Posted on 09/06/2014 10:09:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Personally I’d like to have my ‘55 Imperial back. Loved that car.
The father of a friend in high school had a Corvette, and he would let us drive it. But only in the circular driveway at his house, not on the street, and only while he was watching.
But, I drove a Corvette.
no such luck...
"Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it."
I have two friends who loaned motorcycles for joyrides with identical results—two wrecked bikes and two dead riders. My hard-and-fast rule? Don’t even ask unless I see you ride up on one yourself. Period.
My first car was a ‘62 MG Midget. I could never keep it running long enough or get it going fast enough for it to pose much of a risk to anyone ;’)
Anybody here read the article? The kid was 18 and the friend was 49. At 2:25 am. Weird.
This happened near my home town. It’s sad and I don’t understand why some posters (not you HT) are so callous. Teenage testosterone and fast cars make a dangerous combination...but no reason to be cruel. He was going to be an Army Ranger and now his life is over. RIP.
Who?????????????????????????
At least they had to do a bit of work to get to it.
Misleading headline. The real story is Samuel was a designated driver for a drunk relative. He was not a spoiled rich kid. It was not his car. Samuel was one of only three boys chosen on Long Island to be a Ranger in the Army. He was enlisted and set to leave October 1st.
She should’ve learned to tune those twin SU carburetors.
Did you know him? Sad story. He sounds as if he was a good young man, ready to serve our nation.
That’s exactly why I have a 94 Jeep instead of an F-16.
A quick stop store chain in the mountain west did a drawing a couple of years ago. The prize was a Lamborghini. A man in Utah won. He crashed it into a field within 30 minutes.
How FAST was he going ?!!
He could buy his own so the borrowing part is less likely.
“My first car was a ‘62 MG Midget. I could never keep it running long enough or get it going fast enough for it to pose much of a risk to anyone ;’)”
My first car was an 11 year old 1953 MGTD. I basically used it up in less than 2 years, engine parts in a cardboard box, etc.
I installed seatbelts, and would have put a roll bar on it some day. Our little sports car group raced throughout the hills of greater Lost Angeles area.
Friends had Sprites, MGAs, VWs, etc. We were in the hills, and the drag racing V8s were down on the flat, straight boulevards.
I actually used to refer to mine as a “Spridget” as it was the combination of power train out of the MG into a ‘62 Sprite body.
I only raced it once - against a Mini. I lost ;’)
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