So I got to thinking about my first car this morning...it wasn't nice, it wasn't new, but it was paid for (didn't appreciate that then!) and it drove. It was a 1988 Pontiac Grand Am. i kind of miss the shitbox.

what was yours?

Mazda 800 station wagon, 1965 model

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

1962 Ford Falcon. Used to treat that car like a baby. Always washed and waxed. Even the engine well and trunk were spotless. Loved that car ... but, with 75,000 miles, it's engine was not doing so well. When we traded it in for a used Fairlane wagon, it sold the same day off the lot.

My first car was a 1984 Saab & I loved it so much we got another one when that one died. I miss those bubble cars.

1962 EK holden sedan (same body shape as a 57 chev but smaller and with a 6 cylinder engine) I spent a lot of time and all my money hotting up my baby unto some low life barstard knock it off and i never seen it again :drive:

So far, I've always driven my parents' cars... Last year, in med school, I almost bought myself one but now I am so glad I didn't, I could never afford it!

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

I had a 1967 Rambler Rebel, that was one tough tub!

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will. He will be sure to repent - Socrates

Love is not looking in each other's eyes, but looking together in the same direction - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I had a 1964 Rambler something or other.....in 1971

A 1978 FOrd Bronco.....manual shift...and no power steering.


Man, that thing was a BEAST to learn to parallel park in!

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

1978 Chevrolet Chevette, manual steering, manual brakes. Like Osuche, a MAJOR pain parallel park.

And the radio would work with or without keys in the ignition. :grin:

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"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, then let it, and if you have to wait for what you really want, take the time because nobody said that life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it." ~ Unknown author

1987 red Pontiac TransAm... standard, t-tops, loaded.... I was just tooooo cool

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~Tainted Love~

Damn, I thought this was gonna be one of those singalongs, & we were gonna do Chuck Berry's "No Particular Place To Go"...oh well...
My first vehicle was a '67 Ford Econoline LongLine (maybe a foot extra cargo space behind the back wheels than the stardard van), basically a "Falcon-in-a-box" with the 6-cylinder engine between the front seats...the engine cover was used as a third seat by some of my shorter passengers, & I had this dirty trick I would play with the help of the right-hand passenger...we would each grab a leg of the middle guy, & flip him into the back...btw, the forward seating arrangement meant that if I had ever had a head-on, I would have absorbed the impact with my toenails & worked back from there...previous owner had welded a benchseat sideways in the back, & we took out a wooden bed at the back doors so I could haul my amps around (but I kept the foam mattress for...uh, other activities...it was a fairly reliable van, but I wore out my first clutch cuz I learned the WRONG way to drive a stickshift, & finally burned up the clutch totally by trying to haul a piano up Germantown hill on 41A heading to Clarksville for a gig...finally constant repairs prompted my daddy to trade it in for a new ChevyVan, but that's a story all in itself...

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

So did I! Don't worry...I'm singing along in my head now.

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"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, then let it, and if you have to wait for what you really want, take the time because nobody said that life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it." ~ Unknown author

XC Ford Falcon

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1975 Ford Gran Torino Brougham

The blue one at the bottom...but mine was Canary Yellow with a black vinyl top. Loved that car! And I'm still looking for one just like it that I can pay way too much for in order to relive my childhood. ha ha


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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.