Still has THAT car: RollCall story 5/4/05

[TayTay]

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Roll Call 05-04-2005
By By Mary Ann Akers ROLL CALL STAFF

Kerry's Crappy Car. Despite his blue-blooded taste for the finer things in life, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) still clings to one dear remnant of his bachelor days.

HOH spotted a faded, dusty, once-silver, two-door convertible with the license plate "MA-3" sitting amid shinier 21st-century counterparts in the Russell Senate garage Tuesday morning. Turns out that it's the same hunk of metal Kerry has driven for years. And years and years.

Kelley Blue Book value on the 1985 Dodge 600 ES convertible: $680. Sentimental value: priceless. "He loves that car," spokesman David Wade told HOH.

Then too bad he can't drive it. "It needs at least a new transmission," Wade conceded. Kerry apparently hasn't driven the thing since well before the 2004 presidential election. He now drives a 2003 Chrysler when he's in Washington.

Wade isn't sure when or how the Senator will get his beloved "silver bullet," as the car is known, out of the Russell garage. But there's little wonder why the eyesore is parked up there instead of in the garage of the Kerrys' tony Georgetown home.

"It's the only convertible that looks worse with the top down," Wade said. But he insisted that Teresa Heinz Kerry would not be embarrassed to have the silver bullet sitting in their driveway. "They both love the car. Seriously."


For some reason that defies logic, I just love stories like this. Keep the friggin car, Senator. I understand.

[JI7]

1. it's nice he still keeps in mind those days

when he wasn't so well off financially. the only times he was financially secure was when he was married to first wife and now to Teresa. but even in those cases a divorce as with his first wife left him unsecure and he had financial problems.

if he was wealthy like Bush then he could just get his parents to support him and get him some job through connections.

but Kerry worked his way up.

[TayTay]

2. I just like the sheer humanity of that story

I mean really, who doesn't have an irrational attachment to some object that you have no real reason to hang on to, but you just can't let it go. It has sentimental value. I do that more than I should. (My stuff is all old books that have no real value, but I just have a hard time throwing away printed material.)

I just love that story. I hope he gets the tranny fixed and puts that bad boy back out on the road. Why the hell not.

[JI7]

3. he is very much that type of person

you can tell when he talks about the past he does it in a way where you can feel how he felt during that time.

the whore media and Kerry haters kept claiming he only talked about Vietnam.

but i heard many stories including when he was a kid in Europe during the cold war because of his Dad's job. and how he would see the way people lived.

it would be interesting to see what other type of stuff he hangs on to. i bet there is a lot also.

[politicasista]

7. It really would

[whometense]

4. That's definitely

a catnip story. So JK. For the umpteenth time proving that what was said about him was ridiculously wrong.

Here's my little story - home sick today, I just watched "Spartan" on tv. That's the David Mamet movie that came out last year, and had Alex Kerry in the cast. She played a bartender and had a scene with Val Kilmer. I thought she was really good. Anyone else see it? Tough plot to follow, but it had a prescient paranoid sensibility about the government that grows more apt every day. Unfortunately.

[TayTay]

10. Wow! I'll try and check it out.

I like her. She kept the diary after the election that was posted on line, right? I loved her line about being able to go back to normal after the election and be her mini-skirted self. (And I loved the fact that she had left all her clothing at various campaign stops all over the nation and had to return to NYC with badically no wardrobe. Very funny and human.)

She is a doll. Very sweet woman. I wish her well.

[ginnyinWI]

5. not such a bad idea

If you can manage to keep a car for 20 years, doesn't it automatically become a classic? You can get special plates for it, even. A fun story!

[karynnj]

6. How's that for consistency too

He didn't flip flop on liking the car - though it sounds as though those around him made fun of it.

[ginnyinWI]

8. you're right!

He is much more likely to stay with something than to change his mind. So they attacked him on one of his strengths.

[ginnyinWI]

9. A 1985 Dodge convertible

http://chryguy.freeservers.com/

I Googled and found a car just like it. can't get it to come through as a picture though. It's down the page a bit. :)