Most of my blogs for the past several months have been political in nature. Sometimes i just don't want to keep droning on about it all...like today, i came home from work, we had pizza for dinner, and i basically turned off the TV at 7 and have been listening to music from the 60's and 70's. i thought at the time those were awful times, with the war in vietnam going on and on, never ending, and a government that just seemed stuck thinking like it was the 40's or something.
Parents and grandparents used to chide me and my brothers about being lazy ingrates, which me trying to be liked by my peers got me in hot water with dad, who thought I wanted to be a "hippie whore"...funny, I almost started to believe that's what was expected of me.
Once at the beach with a friend, we slept in back and looked through the open end door (not really a tailgate) at the stars, and tuned in a radio station in SF. I only mention this because tonight for some reason the name Bread popped into my head, and so i dug around and found a song i remembered by them, which i added to my play-list (posted on my Multiply main page)...and that started this whole dialog in my head about the summers of 30 plus years ago...
Hey, when you have kids that are 40, its time to admit you aren't young anymore according to the calendar...but mom always said stay young at heart, and you'll never grow old...I believe that..
Wow! What a nifty car!
ReplyDeleteYep, gubmunt then was as clueless as gubmunt now!
I was in high school during all those hippy days. Seems every pm the evening news was about Viet Nam or the Tate-LaBianca murders.
In looking online a minute ago, i see the company actually went out of business in 1962, no market for small cars like the Isabella...I think it had a v4, I am not sure...I i know it a a 4 speed column shift, and reverse was a bear to find...between 1 and 3, pull all the way back towards you and sharply up...I remeber in reverse the gear shift was practically vertical...she was a cute car, got like 30 mpg or so best I remember..gee i had that car in 1972
ReplyDeleteIn looking online a minute ago, i see the company actually went out of business in 1961, no market for small cars like the Isabella...
ReplyDelete"A worldwide economic downturn aggravated the company’s difficulties. The new Big Six failed to meet sales expectations, and United States demand in 1960 for the ageing Isabella, the company’s most consistent export performer, dropped to less than one-third of the previous year’s numbers. A bank overdraft facility of DM30 million was negotiated, with the Bremen State Government acting as guarantors."
Gee, sounds familiar.
I know it a a 4 speed column shift, and reverse was a bear to find...between 1 and 3, pull all the way back towards you and sharply up...I remeber in reverse the gear shift was practically vertical...she was a cute car, got like 30 mpg or so best I remember..gee i had that car in 1972
Yup, that was 40 years ago this year, the Tate murder...
ReplyDeleteIn 1972, I was still trying to drive a '65 Chevy Impala Super Sport. (Four on the floor and reverse was by a cable that kept breaking. (The thing was like a battleship---way too big for a car.) Got rid of it and bought my uncle's real nerdy '65 Ford Fairlane 500. (It was transportation, but gee I felt like an old man in bermuda shorts out for a drive in his Rambler!)
ReplyDeleteOh, and a friend, with his brother, bought about a 1962 Plymouth Belvedere. (I stopped feeling embarassed over my Fairlane right then!)
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I was not so fortunate as to have a car when I was a student. :-)
ReplyDeleteWe definitely need change, but it is not going to come from the government, it has to come from each one of us.
We don't have to accept negative expectations. We can choose our direction. I choose to remain alive even as I age.
First, it is good that you have a passion in your heart about the things that are wrong politically. Sister #2 and I were at Sister #1's house yesterday evening and we were talking about the Cap and Trade, H.R. 2454, and I was expanding the talk to other areas. Sister #1 brought an end to our discussion stating she did not want to hear anything political. I don't understand Sister #1 because nothing influences control over our lives as does politics and political dealings, groups such as the Family certainly understand this. So I welcome your passion about political affairs.
ReplyDeleteAt the same time, I also enjoy hearing about you and your life, the person behind the passion. I enjoy this piece about your Borg-Ward Isabella and the trips and times you spent with the car. At my real website (that phrase may irritate die hard social networkers) my blog is titled "Kimberly's Thoughts On Just About Everything" and that is what I do, I may blog about the subversion of America one minute and bottling tomato juice the next.
Keep your passion concerning politics, but remember you are a multifaceted person who has many things to share and we welcome it all.
Reading about first cars, it certainly is different today with children driving around in 2009 corvettes; turn 16 and mum and dad hand them keys to a brand new car; one of the things I find broken with the current society. I suppose it gives them bragging rights, "My little Suzy turned 16 and I brought her a new mustang for her birthday".
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