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Chris Kolding’s Burning Bush
It could never have occurred to me that my first car would one day be the target of intimidation, but so it was with my 1979 Volkswagen Rabbit. Furthermore, on the day that I bought the car, I could never … Continue reading
Tom Yoder’s Coefficient of Friction
Thunk! I was pulling away from a stop sign midway between Coeur d’Alene and Spokane when the driveshaft snapped in two. A loud thunk, then the motor revving wildly for a moment until I got off the gas and shut … Continue reading
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Marc Mazzarelli’s 1965 Mercury Comet
My first car was truly a super–fun and very funny car. I bought it for $200.00 on July 17, 1987 from Anthony Matarese of the Knightsville section Cranston, Rhode Island. It was a hideous turquoise blue 1965 Mercury Comet with … Continue reading
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Pete Watson’s Model A Ford
My 1929 model A had brakes which only really worked on the right front wheel, so you could lay a black strip with that tire while the others free–wheeled. Naturally, you had to yank hard left on the steering wheel … Continue reading
Bill Svec’s Hugger Camaro — The story continues…
(Bill’s story continues from an earlier post.) Just a bit more on my first car: I was working for a CPA firm (a very conservative group (white shirts, ties, hat, late sixties, early seventies). We often audited banks, and the … Continue reading
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Mike Marino’s First Car was a Plymouth Valiant
Nothing can match the zero to 60 feeling of getting behind the wheel of your first car, except maybe your first hormonal schoolboy crush and that first beer in the backseat of your own car! Something about horsepower and a … Continue reading
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Don Stough’s Chevrolet Biscayne
Background: My dad was a career Navy Officer. We moved a lot while I was growing up so I really didn’t have any place I called home. However, when I was in the fifth grade, my dad was assigned to … Continue reading
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Niels Nielsen’s First Car was a 1960 VW Bug
This is the story of my first car, a ceramic–green, 1960 Volkswagen Bug. It had been our family car since new, so when I brought it to college with me in 1971 I was already intimately familiar with most (but, … Continue reading
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Leslie’s Fleshtone Chevy Citation – Part Deux
I was thoroughly enjoying life with my first car, despite the fact that it was a 1984 flesh-tone Chevy Citation. Its primary use was as a conveyance back and forth from Boston to Providence, where I was going to school. … Continue reading
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Matt’s Crown Vic
The first car that I truly loved was my Crown Victoria retired police car. I fell for its size, power and of course, the fact that everyone always thought I was a cop pulling up behind them and slow way … Continue reading