Towing kids in the snow

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Dave Mellor NJ

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Kiddyville (or something like that) Texas.40 miles north of Beaumont. Unusual for Tx to have snow
 

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My Dad towed me on a sled around our snowy Colorado Springs neighborhood (~1954) when I was 5 or 6 with the Coupe I now drive. Of course, now he would be arrested for child abuse. He cautioned me to dig in my heels if the brake light came on, so I wouldn't slide underneath. He was an Army officer so he counted on me doing what I was told.
 
1950s era "sealed beam conversion" on that Coupe.

Today you'd almost be challenged to FIND the sealed beams to use with them.

Joe K
 
That's when kids went outside and had fun, whereas today's kids stay indoors for hours looking at their phones. My granddaughter spends 5-6 hours a day on the phone.
 
On the backroads in Montana, we used old car hoods for the sled and used a much longer rope than shown in this photo. I remember we spent most of the time in the barrow pit but man! was it fun..
 
If you were unlucky enough to be the closest one to the car you would get a snoot full of exhaust.
 
Looks like fun sledding behind a vehicle! Glad I grew up when I did as I could do a lot things that you cannot do today and survived. Go down to the creek with a .22 across the handle bars of my bicycle, go fishing, have real fireworks, purchase shells for shotgun and rifle without being 18, drink out of a water hose, etc..
 
That is Kirbyville, Tx. My part of the country when young, and before military. Do not get snow all that often. It was great getting snow and making snow cream. Hugh Brandon
 
Went "hookiebobbin" in Big Bear Lake, Ca in the '60's; on snow packed roads we wore smooth worn tennies & grabbed the rear bumper of passing cars for a fast ride. Guess we should all be dead for the dumb things we did as kids.
 
Ray in La Mesa said:
Went "hookiebobbin" in Big Bear Lake, Ca in the '60's; on snow packed roads we wore smooth worn tennies & grabbed the rear bumper of passing cars for a fast ride. Guess we should all be dead for the dumb things we did as kids.
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Did that as well on old Highway 40 in the California Sierra Nevadas in the 60s/70s. Nowadays the plows are out scraping the roads as soon as the snow starts falling. You don't know how to drive on roads with a little bit of snow on them, you shouldn't be there.
 
Hello, here in Erie ,Pennsylvania, we gotten plenty, come up and get some, no one will object!!Except snow plow operators!
 
Note the cover on the lower part of the radiator.
A few years ago it went down to 17 degrees F here in San Antonio. The car started right up, and I put a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator to help it warm up more quickly. The fan sucked the cardboard hard against the radiator, no attachments needed. I went back in the house to finish my coffee. When I came back out a few minutes later steam was pouring out from under the hood. I removed the cardboard and the steam stopped almost immediately.
 
Great pic, those were simpler (without computers or cell phones) times with lots of ways to have fun without spending any or much $. :)
 
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