Tom Wrote" "I am sure folks older than me can remember much harder times still than the premadonna stuff I am spewing."
Do any of you remember when all headlights were required to have the top half of the lens blacked out? We probably had it bad but didn't realize it. Many families did not have a car, the ones that did shared. Harry Watkins Newton, MS 86 SDL Silver 85 300D Euro 86 SDL Gold 81 240D manual trans > > When I was in high I did not have a car not many of us did. Dave, least you > had the 1985 crown vic and the space shuttle astrovan to put around in. You > were doing real well. Heck my wife and kid family car was a 1989 Mercury > Marcquee (sp) (ah the woody one of the best cars to roll out of Mo town) up > until 2003. I am sure folks older than me can remember much harder times > still than the premadonna stuff I am spewing. > > With my present economic situation and profession which is decent thank God, > letting the girls learn on a car which cost $2,000 I do not look upon as a > big thing when the heavy hitters in Greenwich Conn. are buying their kids > $80,000 Lexus's. I and my girls are not too "blanking" picky at all. If I > were I would not be driving a car which is almost 30 years old and doing > much of the work my self. I would be driving a disposable rock climber like > most of my peers. On the contrary, I consider myself and my kids just the > opposite of picky. I am Spartan and pretty retro. With a little > Great-Depression attitude sprinkled in to keep me honest. > > That is this coal-cracker's 2 cents, nuff said. > Regards Tom Scordato > Bellefonte PA
