JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

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riggs somebody has a purple sunbird here at work!

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That was the closest I came to a cool car, the Purple bird.  I always got comments on the color, exspecially the first year or two and EXSPECIALLY at the gas stations at night cuz it looked really cool under the flourescent lighting.

Now I drive a soccer-mom mini-van

my first car was a 1963 4 door dodge dart (brown).  i bought it in 1986 for $500.

today i drive a 2005 toyota rav4 (first brand new car ever!) everglade metalic

My first vehicle was a '75 1/2 ton Chevy pickup that I paid $1,800 for with my own money when I was a Sr. in High School.

Although the first pickup will always have special memories for me, my favorite was a '79 El Camino Super Sport. It was a little lighter blue than this one, but looked like:

It was a fun car/truck to drive. It was "souped up" a bit with a big carb and intake, high lift, cam, etc. It had 10" wide tires on the back with a posi-track rear end. One of the fun things was that if you'd get on it a bit, it would bark the tires in the shift from 1st to 2nd.

Ah, memories.

I had a 71 Datsun pickup same color as this except mine wasn't lowered.

My first was a 1963 EH Holden!!  Classic!!

Hey Riggs, I'll put up the chevette against the Horizon for beers?

Sparky wrote:

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Hey Riggs, I'll put up the chevette against the Horizon for beers?

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I don't think I wanna race ya Sparkster.  My Squeeze Limo was built for comfort not speed.

That Horizon didn't have a lot of pick-up.  It wasn't uncommon for me to get passed by kids on bicycles when i was driving that thing.

I WILL HOWEVER just have a beer with ya! 

my first NEW car was a 94 ford escort, which I bought in a fit of rage in novemeber because I could no longer keep the thunderbird running. I had no garage to work in, and it was freezing outside as I tried to rebuild the carborator. I racked my knuckles something fierce, bled a lot, and that was that.   I had to push the thunderbird the last block to the dealers......and they gave me $300 towards it......that car wasn't worth $90 I bet!

the escort lasted until feb of 2005. It needed some exhaust work and because it was too old all the stuff would've had to been ordered special and would have cost what a nice down payment on a new car is!!!! so on valentines day 2005 I bought myself a valentines present 2005 mazda 3:

Ah, do I have car stories! 

My first car was a '79 Buick Century.  It was gray and huge, and I called it the USS Slug.  I bought it for $200 and it wasn't driveable.  My stepdad fixed it up and gave it to me for my birthday.  I drove my friends to a movie, and didn't know that the car had overheated along the way.  On the way home from the movie, it overheated again, water mixed in with the oil, and the engine seized.  So, really, the car lasted about an hour.

My second car was an '81 Olds Cutlass Supreme.  I paid $600 for it.  It was a blue color that sometimes looked green, gray, or even black.  I named it Louie after the Budweiser lizards.  It had it's share of problems, namely dieing when I tried to take off after a dead stop, but it was a good car.  I was sorry to see it go.

But I got an offer for a mini-van for $100.  I can't even remember the year or anything (80 something), but it was gray and I named it Frankenstien T Van.  My stepdad test drove it for me and picked it up and drove it home.  I went out to drive it around for the first time and the transmission went out.  My stepdad fixed that, and it worked reliably for a few weeks, so we got rid of Louie.  Then after I had it about a month, the transmission totally went out.

My fourth car was an '85 Olds Cutlass.  It was primer gray and aptly named Quatro.  One day I was driving home from work in a freezing rain, going up a hill that curved to the left.  Well, even though I turned the steering wheel to curve left, the car kept going straight, up over one curb and nose first into the other.  It broke both axles.  I cried.

Then I got a '79 Chevy Nova for $700 (my most expensive car so far!).  I named it Aldo.  It was pretty!  It was red with white racing stripes.  But, the frame was bent and someone had put a sunroof in it.  When my parents decided to buy a new car, they traded me their dark red '92 Chevy Lumina (only named Lumina) for Aldo, and sold Aldo to use as a downpayment for their new car.

Lumina served me well until one day, we took the cats to PetSmart, and when we came out the car wouldn't start.  It was probably just the battery or the starter, but I had had it with junk cars.  So I bought my blue '99 Saturn 3 door coupe which I named Pleasantly Blue.  Blue still serves me well. 

This was my favorite car. 90 Plymouth Laser. Except mine had a spoiler and better rims.

This is how I lured AC was with this snazzy car.

except in blue, 1500cc and a vinyl roof...It was a star!!! It's name was George