My Dad let us sit on the bonnet of the car while he drove.

Chuck Stone · 22-11-2011 01:06AM

CJC999 wrote: »

My dad used to let me steer the car from the passenger seat when i was about 10 or 11. I would sit at the edge of the seat, no seat belt, one hand on the dash the other on the steering wheel. I was even allowed to steer as he passed out other cars. Grant it that was back in the early 80's..things was different way back then :rolleyes:

Yeah?

I was a child of 5 children who used to struggle for elbow room in the back of a car that was held together with tape on 300 mil;e drives from Cork to Derry. It's amazing I haven't been completely destroyed, mentally and physically from those experiences but here I am.

connundrum · 22-11-2011 01:18AM

I would completely put a downer on this thread by telling about the time my mam let me sit on the bonnet.

But I won't, because the stubbs where my fingers used to be are now crying.

Chuck Stone · 22-11-2011 01:22AM

connundrum wrote: »

I would completely put a downer on this thread by telling about the time my mam let me sit on the bonnet.

But I won't, because the stubbs where my fingers used to be are now crying.

I have it on good authority that no child has ever been hurt from sitting on the bonnet of a car at the beach...

.....cept little twisted-spine Jimmy

JonathanAnon · 22-11-2011 01:23AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Does that make him an evil man?

only if he then drove at speed before braking at the edge of a cliff..

Chuck Stone · 22-11-2011 01:28AM

JonathanAnon wrote: »

only if he then drove at speed before braking at the edge of a cliff..

Reminds me of hangin' onto the roof of a car as a teen when the guy driving was pelting along at 60 mph +. Now that was scary. Same guy got put off the road for 8 years for killing a cyclist while speeding. Not funny at all. Shoulda been locked up imo.

Ledger · 22-11-2011 01:30AM

My dad used to let me change the gears of the lorry when i was like 8 or 9.

And of course driving the car on the beach since i was able to see over the steering wheel! I even got to 2nd gear! ha

EDIT: About 6 months ago, i fell off the side of the car and fractured my skull. Amazing what a few pints will do.

Dionysus · 22-11-2011 01:32AM

The OP wouldn't happen to be named either Joseph Meleady or Joseph Grogan?

Maybe I'm just too old

Ledger · 22-11-2011 01:34AM

Dionysus wrote: »

The OP wouldn't happen to be named either Joseph Meleady or Joseph Grogan??

Maybe I'm just too old

SWOOOOSH!

thats the sound of that going over my head, sorry mate ha

pragmatic1 · 22-11-2011 01:34AM

My dad had a van and used to let me hang on to the back. Decided to jump one day after seeing it on the A-Team. Thought I'd land on my feet easily. How wrong I was.

Chuck Stone · 22-11-2011 01:37AM

Dionysus wrote: »

The OP wouldn't happen to be named either Joseph Meleady or Joseph Grogan?

Maybe I'm just too old

I would never place so much value on a mechanically propelled device as to wager my life on it's staying under my control.;)

eth0 · 22-11-2011 01:45AM

There are still people doing this today and in 10 or 20 years you will see threads exactly the same. Just a bit of harmless fun

Parents doing it now obviously keep schtumm about it because say it to the wrong person and you could get the social workers on your door. There is more hysteria about it being a bad thing now but most take no notice of the 'think of the children' crowd

2 stroke · 22-11-2011 01:50AM

Car bonnets didn't dent as easily in those days.

Chuck Stone · 22-11-2011 01:51AM

eth0 wrote: »

There are still people doing this today and in 10 or 20 years you will see threads exactly the same. Just a bit of harmless fun

Parents doing it now obviously keep schtumm about it because say it to the wrong person and you could get the social workers on your door. There is more hysteria about it being a bad thing now but most take no notice of the 'think of the children' crowd

If all the dangerous things I did as a kid were denied me I think I'd be a much lesser man for it.

At risk of sounding like one of those 'when I were a lad' folks there are too many kids these days thinking completing level 8 is exciting.

xsiborg · 22-11-2011 02:06AM

living out the country there was always a tractor with a trailer handily zipping along the road that if i sped up on the bicycle, i could grab a dangling rope or the door release handle and hitch a ride all the way home, when we saw michael j. fox do it in "back to the future" with a skateboard hanging on to the back of a car, one of me brothers muttered "copycat!"

i wouldn't do it now though when tractors can zip along at 50mph! :eek:

eth0 · 22-11-2011 02:07AM

xsiborg wrote: »

i wouldn't do it now though when tractors can zip along at 50mph! :eek:

Never mind health & safety, its fast tractors that are ruining our fun

Chuck Stone · 22-11-2011 02:11AM

I was a skater boi (she said see you later boi) and I used to get tows offa many willing adults from their mechanically propelled devices I tells ya!

