Remembering My Beetle

Seeing a Beetle Made Me Remember

 “There are small fish and large ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.”
~Author Unknown

When I moved to Lexington many years ago, I brought with me two cars...one of them an old Land Rover like you see in Africa and the other my yellow VW Beetle. Both  have now gone to The Happy Hunting Ground for dead cars. Here’s the story of how I lost both cars:

1. Bud was giving my eldest son a driving lesson out in that big field in front of the house, but as he was turning to drive it back over our Bridge to Somewhere, he turned the steering wheel way too hard to the right causing the Rover to flip upside down into the creek. No one was hurt, but the Land Rover died.

2. Then one day years ago, my daughter had parked the Beetle on Main Street. At some point there was an accident somewhere, and one our trusty firemen came racing thru downtown in a huge red firetruck, ran a red light, hit the car which was already into it from the other direction and who had a green light. Then swerved smashing into my Beetle totaling it so it was dead. Only to me could these bizarre things happen. I just have to laugh like I always do, be thankful no one was injured in either incident, and move on.

Finally, last week I was coming out of my doctor’s office, and I saw this gorgeous VW Beetle. Well, out came the iPhone and I started taking pictures...pristine condition...a 2000. Well, as I was about to finish up, a woman came walking up speaking rather sternly...”Are you taking pictures of MY car.? "Oh dear, I thought”. I worriedly turned around, and there she was...Dorothy Perkins...a person I knew well, had been good friends with for years, and with whom I had taught. We both had a great laugh, and then I asked her if she ever was going to sell it to PLEASE sell it to me. I am keeping my fingers crossed. We shall see.

This is the icing on the cake...cool reflections I inadvertently captured in the side view mirror and the window above.

...and here is my friend, Dorothy Perkins

These pictures were shot with my iPhone 5C  - 12-17-15

The Old Ford F6

I have no idea what year this Ford might be, but I was totally fascinated by it.  I love anything OLD. Luckily I had my 50mm lens with me, so I gave it a try. Looking at these shots makes me think of John from "Sinbad and I on the Loose" and his pictures from Bodie... old but refusing to leave us.

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl

 is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."

~Albert Einstein

I can’t help but wonder if there was any smooching going on in this old Ford in its day. What do y ou think?

   

This post is linked to Macro Monday 2.

(I have never understood how to get the link to be contained in the thumbnail for the blog, so I have to link it all up in this old fashioned way. Maybe one day I will figure it out.)

Reflections from Roanoke

This is what I call the “nose cone” on the 1950 Studebaker Land Cruiser I posted 2 weeks ago. I guess somewhere in there is the piece you push to open the hood, or maybe it is just there for good looks. I’ll have to depend upon one of you all to tell me. The reflections were awesome.

After I visited the Transportation Museum, I went window shopping in downtown Roanoke. When I came upon this window, I knew I had to take a picture of it. The standing mirror was in the window full of reflections from outside. I thought it was really neat.

This post is linked with "Weekend Reflections.”

This One’s for You, Louis

Last weekend when I went to the Roanoke Transportation Museum to see the old steam engines toot and roll down the tracks, there was a large room which housed a wonderful collection of vintage cars. Guess that makes me “vintage” considering I am lots older than any of them. Since Louis LaVache loves his Packards and Studebakers so, I decided to photograph and post the pictures for his pleasure. I also included two pictures of cars I once had, and one I wish I’d had.  The cars were all so polished and shiny I could see all kinds of reflections on them.

1941 Packard

 1941 Packard

 1950 Studebaker Land Cruiser

  Front of 1951 Studebaker

 1959 Morris Traveler

  1959 Morris Traveler

I included it because it was such a great looking car.

I just had to include these two of the Desoto because after college I had one that was painted pink and purple and had four doors. I think the top was pink and the bottom purple. The back seat folded forward so you could sleep back there, and instead of having a regular automatic transmission it was a push button one. It was a chrome looking square on the left side of the steering wheel, sitting against the dashboard, and had push buttons:  top, bottom, left, and right. All I can say is...it was one cool car!

This is a 1972 Volkswagen Super Beetle. We owned one that looked just like this until it was totaled by volunteer fire department truck. The bug was parked on the left just past the intersection. The driver ran the red light, hit a lady and her car that was about to go through the intersection with a green light. After smashing into her, he lost control and took out my VW. The city did not have to pay a dime because it was an emergency vehicle going to an emergency!

Hope you enjoyed your honorary post Mr. LaVache

This post is linked with 
Our World Tuesday and 
Vintage Thingies Thursday.

Hearse for Sale

I never know what I am going to see on my drive to work in the mornings. This one made me forget about what time it was. All I could think about was getting the point and shoot out of my purse and not getting hit .

This post is linked with Lesley’s "Signs, Signs."

Daily Photo ~ Ruby Tuesday ~ 7-26-11

How much red can a man want? 
All of these belong to the same family.
"If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.”
  ~Author Unknown

This post is linked with Ruby Tuesday.

Daily Photo ~ 5-8-11

Keme’s Way

There is no end to the "local color" in this area.
"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars."
Mort Walke