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Getting Behind the Wheel
"There are only 102 days, 9 hours, 27 minutes and...18 seconds until I can drive."
By Nico Savidge
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Youth Radio's Nico Savidge just wants to drive, and eagerly awaits the day when he can legally sit behind the wheel of a car. Even though he's months away from getting his liscense, he still hasn't given up on the countdown and keeps dreaming big. Driver's license? Please... Nico's waiting for that, plus a Ferrari and what he calls "the perfect stretch of open mountain road" to drive on.
There are only 102 days, 9 hours, 27 minutes and… 18 seconds until I can drive.
I am obsessed with cars. I usually read about 5 car magazines a month. I have an intense need to drive because I skipped a grade, I’m a year younger than just about all my classmates.
So, while I gawk at the historic marques of Ferrari, Maserati and the like, dreaming of the day when I can drive anything with four wheels and an engine – my peers can just waltz on down to the Department of Motor Vehicles any time they want and get a permit.
Sure, I might have come to grips with some hard realizations – I’ll probably never have, drive or even sit in a Ferrari F430, my dream car but still, just for that opportunity to drive – for the perfect stretch of open mountain road all car nuts dream about – I’ll keep my countdown going.
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