not in the least bit slightly obsessive

[roxy]

Obsessive? moi? Hahaha! Maybe....

I spent all of the early part of the evening searching through family photos like a drug-sniffing Shepard in a weed field. I was certain that my pop had a '67 Impala when I was a wee roxy. We totally had a '58, and I was sure that the other Impala was Baby's sibling, but I was wrong. I finally found a pic and turns out, it was a '66. Pretty similar from what I could see but the tail lights are completely different. I know I'll never find a shot of it from the front, but it was abundantly clear that not only were the tail lights different, but the slope from roof to trunk was a bit different as well.

I remember how thrilled he was with the car, but I thought it was an old-fart car at the time. It was two or three years old when we got it, but I remember being sort of impressed that it had four doors. It was a simple time and it didn't take much for us to get all excited. A popsicle, a new comic, poptarts....

Anyhoo, I'm feeling betrayed by my increasingly Swiss-cheese memory. I think I'm gonna have a cup of coffee and a poptart and go to bed.

Comments

[gingersnap1224.livejournal.com]

My parents had the same car as the Batmobile. It was even black with red interior. Sadly flames did not shoot out the back, nor did it turn into a boat, but I loved it anyway.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Damn!! Would it have been too much to ask, some simple flames, f'cryin' out loud! HAHAA! I bet it was a cool car! :D

[fireheart13.livejournal.com]

Mike was telling me his dad had impalas because he was insurance claims and that was the company car he got. Ah, to have one of them now LOL!!!

*pictures a wee roxy, overwhelmed by cuteness!*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

My dad swore Impalas were the best model Chevrolet made, and I guess they were pretty reliable because we had both for years. I wish we had that first one, man, it was hot! If I find a good picture, i.e., one where I'm not standing in front of it acting like a little ass, I'll post! :D

[tabaqui]

Awww! Still, a very cool car. :)

My mom had a 1968 Firebird and oh, it was so gorgeous and growly. I learned to drive in that car, and just loved it to death.

I had been a smarter person, i'd have had the money when they finally decided to sell and have bought it. (It was still cherry-perfect even then, in the early 2000s).

*sigh*

Oh, well. And damn, didn't popsicles taste better when we were kids? Those were *real* posicles! Not the kind you get nowadays.

Damn kids.

*waves cane*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*chases little punks off her lawn*

Firebirds were the hottest cars ever in the history of ever. My brother had one, it was a thing of beauty.

And poptarts. They were real poptarts back then, the kind you could really wrap your mouth around. Made of...well, whatever they were made of, god knows they never saw an actual fruit ever. Still. They were good and we were damn grateful to have them. *harrumph*

[tabaqui]

HA. Yes. Damn kids these days, expecting real fruit in everything. We ate sugar-fortified sugar with sugar extract and we were *grateful*! Grateful, I tell you!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

LOLLOL!!

So...we're old farts chasing kids off our lawn...on Discworld? ;D

[tabaqui]

YES. YES WE ARE.

Nanny Ogg, is that you?
*snickers*

it might be...

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Re: it might be...

[tabaqui]

Heeee! Omg. With Greebo!
Or perhaps you're Mrs Gogol.... Either way, you're definitely the more cheerful and um....*earthy* of the witches.
*snerk*

[rosy5000.livejournal.com]

My parents never had any cool cars. :( With so many kids, they had to have wagons all the time. The only car they had that I would love to have back was a Geo Sprint. My parents, me and my youngest older brother went to Kentucky in that thing. Wee bit cramped, but AWESOME gas mileage!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

hee! Besides the '58 Impala, I never thought our cars were cool. I dimly remember a giant Packard, a huge thing that my parents, my sibs, and all my cousins took to Palisades Park once, many bazillion years ago. We were on the seats, on the floor, in the rear window cause the rear deck was deep enough for two kids to lay in. Seat belt laws weren't even a whistle in the wind back then. If you lost a kid, you just went and had another, or rubbed some turpentine on 'em. "Arrr, you'll be all right, Leftie, now hobble on over there with your brother, Rightie."

For some reason, we were pirates back in the old days....

[runedgirl.livejournal.com]

Coolest car my dad had was a Volkswagon beetle :)

Also? Poptarts!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Punch buggy!!!

Yessss...poptarts. World's perfect food.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

When there's something I want to find, I dig in like a bulldog too -- relentless! That Swiss cheese mojo, though, holy crap. Some days I can barely remember where I left my glasses. (They're usually on my face, like Grandma Bunny in the Richard Scarry books.)

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Right? It's like...if you don't do it, it just bugs and picks at you until you do do it. Okay, that might not make sense to most folks but you get me, right?

When the SwissCheese lets me down, I just tell folks, "Yeah, I meant it that way." :D

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I totally get you! I can't let things rest. I will comb through googled-up photos, pages and pages of them, or links to articles. It's a weird kind of patience, when otherwise I'm very impatient!

> I just tell folks, "Yeah, I meant it that way."

That's what I need, a snappy comeback! I'm not good at those. ;)

[blackrabbit42.livejournal.com]

My mom had a similar year Impala when I was a very young kid. I don't know if anyone remembers exactly what year, but I;ll have to keep my eye open for pics. It was so old, the floor was worn through in the back seat, my baby sister and I were fascinated by throwing car trash through the hole, and then scrambling to look out the back window and see it on the road. Also- different times back then, no car seats, or even seatbelts!

:)

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

LOL! A friend had a car with the 'window in the floor'. Made for exciting rides. ;D

I can hardly remember no car seats for babies--or seatbelts for that matter. I never wore a seat belt until I met Mr. R, who insisted until he wore me down. Darn that annoying man, looking out for my safety. :D