In Cars (Continuing and Expanding An Earlier Theme)
Hey.
Since my birth, my household has owned 24 motor vehicles. Of course, this doesn't count the cars owned by my siblings since they left home. Anyway, of these twenty four, nine were General Motors (including my current car, a re-badged Toyota), seven were Ford (including a Mazda), three were Chrysler (including an AMC), two were MG/Rover and we had one-offs from Porsche/Audi and Nissan and an additional Toyota.
We have the dubious knowledge that we owned at least two and arguably three of the worst cars made in recent history (a Vega and a Maverick)--the "arguable" one was my AMC Concord station wagon. That was the first car my folks bought for me. It was six years old when I got it, and I kept it for about three years. It survived two accidents and a few very close calls till its tranny gave up and the replacement tranny forced a vote of no-confidence from me. So the Concord went to my brother (who now was old enough to need a car) and I got a Toyota Tercel sedan to replace it, which also went to my brother eventually. The station wagon was a handy machine, tho'.
Some people are inclined to give pet names to their cars or to somehow imagine them on a spiritual level (as akin to animal spirits) but I'm not such a person. I never gave a nickname to the Concord. It might have had one before it got to me, after all. Perhaps I'll rub the dashboard after a tense situation as a sign that I appreciate my good luck (and perhaps, good choices in hardware) but I wasn't born with that superstition. Look at it this way...how silly is it to imagine that if you die your spirit will inhabit an automobile and that you will have some sort of rapport with the owner/driver? Where is a car in the ranks of karma anyway?
FP
Since my birth, my household has owned 24 motor vehicles. Of course, this doesn't count the cars owned by my siblings since they left home. Anyway, of these twenty four, nine were General Motors (including my current car, a re-badged Toyota), seven were Ford (including a Mazda), three were Chrysler (including an AMC), two were MG/Rover and we had one-offs from Porsche/Audi and Nissan and an additional Toyota.
We have the dubious knowledge that we owned at least two and arguably three of the worst cars made in recent history (a Vega and a Maverick)--the "arguable" one was my AMC Concord station wagon. That was the first car my folks bought for me. It was six years old when I got it, and I kept it for about three years. It survived two accidents and a few very close calls till its tranny gave up and the replacement tranny forced a vote of no-confidence from me. So the Concord went to my brother (who now was old enough to need a car) and I got a Toyota Tercel sedan to replace it, which also went to my brother eventually. The station wagon was a handy machine, tho'.
Some people are inclined to give pet names to their cars or to somehow imagine them on a spiritual level (as akin to animal spirits) but I'm not such a person. I never gave a nickname to the Concord. It might have had one before it got to me, after all. Perhaps I'll rub the dashboard after a tense situation as a sign that I appreciate my good luck (and perhaps, good choices in hardware) but I wasn't born with that superstition. Look at it this way...how silly is it to imagine that if you die your spirit will inhabit an automobile and that you will have some sort of rapport with the owner/driver? Where is a car in the ranks of karma anyway?
FP