Tuesday 4 ~ Automobiles

I remember the Edsel. 
I believe my Aunt Margie  and Uncle Ed Moss had one.

 

Automobiles


Hey there... welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4.

We rely on cars to get just about everywhere today, so maybe we should talk about them a bit. Okay?






1. What is the earliest car you remember your family owning? Do you recall the color or the plate number?

This is the earliest car I actually remember my family owning, but I know there was an older green Plymouth or Pontiac before this one.  This was a 1956 (I think) Chevy BelAir, and the color was a dark green.  This was our family all packed up for one of our trips from Florida back to Pennsylvania to load up more of our furniture.  We moved to Florida from PA. in 1956, and this was probably 1957. You can see the Florida tag for yourself.

That trailer was filled with a lot of our furniture, which we had left at my Uncle Paul's farm in Pa., so we went back to get it. We also had camping gear in there because we camped all the way up and back.

All six of us fit in that car, but it was cramped, as you can see my brothers were tall teenagers by this time.

I remember after this car we had a Studebaker for a while, and then a Studebaker Lark, and after that a Ford Falcon. None of those cars was really big enough for our whole family, but we managed somehow.

2. What does your state's license plate look like? Do you like it?  

This is my favorite tag for our state, but there are many other choices and specialty plates that you can pay extra for.  

3. What color is your car now? Charcoal Gray.  Probably not my favorite color, but it's what was available at a reasonable price when we last traded cars.  We never buy brand new cars, so we take whatever is available that we can afford, which nowadays would be difficult to find even a used car we can afford. I pray this car holds up for a long time!

4. Did you have a car as a teenager? If yes, what kind was it?

No, I did not have my own car as a teenager.  I was allowed to drive my parents' 1964 Plymouth Valiant back and forth to the nearby community college where I attended my freshman year.  But I did not have a car to drive when I was in high school.  I usually rode to school either with my mother on her way to work, or in my junior year I remember I rode to school with some neighborhood friends.  I came home from school with my mother after she got off work at 5:00. I either had cheerleading practice after school and then walked to the downtown drug store to wait for her to pick me up, or I went home with a friend who lived in town and waited there until she picked me up, because we lived too far out of town to walk home. 

When my hubby and I got married we had his 1964 Dodge Dart. It was standard shift, and I had a difficult time with that since I am left-handed. I was glad when we got rid of it for an automatic transmission.

We kept that car until we were expecting our first baby, and then we bought a 1970 Chevelle coupe. From then on it was either station wagons or larger sedans as our family grew. Our current vehicle is an SUV, and I probably like that style best of all.

I hope you enjoyed this step back in time to hear about our old cars. 

Now let's go see what others are writing about!  Thank you, Annie, for coming up with these questions each week.