22-11-2011 02:13AM

My dad used to let us steer while he lit a cigarette.

stepbar · 22-11-2011 02:28AM

Jeasus....

I used to think the ould lad was cool when he let us sit in the transport box... Clearly not!!!!

Liamario · 22-11-2011 02:32AM

It depends on a couple of things.
Was he trying to run you over/ escape the family home?
Was he using you as Armour plating to avoid incoming fire in Baghdad?

Jordan 199 · 22-11-2011 02:32AM

I sat on the boot of a saloon car, don't think I ever sat on the bonnet.

meoklmrk91 · 22-11-2011 02:45AM

We were allowed to sit in the boot while my Dad drove along. I also remember being very small visiting family in England and driving three hours to a theme park, there were three adults and four kids in a Cavalier, me and my cousin were the smallest so we had to sit in the boot, with it closed obviously, but people would never dream about doing such things these days and that was only about 10-15 years ago.

Also last year me and my friends got hold of a Moffet (Like a mix between a tractor and a digger) so 5 of us sat in the bucket while one drove around with the bucket raised as high as it would go some craic. Also field cars are pretty much the greatest thing since sliced bread. When I buy my own house I am going to have a couple of acres and a fleet of banjaxed old cars.

EarlERizer · 22-11-2011 02:54AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Does that make him an evil man?

Ah the memories.........dad driving his cortina like Gene Hunt , us kids on the bonnet , mum tied up in the boot,him pis$ed as a fart ,and all of us screaming "stop dad please stop,we weren't really going to leave"

dad's in the 70's n 80's were cool

Junco Partner · 22-11-2011 04:42AM

I have fond memories of standing in the transport box of my grandad's leyland tractor going up the road holding onto a rope as the only protection against being splattered off the road. although with the max speed of the tractor being about 22 miles an hour i doubt there'd be much splaterring but still good times.:D

xsiborg · 22-11-2011 11:58AM

that was it, the transport box, sitting on top of a load of turf on the way home from the bog, your arsé getting tenderised by the lumpy turf as you felt every bump and shake of the tractor as it went along the road!

jesus its coming flooding back now, sitting on top of a five foot high stack of square bales on top of a trailer as it trundled round the field...

and somebody mentioned a cortina, we had one and, and i can remember myself and my five brothers all packed into it, my mother parking in quinnsworth car park leaving all of us in the car in the height of a blistering summer, and one of us (cant remember which brother, i couldnt see as i was buried under another brother), but one of them shouts out the window- "maa, maaaaaa!! will ya get us a chilly willy!!"...

Crazy Horse 6 · 22-11-2011 12:04PM

Down with this sort of thing.

emeraldstar · 22-11-2011 12:04PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

My Dad let us sit on the bonnet of the car while he drove.

So did my parents actually. But only around the yard/down the driveway. Or we'd also sit on the boot and hold onto the spoiler. Heh, I'd forgotten that.

Morlar · 22-11-2011 12:56PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Does that make him an evil man?

Youre dad sounds like this . Legend is right !

chakotha · 22-11-2011 01:18PM

My grandparents had a farm and we used to sit on the bonnet of my Grandads car when we were hunting cows along the road. It was then easy to hop off and steer the cattle whenever necessary. Not to mention hanging off the back of tractors all but standing on the working rotating utility axle.

And bringing in hay we used be up on top of a trailer stacked HIGH with square bales. We used to grab the overhead branches as we passed and pull off as many leaves as we could. That could have led to an accident but we didn't ever have one.

aujopimur · 22-11-2011 02:43PM

hondasam wrote: »

My dad would beat the shi* outta both yer dads.

Ha! my ma could beat the sh1te out of all your dads.

Maglight · 22-11-2011 02:56PM

My friends mam used to let us sit on the roof of the car with our feet dangling through the sunroof when she drove us home from school. Great fun. Wouldn't let my kids do it though, mad dangerous.

My Dad let us sit on the bonnet of the car while he drove.

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