Greg Gjerdingen from Willmar, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper and his ilk are inclined to date themselves by referring to items and events that correlate to their early years, such as the keeper’s frequently used comment that he is as old as a Model A Ford which was manufactured in 1929-1931.
While he was generally comfortable with sharing his early year’s identity with the popular car of the masses, there was not much in the Model A image to boost his historical ego.
Then, through posting by others, the keeper learned that in 1931 the boat-tailed Cadillac roadster with a French body by “Pininfarina” came on the market; not any market in the keeper’s world of course, and the keeper does not even remember ever seeing a boat-tailed Caddy, but the fact that they came into the world about the time he did puts a hint of class into his otherwise very common self-image.
Further, the keeper is asking that those who followed his previous guidance to think of him as a Model A Ford, now please alter their perception to see him as a boat-tailed Cadillac roadster.
It would mean a lot to him; and he is confident that Phyllis will lead the move.
