Door County, Wisconsin, October 1974. The Skylark's packed and Dad's ready to drive.
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October 30, 2016
July 9, 2014
Roadside Lunch
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Lakeview Park, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, July 1980. We used to stop at this rest area on our way to Door County. Interstate 43 hadn't been completed yet, and our drive hugged the Lake Michigan shore. This was the summer we took both Dad's VW Rabbit and the (new-to-me) Buick Skylark.
June 19, 2014
April 7, 2014
Parked
Door County, Wisconsin, August 1980. That's the 1979 VW Rabbit Dad bought when he passed the Buick Skylark to me. The Rabbit is also the car on which I learned to drive stick.
December 28, 2013
Traveling Companion
Door County, Wisconsin, December 1976. Mom and Dad have spent a winter weekend at the cottage, and it's time to head home in Dad's Buick Skylark.
January 22, 2013
The Aftermath of the Blizzard
Yesterday I mentioned the 1979 Chicago blizzard. Here's how things looked after Mom dug out the driveway:
Suburban Chicago, January 1979. The Skylark is in the garage.
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Suburban Chicago, January 1979. Here's the walkway to the front door.
September 25, 2012
Do you want to go for a ride?
Door County, Wisconsin, April 1977. Gigi looks ready to go for a spin in my Dad's 1972 Buick Skylark. After Dad bought another VW, I got the Skylark. It was my first car. It was a V8, and it got 12 miles to the gallon. I drove it many times between Urbana, Illinois and Chicago. In the early 1980s, I sold the Skylark to a vintage car collector. He paid $400.00 for the car.
October 17, 2011
Meet my Love Bug.
The first two cars I remember are my Mom's white 1960 Buick Invicta Hardtop (one of the "fin" models) and my Dad's 1957 black Volkswagon Beetle. Both cars had red interiors. My Mom drove Buicks from the late 1950s until 1991. She didn't drive stick, and she usually chose a roomy model that would be suitable for transporting five people on family vacations. For example, we drove that White Invicta, which Mom called her "Swan," from Chicago to Toronto, and then through Niagara Falls to Cape Cod in the summer of 1963. The car had no air conditioning, and I remember feeling quite green on the red vinyl of the back bench seat. During another trip, we took a mid-1960s gold LeSabre from Chicago to Montana and then up the Alaska Highway. Automatic transmission and power steering!
My Dad instead chose European cars with manua transmissions. There were two VW Beetles followed by a Volvo. When the Volvo was struck and totaled on a Chicago Expressway, Dad opted for economic prudence and bought a Buick Skylark. He hated that car, and it eventually got passed down to me. He then bought a VW Rabbit in 1979. Dad had great faith in German engineering.
Suburban Chicago, April 1961. I sit on the bumper of my Dad's black VW Beetle. An original: the engine was in the rear, the trunk was in the front, it had no headrests, no safety belts, and no car seats. Dad took me to Brookfield Zoo in this vehicle nearly every Sunday. I already am making that grown-up facial expression that I commonly struck for the lens.
My Dad instead chose European cars with manua transmissions. There were two VW Beetles followed by a Volvo. When the Volvo was struck and totaled on a Chicago Expressway, Dad opted for economic prudence and bought a Buick Skylark. He hated that car, and it eventually got passed down to me. He then bought a VW Rabbit in 1979. Dad had great faith in German engineering.
Suburban Chicago, April 1961. I sit on the bumper of my Dad's black VW Beetle. An original: the engine was in the rear, the trunk was in the front, it had no headrests, no safety belts, and no car seats. Dad took me to Brookfield Zoo in this vehicle nearly every Sunday. I already am making that grown-up facial expression that I commonly struck for the lens.
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