First Car!

[Shlup]

That's a nice lookin' car, Mogi. It's a cute bean car!

My first car was a hand-me-down from my Pa. A 1974 Opel Manta! Rust-colored. It was ghetto-riffic and I loved it. Not a single gauge in the dash worked, so I just had to guess how fast I was going and when to fill the tank. The tape player was nailed under the dash with plywood.

It exploded on the freeway and I was sad.

This is the closest pic I could find:

[Peegee]

That's an awesome story. Reminded me of the time a car on the freeway was on fire (huge fire); we could see it from the office when I was at IBM too. Wish I took pics =(

I currently drive a 2008 Mazda 3, but the first car I drove was a... 1997 Ford Contour pics. My mother used to drive it, iirc, so when I started to drive that car, she bought a Toyota Corolla (year totally forgotten). The damn Contour was a pretty good car for something approaching 200 000 kms - we all knew it was dying but it still ran, so nobody cared.

Well one day after working night shift I drove home on the highway to get home asap. Traffic suddenly slowed down in front of me so I stopped gradually until I was completely stopped. I then looked in my rear view to see a car barrelling into me - the driver could not stop in time and smashed into my car from the back. Then after that the truck behind that car smashed into the car that smashed into me! xDD

I was able to drive the car home and reported the crash a few days later. Insurance paid to have the rear bumper replaced, and after that (wtf this story will not end!) whenever I made turns I would here a clicking sound. When we had the car checked, we found that the rear axle was cracked. Oh well bye bye car.

The Toyota Corolla I mentioned? I ended up driving that car and my mother bought a Camry. Corolla was fun to drive, but I don't think it was very powerful. Less than a year later, my brother borrowed the car to go to work. After I was done in downtown (I don't remember what I was doing that day; was it a Saturday?) I went back to the mall to meet up with my brother to get a ride home. We tried to find the car....where did it go?

Car was stolen. xD too funny.

[Dignified Pauper]

My first car was a dodge Neon.

Here it is, on the interstate in Pittsburgh with Jowy, Misfit, and Denmark in the backseat.



This is what it looked like from the outside.

[Jess]

I still have my first car!

Kenny the Ford KA. He's silver, and cute.



I got him for my 18th birthday from my parents. I love him.

People like to crash into him recently, though, so he has a few dinks. Two people have crashed into me in the past 2 months! Once, I was stationary in a queue of traffic and somebody drove straight into the back of me. The second time I'd literally just parked up in a car park and was getting out of my car and somebody reversed into me! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I hate bad drivers!

I love my car, I'll keep him till he dies. He's 10 years old but only has like 40k mileage because the 2 previous owners barely drove him at all.