Event Coverage The old Lady took the wheel for a while.........

on the way to Pueblo last week. Sure looks strange from the right hand seat! Actually, she's only 77, and 800 mile road trips are okay with her.

 

Cool!

My wife might drive my hot rod, but if I ever called her the old lady there would be hell to pay.

 

After 58 years of marriage, we do all right.

 

You are lucky. 10 years and my wife rode in my coupe once .

 

My X wife hated my cars, I think she was jealous of the time I spent with them in the shop.

 

There came a time that I had to build my wife her own rod so I could get my hiboy back,

 

SWMBO was not a car person at all, when we got married 44+ years ago. She had a Chevette and it was more than enough car for her, just transportation from A to B.

I was still involved with the dirt modifieds, and still driving $100 pos late model anybrands. Fast forward 5 1/2 years. We had an 82 F100 with the 300-6 and 3 on the tree, no power anything. And it started to loose the cam...

So what does any recent college graduate do but trades it in for an ot Fiero! That was her first time with something a little bit different.

Then SCCA came along, an ot Mini, Corvette, Mustang GT (her car), a couple more trucks, and finally some practical cars.

So when I started on the Whatever project it was no problem. She's waiting for a ride now.

 

My wife used to sneak the T bucket out in the 70's and run around town and get narked out by my friends.
On the other hand, although I am 77 and she is almost 75 and we will hit the 55 year mark on the anniversary of Woodstock ( I actually met a number of people headed to there when I traveled from Washington to Texas the week before we got married.) that term is one that I always thought was totally disrespectful of one's wife.

On the other hand you are one lucky bugger having a wife that you feel comfortable riding with when she is driving any car.. It is standing family policy that if you go anywhere with my wife in her car or whoever's car you do not let her drive as she will scare the pee out of you. She still no doubt holds the record in Central Texas for the number of times one person flunked their driver's test.

 

I like when I’m shot gun. No turn here, get in that lane, turn back so we can see, park there…

 

My wife has been riding around in our hot rods since before we got married 48 years ago. From almost the beginning of our marriage, there have been 3 licensed vehicles at our house. The best one for her, some beater for me to get to and from work, and a hot rod of some kind. During most of the early years the hot rod was pretty radical, she would ride along, but seldom drove them. As the years passed, most of the hot rods mellowed out a bit, and she would jump in one and take it someplace occasionally. She is not afraid to drive fast, she has had more speeding tickets then I have, but I pay better attention when I drive. Over the years, she has laid claim to a few of the hot rods, but usually when we are riding together, she prefers that I drive. She doesn't like the manual trans in the coupe, she can drive it but would rather not. She has driven the truck, but isn't real comfortable driving it. I'm considering building a hot rod just for her, we have found a possible candidate, we will see where that goes.
She is my wife, I'm not going to call her my old lady.

 

I broke mine in early...even before we got married.

 

Thanks Blue Moon Garage. LOVE me some Yellow Coupe Model A.
First wife drove everything I had,, and did just fine with the clutch.
Four years in, I came home and she had traded a year old sedan for a pile of cash and a 6 year old Firebird 400 convertibile. ( Surprise! )
It featured a 4 speed/Hurst, pinstripes, Deep dish big Crager S/S rear, and little, up front.
Leather interior, Hood mount tachometer, power antenna, and 12 bolt posi.
I could get lost running that thing around with a full tank.

 

Mine has never taken the wheel, but she is quite the trooper for riding along. Two years ago she rode in the T-Bucket with me from Michigan to Florida, all on the back roads. A couple weeks ago she rode along for the first three days of the Hot Rod Power Tour in my ‘47 Chevy.

 

My honey w/ her cruiser by wicarnut posted Jun 24, 2016 at 10:51 AM

 

I have had a bunch of t bucket projects over the 42 years my wife and I have been together. They are hopeless for fitting in 4 kids and a wife, but I was to stupid too get that figured out.

So I bought a Fiat Topolino project to go with the then bucket. My wife reckoned it was the first time ever that I had brought home a car that she loved, so the next Christmas I gave her the car, thinking she might give it back the following month on our anniversary. (My parents used to do that sort of thing) and its been over 20 years now, and I still havent been offered it back....... But I did get it finished up the way she wanted it to be, rather than as a street legal altered which was my plan when buying it.

Giving her that car was one of my smarter decisions that I have made.

 

77 is the new 45.

 

Damn, by that reckoning I am only 36!

 

I like that new math! Therefore I'm only 40! Woo hoo!

Look up Tom Lehrer and the new math...