opels

Years ago my family let a friend of ours rent out the finished apartment above our Hollywood garage. It was late sixties and early seventies, we had a pool with speakers and indoor/outdoor carpeting around it, a lemon tree, poinsettias and euculyptus, and the mood was blissed out. We were living a mellow California lifestyle, my father playing his saxes and flutes in L.A.'s studios, my mom and uncles and aunties making pottery, macrame, artwork and collage, doing automatic writing, astrology readings, ouija board sessions, smoking, eating and drinking long into the night...(credit to Buck (aka John Keith), Rocky, Marilyn, Vickie, Robin, Kathie etc etc) ***Earl Miller rented from us and parked his silver blue Opel Cadet daily either on Oakshire Drive or in our driveway near his garage apartment. At the time we marveled at it's cute size and likeness to a Corvette:Recently an automotive rap session amongst old heads in Skyway brought forth the point as I bought a second Opel Kit that Ford blatantly "took" the Cadet's design from the Corvette as "revenge"... : Silver/Blue enamel not unlike the tones of a shark was purchased at Fret Meiers or maybe Audodrone to emulate Earl's Opel: Earl was a cool cat: nice to kids but smooth with adults: why did my folks rent to someone with two young sons and lots of instruments and antiques in a huge old house in Hollywood? Earl was good people and even the grammys and grampys and uncles and aunties liked him: he was at many family gatherings like Thanksgiving and Christmas even though he was Jewish and from Massachusetts: I remember him saying "hiya ma" as he and his girl were introduced to my Grandma Geri (Dad's mom) and all the family, and everyone looking at the promo copy of Oui magazine Earl left for my folks that featured his date he was there with: I remember sneaking a look at the mag (left face down by guilty adults but soon forgotten at the house party)and thinking the girl looked funny in the layout: check out many many many men's magazines for Earl's name, I guess he must have been tight with Roberto "Bobby" Guccione because they WORKED TOGETHER a lot... anyhwaygodknows the Silver/Blue enamel tone will show up on other models in the JH stable including the deuce purchased at Emil's last holiday blowout: I missed the free turkydinner but he and his assistant dished out low priced styrene automobiles and aircraft to happy stoners and old guys: I swooped on a '60 Ranchero, '32 Ford Jalopy and another WiLLYS- Mr. Red Primer 2014-...333...333...