We had a bus driver just about pull a 180 in icy conditions in a circle just like this one once. I think several of us cheered and she giggled. I have to think that there she likely had a pretty big pucker moment.

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When you're a kid, and an adult looks like they are dying, that might be a cause for many kids to freak a bit.

Growing up in a rural/farm area....all the guys had driven for years before we had to take drivers ed.

The instructor for the four of us in his car slept about half the time while we drove...and the drivers ed cars were all '3 on the tree' cars.

I was certainly driving a car by 13 ... not on public roads, but private roads and long driveways, etc.

The first time that I ever drove, I was 13. It was in the winter in Japan with plenty of snow on the ground in a right hand drive car with a manual transmission. It was somewhat of a suburban rural kind of area. The idea of us getting into an accident in Japan did not please my dad, so he discontinued lessons until I was 15 and we were back in the US.

Driving a 3 on the tree truck on a farm at 13, tractors too. Even drove the old D2 Cat. But I wasn't allowed to drive the John Deere. For good reason. You can flip one of those straight over backwards on top of you more easily that one would think. Exposed flywheels on both sides makes one respect a JD. It was probably a 1955 model.

Don't know how we drift so much from the topic. What can you say? The kid was great, but it took him a minute to really grasp that the bus driver wasn't driving. But he did, that's enough.

"I'm an excellent driver."

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The exposed flywheel/starter on the left was enclosed just after WW II when John Deere went to 100% electric starting. The clutch/pulley on the right was a feature right up to the end of production.

The first tractor I drove was a Ford...don't know the model number.
It had a starter button on the floor pan.

I saw that many were enclosed. That could have been, actually. But the pulley for a flat belt drive was not, of course. Now I don't remember how the JD started but the D2 had a 2 cylinder gas motor that was started with a rope. Once warmed up a bit a clutch lever was moved to engage the 4 cyl deisel. Ran that for a moment to build oil pressure and open the fuel cock. Off and running, disengage the gas motor and shut it down. The thing ran for 10 hours or more when working the fields.

Me, I just drove around in circles until I was told I was messing up the grade of the farm land. Damn kids, you know.

They all probably know how to put up a Wordpress site, though.

Great job, kid! I wonder if he's a Scout?