The Dune Buggy

Ben, I talked to James on the phone this evening and asked him about the old car in those pictures. He says that Curt and Phillip Larsen got it into their heads to make a dune buggy. They took an antique car and cut it to pieces and made the car in the pictures. James was not happy about them tearing apart the old car, he thought it would have been more valuable as an antique, but Grandpa Brown said, “It’s not your car so don’t worry about it.” But after they ripped it to pieces, he wasn’t too happy about it, either. Curt would have to tell you what ever happened to it, or who it belonged to in the first place.

Evidently they also tore apart an old Case tractor, supposedly so they could figure out how an engine worked. But they threw pieces and bolts all over the place and just basically ruined a tractor that could have been fixed up and used on the farm.

This was 10 years before Mark decided to make his dune buggy, and now Dean is making one from an old VW, so it seems we have a history of those in the family.

Aunt Terry

Our Parents

When I first found these Pictures I knew I found a Goldmine. It is so fun to see what our Parents looked like in their teens and twentys. I asked Aunt Terry if she know when this photo was taken , and this is her reply.

-Ben

I can’t give you an exact date, but it would have been around the time of our wedding, which was 9/8/65. I seem to remember making the outfit that I have on in the picture for my “going away” dress. Grandma Brown came down from Provo for it and I am not sure if she was here any other time that year, or the next. James and I went to BYU as soon as we got married, but we came back to the UofA one semester later, and we lived in our trailer up by the pond (or actually where your house is now) for a couple of months before we moved into Tucson for school.

-Aunt Terry