Picture Connecticut: We All Vote In A Yellow ... VW

EAST GRANBY, CT — For those out in East Granby on Election Day, this was hard to miss.

An intrepid election correspondent spotted a canary (or maybe psychedelic) yellow Volkswagen Microbus, puttering along through the intersection of Route 187 and Route 20. It appeared to be an early 1970s model.

At first thought, when it was new, the VW might have been occupied by someone heading to the polls to actually cast a ballot for George McGovern. But a closer inspection of the vehicle showed that it had a "fuel injection" label riveted on the back. Thus, it could be not as old, because the injectors were introduced as standard equipment for the buses in 1975, three years after McGovern received his approximate half-dozen votes in town, according to several online references.

What's a VW Microbus without a set of curtains in the rear window? This one not only had the spicy brown mustard-colored drapes, but they appeared to have been pilfered from en earlier VW model that actually went to Woodstock.

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Picture Connecticut is a weekly series that features images of the state, past and present. Here are past images:

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• Payne Whitney Gymnasium, New Haven
• Daily Train Crossing, Windsor
• The Civil War Train Monument, Vernon
• A Spooky Sculpture, Tolland
• Whalers gear ... in Carolina, Cary, NC
• The Hurricane of 1938 (Part 2), Mystic, Stonington
• The Hurricane of 1938 (Part 1), New London
• Firefighters Memorial Garden, Manchester
• Eagleville, Mansfield
• Island Beach Ferry, Greenwich
• High School Sports Booster Car Washes, anywhere in CT
• The Lyman Orchards Maze, Middlefield
• A bucket of FC, Vernon

• The Bug Mailbox, Ellington-Somers
• All Faiths Gather At Town Park, Vernon
• Riverside Igloos, Milford
• The TPC Pro Shop, Cromwell
• The Santa House, North Pole, er, Northern Connecticut
• Mile 4 Funnel, Manchester Road Race, Manchester
• UConn Lacrosse Giving Back, Connecticut River Valley
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 3, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 2, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 1, Hartford
• The Doughboy, East Hartford
• The Walt Whitman Stone, West Hartford
• The indoor bush plane, Hartford County
• The Big Pink Chair, Ellington
• The Notch, Granby
• The CT 9/11 Monument, Westport
• Vintage Gas Pump, Somers
• Tobacco Harvest, East Windsor
• Late Afternoon, Lakeside, Coventry
• Fogarea, New Haven County
• Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens, Washington Depot
• Connecticut River Police Boat, Rocky Hill
• The first dentist, Windsor
• The Frog Bridge, Willimantic
• The World War Bridge Rapids, Putnam
• The Peeking Cow, Tolland County
• The Ivy Lacrosse Tournament, New Canaan
• The Bradley International Airport runway, Windsor Locks
• The Underground Railroad, Unionville
• The cow carousel, Ellington
• Charles Island, Milford
• State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
• Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry, Glastonbury/Rocky Hill
• The Old County Jailhouse, Tolland
• Agent Orange Monument, Andover
• The Sunken Garden, Farmington
• Lafayette Tour Monument, Vernon
• The Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury
• Bob's Discount Furniture Studios, Manchester