The first car I can remember, and I think it was the first car, was a Model T. I remember that to get in on the driver’s side, they just climbed over as there was not a door. I remember that it had a horn on that side that went ooga ooga (I'd like to hear one again!). After we got the Studebaker, I guess the T must have played out as I remember it stayed in the tool shed for what seemed quite a long while. We kids would get in it and play like we were driving it. We knew what to do.
After the T was retired, dad bought a second-hand Studebaker. It had two small pullout seats or chairs that slid under the back seat. Those were mine and Raymond’s when we loaded up to go to church or to visit someone. Didn't drive it much otherwise I guess. Remember it could barely make it up some of the long hills to Aunt Blanche and Uncle Roy Clark’s! We had flat tires ever so often and had a hand pump to pump 'em up and/or get out the patching and patch tube if it blew out. Dad bought another car just like it for parts and it sat out behind the tool shed and made a good make believe vehicle to go to New York or Kansas City or just to town.
Howard used the Studebaker when he was courting Thelma Look, the preacher’s daughter, whom he married. It had side curtains too, of course. Howard drove the car to see Thelma usually after Sunday evening church. He'd drive the rest of us home and then go back. Of course evening services was out quite early, about 7:00 I'd say.
Howard and Chauncey bought a Chevy together and I remember riding in it a few times. It had disc wheel, or is that what they were called? I believe that Chauncey ended up with that one when he went to Minnesota. That’s about it for cars when I was at home. Chauncey left home in about '28. Howard rented a farm and lived about a mile south of the folks a year or more before he married.
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