June 16, 1957
Los Angeles
Hi, my name is Larry, and I owned a DKW.
Hi Larry!
Seriously. Induced by a crazy college friend, I bought one of these
things in the early 1970s for about $30 and it was the strangest car I
ever owned. The DKW had a three-cylinder, two-cycle engine, so you
mixed oil in the gasoline–just like a leaf blower, and about as powerful. It was a real smog machine. The joke, of
course, is that I bought it from a guy who had three of them.
No, I never got it running, much to the relief of Tucson’s motorists,
who are about the worst drivers in the nation. I finally sold it to a
neighbor who owned a gas station. He wanted to park it at his business
to make it look like he actually had some customers.
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