Poney Racer Port of Entry

[Ozark Tracker]

haven't got a chance yet to try out our new pickup out in anything but the paved roads, have made a few trips down to the barns on the path behind the house, put it in 4 wd  never slipped a tire, out on the pavement it handles like a dream, just drives through the curves, no pull or roll, just turn the steering wheel.  

Tensleep tell Miss Annine, next time y'all come we'll take it down the Clarksville side of the mountain, it's almost like being on a fair ride.  but it sure holds the road good.

[Tensleep]

haven't got a chance yet to try out our new pickup out in anything but the paved roads, have made a few trips down to the barns on the path behind the house, put it in 4 wd  never slipped a tire, out on the pavement it handles like a dream, just drives through the curves, no pull or roll, just turn the steering wheel.  

Tensleep tell Miss Annine, next time y'all come we'll take it down the Clarksville side of the mountain, it's almost like being on a fair ride.  but it sure holds the road good.

I'll tell 'er, but you need ta know, she gits dizzy on tha kiddie Merry-go-round. 

[Arcey]

Thinkin' yer gonna like the thing the more ya drive it, OT. Mine is RWD with Toyota's version of  posi-traction. Wrong tires for it but I think 'Sleep'll tell ya I've been in some pretty nasty stuff with it.

That thing at Blue Ridge, weren't goin' all that fast. Drove off the road to the left 'n when I turned it back the ass end came out from under it. Weren't no savin' it.

[Tensleep]

Gotta say Arcey is right, our 2WD 'Yotas have been in some stuff an' come right out.

Lost River road ain't for tha faint of heart during or jist after a rain.

[Ozark Tracker]

this one has the posi tract and it also has another button up on the dash, locks the rear's, not quite sure about that, let me see if I can find the list of options and see what it's called.

[Ozark Tracker]

on the list of options, it just says locker rear diff.

hope ya can read this, it's the option list.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Arcey, I had an experience like yours in a '71 dodge Dart Swinger. Purty little car, green with the green vinyl roof, fake wood steering wheel. Had a 225 slant six with the two barrel carb. It drove really nice. I was headed into work one morning when we had a lot of freezing rain. I was tail end charlie of a bunch of cars. Head of the line hit his brakes and started to spin, everybody else did too, including me. Unfortunately, I was the only one near a parked car. Had to sit there and watch as the wheel was locked full left, the brakes were locked and I just kept going at the parked car. Watched the hood and right fender crumple up.. After the accident report, I went home to call my ins. agent, while inside on the phone, the frame broke just behind the right front wheel. End of car

[Texas Lawdog]

Better that it broke in your drivrway and not on the road.

[Delmonico]

I did one like that in my 86 Fury a few years ago.  Went somewhere with Rita, was a bit of drizzle, got to the bridge on Salt Creek on Cornhusker Highway, yep, it had froze, went sideways, took up both lanes, nobody on the bridge but me, got the front pointed back west and kept on going.  Rita looked at me and asked why I did that?

[Silver Creek Slim]

Rita looked at me and asked why I did that?

'Cuz it was fun.   

Slim

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Done a complete 360 on ice once with a Lincoln Mark VII, that really woke me up that morning. 

[Delmonico]

Wasn't the driver, but years ago before I was an upstandin' citizen my late friend Tom and I worked in Wahoo, up about 35 miles north of here.  It was his day to drive, he had an old 74 Rebel.  Well on the way home we stopped and picked up a six.  Was drizzelin' a bit, March I think.  Was about halfway back to Lincoln on 77 and into the second bottle, rollin' by the edge of a small town.  Had one of the old time gas stations on the left side, someone pulled out a little soon, Tom tried to slow, aw poop, it just had gotten colder, t'was froze.

The car was spinnin' on the Highwaqy in frontr of us and we wern't stoppin'.  Tom shoved the beer bottle 'tween his legs, got off the brake, did a left, made the drive, still goin' maybe 35, tried to straighten it out to go between the pumps and the building, nose ended up pointed the other way as we slid between the pumps and building.

