Automobiles

At about the time I was in high school our family decided that we should have an automobile because the horse and wagon were becoming quite obsolete. So we soon became the owners of a new 1921 model Ford touring car. It was the old model T type with three foot pedals on the floor and had a canvas roof and isinglass sides that cracked and fell out after the first year. So of course we did not use the sides and that left us very cold in the wintertime and we did not drive much in cold weather. After four or five years we did get a closed model, another Ford model T. It was much more comfortable and lasted quite a while. That was the car in which I learned to drive during the summer of 1926, a year after I graduated from high school. That car is long gone now but I am still driving after sixty-three years.