The Car Meme of DOOOOOOOOMMMMMM
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wobblerlorri1. 1970 Cutlass Supreme. My very first car, got it as a graduation present when I graduated high school in 1975. Yes I'm old. It was gold with a white vinyl roof, which I scrubbed religiously every weekend when I washed and waxed it. One of the first things I did was get a NO SMOKING sign and stick it on the flip up door over the ashtray. Name: Pushpak Vimana (I was really into the Ramayana at the time...) The Gay Ex totalled it on one of his "Nights Out"...
2. 1970 Galaxie 500. Poor thing was a former taxi, and the frame was twisted so it had been in one motherfucker of a wreck. But I only had $500 and I needed wheels. You had to constantly reconnect the steering linkage, so I kept a bunch of those soft metal ties you use to build chainlink fences to keep it steerable. Believe it or not, I drove from Pensacola FL to Atlanta GA in that thing! It finally gave up the ghost in the apartment parking lot, which had it towed. Name: White Behemoth
3. 1979 puke green Ford Pinto. Another vinyl topped monstrosity, but I wasn't that worried about keeping it as clean as I had the PV. Great little car, great gas mileage, but the steering gears began to go bad so we traded it in on...
4. 1981 Datsun B210. THE BEST CAR IN THE WORLD. Brown with white pinstriping, totally utilitarian. My First Straight Shift. I loved that car, but Mike traded it in on a stump-jumper truck and we went out and replaced it with...
5. 1986 Yugo!! FIRST BRAND NEW CAR. Yes, I owned and drove a Yugo, the world's first disposable car. It was red with comfy beige fabric seats, and I felt like Arnold Schwarzenegger playing racecar sitting in a shoebox. It got amazing gas mileage and finally lost its clutch plate on the way to work one day. Fixing it would have cost more than the car was worth, so it was replaced with...
6. 1991 Toyota Tercel. When they first introduced them. We had a midnight blue basic model, 2 doors and a hatchback. It was a good car, but got traded in on
7. 1998 Toyota pickup truck (I think it was a Sonoma? don't remember). Gold, white camper shell, good truck. Did everything we asked it too (including hauling 8 railroad ties, which are HEAVY), until I traded it in on...
8. 2002 Ford F-150 -- El Gigante. My Giant Truck, bought for the farm. 8 cylinders, all the fancy bells and whistles, excellent piece of rolling stock. Saved my life when I hit a wet patch and went flying off the road exactly ONE WEEK before my weight loss surgery. That was my last vehicle, since I can't drive anymore. Mike drives a 2002 Ford Ranger, which has been a fairly dependable vehicle.
2. 1970 Galaxie 500. Poor thing was a former taxi, and the frame was twisted so it had been in one motherfucker of a wreck. But I only had $500 and I needed wheels. You had to constantly reconnect the steering linkage, so I kept a bunch of those soft metal ties you use to build chainlink fences to keep it steerable. Believe it or not, I drove from Pensacola FL to Atlanta GA in that thing! It finally gave up the ghost in the apartment parking lot, which had it towed. Name: White Behemoth
3. 1979 puke green Ford Pinto. Another vinyl topped monstrosity, but I wasn't that worried about keeping it as clean as I had the PV. Great little car, great gas mileage, but the steering gears began to go bad so we traded it in on...
4. 1981 Datsun B210. THE BEST CAR IN THE WORLD. Brown with white pinstriping, totally utilitarian. My First Straight Shift. I loved that car, but Mike traded it in on a stump-jumper truck and we went out and replaced it with...
5. 1986 Yugo!! FIRST BRAND NEW CAR. Yes, I owned and drove a Yugo, the world's first disposable car. It was red with comfy beige fabric seats, and I felt like Arnold Schwarzenegger playing racecar sitting in a shoebox. It got amazing gas mileage and finally lost its clutch plate on the way to work one day. Fixing it would have cost more than the car was worth, so it was replaced with...
6. 1991 Toyota Tercel. When they first introduced them. We had a midnight blue basic model, 2 doors and a hatchback. It was a good car, but got traded in on
7. 1998 Toyota pickup truck (I think it was a Sonoma? don't remember). Gold, white camper shell, good truck. Did everything we asked it too (including hauling 8 railroad ties, which are HEAVY), until I traded it in on...
8. 2002 Ford F-150 -- El Gigante. My Giant Truck, bought for the farm. 8 cylinders, all the fancy bells and whistles, excellent piece of rolling stock. Saved my life when I hit a wet patch and went flying off the road exactly ONE WEEK before my weight loss surgery. That was my last vehicle, since I can't drive anymore. Mike drives a 2002 Ford Ranger, which has been a fairly dependable vehicle.
