The First time

Everyone remembers there first time. Your alone, it's dark, your weeping softly.  A situation that would stick with you for years to come.
 

This is not about that kind of first time, although it is an experience that will stick with me for years to come. The nerves had settle from backing the Pearl up a steep driveway. I don't think there was any type of code or regulations in the thirty's about what angle a driveway had to be made at. If it was mostly paved, the city was mostly happy.
 

Finally it was time to pull away from the curb for the first time. It wasn't dark and I wasn't alone, I won't say I wasn't weeping. I was about to drive off in a fifty five Chevrolet two door hard top and it was black with a four speed, a fabled Muncie four speed.
 

As it sat idling I couldn't keep my hands and feet from shaking, it was some sort of combination of fear and the ground vibrating. I had mostly had four cylinders prior to this, some pigly inline six and a big Cadillac v8, but those where clouded in acres of steel and glass.
This thing had a v8, a real v8. One that made all the right sounds and some strange wirring sound coming from the front. Nothing was leaking or smoking, short of the distinct smell coming from the clutch after it's punishment.

The time was now, I had gathered all my strength and was prepared to see my future, or my past fly by in rapid succession. As we pulled down the narrow car lined street the owner fumbled with the lap belt. See, I was sharing my first time as he had never driven it either. He had inherited it, sorta came with the house kinda family thing.
 

I sat at the intersection with the left blinker on waiting for the right time to pull out into traffic. Not that there was any traffic but I wanted to be absolutely certain just in case.I began to depress the long pedal on the right just as I released the clutch pedal. Steering into my internal scream I realized that we where both sitting on the passenger side staring into oncoming traffic.

 

We decided that it seems to run just fine.....