Anybody else have a field car when growing up?

[Tcoat]

About 8 years old my dad bought a Universal Carrier at auction. Took till I was 10 for us (I turned more wrenches then he did on it) to get it going. He sold it for about 20 times what he paid for it when I was about 16.
It made it's own trails through the bush!

Like this but not nearly so pretty in peeling red paint, huge rust spots and about 30% of the parts missing!

[TylerLieberman]

I had a Subaru WRC R/C car that I used to play with in the neighborhood or the park behind the house.

The good ol' days.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Special_K

...So yea, fuck you Ultramaroon for your rally track/drag strip. Hah!

There should be the LOTD (Laugh Of The Day) if there isn't already. It's early still but I'm pretty confident it will be you. My sides hurt and my coworkers are annoyed.

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Wait, you had a grass airstrip!?! Now I'm totally jealous.

I also had to mow it. Sunrise-sunset once a week driving the old Ferguson TO-30. You pulled hay balers so you know the feeling.
Do you feel like that off-road d!cking around helped you gain a better intuition. Not in the sense of being a track hero, but just that "feel?"

Originally Posted by Ashphalt_Angel

I wouldn't say I had a "field car" exactly but my mom had an 87 or 88 Mazda Mx6 that I learned how to drive in the cow fields behind my grandmothers house in Georgia. Me being from New York that was a really new experience. I was about 12 or 13 when I started driving.

Did you get to really wring it out?

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

It made it's own trails through the bush!

<giggity>

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I also had to mow it. Sunrise-sunset once a week driving the old Ferguson TO-30. You pulled hay balers so you know the feeling.
Do you feel like that off-road d!cking around helped you gain a better intuition. Not in the sense of being a track hero, but just that "feel?"

Absolutely. My Grandfather's farm in KY was seriously hilly, when you start bouncing up and down those hills in a tractor that could roll over and kill you at any minute, you learn to "feel" things through the ol' sphinctermeter.

[cdrazic93]

I learned how to drive when i had just turned 15, my dad let me drive his 89 chev pickup. i learned how to drive a stick and all was well. a few weeks later i came back to my dad and said the back end was swinging out from under me when i was going around corners, so my dad rode along with me for a test run. Turns out youre not supposed to take corners at 30 miles an hour? quick way to scare the shit out of your dad too lol. He fixed it by dropping a few sandbags in the back

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Absolutely. My Grandfather's farm in KY was seriously hilly, when you start bouncing up and down those hills in a tractor that could roll over and kill you at any minute, you learn to "feel" things through the ol' sphinctermeter.

Yessir! Oooo, respect for those machines.

Come to think of it, the Piper Cub was the same. Point-to-point flying bored me to death but my mom taught me well. Dead-stick/spot landings, loops, spins, etc.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by cdrazic93

I learned how to drive when i had just turned 15, my dad let me drive his 89 chev pickup. i learned how to drive a stick and all was well. a few weeks later i came back to my dad and said the back end was swinging out from under me when i was going around corners, so my dad rode along with me for a test run. Turns out youre not supposed to take corners at 30 miles an hour? quick way to scare the shit out of your dad too lol. He fixed it by dropping a few sandbags in the back

That's so funny. A family friend let me drive his pickup when I was on my learner's permit. He freaked when I approached a corner a little too hot for his comfort and gave me a serious dressing-down over it.

I was very respectful but to this day all that comes to mind is "What a pu55y."