Invision

"You idiot - you didn't even know that the car was your body and substituted for your valueless inferiority. On the one hand you were so good looking. On the other hand you were so skinny and still are. What's your excuse ?"

Compare my present self as seen through my then-eyes. "Sorry my friend, but it was great. I was on stage the whole time, like the more flamboyant kids are. The cars were identities. It was always fun comparing the person you knew to the type of car they drove. In the forties there were more car companies, which dwindled down to Ford, Chevy and Dodge/Plymouth. If one was aware of the specific background of the individual, and what part of town they lived, you could see certain preferences for Ford/Mercury, General Motors and Chrysler products." AMC was few and far between.

The first Chevy was flamboyant, white with red interior, tube grill, 59 Ford parking lights, California tail lights, skirts and lowered. However it was art. This was the everyday means of transportation as art. So it may have been my body, but it was also art and more than that, it was we liked and thought some of these car designs were really good. Now we are going to take and improve on them. Growing up in very small town, one could easily see who it was that lived in most of the houses, and do character comparisons for each kind of house and property, and the car to the house. You get to know the characters and you go to school with the kids from those houses. And yes I did all that.

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