• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    had an 83 f100. the first time I took a turn too fast I got thrown into the passenger seat.

    I’m lucky it was a back road and I had legs long enough to still press the brake enough to slow down enough to get back into the driver seat and carry on.

    wasn’t long after that and I got a newer truck with bucket seats.

    sure, benches were fun and easy to fucksleep on but the safety trade off made it an easy choice to make.

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        22 hours ago

        I’m sure it had one, once.

        keep in mind this was an f100. it had lights, wheels, a windshield, and a steering wheel. I was lucky it had a radio and heat. zero power steering.

        so when you turned, you had to put everything into the turn. that day I just didn’t have enough for the turn and to stay seated.

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          21 hours ago

          Yeah I had a manual steering car before, it sucks. I had a wrist cast and almost at the end of the cast time I was turning the steering and felt the bone crack again.