Tag: Volkswagen

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Travel

Holidays of Doom

Myself in Dealey Plaza aka The Grassy Knol

My Christmas Vacation in the Era of the Quarantine When the first stimulus checks were cut, I decided to buy a car. There were, not by coincidence, lots of cars listing for exactly the amount of the check: $1,200. Many of them were fake listings. Some were just overpriced. I figured I would find something […]

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Memoire Writing

Rebuilding Rudy

The paint was mostly good, I remediated some corroding areas with black paint. Photo by Kathleen Dolan.

About my intimate relationship with a Volkswagen. Auto mechanical talents run through my genetic code almost as consistently as big noses. My father’s side comes from the Oil City area of Pennsylvania, so named for being the epicenter of the oil boom in America. My mother was born in Detroit. We are always one degree […]