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monkeyswrench said:
This one was always fun in high school...nobody asked to drive my truck 🤣
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When I'd stay at my aunt and uncle's when I maybe 6, I watched him shifting during drives then later, I'd go out to his garage and practice shifting his 'Three on the tree" '51 Chevy. This became a ritual I repeated over the years whenever I'd stay with them.
A few years later, at 14, my first "Official" job ever I was working for the state at as an electrician helper working for my dad's buddy Clive, setting up the pre-wiring for the booths and exhibits before the fair opened.
Boss man Clive inquired one evening if I could drive a jeep, of course my reply was, "SURE". So he tossed me the keys, gave me a list of items to load up, and sent me on my way.
Little did I know that the damned Jeep had this stick thingy and another stick thingy coming up through the floor. 🤔
Oh well, a few scary sounds later, a small leap in reverse, OOPS, not that one.😖 Finally lurching and jerking in the right forward direction and I was doing it with increasing confidence 🥳
Of course this was only allowed pre-fair with no civilian targets wandering about. 😁
Fast Forward two years, it's 1964, and I'm in High School Driver's training. It was so cool that our training car was a "Three on the Tree", '52 Chevy, and that was a car I already knew how to shift like a pro. 😂
Pretty crazy that back in '64 they were teaching Driver's Ed in HS using cars with stick shifts. I guess most high schools no longer offer driver's ed at all.
My grandson just finally got his license and will be 21 next month :oops: 😖 I hope some day he will crawl out of the protection bubble of mommy's skirt and home spoiling and grow up. 🤞🤦‍♂️ My voiced opinions have met angry opposition from his mom, so I've given up. 🤷‍♂️
 
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Flying model airplanes was not a straightforward activity in the past. One had to fuel the plane, charge the glow plug, flip the propeller, and exercise caution to avoid any potential harm to one's fingers.

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SoCalDave said:
Flying model airplanes was not a straightforward activity in the past. One had to fuel the plane, charge the glow plug, flip the propeller, and exercise caution to avoid any potential harm to one's fingers.

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Yup, and then experience the 2.78 seconds of joy as it lifts off the ground and immediately rolls over and nose dives 😂 One of the best RC planes I ever flew was an electric Styrofoam glider that would just explode on impact breaking rubber bands. We had to glue a couple pieces at times, but that thing could take a beating.
 
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t&y said:
Yup, and then experience the 2.78 seconds of joy as it lifts off the ground and immediately rolls over and nose dives 😂 One of the best RC planes I ever flew was an electric Styrofoam glider that would just explode on impact breaking rubber bands. We had to glue a couple pieces at times, but that thing could take a beating.
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Never got into planes as I had enough trouble with the cars😂
 
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Luvnlife said:
Never got into planes as I had enough trouble with the cars😂
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We had those Cox cars with the prop on them - we used to take the Cox engines and attach them to the back of a plastic truck or Jeep toy you’d find at the supermarket. It’s a good thing those props were plastic.
 
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My Dad was into those as a kid, mid 40's... He had 8 or 9 that he built that were still in great shape and they lived in a little loft above our garage every once in a while i could go check them out, he had dual engine planes some big sob's as well. We set one up for me and I crashed it right out of the gate so Pop showed me how it was done. Holy shit he was a bad ass at it, i still remember seeing the him smile as the little kid came out in him. Not sure if anyone here knew Ken Meyers of B&K boats, but he and my Dad met as kids flying planes. My Dad told me that Kenny always had the best looking planes and he felt bad because he could out fly him and they would dog fight and ken would go home and have to repair or rebuild.
 
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SoCalDave said:
Flying model airplanes was not a straightforward activity in the past. One had to fuel the plane, charge the glow plug, flip the propeller, and exercise caution to avoid any potential harm to one's fingers.

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Between my brother and I, we must have had around 20 planes over a few years - lots of crashes. They were as fun to build as to fly. All our paper route money went to the planes. I still remember the smell of airplane glue and of the "dope" we used on the paper wings. Probably can't get the same stuff any more.

We used to ride our bikes down to the Los Angeles river in Bell Gardens (all concrete there for those that don't know) and fly there when it was dry - which was most of the time. Salt Lake Park in Huntington Park reserved a section for model airplanes on Sunday mornings until noon. That reserved section was taken away as the do-gooders went after the engines - noise. I still have some of those engines.

In later years, Cox was forced to put in a restriction in the exhaust port to curb noise - curbed performance too. After that, actual mufflers on the bigger engines were required if you wanted to fly where it was still legal.

Had one Cox car that was a direct drive to the wheels. You had a line with weights and attach the car to the line. The car would run along the line until it hit the "Y" and the end. You'd push the wheels into the ground to stop the engine. Not as fun as the planes though.
 
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DunePilot said:
Between my brother and I, we must have had around 20 planes over a few years - lots of crashes. They were as fun to build as to fly. All our paper route money went to the planes. I still remember the smell of airplane glue and of the "dope" we used on the paper wings. Probably can't get the same stuff any more.

We used to ride our bikes down to the Los Angeles river in Bell Gardens (all concrete there for those that don't know) and fly there when it was dry - which was most of the time. Salt Lake Park in Huntington Park reserved a section for model airplanes on Sunday mornings until noon. That reserved section was taken away as the do-gooders went after the engines - noise. I still have some of those engines.

In later years, Cox was forced to put in a restriction in the exhaust port to curb noise - curbed performance too. After that, actual mufflers on the bigger engines were required if you wanted to fly where it was still legal.

Had one Cox car that was a direct drive to the wheels. You had a line with weights and attach the car to the line. The car would run along the line until it hit the "Y" and the end. You'd push the wheels into the ground to stop the engine. Not as fun as the planes though.
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My buddy's parents had $$$ and gave him a set of dragster that we would setup the lines on their tennis court. Man those things were a blast. We also did a lot of Estes Rocket launches and would adapt the largest propellants as we could stuff in them.
Ahhh the good lod days.

 
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