The Plymouth Satellite from Hertz

I liked to use rental cars the way John Le Carré's Toby Esterhase liked to use stolen mail vans. It was a way of putting someone else's car in the crumple zone (figuratively and sometimes literally) and it afforded me the opportunity to experience a car usually driven by grown-ups. A case in point is a certain Plymouth Satellite station wagon--a metallic brown vehicle that looked like it belonged to Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver or The Brady Bunch. I rented it to go to Reno,

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