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.

[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!*

[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*

[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!

[runedgirl.livejournal.com]

Coolest car my dad had was a Volkswagon beetle :)

Also? Poptarts!

[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.)

[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!

:)