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My First Car Was a Plumbing Truck! 😂

My First Car Was a Plumbing Truck! 😂

To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Classic Car Restoration, JDM, and Automotive History Feb 11, 2025 1 min
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A humorous recollection of the host's first car, a Do-Do Brown plumbing truck, highlights the nostalgia of simpler times. With no air conditioning, manual windows, and a quirky windshield wiper fix, the story captures the essence of growing up in Texas. The host shares the amusing detail of the large plumbing insignia still on the truck when it was handed down, adding a personal touch to the memory. It's a lighthearted look at the challenges and charm of early driving experiences.

Topics: first car stories nostalgia manual windows Texas driving quirky vehicle features
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This is what I tell my kids when they ask me, like, tell us about your first car.
I'm like, it was Do-Do Brown, plumbing truck that was a single cab.
I still don't even really know what exact year it was, but I just remember it was a bench
seat.
I had a bench seat.
Oh, yeah.
Again, we're in Texas.
No AC.
There was absolutely no air conditioning whatsoever.
It was manual windows for any, like, of course my kids these days, they were like,
what?
You cranked them down.
Yes.
It was a hand cranked window.
It was nothing automatic about this.
So I would have to pop the hood, like, move that around and jiggle it a little bit to
get the windshield wipers to work, which is the last thing you want to do in a rainstorm
anyway.
So yeah, that's, I mean, that's overview of my first vehicle, and it cost $1,000.
I do remember my dad saying that.
He's like, this was $1,000.
You're welcome.
Here you go.
I gave it to you.
Yes.
He gave it to me, but I did forget, and Doug reminded me of this before we started recording.
The best part about the whole thing was before he handed it down to me, he did not take
off the large Blair plumbing insignia on the driver's side door, and I think it was
on the passenger side too.
So as soon as he said, here's the keys, this is your vehicle.

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