Did you catch the news this week that KISS and Mötley Crüe are gett’n together for a big double headline summer tour. Seriously. On the very same day, like a nostalgic call from my past, Nissan has announced that they’re bringing back the Datsun name plate. I know crazy huh.
So uh, if I get this right I could be going to to see KISS in a B210. Sheez if I could just find my 80’s girl friend, this could be the greatest night of my recent life. Oh wait, you know what, I married my 80’s girl friend, she happens to by my 1st wife. She’s also my current wife. Well, maybe, just maybe if I ask nicely she’d perm her hair again, heck we’d be all that and then some.
Who doesn’t love a little KISS, both onstage and in the seat of genuine Datsun. I wonder if you can still get the black shades for the back windows? Mrs S, that’s who. Yeah, she’s rejected the idea of a perm flat out and isn’t all that interested in seeing KISS, especially at $85 a ticket. She isn’t even all that open to necking in a car, the ultimate 80’s experience, if memory serves.
Than again, at my age I’m probably not as tolerant to climbing over a stick shift to get my curly haired cutie. As a matter of fact I’m pretty sure that I’d do one of those moves where I pull a muscle in my lower back and spend the next few days doubled over on the floor.
Sort of how I would see this playing out, given my past experiences. Nothings easy you know.
Back in the day, there was an imported auto repair shop on south Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis that offered to fix Toyotas, Hondas, and Datsons. It always made me wonder about their competence, and then I had to ask myself how important spelling was to fixing a Japanese fuel injection system.