.... behind the wheel of a truck.
Dec of 88' I was 21, on active duty and checking off base in San Diego for transfer to the east coast. The day im leaving I get a message to call my brother. Turns out he's loading in Salinas and I change my flight so I can take my first ride across country.
So we're cruising across I-80 in Nevada and he's demonstrating all the details of shifting a 13, using the jake, etc. Next thing I know he stands up while holding the wheel and tells me I'm driving. We do a quick switch, he drops into the pass seat and for the next hour-ish he has me going up and down through the gears and hitting every exit to get a feel for the brakes. THEN he crawls in the bunk!
So there I am. Never driven anything with more than 4 gears or bigger than a 1962 IH 2.5 ton dump.
1986 KW T600, 425 Cat, 13 spd.
And no, it was not the dumbest thing I've seen my brother do.in a truck.
Your first time....
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Back seat of a '54 Dodge
with a girl that would become my first wife.
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Hmmm, well I'll admit the first one didn't last very long, a bit over three years. But the second one, lasted 18 years. Seemed like 118 years.
Been 23 years, so far, and it just doesn't seem even remotely possible. Seems more like a year or so.
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