Her dad had already used it for many years more. My wife and I drove a wonderful VW Golf for five years. Jon’s wife and the Golf in the Scottish Highlands in 2018. Paul Elcock, 59, Menston, West Yorkshire ‘I got it secondhand in 1996, and I loved it’ My son now has a Golf TDI, which is a bit of a money pit with engine issues, but he loves it. Oh, and the no claims bonus on my insurance in tatters. The police found it a couple of days later – on bricks, with no wheels, no interior trim, no roof, no bonnet and no engine. They nicked the stereo, then the hood was slashed and had to be expensively replaced.įinally, it was stolen from outside my house one night. It was very attractive to the local car thieves in Leeds, where it was broken into three times in two-and-a-half years. Me and my girlfriend (now wife of 30 years) drove around Europe that summer, hood down, singing at the top of our lungs to The Wall on the upgraded stereo.īack home, reality hit. I bought one from Auto Trader – high mileage but in good nick. It was the heady days of the late 80s, and I lusted after a Mk1 Golf GTI convertible. Photograph: Paul Elcock/Guardian Community Paul Elcock in his red Mk1 Golf GTI convertible in the French Alps, 1989. Kimberly Blessing, 48, American in Glasgow ‘I thought I was the ultimate in cool’ I still have that car, nearly 27 years later. That first Cabrio only lasted three months before I was hit by a drunk driver, but I was relatively unscathed and bought another one. Even before the infamous “Pink Moon” commercial, I was picking up friends from parties, driving around in the moonlight and listening to Nick Drake. I was first on the road with one in my area. I had designs on it being my first car – imagining one of those 80s films where parents give their kid a car with a giant bow – but my parents quickly reminded me that I lacked a licence or money to pay for insurance, so that was that.Ī few years later, I had my licence and the Mark III Cabrio was released. Its friendly double headlights and picnic basket shape seemed perfect to me. I fell in love with the Mark II Golf Cabriolet as a kid. Photograph: Kimberly Blessing/Guardian Community Hobbes says Calvin supposes one could recognize a boy of destiny by his planet and star underpants while Calvin claims that this comment is made by a someone with less intellect who is jealous, and he is seen wearing them without his pants (Shirt, socks, shoes and the underpants he is wearing).Kimberly Blessing, at age 25, with her VW Golf Cabrio in the summer of 2000. At the time, he was wearing spotted shorts that could possibly be his lucky rocketship pair. These were mentioned in a single comic, where Calvin got frustrated for being unable to wear them (they were in the laundry). Sometimes the charm backfires when Calvin ripped his pants on the swings exposing his rocketship underpants on the day he has to solve a math problem at school on the chalkboard. Sometimes, however, they don't help, as one Sunday strip depicts him wearing them, ready to face the day, only for everything to go wrong. He wears them not only as such but also as a good luck charm and confidence booster, in order to get through tough school days. Most of Calvin's Underpants were white and were seen when he dressing, or on occasion was when he tied his helium balloon onto his belt but it dangles humiliatingly from his pants fully displayed, Calvin was seen stripped to his underpants hanging on a tree branch or in the snow or Calvin taking off his pants to convince his mother to take him out to dinner. Calvin has several kinds of underpants, and preferences regarding which he would rather wear a good-luck charm pair with a cartoon rocketship design, flyless "tightey-whitey" briefs style generic underpants, and a pair licensed with cartoon characters.
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