The old Buick

During Anne's first job at the St. Cloud Hospital, her boss gave her some good-natured grief about her beat up '66 Impala, and offered to sell her (cheap) his used Buick LeSabre, a huge blue tank with brocade seats. Not the hot car a 23-year-old yearns for, but it certainly got the job done. Obviously, it did not have front wheel drive and we had a sharp right turn (around a wood fence) to an uphill gravel driveway to our garage. On icy winter days, Steve and Anne often took turns trying to get enough speed to get around the corner and up the hill. If unsuccessful, the car often slid back down the hill into a snowbank. Anne would cut the corner a little sharply, and often sideswiped the fence. We used to laugh so hard trying to get that heavy car up the icy slope and were afraid we'd go too fast and go through the back of the garage!