Memories of ride on cars Ebook

So we stood the banana box on its side and nailed it to the sides and back of the seat. Unfortunately the only box we could get for nothing had a couple of palings missing so we used a potato sac to cover the whole top which made it look like it was a kind of convertible. Just like a Model T. There was only one problem…the box was a little short so to drive this rather lavish looking ride on car involved crouching over in the drivers seat so that you could fit your head in.

Now I don’t know about you but trying to drive that thing at speed down the 300yard long bumpy dirt track of ‘The Hill’ with your head practically between your knees and looking up through your eyebrows can prove to be somewhat difficult!

Needless to say she rolled. More accurately…she splattered. Roll bars weren’t invented back then and the pine slats from a banana box just couldn’t quite hold together after the first roll. I must have looked a sight sitting in the middle of a small lumber yard with a potato sac covering my head! I couldnt see anything and all I could hear were screams of laughter! We could’nt even tow the thing home we had to carry it.

But for about ten minutes Ronny and me were the toast of ‘The Hill’. No one had built something so advanced and so stylish as our ride on car before. And no one would again once they saw how ridiculously unsafe it was. I sported a gash on my arm for a month from a splinter of pine which I wore proudly as my badge of honor.

Our next advance was a more modern foray into one-upmanship….
Kids today have got it easy!