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Katrena Piedmont, NC posts: 618
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posted on April 26, 2009 at 12:34PM Inappropriate? Quote Reply

We've got such an eclectic mix here on Viewpoints, so I thought it might be fun to share stories of the first vehicle you ever owned.

My first vehicle was a (very) used 84 Renault Encore. They actually rolled a set of jumper cables out when I wanted to take it for a test drive. It started without having to be jumped, so I thought that was a good sign. I think I bought it for about $800. It was a straight drive and a hatchback, was was really handy since I was traveling back and forth to college. I think I had just about everything imaginable replaced on the car--battery, starter, idle, alternator, breaks, etc.

I had to give up on it after the clutch fell in the floorboard in the middle of an intersection. I remember a trucker was behind me blowing the horn. I finally got out and suggested that he try to drive it out of the intersection for me. He looked at me like I didn't know how to drive a stick shift but eventually realized that I did have a major problem and actually helped to push it out of the intersection!

This was in the days before cell phones were popular and I remember my dad saying that I needed to marry a mechanic at one point.

So, do you have any stories about your first set of wheels?

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posted on October 24, 2009 at 11:40PM
 

I've been really impressed with the wide variety of first vehicles you guys have had. I've never heard of changing the radio with a button on the floorboard, but I do remember when my parents had a car where you could dim and brighten the lights that way. I believe that may have been the car we kids fondly called the brown bomb. Ugly car that seemed to last forever.

I'm glad you guys are describing these cars because I have never even heard of some of them...

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posted on October 25, 2009 at 04:44PM
 

Ha - such memories! It was a 67 Chrysler Newport, and I got it for $250 in 1980. I'm a very small person, and it was a TANK! I probably looked rather silly in it, but didn't care - it was my first car and I was proud of it. Big steering wheel that you had to rotate numerous times just to turn the corner. Absolutely no shine, and the color was a very faded tan/sand sort of shade. It got a whopping NINE miles to the gallon! But it was very reliable.

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posted on October 25, 2009 at 07:59PM
 

My VERY first car was a 1970 4 DOOR Ford Thunderbird that belonged to my father. The day I started College he gave it to me as a present! It was brown w/ a Tan Leather interior w/ the 4 door limosine doors. It was a HUGE gas guzzler and a BOAT! I'd turn the corner and would see the back end coming around the corner way after the front end! I remember learning to drive in that BOAT! My friend Robin took me out to practice my parallel parking and when we came back the electric window wouldn't go back up and it started to rain. We put plastic up over the window and left! I came back the plastic was gone and the window was up! My father took Robin and I outside and showed me from the front passenger side how to get the window up! As much as he was easily able to get it up it just wouldn't do it for me! My friend Robin was laughing like crazy! He just said see it goes up. Now you try. and then he'd put the window down! But the darn window just wouldnt' go up for me til he turned over the title to the car when I started college. Dad had a name for the car "Bessy" and after I got the title to the car she'd roll up the window just fine! Go figure that one out because as much as I've tried I can't. When her entire electrical system went I could no longer afford to fix her and got a new car courtesy of my grandparents. Not knowing what I had at the time sold her for $200. Turned out I just sold a Classic Car and didn't know it. Been trying for several years to even locate one that my husband could restore for me to no avail. Lord I'd give anything to have Bessy in my life again! Talk about sweet memories!

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posted on October 29, 2009 at 11:32AM
 

It's funny to see what everyone owned. Isn't it funny how the cars have went to being as big as a house and now that one car can fit in your pocket!!! lol... I am so amazed by technology. I wonder what kind of cars my grandkids are going to have... Since that is going to be a few decades (Hopefully) I know they will be interesting!

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