Highlights From Our Informal Survey - Part B

Some of the cars we drove to school in 1972... don't we wish we still had them? Gas was $0.29 per gallon. Who remembers the green VW bug playing chicken with Gary Cowley in the Brighton driveway? Their door handles collided. The owner claims they once had eight girls crammed inside! One owner of a little white Toyota claimed they were never stuck in the snow due to the capabilities of the car combined with 50 lbs. of salt in the trunk. The driver of the Corvair convertible claimed he or she could climb anything with it... Mt. Olympus? But their Dad kept killing the engine because he always tried to "double clutch". The driver of a 1959 Chevrolet Biscayne mentioned that the backseat floorboard was rusted out so that you could see the road rush by as you drove along; they considered it quite refreshing. Many of us drove our parents cars to school, while others of us never drove to school at all. I remember one night driving along 2700 E in the backseat of a classmate's parent's station wagon, trying to get it up to 100 mph! Headed south, we missed the curve and drove part way up the hillside, almost hitting a house. Remember the advent of seatbelts? Cars: barely alive with 'em, but can't live without 'em.