All Hail The Saloon!

This a pic­ture of the first 4-door auto­mo­bile the Bog­a­r­duses ever owned. It is a 1981 Honda Civic all fit­ted out with our bikes on the roof rack. If you look care­fully you can see Donna in the driver’s seat wait­ing patiently for me to get back in the car so we can go some­where, pos­si­bly New Orleans. The build­ing in the left back­ground was the apart­ment build­ing where we lived in Merid­ian, MS while I was assigned to the Naval Air Sta­tion there.

I was work­ing sec­ond shift and Donna was going to school dur­ing the day so we needed two cars. The four door joined a sim­i­larly col­ored 1980 Civic 3-door hatch­back in our sta­ble*. The 4-door only stayed with us for a year and a half before being traded in on a 1983 Honda Pre­lude in, you guessed it, maroon. I could never really get com­fort­able in the 4-door because the seat didn’t go back far enough for me, while in the hatch­back it did.

*I would have said garage, but that would have been incor­rect because we just had spots in the apart­ment com­plex LOT and not even assigned ones.

It is also the last 4-door car we owned for 30 years. Until the Pur­ple Whale came along, who by the way, got a nice lit­tle bath this afternoon.