Pick up truck remembrance !
Bought my first truck off of Smokey Yunick in Daytona , about 1960 or 61 , cost 1,700 dollars , about a years wages for a 16 year old kid . Six cylinder GMC . About 1963 I saw mt first P.U. with an ...
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wanderingbob wrote:That's what we called it as well back in the sixties both the Dodge truck and the Rambler had three in the tree. It's what I learned to drive.
Got a kick out of my neighbor last year , called me up to teach her grandson how to shift a 3 speed , they called it 'three on the tree '.
Actually the first thing I drove was a farm tractor around 8 years old. I could not reach the brake or clutch without hopping off the seat. Was on Grandad's farm by Carl Junction MO.
The town I grew up in El Dorado KS was surrounded by ICBM's and the air force crews that maned them used crew cab Dodge pickups back in the sixties .
