Old Vehicles

Isn't it funny how random things bring back memories long forgotten? I was driving down the road today and I saw an old Ford Bronco, much like the one my friend Elvis used to have. It made me think of all the vehicles he used to drive, the ones I used to drive, and the ones all my friends USED TO drive. I know Elvis has a newer vehicle now, I've ridden in it. I know what car he had before the Bronco (a little blue car we called the rice-burner). But seeing this today made me think of all the things that happened in the Bronco,.. particular jokes as we were riding in it, adventures we went on in it, etc.

Then I thought of my old car that I had during many of the same years Elvis had the Bronco,... my old Chevrolet Impala. We always called it "The Walrus" because according to the crayola crayon box, its color was "walrus brown." Mine wasn't a stationwagon like the one pictured here but that IS the color. Don't ask me how the hell I found a picture with the right color. LOL That car was the center of some very interesting times in my life. Many things happened in the Walrus from a cruise down Cherry Street to peeing in the middle of a highway.

But both of these memories brought back an unexpected reminiscence. DaGetAwayCa. That's right, you heard me right,... "DaGetAwayCa." This is a car Elvis and I saw driving though the town of Albany, Georgia, many many years ago. It was an old, beaten-up, bondo'd car with no visible paint job,.. mostly rusty brown,.. with a label painted in black spray paint down its side,... "DaGetAwayCa." I still wonder if the police ever connected them to a crime, if they really did committ a crime, and if someone who knew they had been bad decided it'd be funny to point them out. Ah, good times.