My First “Road” Wheels

R Dempsey
R Dempsey
Nov 7 · 6 min read
Cushman and Powell on the side of a country road, 1950

In the days of my youth, the law required you to be sixteen, plus have your parents permission, before you could get a driving license and drive an automobile alone. However, you could get a license for a motor scooter at fifteen. So I starting thinking along this route as I would be fifteen on my next birthday. Another factor was a friend got a “Doodle Bug,” a neat and very compact scooter that was a blast to ride. It only had a few horsepower, no…

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