Off topic: my first car

[Fishy]

My first car was a ten -year old sky-blue Dodge Aries K that I bought from a little old lady with emphysema. I paid $500 for it in 1992 and I put four $19 tires on it.

It had 6,200 miles on it and was caked brown on the inside from cigarette smoke - the dents had dents and on a snowy afternoon when a coed whacked into it in a UConn parking lot, I could honestly tell her that I had no idea which dents were her's and which were legacy.

It was the absolute base model. It had a bench seat, no radio, no cigarette lighter and an engine that moved several inches every time the car changed direction. It didn't even have a passenger-side outside mirror - the entire earth to the right side of that car constituted the blind spot.

It was, in short, a raging piece of s---.

My brother and I set it on fire at a gas station once. Was a heck of a story - it entertained some girl enough that she eventually married me.

 

[temery]

Just sold my first car and I'm taking it a lot harder than I thought I would.
1994 Camry, it'd been in our family through different relatives all its years.
Any of you remember and have stories of your first car?

1961 Ford Fairlane. It had been garaged for most of its 16 years when I got it in 1977. It had a manual choke, and got eight miles per gallon. During the gas crisis I had to get in line with a 1/4 tank to be sure I didn't run out of gas while waiting to buy gas.