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LocuMob
Fluid Technician with a hat
I'm pretty sure they played that in my Driver's Ed class in high school, it was almost 35 years old by then.
patrick66
Old Man with a Hat
It was pretty effective in my Driver Ed class, that's for certain.
Surprisingly gruesome. I'm sure it had a better effect than what was taught in my day.
What is the black car that is pulled over by the copper at minute marker 4:40 ?
What is the black car that is pulled over by the copper at minute marker 4:40 ?
68PK21 440.6bbl
Old Man with a Hat
At first thought of the front bumper I thunk Buick but then the rear fins made me think Chevy, and within a minute of googly googly searching... BINGO! 1958 Chevy.
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That is a surprisingly good looking car. Especially with the bottom grill being slightly blacked out. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Old Man with a Hat
Thank God I never did Drivers Ed class and subject to this traumatic gore at such a young age, but by the time I got my M/C license there had been plenty of roadway death & gore all through the 50's & 60's in the pre-seatbelt days. I can still remember as a very small child peering out the back drivers side passenger window and seeing a dead body that had gone through the windshield laying on the hood of a car in the fast lane on the Interstate returning from a Thanksgiving weekend visit.
Seats belts saved my *** quite a few times... by the time I got my first Harley I had sworn off attending any more funerals of my classmates. One such younger not even in my class sister whose brother was killed on his Honda 450 I found out many years later always had animosity toward me because I was the 'cool' kid in school as I rode a motorcycle to High School and inspired her brother to get the Honda 450 which was a pretty quick bike for a beginner. Heck I was hardly ever in school as I was on the work study program and what the heck is so cool about a 1968 Bultaco 250cc Matador in 1970?
The real cool kid in school back then was a upper classmate Bobby (somebody) that had a brand new 1970 Harley-Davidson XLCH 'Boatail' Sportster, green colored one it was, rich kid.
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Seats belts saved my *** quite a few times... by the time I got my first Harley I had sworn off attending any more funerals of my classmates. One such younger not even in my class sister whose brother was killed on his Honda 450 I found out many years later always had animosity toward me because I was the 'cool' kid in school as I rode a motorcycle to High School and inspired her brother to get the Honda 450 which was a pretty quick bike for a beginner. Heck I was hardly ever in school as I was on the work study program and what the heck is so cool about a 1968 Bultaco 250cc Matador in 1970?
The real cool kid in school back then was a upper classmate Bobby (somebody) that had a brand new 1970 Harley-Davidson XLCH 'Boatail' Sportster, green colored one it was, rich kid.
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I did Driver Ed in my Junior year in High School. I think the move we watched was called "Mechanized Death" or something like that.
Driver Ed was after school and you got to drive once a week. No simulators or anything like that... Get in that new Rambler Ambassador (teacher called it Nash) and drive... We had three of us in the car, two of us could drive and the one girl in the car couldn't.... She put us on top of a snow bank once... She dropped out of school a couple weeks in (I think she was pregnant) and it was just the two of us and the teacher said he could relax a little.
Another student, not in our car, put the drivers ed car into the front of a bank one morning... Fortunately, before they were open.
Driver Ed was after school and you got to drive once a week. No simulators or anything like that... Get in that new Rambler Ambassador (teacher called it Nash) and drive... We had three of us in the car, two of us could drive and the one girl in the car couldn't.... She put us on top of a snow bank once... She dropped out of school a couple weeks in (I think she was pregnant) and it was just the two of us and the teacher said he could relax a little.
Another student, not in our car, put the drivers ed car into the front of a bank one morning... Fortunately, before they were open.
3175375
Senior Member
I saw this and thought of this thread. This is way cooler than the Rambler Ambassador we had.
patrick66
Old Man with a Hat
When I was in the HS driving course, we had the cool Chrysler-based single-seat simulators with the pistol-grip shifter and woodgrain steering wheel, that the district acquired in 1972. However, our actual car that we learned in was new 1975 Ford LTDs with 400 engines. Pretty loaded, too!
LocuMob
Fluid Technician with a hat
My school had abandoned the driving part, we had to find our own. I was lucky to drive a Geo Metro hatchback. Scared the crap out of the instructor as I dove into a cloverleaf at about 60. I brakes before he could reach his pedal, and I was only a few minutes from home, so I just laughed about it.
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King Hooter
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I don't remember any accident videos in my driver's ed. We did although have videos on rules of the road and safe operation. But then it was 1995 and the school had an Oldsmobile Achieva.
Just Carbs
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We had classroom and school parking lot driving. The classroom wasn't very good, don't remember any video, and I skipped the parking lot training part because the scheduling was way out into the future.
The shop teacher offered road training in a 350-auto p/s p/b Nova for $65. Supposed to have 20 or so hours behind the wheel, after 5 he said I was ready and that was that.
I don't remember much about the Nova performance except it was a handy size for the task and easy to drive.
The shop teacher offered road training in a 350-auto p/s p/b Nova for $65. Supposed to have 20 or so hours behind the wheel, after 5 he said I was ready and that was that.
I don't remember much about the Nova performance except it was a handy size for the task and easy to drive.
No simulators here... We had two driver ed cars that were shared with the other high schools in Syracuse.
The Rambler I was in was a brand new '70 and was fully loaded. The other car was a white, four door '69 Polara that looked like it's destiny would have been a taxi cab if it wasn't a driver ed car. It was lettered up with the dealer name (Sam Dell Dodge) and the Rambler wasn't lettered at all. The Polara was driven into the front of the bank across from school and totaled. I don't remember what replaced it or even if it was replaced.
The Rambler I was in was a brand new '70 and was fully loaded. The other car was a white, four door '69 Polara that looked like it's destiny would have been a taxi cab if it wasn't a driver ed car. It was lettered up with the dealer name (Sam Dell Dodge) and the Rambler wasn't lettered at all. The Polara was driven into the front of the bank across from school and totaled. I don't remember what replaced it or even if it was replaced.
Owen11x
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Fascinating watch while I'm driving .. lol
I had to work during drivers ed as it was only in the summer. If I wanted to go I would have needed to drive 7 miles of highway into town by myself to get there. But was working for a neighbor on the farm driving the grain trucks from the fields and a couple of miles to the grain bins. When I turned 16 I drove the car into town my self and parked it. Went into the courthouse, waited for the driver instructor, took him out to the car drove around town, came back, parallel parked in a too small of space successfully (I may have just touched the car behind me, but he didn’t notice or realized it was a pretty small space), did the final paperwork for my license, and drove back to work. I took my test with my brothers 73 Monte Carlo.
I didn't have any drivers ed. I read the book. Went out for a few drives with my paaw and then took the test.
After getting my third speeding ticket at 16 they made me take a light speeding class with slalom course and multiple threshold breaking tests. I aced it. Loved it. Taught me very early how to drive fast and not kill myself.
I think I took my test in an 87 Pontiac Grand Am.
After getting my third speeding ticket at 16 they made me take a light speeding class with slalom course and multiple threshold breaking tests. I aced it. Loved it. Taught me very early how to drive fast and not kill myself.
I think I took my test in an 87 Pontiac Grand Am.
I took driver ed because it got us a couple things. A substantial discount for insurance and you could drive at night at 16.
Just Carbs
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I took it because no drivers ed, no license.
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