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Hey.
I have always liked cars of one kind or another. I used to subscribe or buy or just plain sneak (from piles of back issues at library disposals or airport lounges) car magazines. I sometimes catch Motorweek on PBS. From kindergarten through high school, I used to doodle pictures of cars on whatever surface I thought they'd look good...notebook covers, manila folders, textbook overjackets made from paper grocery bags, and so on. I learned a little about the doodling part from George Trosley (http://www.georgetrosley.com/) and his CarToons comic books.
And so I have an idea of what makes a car interesting and what makes one boring.
Yet I have driven some rather boring machines in the twenty years I've been a driver. You think it's something I ought to psychoanalyze?
My current vehicle is a year 2001 Chevy Prizm sedan...which is actually a Toyota Corolla with only a few changes (a total of EIGHT parts--four of them hubcaps) to the trim. I'm the second owner--the first was a rental company on one of the smaller islands of Hawaii. It's finished in a rather unassuming metallic gray. I've had this car just over two years. I like the Prizm because it gets around 40 miles to a gallon of fuel (or about 16 klicks to a liter for you readers in the Metric world) and so I don't have to fuel up often. It's comfortable, at least for short and medium length trips. It can do superhighway speeds but I don't drive that fast often. It does everything I ask of it other than carry big cargo--and for that I can ask Dad to get his pickup truck on the job. It's got a CD-player which I don't use often enough. The only pieces of hardware I have problems with are the side mirrors (which have weird spots on them that won't wash off) and the rear window defroster (which doesn't work over the whole window) but I can live with both these foibles. I hope to keep this car not only till I pay off the loan but well after that.
But what does this car say about me? Do I really want to know?
FP
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I have always liked cars of one kind or another. I used to subscribe or buy or just plain sneak (from piles of back issues at library disposals or airport lounges) car magazines. I sometimes catch Motorweek on PBS. From kindergarten through high school, I used to doodle pictures of cars on whatever surface I thought they'd look good...notebook covers, manila folders, textbook overjackets made from paper grocery bags, and so on. I learned a little about the doodling part from George Trosley (http://www.georgetrosley.com/) and his CarToons comic books.
And so I have an idea of what makes a car interesting and what makes one boring.
Yet I have driven some rather boring machines in the twenty years I've been a driver. You think it's something I ought to psychoanalyze?
My current vehicle is a year 2001 Chevy Prizm sedan...which is actually a Toyota Corolla with only a few changes (a total of EIGHT parts--four of them hubcaps) to the trim. I'm the second owner--the first was a rental company on one of the smaller islands of Hawaii. It's finished in a rather unassuming metallic gray. I've had this car just over two years. I like the Prizm because it gets around 40 miles to a gallon of fuel (or about 16 klicks to a liter for you readers in the Metric world) and so I don't have to fuel up often. It's comfortable, at least for short and medium length trips. It can do superhighway speeds but I don't drive that fast often. It does everything I ask of it other than carry big cargo--and for that I can ask Dad to get his pickup truck on the job. It's got a CD-player which I don't use often enough. The only pieces of hardware I have problems with are the side mirrors (which have weird spots on them that won't wash off) and the rear window defroster (which doesn't work over the whole window) but I can live with both these foibles. I hope to keep this car not only till I pay off the loan but well after that.
But what does this car say about me? Do I really want to know?
FP
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