Article: Age matters for car renters

Barry Estabrook
International Herald Tribune
11-09-2004
By all rational measures, Marilyn Lambe should be a car rental company's ideal customer. She has driven under many conditions for decades and has a perfect record no accidents, no serious traffic violations. A landscape photographer, she uses her car to pursue her profession. When she is not actually at work in the field, Lambe, who lives in Thompson Ridge, New York, teaches at a local college.But last summer, when Lambe was planning a vacation to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, she could find no one willing to rent her a car, despite there being plenty of vehicles available. Her ''offense,'' Lambe discovered, was that ...

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