One more – we took our ’68, which was our family/tow car, to a local petting zoo when I was a kid.
When we came out afterwards we noticed a bunch of people gathered around looking at something. There was an animal up on the hood of one of the cars in the parking lot.
As we got closer we realized it was OUR car: there was a goat on the hood of our new GTO.
We thought it was hilariously funny: a goat on the hood of our “goat”.
Dad did not think it was hilariously funny.*
K
*As an aside, I was probably 45 years old before I realized you could touch the painted surface of a car and not have something terrible happen.
I teased the guys in the shop when they would make me wear anti-mutilation protection (ring guards, belt protectors, etc) around the build vehicles.
"Are you kidding me?" I'd say. "I used to have a car worth more than my house!"
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Used to?" they'd ask. "What happened?".
My reply: "I got a bigger house."
