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

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[naomi-sue.livejournal.com]

my first car --- 71 Chevy Chevelle. 396, olive green, leather interior...and fast!!

my favourite car --- '91 Ford Tempo, only because it was the first car I ever bought for myself.

my first or worst accident --- Coming home from a b'day party of a co-workers, in '82. I was driving an older model T-Bird (don't recall the year as it was not mine) and 'killed the bird to save a dog'.

fatalities --- None

a long road trip---I took my children on a three week vactaion to tour the areas I had grown up in. Think of the Brady Bunch. 1987 was the year and we were traveling in an '80 Ford station wagon.

a family association--- ?

cops/tickets ----Getting pulled over on a very rainy morning where as I was going 30 in a 35MPH zone but ticketed for going too fast for road conditions. The ticket was dismissed. '91 Ford Tempo

drive in movies --- '68 Rambler at the Skyborn. Lot's of action, better forgotten. :)

drive up restaurants, --- A&W, home of the Momma, Poppa, Teen and Baby bear burgers, not to mention Rootbeer. '63 Ford Fairlane.

drive through --- None memorable

price of gas ($.25 a gallon anyone?)--- 1975, gas was .21 per gallon as there were price wars everywhere. We drove a '69 Renault with 'five on the column' at that time. That car got over 30 miles to the gallon!! I learned to drive on a stick shift, not an automatic. This was my first real car, though not owned by me, rather my soon to be father of my children.

price of cars --- Depends on what you are looking for and the year. I've been party to buying cars anywhere from $50 to $40,000. Most memorable of them all has got to be the 2000 Chevy Suburban. That vehicle has put me through hell and we paid the most for it. It took five years to get it to work right and now it's not worth the money paid.

buying a car --- Getting the '91 Ford Tempo.

breakdowns --- '71 Chevelle. Not really a breakdown, but a loss of keys. They were lost when our canoe capsized and we had to wait for someone to rekey the locks on the car.

changing a tire (being late for your wedding because you had a flat tire?) --- 1988, coming home from an excursion with a gal friend of mine. The front right tire blew on the '80 wagon, in hundred degree temps on a hill no less. A trucker helped to get it changed out.

bad weather --- Blizzard of '78, driving a '64 Ford Thunderbird. This car started when no other would. The battery did a whole lot of jumping for other cars sitting stranded.

romance --- 1975, unknown to both myself and the father of my children we 'parked' off a road that seemed to be unhabitated. Little did we know that the '68 Rambler with it's engine roaring was sitting atop the first underground home to be built in the area. That was embarassing as all get out. I'll never forget the rap on the window by the deputy asking us to please get off these people's roof top.

restoration project --- '71 Corvette, which sits in the garage yet today...after more than ten years.

[dancingleaf.livejournal.com]

wow-

I didn't mean for you to answer ALL of them. Just any one that particularly stood out in your memory. But thanks for the awesome answers.

ex. My dad had a flat tire on the way to my parent's wedding and was late... my mom's stepdad was a real doll and told her to face facts she'd been stood up, she was crying her eyes out when he finally showed up.

for family association- My granddad drove from Saskatchewan to Ontario on an Indian Motorcycle in the 1930's. He'd a kept going except the bike broke down. He got a job on a farm to make money to eat and met my grandmother etc.etc.... Where would I be if the bike hadn't broken down?