Automobiles

 For Sepia Saturday this week, we get to find old pics of cars.

What's the difference between a car and automobile? No, I don't know the answer.

I'll share some old photos that I posted to another Sepia Saturday about a year ago.

But I also will give the link to a 2021 gas shortage post.

The following photos are the Rogers' family Studebakers, as well as some members of the family!

My father is Jr. and may be the one standing outside the car. His younger brother James would be driving, and Gummy (my grandmother who never drove) would be the passenger, wearing a hat.

In 1942 my grandparents stand as bookends for my father, in front of a Studebaker which looks very much like the one in the first photo. What do you think?

Here my younger sister and myself are standing in front of the Studebaker when we lived in St. Louis about in 1950.

Above, another Studebaker, and another set of Easter clothes (complete with hats) as my sister and I stand  on the campus of Principia, where we each attended from 1950 on, graduating from high school there, and attending 3 years of college before we each quit. 

This may have been my father's last Studebaker. It was sporty two tone with dark blue on top and a pale blue bottom. On the left hand photo you can see my grandfather and my little sis, and maybe myself in the window. On the right side I'm pretending to drive, well before turning 16 when I would finally learn how (in another Studebaker of course!)

I greatly enjoy different museums which have been visited by another blogger, so try going to 

Big Daddy Dave's post on art in automobiles.

or even better, Big Daddy Dave's visit to the Studebaker Museum

Yesterday we had some sunshine and at 60 degrees around 3 pm I ate my lunch in the car at the lake. The wind was pretty cool. One radio-controlled sailboat out there, and a trio of Mallards with the aim of making little ducks. I wonder if this weather brought them into season. Tomorrow night is due to get back down to freezing as we go through rain and maybe snow. We shall seee, grasshopper, we shall see.

And to carry forward from yesterday having my (new to me) car checked out, I anticipated that in March I'd have to have it inspected prior to getting my new license plate tag (sticker with the year's date on it). Thus the state of NC has done previously. But today I got the bill of all taxes, local and state for the car, and it said my car didn't need to be insepected for NC. Wow! So I got a freebe yesterday of the look-over, and won't have to get the $30 inspection at all next month. Whoopee! 

Today's quote:

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. -Ulysses S. Grant, military commander, 18th US President (1822-1885)