redlegfrog

I think you forgot to take into consideration what the kids are smoking theses days!

Louderwo

That is correct! You could amaze your friends if you could do that. To follow the opening, you had to snap your finger on the roller wheel to light it! Good times, but I’m 82!!!

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

There was sort of a standing joke when I was younger that a southern boy should be able to accurately shoot (a shotgun or rifle), ride a horse, frame a house, rebuild a car engine and light a Zippo with one hand

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

You forgot drive a twisty dirt road at high speed. There is a reason why NASCAR is full of "good ol boys".

I had a 26 mile drive from Grandma's farm to the college my first two years, 22 miles of it was those country roads and 4 miles US-60. I usually made it in about 25 minutes flat - and I was the cautious wimp driver among my friends.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

That too - of course. Any young dirt road driver worth his salt ought to be perfectly comfortable in a slide in every corner, with the car at about a 30 degree angle to the road, with the steering on opposite lock and applying power to maintain that attitude.

I learned to drive on dirt on the road around our local golf course (at night). It only took me 1-2 turns to learn the “technique” after I landed in the ditch first try. Down to 2nd or 3rd, depending on the corner, flick the wheel to get the rear end out, then some steering opposite lock and control the angle of the slide with the accelerator - simple (after you learn it the hard way)

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

My Dad drove NASCAR for a while, relief driver for a friend who was the mid-west champion that year.
When my younger brother and a cousin got nailed by the local PD for street racing (the Chief and Dad were in the same Shiner's Lodge) he called another friend who owned a big race track across the river from St Louis in Illinois and took them and my Brother's hopped up Chevelle over. They both spun out on the first curve after getting up to speed. Well Dad put them in the back seat with helmets etc and told the flagman (they were doing qualifiers for a big race series that weekend) to give him one lap for getting up to speed and then drop the flag for a 3 lap qualification run. Dad wasn't really trying to do it right, he did it "scary" drifting the curves etc. He said he had two clones of Casper the Friendly Ghost in the rearview mirror half way through the second lap. When the flag dropped he was told that he had done the fastest qualification of the week - And would he like to drive in the weekend's "street legal" category, free entry because they had a light field and wanted more drivers. He turned it down But arranged for the two of them to use the track every so often to work off their "need for speed".

nekon Loc: Carterton, New Zealand

Where there's a wheel, there's a bike!

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

Those of us reared in the north learned to drift around corners on slippery snow and ice instead of dirt. Of course once you do it on snow you got to try it on dirt, just for s&g.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Jerry, do you remember when if a fellow didn't have his zippo, he'd just cock his leg up and strike a kitchen match on the the back of his Levis?

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

The zipper or one of the rivets worked better.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

The zipper or a rivet certainly worked better, but the fellow who lit his match on his stretched denim was going for the image factor. He probably had just given his brylcream or Wildroot managed hair another swipe of his comb, right before he had removed his cigarette from rolled up sleeve of his shirt.