Flashy Coupe De Ville

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By Jim Hagarty
I went for my afternoon coffee and was remarking to myself that I hadn’t randomly seen a classic car all weekend. Then turned the corner and this beautiful 1960 Cadillac Coupe de Ville was sitting there. This car was of the era when North American automobiles took up a lot of real estate when they pulled into parking lots. In fact, after the invasion of Japanese and then South Korean small cars changed the whole industry, parking lot painters started putting their lines closer together than they had in the past.

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Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.