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My brother rented a corvair and took it on a HS senior trip to the lake. Him and his buddies drilled a couple of holes in the front trunk and filled it with ice and beer. It ended up in the pool at the motel they stayed at.

Dated a girl in HS whose Dad had a metallic light blue Corvair Convertible with matching interior. Never got to drive the Corvair. She liked driving it too much.

Her dad also had a Model T coupe. They drove it in parades. The black laquer paint job was getting kind of swirly so polished it up for him. While polishing on it took it to my brother's to have dinner. His father-in-law was there and looked closely at it talking about how there was a trick to the magnetos on those old Model T's. Whatever he did, he fixed it. A month or so after I took it back to her Dad all polished up he asked me what I did to it because he stopped having electrical problems that were driving him nuts. We were best buds after that.

Her Dad liked me even after the pregnancy scare. She started taking the pill and was late the first month on it. Her Mom not so much. Her Mom was a seamstress and was making a dress for the daughter. It was a knee length tight fitting dress, but the material was white with big red, blue, green, and yellow polka dots all over it. It was long sleeved which did NOT go with the short hem and it had big ruffles on the ends of the sleeves and around the neck. She modeled it for me and her Mom asked me what I thought of it. Like an idiot I told her. Said it fit really nice and like the dress part, but she needed to get rid of the long sleeves and all the ruffles because that made it look like a clown costume. Her Dad cracked up but her Mom was miffed. Wasn't invited over to hang with her and the parents after that.

Another girl I dated had one of those huge Mercury Marques. It was parked under covered parking at the apartment where she was living. A tornado/wind storm came thru and the covered parking collapsed. The body wasn't hurt at all, but all the windows were busted out and the top was smashed down so the windows were only about six inch tall slots. The top was crushed straight down and all the doors still worked. It was like a chop top. If you ignored the pillars being mangled and the glass missing it looked cool. It was kinda fun to tool around in until her insurance fixed it.

A guy in that apartment complex was a lucky dog. He had a red corvette and the cars on either side of it kept the collapsed roof from touching it. It didn't even have a scratch.