Cool, That kind of experience must feel like flying w/o a plane. Congrats, but don't swerve to avoid the animals. C5-6 quad thanks to a mule deer on a mountain road while driving a van. Stunt
> > > Well, group my dreams came true. I'm 14 years post at C6 and since my > injury I haven't drove. Before I got hurt I use to ride dirt bikes daily and had > three cars at once one being a total show truck and one being a race car. > Needless to say I really miss driving. > I recently had a 1998 Ford full size van and a 1953 Ford panel truck when > one day I was just looking around online. I found a 1999 Dodge Caravan with > only 35,000 miles on it that another quad had set up to drive but unfortunately > pasted away. He spent 60,000.00 bucks on setting it up when it was new. But > his dad sold it to me for 22,000.00 which I could not pass up. I sold my 1998 > Ford already for 18,500.00 and I'm still trying to sell my 1953 Ford panel > truck, by the way if anyone is interested let me know (wink). > Any way when I bought the van I had to jump threw all of DMV's hoops but 6 > weeks later I finally got my permit to drive with an instructor. Of course > the instructor had to cancel his appointment so I took matters into my own hands > so to say, and took my ride out yesterday with just my teenage son who has no > license by the way. It was so cool, drove all over the hood for about a half > hour. I did great, no accidents and only hit two cats. > Just kidding. I'm going out again today with the instructor and trying bigger > streets and hopefully all goes well. > If any of you get a chance to drive again take it. It's a major boost in > your independence and is just flat out fun. I hope to see you on the road. > Take care, Donald > > -- Freedom: United States Constitution� 1791 All Rights Preserved My first Domain http://nw-in.com/index.html http://quads.nw-in.com/quad-enter.html Pics http://quads.nw-in.com/quad-list/quad-list1.htm Home page. http://tnthompson0.tripod.com/homeincyberspace/ Computer Graphics portfolio. http://tnthompson1.tripod.com/index.htm

