It's never to late for your first ragtop, by Bill Starr - The Keene Sentinel
Late fall is a very good time to do that, by the way. One friend suggested I was going through an extraordinarily late mid-life crisis. My friend owns an all-wheel drive mini-van, and I suggested he was simply experiencing a common case of envy. Do you recall the first car you owned. The Corvair was a ‘60s innovation with a rear engine. It was a rather awkward-looking vehicle, which my girlfriend at the time inexplicably described as “cute. It struck me as cute in the way that a raccoon squashed on a highway looks cute, but then she broke up with me soon after that. The Corvair also was the car that Ralph Nader wrote a book about because it had more safety defects than accessories. My next car was a used Volkswagen Beetle, a fun vehicle that I loved and drove to ruin. It was followed by a Plymouth sedan, a perfect car for a newly married man with a baby on the way. It was followed by a Volkswagen Bus, the kind of bus that everyone over the age of 70 now drives in Vermont. I’m afraid I don’t remember most of the next several cars I purchased, though one of them definitely was a Toyota Corolla back when the Corolla was the smallest and cheapest car Toyota made. Source: www.sentinelsource.com
