a number of photographs and stories of Coger
Family automobiles
-I have always liked vehicles, from the age of
7 or 8, riding around Danville shirtless
and skinny as a rail on my 1955 Schwinn, later
driving to Russellville and beyond on
the Vespa scooter, later on bigger and more
complicated two-wheelers like the Triumph
and Honda and trips much further afield, and
on through my first real car, the
1968 Charger, to the Toyotas and Mercedes of
my old age; I like vehicles.
And so in my opinion it does not seem
disrespectful to those listed in the family histories
on the top half of this page that I put the
vehicles that have taken my family through the
last fifty years on the bottom half.
My father had the same view, I think, because
he bought a new car every other year, most
often Chevys, later, when family friend and
car salesman Guy Murphy moved from the Chevrolet
dealer in Danville to the Ford dealer, it
became a new Ford every other year. After Guy
Murphy’s
passing, it became Oldsmobiles. His
brother Clair got a new top-of-the-line Buick every
year.
And so the drive and appreciation seems to
have some genetic component. I don’t know if the
Coger grandparents and further back had
regular new wagons and buggy’s, so I don’t know
how far back the condition goes.
These automobiles took my family all over the
country, to major events, to our educations
and courting and marriages, to the benefit and
betterment of our lives. None of these vehicles
were luxurious, and none could be called
high-performance sports cars (well, maybe the Spider
was a sports car. And certainly the
steering, handling and power of the two Chargers, the
Probe, the Pontiac, both Buicks, and the
little Red Mercedes I have been driving since
2003 would count as sports car-ish). But
each was chosen carefully (with one or two
exceptions based on vehicular "love at first
sight"), and treated well, and maintained with
care, and each lasted us a long time.
Some served several generations of parents and then
went from sibling to sibling.
So, from fore-fathers to four-wheelers, here
below are some of Coger’s Cars.
Click on each photo to access more photos, and
some stories, of each vehicle.-
And below, a photo of Coger Family Cars on
Easter Sunday, 1968.
(Click on photo for explanation)
several hobbies, avocations, or interests of
mine over the years
Some of these interests are more serious than
others, while some, such as two links to
Uncle Scrooge comics authors, and to model
airplanes or trains, and some of the authors
of which I have been fannishly, or
fanatically, inclined, less so...Some will seem outright
foolish, but were important to me at one
time. Some of the interests are more recent
than others, and some are way, way, older than
others, some dating to my
pre-teenage days. Clearly, the links and
interests shown below reveal me as
a massive geek, and by no one's definition
ever, intellectual.