Dodge Aspen

Ted

• Tan car with a brown interior, this was the primary Goessling car of my school years in Mendham.

• When Steve got his license, I remember driving it back and forth over a special hump in the road by Ledells Pond trying to get all four wheels off the ground.

• I got my license in this car. I look back with wonder on the fact that I drove this car by myself from Mendham to Silver Burdett in order to pick up dad so that he could be in the car when I went for my license test. Nobody thought it was weird that I didn't have a license yet. It just worked out better for family scheduling if I drove myself.

• I think mom and dad gave this car to Jeff Troast when they moved back to Chicago. I have a vague memory of hearing that it died on the beach on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina or some beach in Florida.

Steve

• My Aspen memory is hitting the Ellman’s mailbox with it; broken windshield & flat tire+ the mail box replacement. In a miracle Saturday sequence- Ted & I had it fixed in one day! We also taught ourselves auto maintenance on that car; oil changes, plugs etc…