From (My Cars) Original Memory Interview Question

His Response:

I pretty much like what I've got. When it comes to cars, I'm pretty pragmatic.

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From (My Cars) Original Memory Interview Question

His Response:

Let's see if I can remember them chronologically...

1. 1963 Plymouth Valiant (my Grandpa's old car)
2. 1973 American Motors Gremlin w/Levi Strauss interior (my Mom's old car)
3. An Opal station wagon (don't recall the year)
4. Back to the Gremlin. That was mine-mine, then.
5. 1982 Chevy S10 pickup.
6. 1984 GMC S15 pickup.
7. 1986 Chevy S10 Blazer (we bought that instead of a cottage... stoopid).
8. 1987 Buick Skylark (my wife's old car -- the a/c stopped working).
9. 1990 Chevy C1500 half-ton pickup.
10. 1993 Saturn station wagon.
11. 1994 Chevy Silverado Z80 pickup (wife's old truck -- the a/c stopped working).
12. 2005 Ford Escape (current).

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From (My Cars) Original Memory Interview Question

His Response:

I added rear seat-belts to my 1963 Plymouth Valiant. Oh, and I stuck an 8-track tape/AM/FM unit in it, too.

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His Response:

If I designed my own car, considering my talents, it would be a PoS. No doubt. But it would have rear seatbelts and a good 8-track unit in it.

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From (My Cars) Original Memory Interview Question

His Response:

I foresee a minivan in TheWebCrawler's future. Yup. He's got one coming.

Actually, I had to write an essay on this subject for an English class (community college) in 1975. We had to predict what people would be doing/driving at the turn of the century (25 years hence).

Well, I said cars would have 4 wheels, 2 or 4 doors, would run on gasoline, have windows and bumpers -- pretty much as they had in 1975.

I nearly flunked that assignment. I wasn't using enough imagination. Certainly everything would change drastically over 25 years. Fred Reid, my least favorite college prof, told me that, at the very least, we'd have light rails for cars to connect to which would take us wherever we wanted to go and we'd just sit back and let the car follow the track.

Looking around, I can see ol' Freddy boy was right.

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