Your first FIRST vehicle?

[Zomby Woof]

Before your first car, maybe you had a tricycle, maybe a bicycle, or some other set of wheels which burned the driveways and byways of your childhood home. I had a version of a pedal-car fire engine similar to this one in the picture, circa 1970-1972:



Yours? Post pics if you got 'em. :-)

[Left Is Write]

1. I don't have any pictures, but I had a lovely yellow Schwinn two-wheeler.

I think I got it the summer before first grade.

[Zomby Woof]

2. Did it have those thingies hanging from the handlebars?

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

7. The plastic streamers? Yes! The plastic handlebar grips were bright yellow, and

the streamers were yellow and white. My dad bought a basket for the front of my bike - the basket was white with plastic lilies of the valley woven in.

[Zomby Woof]

14. Yes, that's it

Streamers. :crazy: This cold has numbed my brain cells. :D

I had a bell on my first bicycle, a red Huffy. No streamers, but a solid bike. :-)

[ulysses]

3. a big wheel, of course.

[Zomby Woof]

4. Never had one

By the time they hit it big where I lived, I was riding a bike...

Have you recovered from GOPisEvil's visit? :D

[ulysses]

8. at 77, my father still remembers the flat spot I wore on one part

of the front wheel of that thing, from where I'd get going and "hit the brakes", skidding down the driveway.

One does not fully recover from a visit with GOPisEvil. The peaceful demeanor is deceptive.

[Zomby Woof]

17. Ain't that the truth

His rants crack me up too... we need to see that side of him on DU once in a while. :D

[NightWatcher]

5. I had the CHiPs brand Big Wheel

complete with pictures of Ponch and John. It was black and orange. It kicked much ass.

[ulysses]

10. I think that was after my time.

I'm old school Big Wheel. :D

[Left Is Write]

11. Mr. LIW had a Big Wheel Green Machine.

[ulysses]

12. I had one of those too.

Child of privilege, etc. :) I liked the levers on the Green Machine, but it never replaced the BW.

[skygazer]

6. It's all wrapped up in my very first memory

It was a tricycle and I wish I still had the photo of me with it - I was about 2 in a baggy diaper, holding my pail and shovel in one hand and looking at my tricycle as if I were trying to figure out how to juggle all my belongings. This was about 1963.

A year later, I left the tricycle in the driveway (something my mother had always warned me NOT to do) and the farmer next door who shared that driveway backed over it with the hay truck. :cry:

Hence my earliest memory - dusk on the porch, my mother standing behind me and my brother coming up the steps carrying its mangled seat.

[Left Is Write]

9. I remember my dad running over my first lawn chair.

I had to have been three or younger, because my little sister wasn't around yet. Dad had gotten little lawn chairs for us kids to take along camping. I left mine where I shouldn't have, and Dad backed over it with the camper.

[skygazer]

13. Early trauma

I blame all the mistakes of my life on that moment. :P

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. Stealing bandwidth from Walmart to post this.

[Zomby Woof]

18. A classic

Had one myself. We got a Radio Flyer version of it for the grandkid at Christmas. :D

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. I got a trike at eighteen months, and I was hot stuff.

:rofl: :P I'll dig up a pic---I've got a Christmas one showing me on it. :D

[Zomby Woof]

19. Did it have a bell?

Without a bell, you cannot drive parents and neighbors crazy. :D

[NewWaveChick1981]

20. Yes. And Mom showed me how to use it.

:P :rofl: Boy, I know she was hating life after that... :rofl:

[libnnc]

21. I wish I could find a pic of my first bicycle

It was a Sears (maybe Free Spirit?) powder blue, with a white banana seat. I think there were clouds on the frame near the chain. I LOVED that bike and rode it until I was in 5th grade. Then I got a canary yellow Free Spirit 10 speed.

[NMDemDist2]

22. I didn't have a bike, but did have one of these as a kid