1969 Brookwood Found!

STOP PRESS! I have just learned that my late, beloved 1969 Chevrolet Brookwood station wagon, which I had to sell  when I left California ten years ago, is again for sale! In Ventura!  And it looks to be in wonderful shape! I shall have to consider what to do here. It may mean a cross-country trip. Or perhaps one of my California friends will buy it--to keep it in the family, so to speak. Chris Baker, are you listening? Great car for hauling canvasses. Not nimble, but an amazingly smooth ride on the freeway. It's like driving your living room into L.A. When I used to go in for lunch meetings at West Side restaurants I couldn't otherwise afford,  the valet-parking guys, bored with Benzes, loved my car. 
           I loved it. When I bought it from the original owner, a little old lady (truly) who was moving into a nursing home (!) it had 22k. Now it's up to 90k. It has a 350 motor, the best, most reliable, and cheapest to maintain of all V8's. It does use a lot of gas, which isn't cheap these days, but the purchase price is 1/4 the price of a new KIA so the numbers work. And this is real recycling. Driving a 42 year old car is far easier on the environment than ordering a new Prius! 

These pictures taken on the sad day I sold her.

And these are from the website where she's for sale, still wearing the same license plates.