have a car memory you'd like to share ?

[dancingleaf]

EDIT TO ADD: The following are just meant to inspire stories... please don't feel you need to answer ALL of them. Unless you want to... in which case... feel free!

my first car
my favourite car
my first or worst accident
fatalities
a long road trip
a family association
cops/tickets
drive in movies
drive up restaurants,
drive through
price of gas ($.25 a gallon anyone?)
price of cars
buying a car
breakdowns
changing a tire (being late for your wedding because you had a flat tire?)
bad weather
romance
restoration project

don't drive?
-bicycle, bus, train or plane?
-friend's car?
-experiences hitch-hiking?

if you can - please include the year and make of the vehicle and the year of the event.

Or... if you have some other transportation memory you'd like to share....

be warned - particularly excellent stories may make it into my paper/presentation

Comments

Mr. O First....

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I took Mr. O down memory lane first. Mine will follow. :)


my first car --- '54 Oldsmobile, Delta 88 ( I drove my mother's car)
my favourite car --- '71 Monte Carlo, black on black, bucket seats!!
my first or worst accident --- 54'Olds, Slid into a guard rail on an entry ramp, '60 - no one hurt other than my butt and my pride.
fatalities - None
a long road trip --- '68 Dodge Charger, west from Ohio to the CA coast, toured the mountain states and then returned home. Roughly 5000 miles.
a family association --- ? GM cars are prodominent.
cops/tickets --- I've had roughly 15 in the course of 45 years, mostly for speeding violations
drive in movies --- '54 Olds, back row, back seat...need he say more?
drive up restaurants, --- The Parkmore, '54 Olds, girls on roller skates were HOT!
drive through --- none memorable
price of gas ($.25 a gallon anyone?)--- .18 cents a gallon, in OK driving a '68 Dodge Charger, in 1969
price of cars --- $3200 in '68. It was bought brand new.
buying a car --- Haggling over $50.00 for the '68 Charger
breakdowns --- '98, the '71 Vette broke down in route to dinner. No dinner car towed.
changing a tire (being late for your wedding because you had a flat tire?) --- Interstate 75 into Cincy on Memorial Day Weekend, traffic was insane, the winds from the traffic nearly blew the car off the jack. A '73 Capri
bad weather --- Returning from Chicago in sleet and snow on State Routes. I had to urinate on the headlights so that I could see to drive. (You many not want to use that. LOL!!) '71 Monte Carlo
romance --- They are all memorable, pick a year, make and model. LOL!!
restoration project --- '71 Corvette, it's still very memorable...and a work in something... Mr. O says progress, I tend to disagree.

Hope that helps!!

don't drive?
-bicycle, bus, train or plane?
-friend's car?
-experiences hitch-hiking?