Do you ever get over your first car?
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Anonymous
| I wish I had not seen this post. The answer is: No. |
Anonymous
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I had a 1998 Honda Accord. My parents bought it for me when I started driving in 2000. That was an AWESOME car! Got me through two years of high school, four years of college, three years of law school, an 18 day road trip out west with my two best friends after we graduated from high school...plus many more memories...it finally died on me in 2016 with 245k miles on it.
Still driving a Honda Accord, FWIW. |
Anonymous
I was 23. I loved it! |
Anonymous
| My first car held no particular soft place in my heart. The only cars that hold a fondness are cars that don't have a note. |
Anonymous
| Yes, I did. I was attached to it as my grandparents paid for part of it but too many issues. Just got rid of my second car after 15 years. Held on to it until it wasn't safe and repairs were more than it was worth. LOVE the new one. |
Anonymous
A Chevy Chevette  ?
Ha. |
Anonymous
| I enjoyed my first car but had to sell it at CarMax due to life circumstances. Years later, I was curious if it went for parts or if someone bought it, and was surprisingly quite sad to find the VIN come up on a salvage auction website, complete with pictures. |
Anonymous
| Not a big driver. First car was an armored Chevy Suburban g-ride. Was an interesting car for a first time driver and everything else feels small and vulnerable. Wouldn't say I miss it though, parking was a bitch. |
Anonymous
| I had a handmedown civic from my older brother. It caught fire while I was driviing it. I went to shift and nothing was working so i glided into a stop in a parking lot, popped the hood and it was on fire. Also, weirdly, even though I had the keys out and in my hand, the engine was still running. Which, after I saw the fire, so was I. |
Anonymous
| I lament the stick shift 20-year old hand-me down my parents gave me at 16: said no one ever. |
Anonymous
| Oh god I had my grandma’s Buick. I got over it a second. |
Anonymous
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My first vehicle that I bought eith my own money: yes. A 2001 Ford Ranger standard transmission (A/C, CD player, windows you actually roll up and down) bought new with my savings from working at Walmart in high school and college with half of it financed at 0% in the post 9/11 economy. I paid it off early by working a part time job in addition to my career-job, and felt on top of the world driving it. It represented so much hard work, sacrifice, and financial restraint, and I was so proud. God, I loved that truck. We finally sold it about 5 years ago (and now I drive a minivan, sigh).
Someday, I think I will have to buy another one. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Yes - but only because the car caught on fire. (Not purposefully, I forgot to check the engine when the check engine light stayEd on for 3 months) |
Anonymous
| My first car was a 1994 Geo Prizm. I .... did not drive it in the 90s, I’ll just say that much. It was OLD. I don’t miss it! |