The car breaks down, much to Mom's dismay.
The car in the ravine.
Calvin, while running away from home after they break the car.
Calvin's parents have a car that is involved in a few of the story arcs. Calvin sometimes wrecks the car, but never in a story arc is it totaled or even damaged, and this mostly appears in throwaway jokes or single strips. One time, when he and Hobbes were clearing out the garage so they could have G.R.O.S.S. meetings in it, he accidentally pushed the car into the ravine across the street from his house. This is the paramount story arc involving the car. Another time, Calvin tried to sell the car to get some money (single strip). [1] Yet another time, Calvin wrecked the car so badly that he imagined that "if [his dad] could find [it], [he and Hobbes] could pretend it might be fixed."(again, this was only a single strip) [2] Calvin also tells his parents to do daredevil stunts, like pulling him behind with a rope [3] or jumping off of a ramp made out of snow, "[leaving] a patch of molten rubber in the garage." [4]
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