The Subaru Outback (and Walt Whitman)

Al has always liked wagons; don't know why we have never given the Outback its due.  Maybe because they are so common, at least here in New England.  25 years ago the Subarau Outback was already the unofficial State Car of Maine, and they have only become more ubiquitous. Being common shouldn't be a drag on the market: some of the most beloved and prized vintage cars and trucks were the most common basic transportation--or job tool--of their day. The Chevy 3100 pickup, for example, or pretty much any station wagon from the 1960s. The Outback been around since 1995. All the cars in this post were less than a 2-minute walk from our apartment  in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When you walk around Cambridge, there is pretty much always at least one Outback in sight.

We have posted on a 1968 Subaru. We sounded disapproving when we posted on the Outback Wilderness edition--of the fantasy being sold, the dream of crashing through wilderness with your family packed aboard a muscular station wagon...what is that about, America? As the land is evermore tamed and built and paved,  those Super Bowl ads showing brawny beefcake trucks forging streams and smashing up and down trails seem...wait a minute, what did Walt Whitman say...    

    “I say we had better look our nation searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease.” -Democratic Vistas