The Old Meteor Skyliner (1959)

I'm speculating that this photo was taken in 1959 during a visit to Vancouver (this is the front yard of grandma St.Clair's house). Dad was stationed in Calgary to teach flying for a year. The 1954 Meteor Rideau Skyliner in the background was mom's car when she and dad got married. It had a transparent roof (you could snap-in a sun screen when it got really hot) and dad and I traveled from Calgary, Alberta to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia when he was stationed back to Shearwater in 1960. I had the entire back seat as a playpen and bed for the five day trip. I can still see remnants of the old trans-Canada highway in places along the way in Northern Ontario, and I can imagine having to drive that tortuously winding and narrow pathway through that still-sparsely-inhabited territory. Whenever I smell fibreglass resin I am instantly transported back to the garage of the house on Firefly Terrace on the base at Shearwater. Dad once worked on repairing holes in the trunk and the floorboards of this car using fibreglass (probably in about 1962). We had this car until about 1965 or 66 when we purchased our first Volkswagen. I saw one exactly like it on a used car lot in Merritt, B.C. in about 1994. Had I not been a student at the time it would be mine now.