From The Cars of our Lives Collection
The year was 1983. Baby Boomers had families reaching their teenage years. Lee Iacocca was the President of Chrysler.
As I rode the bus home from work one October day I looked twice when I saw a strange new vehicle drive by. It was an iconic mini-van, one of the first to arrive in Ottawa.
On November 11 we walked into a Chrysler dealership and placed an order for a 1984 Plymouth Voyageur. (To save money we ordered standard transmission, no A/C and no rear wiper!) It arrived in Ottawa on February 14, 1984.
We had three rules for buying cars: 1) don’t buy something we can’t afford; 2) don’t buy brand new; 3) don’t buy a model during its first year of production.
We shattered all three of those rules!
This was our family adventure vehicle. We sold the tent trailer and equipped the van for tent camping. It transported us during our move from Ottawa back to Regina. We travelled to Mile 0 of the TransCanada Highway in Victoria. We travelled to Oregon. We travelled to Pittsburgh. We travelled to the staging area for our canoe camping trip. It transported us on moves to Calgary and then Winnipeg.
It was a huge part of our lives as the boys grew up!
