlane that would eventually become my first car....  

Posted by: @john-barry

I (actually) tested in the plain vanilla `61 Fairlane that would eventually become my first car....  

And that was a GREAT first car to have! My first was a 1930 Ford model A that I worked on for a year before selling it and buying a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 2-door. I had my license by then (at 15, in Florida 1962) I traded it in 1964 for a new '64 GTO - my first four-speed stick. Most of my cars from then on were stick shift trans.

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Posted by: @john-barry

I (actually) tested in the plain vanilla `61 Fairlane that would eventually become my first car....  

And that was a GREAT first car to have! My first was a 1930 Ford model A that I worked on for a year before selling it and buying a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 2-door. I had my license by then (at 15, in Florida 1962) I traded it in 1964 for a new '64 GTO - my first four-speed stick. Most of my cars from then on were stick shift trans.

crikey !!!!   your formative years seem to have rivaled that of the Disney Mouseketeer Kids .....in 1962,in a good week,I might have squirreled away enough to go halves on a Rolo Bar with Timmy Waspinski🤔 

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Posted by: @john-barry

I (actually) tested in the plain vanilla `61 Fairlane that would eventually become my first car....  

And that was a GREAT first car to have! My first was a 1930 Ford model A that I worked on for a year before selling it and buying a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 2-door. I had my license by then (at 15, in Florida 1962) I traded it in 1964 for a new '64 GTO - my first four-speed stick. Most of my cars from then on were stick shift trans.

crikey !!!!   your formative years seem to have rivaled that of the Disney Mouseketeer Kids .....in 1962,in a good week,I might have squirreled away enough to go halves on a Rolo Bar with Timmy Waspinski🤔 

LOVE the photo! That Waspinski kid ALWAYS took way more than half of everyone's Rolo's.

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Oh yeah! Out West I recall many an Isetta used during round-up time. Especially the blue ones. The cattle don't see the color blue as a threat. They think they are following a Blue Little Doogie! 

Boy your comments sure triggered memories of that legendary cowboy ballad "Git Along Little Isettas".

"there`s a tree a-growin`on the hillside with a limb for all to see" is as close as we can get Jack

Gunslinger's Lament:

If yer gonna be a'killin'

Then one day you'll be a 'chillin'

From the hangin' tree

You've been pluggin' men of late

There's no doubt you'll get your date

With the hangin' tree

You draw fast....give men no chance

From a rope you soon will dance

At the hangin' tree

Say your prayers and sing a hymn

As your rope goes round the limb

Of the hangin' tree

You can strain with all your might

No one wins their final fight

With the hangin' tree