I have decided to do a link-up with The Life of Bon, it sounds like a fun one: Throwback Thursdays.
This week's throwback is a memory of learning to drive, your first car, or early driving days.
Seeing as I was 16 so long ago that I learned how to drive on a Model-T, I don't have any pics of my first car (did they even take pictures back then?). My mom might have pictures of it but I'm sure they are in storage somewhere and this link-up needs done this week not in 2014.
Here is the story of my first car:
My first car was a 1986 Plymouth Duster. Just so you will be jelly, I found this picture on the internet:
Freakin' sweet right? Mine was gray (severely faded on top) and had burgundy interior. I turned 16 in April 1992. I got this awesome car in October 1992. Sadly, it only lasted until January 1993. I was so excited to get a car that I drove everywhere. I always volunteered to be the driver. The problem with the car is that it would NEVER start. I could go somewhere and I would spend FOREVER to get it started back up when it was time to leave. My most influential memory of it was, a friend and I took my car to a school dance. We got bored and decided to leave the dance early to go cruising in town, haha. We left early but by the time the stupid car started the dance was over. I complained to my mom and said "I was the first one out of the dance and the last one to leave the parking lot." She thought that this was so funny that she still says it. I do have lots of good memories in that car. One memory is that every time it would freeze outside my door locks would freeze and I would have to crawl through the hatchback to get in my car, which would not be fun now but was hilarious when I was 16. After only a couple of months my dad finally got frustrated that I didn't have a safe car so we traded it in and I got a 1987 Chevy Cavalier (which was an awesome car). I didn't miss my poor little Duster because the Cavalier had a removable sunroof!!
Hope you have enjoyed my pathetic first car story.
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I did a throwback Thursday post once. I had to LOL at this post!
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I'm loving Throwback Thursdays right now. It gives me something to blog about.
DeleteSo funny, I love these type of car stories. I had a friend's car that door wouldn't open on the passenger side and she always told people to get in Dukes of Hazard style through the window. What we do at 16 and I wouldn't be able to do now.
ReplyDeleteRonda
At 16 I would've loved to get in a car Dukes of Hazard style, but at this age I might break a hip haha!
DeleteLOVE the burgundy interior! So classic. It's so funny how easily you can spot out older cars- who was in charge of design back then?!?
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for linking up!
I don't know who was in charge of design but that car was super tough. I ran into a lot of things and there wasn't a scratch on it. Now a days it would rip off the the whole front end.
DeleteFound your blog from Bonnie's link-up! I just have to say that I wish there was a video of you crawling through your hatchback just to drive your car on a cold day! Isn't it funny what 16 year olds are willing to endure for some freedom?
ReplyDeleteI am so glad there isn't video proof of that. It would be so embarrassing :)
DeleteI got my first car when I was 16 in 1996. My uncle gave it to me and it was 1983 blue Pontiac Bonneville. It wasn't the best car in the school parking lot and I wouldn't drive it on the highways, but it got me around town. And I couldn't complain because it was a free gift. 17 years later, I still miss that car.
ReplyDeleteMy friend had a Bonneville, we called it the Bonerville!!
DeleteI do love me some free things, I always say free is best!!