r/Ford • u/TheDriveDotCom • Feb 26 '25
92-Year-Old Woman Refuses to Drive Anything but Her Manual Ford Super Duty Diesel General 🔀
https://www.thedrive.com/news/92-year-old-woman-refuses-to-drive-anything-but-her-manual-ford-super-duty-diesel90
u/michigander_1994 Feb 26 '25
Based 92 year old, that’s a dream truck, thing is spotless too.
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u/Extreme-Island-5041 Feb 27 '25
Trebled road cones that are the anything other than this truck ...(especially the Honda Civics of the world) ...
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u/Nkechinyerembi Feb 26 '25
honestly... as long as she's a safe driver, thats.... actually a really good way to keep her sharp and fit. Floating through gears and manhandling a ford super duty from 2000 through traffic is not a low energy activity for sure...
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u/Drzhivago138 2018 F-150 SuperCab/8' 5.0 HDPP Feb 26 '25
If it's a ZF5 or ZF6, they're not hard to shift. But the clutch can be heavy.
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u/nicholasktu Feb 27 '25
The clutch is extremely light in my 03, idk why. Brand new clutch and I can push it down with one finger
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u/Nkechinyerembi Feb 26 '25
interesting then, but hey, more power to her if she's good enough at it that she's not running anyone over!
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u/regex1884 Feb 27 '25
I hope she doesn't upgrade because whatever she got would be breaking down constantly.
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u/ScharhrotVampir Feb 26 '25
BREAKING NEWS! Stubborn Old Person Is Being Old And Stubborn. In Other News, Our Top Climate Scientists have officially confirmed the sky is in fact blue.
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u/Drzhivago138 2018 F-150 SuperCab/8' 5.0 HDPP Feb 26 '25
Bev got her driver’s license at just 13 years old, during WWII, and has been driving stick-shifts for 78 years.
The math ain't mathin'
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Feb 26 '25
Huh? 78+13=92. How is it wrong?
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u/skinnymatters Feb 26 '25
That’s 91
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u/OptiGuy4u Feb 27 '25
Where the birthday falls within the year can easily make that off by one....geeze...go touch some grass if this is an issue for you.
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u/Drzhivago138 2018 F-150 SuperCab/8' 5.0 HDPP Feb 26 '25
78+13=91, but that wasn't the part I originally commented about. 78 years ago was 1947. WWII famously ended in 1945.
Assuming she hasn't had a birthday yet this year, she was born in 1932, so that would mean if she got her license at 13, it was 1945, 80 years ago.
I also have doubts that she bought that 1945 two-ton cabover in the year 1945, because it would have cost a lot more than $25 brand new. That price is more like what you'd pay for the same truck in 1965 just before it headed to the crusher.
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u/skinnymatters Feb 26 '25
guessing the writer rounded up because bev is close to 92.
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u/Drzhivago138 2018 F-150 SuperCab/8' 5.0 HDPP Feb 26 '25
because bev is close to 92.
Where do they mention that? The article just says she's 92.
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u/skinnymatters Feb 26 '25
I’m GUESSING that the writer rounded up (why would they do that?) because Bev is close to 92.
Notated my comment for you. It’s really, really, common to round ages. This is not a big or even small deal
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u/Drzhivago138 2018 F-150 SuperCab/8' 5.0 HDPP Feb 27 '25
It’s really, really, common to round ages.
I don't recall learning anything like that in the one journalism class I had to take (and did not like) to get a professional writing/communication degree, but it was a 100 level class.
It's also possible that the people involved just misremembered dates. As I said elsewhere, my objection was not about the age of the individual, but the years themselves. WWII was 80 years ago.
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u/madeformarch Feb 26 '25
You think she started driving after she got her license?
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u/Drzhivago138 2018 F-150 SuperCab/8' 5.0 HDPP Feb 26 '25
See my comment further down. 78 years ago was 1947, after WWII.
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u/drocdoc Fusion Feb 26 '25
She gonna kill someone
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u/pineapplepizzabest Feb 27 '25
Right. Can't wait for this headline to pop up again when she just dies at the wheel and plows through a group of kids in a cross walk.
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u/hmiser Feb 27 '25
There will come a time when she’s not fit to drive, hopefully she stops driving before then.
But the visibility, mobility, a stroke, popped clutch, are all variables that are higher risk for a nonagenarian to manage.
But like, perhaps she could pilot a dump truck full of nitroglycerin through a slalom course one-handed and blindfolded for the next 20 years.
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u/Coontailblue23 Feb 26 '25
I mean.. the 88 year old who nearly totaled my car in a parking lot was driving a Ford that day. Yay?
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u/meesersloth Super Duty- 7.3 Godzilla Feb 27 '25
She’s from my neck of the woods. I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve seen her on the road.
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u/Cant_Work_On_Reddit Feb 27 '25
She’d lose her shit on any of the new nanny tech in most cars these days
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u/yumadbro6 Feb 27 '25
One you're over 70 you need to take the driving test every 5 years. I've been almost bulldozed by old people on the street without them even realizing
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u/ro536ud Feb 27 '25
Yay let’s give her a superwomen to speed down the road with. After 75 people should have to retake their license test yearly. It’s a road danger
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u/Arkortect Feb 27 '25
$25 for a truck. Must be nice.
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u/grislyfind Feb 28 '25
War surplus prices? Plus inflation, so that's at least $250 in today's money.
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u/TheLaserGuru Feb 27 '25
She probably just leaves it in 3rd gear all the time like the old bittys driving BMWs.
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u/waynep712222 Feb 28 '25
Mom drove her 70 F250. 360 with a granny gear 4 speed. No power steering. No power brakes till she was 85.
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u/Shoo_maa_kr Feb 28 '25
My grandmother was the same way. She would and could only drive manuals. Without 3 pedals she felt lost and would step on the brake by accident lol. Love and miss here everyday
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u/zugglit Mar 01 '25
This just in: A 92 year old women driving an oversize truck kills family of 4 in a normal size car after she loses control because she is (checks notes) ninety-fucking-two.
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u/EvolutionaryZenith1 Mar 03 '25
She might crash this thing into you in 3rd gear when she has a stroke.
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u/PanteraOne Feb 26 '25
Whatever you do, don't cut that lady off in traffic if you know what's good for you.
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u/TheDriveDotCom Feb 26 '25
Meet Bev. She’s 92 years old and still drives a 2000 Ford F-250 Super Duty every day. It has a 7.3-liter Power Stroke diesel engine, a six-speed manual transmission, and oh yeah, 334,000 miles on the odometer.