Craig's Blog of Destiny

Jamie made a comment on my last post (It’s….   A New Car!) that I should have gotten “the oldie” and that she would like to see a picture of me in it.  It’s still there for sale…  he’s only asking $5500 for it if anyone is interested;  however I’m not so comfortable going down the street and asking if I can get a picture of myself in it.  But that brought to mind this picture of me and Kristin in an old Model A.  There is a jump seat in the back with David, J’Neil and Sam sitting in it.  This was up at my Uncle Marvin’s place in Garland, Utah.  He had a couple of them and was fixing them up.  We drove this one up and down the road in front of his place, and as I recall, driving it was a little bit of a challenge:  all the controls were by hand.  You had to throttle up and down by hand: I believe it was on the dash.  Also you had to do all the shifting by hand, on the steering column.  I think it even had hand brakes.  I kept trying to step on controls like clutches and brakes and accelerators, and they weren’t there!