Comments on: Green Suburus, Yellow International Scouts, and Passats

By: gman

gman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:38:03 +0000

i had a 74 grand torino 351 cleveland … it was the bomb… i see clint eastwood has a 73 in his new movie …..

By: Karen in Wichita

Karen in Wichita — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:45:47 +0000

Well, but I’m showing my age if I point out that Back Then, it was Not Cool to be a geek/nerd.

(I just looked him up, and hey, looks like he owns (and probably founded) a $25mil/year company. Not in our hometown, though, so I suppose none of the jocks work for him now.)

Not that a K-car (station wagon, as I recall) was much higher on the totem pole than a Scout, but Back Then, the Scout was merely oldish and not yet venerable.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:56:05 +0000

My first car in high school (6 years ago) was a ‘72 Scout. At the time I didn’t appreciate it much because it needed a lot of work and I wasn’t that interested in cars. Now, I’d love to get another one as a project car.

By: Sachin

Sachin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:27:29 +0000

Ha Ha ..I simply love the scout……

By: dion

dion — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:18:58 +0000

@Karen

Ahh, he should have taken you to prom in the Scout!

@Bryan

Mine gets to 70 once it warms up, but it isn’t happy, and there isn’t a rush anyway!

@Kelzer

Doh, thanks. amazing how I type X and think I typed Y.

By: Kelzer

Kelzer — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:46:48 +0000

Funny how our fingers get so used to typing certain things that they develop a mind of their own. I’m guessing you deal with virtual machines so much that your fingers are determined to type VM instead of VW. Either that, or VMware now manufactures the Passat and I missed the news.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:37:55 +0000

That is a cherry scout!!! I am jealous. I had a 1972 medium olive green K5 Blazer that I wish I would have never sold.

You hit the nail right on the head. You have to slow down in it. I don’t think mine would have done 70. It had 4:11 gears in the axle and physically couldn’t turn any faster.

By: Karen in Wichita

Karen in Wichita — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:58:16 +0000

When I was in high school, I dated a guy who drove a Scout. His was more “pale dirt” than “banana,” though. Four-cylinder, and if you made a sharp right (left? I forget) it stalled out because, he explained, the four-cylinder was really half an eight, and all the gas went to the side of the engine that wasn’t there. (Surprisingly, that’s almost correct.)

I think half his (very small) graduating class had bets on whether he’d take me to prom in it. He didn’t; he borrowed his folks’ K-car instead (oh, I just dated myself, didn’t I?) which, as a result of unfamiliarity, resulted in a spectacular prom arrival: while attempting to signal the turn into the parking lot, he honked the horn, turned on the wipers, washed the windshield, and flashed the brights. We lacked only a guy walking in front of us waving a red flag and shouting “THE NERDS HAVE ARRIVED!”