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ah, the VW Bug!:
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Annael
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Apr 29, 4:40pm
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My dad let me have his Beetle my last year of high school. This had been our family car at one point, and when we were little the entire family of 7 could fit in it - parents in front, the three older children in the back seat, and the two littlest in what we called the "wayback" which was really just a space behind the back seat. Dad did install seatbelts by the time it came to me. I remember taking it up skiing one time and getting blown into the next lane by a strong sidewind - fortunately no other car was there at the time! It was surprisingly good in snow.
FAVORITE car would be a tossup between my Dodge Dart and my 'Subaru Legacy wagon. The Dart seated six (bench seat in front) and had a huge trunk that could accommodate four full-sized backpacks. I even got a full-sized mattress (folded in half) into it once. Many road trips when I was in my 20s in that car. I bought it when it was 10 years old for $700 and sold it 10 years later for $400. Ran beautifully. They never should have gotten rid of the slant-six engine.
Bought the Legacy when I moved to Boise and needed a solid snow car. Drove it all winter in the mountains and never once had to put chains on, never skidded - it handled 18 inches of fresh snow just fine. Also did well on very rough roads in the backcountry. I once went exploring in the mountains and found a road that the map said would take me over a pass and back down. It did, but on the far side it devolved to basically a creek bed. Pre cell phones, and no one knew where I was, so I was sweating by the time we got back onto a reaonable road - but the Sube managed it beautifully. Sold it when it was 28 years old to a man who wanted a stick-shift car for his daughter, but every time I see it around town he's driving it and loves it.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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(This post was edited by Annael on Apr 29, 4:45pm)
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