Our Vehicles

  It was with a significant amount of nostalgia that I “cleaned-out” what was left in our “Automobiles” file this afternoon. It included the folder for the 1952 Styline Deluxe 2-door Sedan which was the first car we bought after being married. I brought a 1941 Chevy to our marriage in 1949 which we traded in on the '52 and established a president of paying for every vehicle we ever bought before driving them out of the showroom. By 1956 we had four children and I was involved with landscaping services in addition to my Civil Service job. We bought a new Pontiac Station Wagon and took Elaine's folks along to visit relatives in California. I bought a neat little '36 Ford Victoria to drive to work so Elaine would have transportation at home. We moved to the Washington D.C. area in 1962 with the Pontiac and bought a new Chevy Station Wagon in 1965. The kids were getting to the age of Driver's Training so we bought a Red Beetle in 1967 which they all learned to drive. Elaine and I had advanced in our USDA jobs to the extent that we bought a Buick Apollo in 1975 and a Pontiac Bonneville in 1977. We drove the Buick and Pontiac both back to Nebraska in 1980. In 1983 we bought a new Lindy Motorhome on a 250 Chevy chassis and utilized it over 12 years and 30,000 miles. In 1992 we bought a new Buick La Sabre and another one in 2002. We still have the '02 in a garage here at Brookdale with 70,000 miles on the speedometer and drive it frequently. We have always maintained our vehicles properly, kept good records on them and traded before significant repairs were necessary.  They kept getting better and more expensive over time.