It may seem like I haven’t shot any curbside cars for a while, but that’s because I don’t have ready access to my picture files in Port Orford. So I’m going to make an effort to catch up a bit, starting with this Subaru Legacy sedan. It was parked in the morning by a park near our house, next to the outhouse, so it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to figure out how it’s being used.
But these Legacys are getting scarce, even in Eugene, so it needed to be documented.
I’m often impressed at the creativity the unhoused often use in packing their belongings to a car, this being one of the better examples.
One of my biggest complaints about new cars is that there is no place to tie ropes to. It looks like nobody told this guy.
For a short time, my uncle had an automatic Legacy Turbo of this generation. I remember really liking it the once or twice I rode in it, aside from the detestable automatic seatbelts.
Having slept in several cars over the years for a night at a time, and a week in our Wrangler (by choice), I can’t even imagine doing so long-term, even in a wagon, and especially in a sedan. That has to be rough. And as one who treasures his own belongings and often has trouble finding what I’m looking for in my own garage I feel for this guy (or gal, or family). It’s tragic.
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I can’t help but wonder how this person and their Subaru wound up in this situation. And at the same time, I know that “how” is not really the point. Just tragic.
I’m seeing more and more situations like this around me, but more often old camper vans/RVs.
To paraphrase Will Rogers – Americans are the only people who drive themselves to the poorhouse in their own automobile.
I hope this would not be Reality in Europa. People which works must stay her Life in a Car. The American Dream?
I had a wagon in that model 1.8 carb engine nice enough car to drive within its capabilities but it was thirsty considering the lack of power, very few left on the road around here, the parts to keep them alive were rare when I had mine so that situation will have only got worse but those Legacies were a good car,
Oddly though my car was a local assembly car with side intrusion beams that the JDM imports did not feature but the 1.8 carby engine was a NZ only thing by 93 when mine was built, finding a kit for said carb was quite an exercise, the injected 2.2 was such a better car.
This owner is at the 4th stage of hoarding, and hope he or she seeks professional help. I saw few hoarding car in my neighborhood, the one I often saw was a GM A-body station wagon full of papers and food wrappings and containers, he only left a driver seat for driving— the owner strangely appears normal from outside. I can imagine how those hoarder houses look like.
Hoarding is the least of this owner’s apparent current problems and as for getting professional help for it…sure, yeah that’s their priority, somewhere after sourcing their next meal and a place to wash up. This picture likely represents every single thing this person owns and also represents their current domicile. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have stable employment/income, a real roof over their head, and either the insurance or just the ability to seek, retain, and act on qualified assistance.