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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
Posts: 48,908
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Had an Oregon learners permit shortly after my 15th birthday. Mostly drove Dad's Buicks with automatics. But I spent my 15th summer on a family friend's cattle ranch outside of Adin, California. There I leaned how to drive all sorts of machinery, from a John Deere to a chevy truck to a WWII surplus jeep. I got pretty good at double clutching that jeep by summer's end. Bucking alfalfa bales did toughen me up some as well.
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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