Vintage dealerships

Yuck. That looks like a snowy night in ‘62. I’d sure hate to be picking up a new car and driving it home in that weather.

 

Now there are a couple of guys who know how to make lemonade out of life's lemons.
This could be the photograph that goes along with one of many of my Father's stories from his youth.

 

The only lemonade they'll see that day is the dog's lemonade icecream

 

Hey PI. Love your new avitar and side story.

 

Story? You mean it really didn't happen?

 

I used to love to hear stories from the folks growing up like the ones you’re talking about. The snow seemed to be heavier, and deeper, plus when you think of the roads, tires, and just general equipment on the cars it always felt like it should have been more treacherous. I remember a story of the folks having to go to Phoenix from Southern California in the summer of 1953, an unusually warm year. They had a ‘51 Bronze Ford with no tinted glass. They would take turns driving while the passenger dunked their feet in a tub of ice and cold drinks. Thank God for rubber mat floors. I don’t think you could even get one of those ice tubs on the floor of anything modern.

 

I can’t look at a ‘67 Delmont and not think of poor Mary Jo Koepechne. Can’t you just hear the conversation..... “Senator it’s a beautiful day do you want the 98 Convertible? —- Naw I just take that black Delmont over there. Don’t bother gassing it up. I’ll get it washed later.”

 

Senator Kennedy simply visited the wrong dealership. If he had visited the appropriate one, he wouldn't have needed so much antifreeze in his blood for surviving the icy waters of the Potomac

 

VW even ran an add for a short time pointing that out!

 

Man, that was not DDB that ran that for VW...that was National Lampoon magazine, for which Volkswagen, Doyle Dane Bernbach Advertising and the Kopechne family, all sued the publisher over the fake ad. I remember when that issue came out...my older brother Tim would buy it (he was a high schooler at the time), and when he found that in the magazine, since we had a '66 Bug Cabrio, we were all laughing at the ad. The fake ad took a Volkswagen claim that the body of a bug had a 'vacuum-bottle seal' that made it more or less float, and used that to poke fun at Kennedy and Kopechne, as it is alledged that she was performing a sex act on Kennedy, and he misjudged the bridge they drove off because of it.