Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

GREEN: I will never forget the GREEN of my very first car, 1965, a Volkswagen / beagle – he and me, we had some challenges: once we had an emergency landing in a little lake of a forest nearby – where I tried to be a good teacher for my mom, she wanted to get a driver’s licence. I warned her much too anxious not to enter a little wooden bridge with our Volkswagen in that green, green forest – and so she drove our brave car into the pool with lot of protesting frogs. When a green dressed forester and his friends pulled the car out of the water, the automobile was covered with green mud. Green water ran out of the doors. My very green day.

photo taken by frizztext; for more click on the picture to visit his photo galleries on flickr …
P.S.:
I was a minute UNDER the water inside the car, anxious to get drowned, the car lay on his side, door was not to open, dear mom above me behind the driver’s wheel – don’t ask me, how I got out! My mother was in panic and ran in panic barefooted 10 kilometers back home. When the forester came, he asked me: what have you done? Why driving so silly? I replied: my mother sat behind the wheel. The forester and his friends laughed loudly – they did not believe me and answered: never heard a teenager giving such an untruth!
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below: me on top of my green Volkswagen –
and my girl friend (now my wife) inside:

P.S. 2:
that car gave me some more scary moments: equipped with only one brake system (nowadays two systems are technical standard) I had my hell, when the brake liquid ran out, no brake power left: and the car was running down a long hill (7 kilometers) with some curves. The automobile like a sardines can was filled up with 5 students on their way to the university. It was a ride to hell. After ten minutes high speed we entered a little town (called Soest); I will never forget that grandma, crossing slowly the street. We ended up in a gasoline stations’ heap of old tyres / pneumatics – since then I believe there’s a God or at least an angel, having an eye on me …
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comments:
1 – Julie Alicea: “My father would only buy these cars and there were 5 of us who would have to stuff ourselves into that car. and to make matters worse he loved to travel, we traveled all over Europe in that little car and then he brought it to Puerto Rico and we traveled all over the island in it, then we moved to the USA and traveled in almost every state in the union stuffed like sardines in that car. My sister and I had an imaginary line in the back seat where she was not allowed to cross and vice versa, and if she put one finger on my side we would start fighting like cats and dogs in the back of the VW, imagine that with 5 people in it!
2 – “stumbleon” / Fred Roessler: My father had a 1954 VW with a split rear window like yours. Then I had a 1971 VW which I loved. I even lived in it for a while.

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