Family Cars in California

Brigitte…

named after La Bardot. She was a Renault 6CV (six chevaux), the next model up the scale from Bébé .1 Here we are from two angles, all ready to pull out of the driveway in San Bernardino to go up to Stanford for a twelve-month master’s program from June 1965 to June 1966.

Note pregnant Valerie’s hair curlers; we haven’t figured out why she wished to pose thus. Also the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook in the rear window. Brigitte came with us to Stanford, and then back to Cambridge the next year, by the ever-reliable kindness of Pappy and Mammy.


1In the other direction, there was a Renault 2CV (deux chevaux), by the way, which I encountered in France. Still may be, for all I know. It was never considered roadworthy in the United States.

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