So, there are only a bazillion or so stamps out there with a picture of a car. Why did I choose this one? I love taxis....I love riding in taxis. I love yellow NYC taxis... and this stamp has some nice taxi yellow color going on plus the contrast orange to yellow.... I like the stamp. And it is a car. And it is an Indonesian stamp and I do like to illustrate diversity in my stamps. The stamp itself is certainly no relic. My initial attempts at research found nothing of note.
So many directions my mind and fingers want to take me...but those stories and updates are for later. However, I will say this. Having to stay home and rest and recuperate.....not such a bad thing. Books, computers, videos, stamps....I am not feeling so well. I think I need more time to rest and recuperate.
Lets see....got my license in a classic white Dodge Dart with red interior.....circa early 60s. Went to the high school prom in a green Ford Torino. My first car that my brother bought me for $600 (quite possibly making this up) was a Toyota Corona....an early version of the Corolla. Great car. I survived a middle of the night 360 spin on a snowy, stormy night on 495 on a middle of the night drive back to Westfield after playing hockey in Tingsboro. Goldie riding shotgun. I had no business surviving that night, but angels are always a best friend....in this case road angels as opposed to airplane or other angels. Angels just plain do good things and are worthy of a long conversation...but I digress. Ah...the stupid, dangerous things we do when we are young and braindead. Then and now, a warm roadside hotel had far more upside and possibility than dying cold on the highway.....
The red Nissan with the flying hood on New Years Day, and the same car delivering no heat rides to Maine....yikes, I remember how cold that ride was. Blue Dodge Dart with the smashed fender and leaking oil. The yellow pick up...very cool and the blue, shift on the column, Buick?
My first new car...the green Fiat. I actually have an Italian stamp that looks like that Fiat 128 only mine was light piss green. That car would amputate your foot if not careful getting into the back seat when front seat went down. Great car till it caught on fire. Hey, fire happens, right?
Let see Gail's F128 Nissan----horrible car and I helped her buy it. I suck. The orange Toyota Tercel o that I tried to change the oil and nearly totaled a brand new car all by my own stupidity Yikes, frightening really. The Subaru station wagon, and the 66 Volvo Wagon...best car of all. Served as the limo for my wedding with cousin Len in the driver's seat. Hand delivered by David Wambaugh of Fryeburg, Maine. Classic great car replaced in the winter with shitboxes of historic proportions. On and on it goes, the Blue Isuzzu SUV that took a big hit with Gail and kids sending it on its side. That went 100k. The voyager of course, another 100k. The black Camry that is now 12 and belongs to Amy and the late, great Ford Explorer, 132K miles that died this week of transmission disease after 11 long, honorable years of service. It deserves a pic of its own. There were others within too.....the silver Volvo wagon that wouldn't start, and the Volvo sedan which I liked. How could I forget my first company car....all the rage back in the 80's. That was a classic blue Camry sedan. Company paid car, insurance, and gas...what a benny and I was just a site ED. Those were heady days. Of course, the red Jetta living on with 108K miles, Brad's Hyndai and the Ford 500....best car ever with 140K and looks, drives and feels like a brand new car.
Len's van. Roadtrips with the boys before wives and kids.....those were the days when we were young. That van took me to nights sleeping in the snow in Rocky Mountain Park to the beaches of Long Key State Park, to Mt. Katahdin on the day Yaz popped out to Nettles to end the game.
Cars just being cars. I am always amazed they work as well as they do. Cold mornings....not a problem. I am never surprised when they breakdown....I am more surprised they keep working as well as they do. Just bought one today.
My favorite rides however are taxi rides....from the airport to some luxury resort like the Delano, or the Bellagio, and rides around Manhatten from Central Park to the Gramercy Park Hotel. Those are the very best rides of all. I will gladly take a taxi any ole day......you got the meter?
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