Slide out of the station, hit the gravel road sideways, got traction, went right back on the highway in front of the car that pulled out in front of us.  We flipped him off, Tom handed me his beer and said to finish it, he didn't want no more till we got to town.   

[Arcey]

Bad feelin' when all ya kin do is wait for 'em ta stop.

Two or so in the mornin'. Got in the car with a fresh cuppa coffee. Nothin' goin' on. Hear a couple my troops get sumthin'. Headed that way. Lights up ahead. Junk in the road. Slow down. Someone yells 'STOP' o'er the radio.

Hear sumthin', 'CRUNCH'. Things get quiet. Lookin' it the apartments on the east side the street. Was headed south. They go outtah sight. Lookin' it where I'd come from.

BLAM!!

What the hell?!?!?

Coffee is all o'er everythin', includin' me. Paperwerk that WAS o'er the visors is floatin' in it. Car ain't runnin'. Turn the ignition off. Might as well turn the lights on. Hit the switches. Unbuckle. Try ta open the door, it won't. Hit it with my shoulder. WRONK – nasty noise – swings open.

The cars sittin' with the right side tires on the sidewalk, left sides in the curb, facin' north. Roof looks funny.  Got a big ole hunk ah cable strung from the front end to up high onna light pole. Car's (a built Ford Tough Junk Fairmont) body is buckled 'n the motor mounts busted.

'132, radio. Have a 10-30 involvin' PD at Princess Anne 'n Hampton. Need the Field Commander.'

'5 to that unit. Notify your supervisor.'

'132, 5, sir. It IS my supervisor.'

Some drunk had run off the road 'n took out an anchor for a guide wire cable. Cable hangin' in the street. Didn't see it. Hooked the push bumpers like a bass. Picked the car up 'n spun it 'round then dropped it.

Couple weeks later, Accident Board. Tell 'em what happened. The old farts on the board what weren't asleep were noddin' like they understood. Week later I get a letter of reprimand for my reckless operation of the vehicle.

I was soooooo pissed...........   

[Texas Lawdog]

That's a good story Arcey,  I'm glad that you survived in the Fairmont.  Man were those things POS.  We got some Taurus for the Warrant Division at the Sheriff's Office in 92.  Couldn't keep trannys in them and the front wheel drive didn't hold up very good.  We mostly have Cvs, some PU for the License and Wieght, and Tahoes for K9.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Before the Dart adventure, we had a 72 Hornet, low miles. Thing wasn't worth a tinkers dam in the snow. Wife wouldn't drive it, so I had to. One morning on the way to work after a pretty good storm, I hit a patch of black ice on a bridge on 77 north. Swapped ends, went into the median facing SOUTH bound traffic. Only thing that kept me from crossing completely over was the rear tire that the bead broke loose from the rim of the wheel. that flat saved me. We didn't have that Hornet much longer after that..................Buck

[Arcey]

Can't argue that POS comment, Tex. They were likely the most poorly engineered 'n dangerous cars I've ever driven.

Buck, be glad you were drivin' the Hornet. Couldah been werse.

[Delmonico]

Friend of my brother's had a Fairmont, nice fella, but kinda dumb.  Put his CB in under the dash, wouldn't work, Mike called my brother and took it over to him.  Brother added a wire from the radio chassis and to some metal, cardboard dash wouldn't give a ground.  Later Mike went over a rough RR track and kerchunk, radio on the flood with a chunk of the dash still bolted on.

[Texas Lawdog]

We had some Granadas in 1983 that were worse than the Taurus. The weren't Police Package so they didn't last long on the county roads.

[Delmonico]

We had some Granadas in 1983 that were worse than the Taurus. The weren't Police Package so they didn't last long on the county roads.

Folks that design some of these newwer cars must have never drove on gravel roads.  I like my 2WD ford Pick-up, them twin I beams hold up well, have had a couple late 70's-80's Diplomats/Furies and them do real well on gravel roads, don't think anything they could a done to that Fairmont/Granada front end would have helped much unless the replaced it all with tinker toys.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Them early strut front ends were kinda weak. The VW Super Beetles were some of the first and weren't very strong at all, especially compared to the original beetle...................Buck