My first car - 1978 Toyota Corolla LiftBack. Bright Orange!
I bought it off the Clovis West High School Auto Shop. It wasn't running at the time of purchase, but I knew it was going to be a great little car for me. I got it for only $300 dollars or so. And after almost $1000-$1500 dollars of repairs, it ran like a champ! All the work done by me! I even drove it to Oregon and back one summer. No overheating... at the time.
The day it died was a day I will never forget. My youth Pastor, and now friend, Scott Borman, asked me to give him a ride to pick up his car at the shop one evening. I agreed and off we went. I kind of had a little bit of a overheating problem the last couple of weeks with the car. But I really didn't think about fixing it, because I never went anywhere that was so far away that would be a long enough amount of time for the car to overheat. As we were cruising down the freeway, I noticed the gauge was starting to get into the RED. Scott noticed it too. I told him we were cool. Later Smoke started to come out of the hood. "We're still okay", I said. Then Smoked started to enter the cab of the vehicle. A lot of smoke! And then... the car died. We now were coasting up the ramp and onto a BUSY shaw avenue! Luckily the light turned green just in time and we coasted all the way in the parking lot of a restaurant. Scott and I then had to walk to the shop to get his car. That was the last time the great pumpkin car ran.
Scott and I still laugh about the day. Later the car became a demolition car for a sledge hammer at a youth group hang out party, called "the spot." It was a after high school football games event. Good times!
Tell me about your first car!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
my first car.
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I had a 1981 light blue and white Ford Bronco. (I bought it in '95.) I LOVED that thing. One by one, the window motors broke, and to keep the windows closed had to prop them up (inside the very wide doors) with scrap 2x4s! I loved to drive around all my college friends, as many as would fit at one time. We got 11 in one time! I eventually got rid of it because it would only pass smog if you took it the "right" shop. I still long for that car everytime I see an old Bronco!
Hey Sara! That's Great!
Check out this blog post I did back in Feb 2006.
http://randyparker.blogspot.com/2006/02/my-old-truck.html
Funny...
this is great. my first car i bought was a bit newer, but with equal problems. i got a 94 toyota 4runner for about 5 grand and loved it to pieces. had dual exhaust, did engine work to it to crank up the horse power, lifted it a little and put some tires on it. and then things went down hill. from then on out, i put about as much as i spent on it if not more into it replacing a tranny, the whole front end (like ball joints and tie arms and such) it was a hassle, but i thank god for all those times i watched and have learned how to do these things, but i can imagine the price if i had to have taken it into the shop. oh man.
god bless.
-bryan
www.bryan2.wordpress.com
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