Winter driving, back in the day.

That's a lot more interesting to drive to work than your standard freeway trek
in a modern sedan!
Switching from winter to summer driving, after high school in Big Bear I went "down the hill" to junior collage in Victorville still driving the A fordor with no top. Coming home for the weekend it was over 100*, 50 miles across the desert & up the hill. I figured the only way to beat the heat was to set up in the wind. I sat on top of the front seat back, looking over the windshield with my arm resting on the edge of the top frame and steered with my feet! (Yes, up the up the back mountain grade too). It was a fun but stupid thing to do but I survived and luckily didn't run into any cops!
One other time I headed "up the hill" to home about midnight, the original A headlights being so dim I drove by the full moon light as it was a lot brighter, till another car came the other way, then I turned the headlights so he could see me.
I think some of us should be dead for all the youthful shenanigans we pulled!
 
Ray, Great story!!!
Despite the cosmetic flaws, you must have had a great running car.
 
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Ray in La Mesa said:
That's a lot more interesting to drive to work than your standard freeway trek
in a modern sedan!
Switching from winter to summer driving, after high school in Big Bear I went "down the hill" to junior collage in Victorville still driving the A fordor with no top. Coming home for the weekend it was over 100*, 50 miles across the desert & up the hill. I figured the only way to beat the heat was to set up in the wind. I sat on top of the front seat back, looking over the windshield with my arm resting on the edge of the top frame and steered with my feet! (Yes, up the up the back mountain grade too). It was a fun but stupid thing to do but I survived and luckily didn't run into any cops!
One other time I headed "up the hill" to home about midnight, the original A headlights being so dim I drove by the full moon light as it was a lot brighter, till another car came the other way, then I turned the headlights so he could see me.
I think some of us should be dead for all the youthful shenanigans we pulled!
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Driving up or down the backside via the Cushenbury Grade to or from Big Bear is always an "interesting" trip no matter what you're driving.
 
Yes, it was a fun challenging road no matter what the weather was too. I drove it twice a day for two summers to work at the Kaiser Permanente cement plant at the bottom of the grade t'ween high school & junior college.
 
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