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.

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[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....