photo(1) July 27, 2015 Return to: My Gator companion back on the roadFull resolution (1400 × 1745) Image navigation I had been driving our van for several years as it moved to its ultimate fate in the scrapyard. Well, I’m driving a sedan again and have a console … so my longtime Gator companion again has a home in my car. I got it in 1980 in Gainesville while I was at the University of Florida.