I'll post pics later....
(this is a similar car in Memphis)
It was a 1979 brown Mercedes 300TD and the symbol on the hood was in the glove box....so we replaced the missing trinket with Bowling Lady.....our mascot that we twisted off an old trophy and attached to the hood...this became my car after Mark bought a yellow 1980 Mercedes wagon ...the kind of car
John Lennon drove....Mercedes that is.....Everyone thought we were goofy...and we are........
Biodiesel? What's that?
Folks pretty well know we'll drive a beater till we kill it and then move on...because our old cars go the same places as new cars...it's amazing, I tell ya!....
Example: Had a lovely dinner last night at Harbor Lites with my sweet inlaws, and parked the Volvo wagon between a new Lexus and a new BMW.....
Biodiesel....at first we had to drive up to Seattle to get biodiesel at Dr. Dan's in Ballard.
Mark and I were interns for Take Back Your Time Day....and we would drive up for the organizing meetings and encourage people to Smell Our Tailpipe! Hey, it smelled like French Fries.....
When I was taking law classes in 2004 through 2006, I had the same car as a nice lady who well, came from the right side of the tracks ....if you know what I mean....she carried a
Dooney and Bourke bag, and so did I!
Sadly, the transmission launched....and we sold it to a fellow up near Bellingham.....which is only slightly more
Hippie than Olympia.....
We Went to School in Olympia...yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.....
Biodiesel!!
It's almost mainstream now.....with redneck farmers and that ol' environmentalist George W. Bush allocating money to manufacture it.....and now in Seattle and all over the Puget Sound are truck stops and a few gas stations carry it.....but back in the Wild West Days....Mark and I were pretty much on our own......
Now of course, everywhere we look, folks are copying us....(as if)...and driving old diesel cars exhausting French Fry aroma!
So, are we really so weird? I mean, we have something in common with farmers w/ rednecks and Bush....
Who woulda guessed?
Well, me, for one......I know that we are far more alike than different...really..
