QotD: My First Car
What was your first car?
When I was 17 I inherited my mom's Isuzu Impulse (it was called the "Piazza" in the international markets.) It was a hatchback, silver, and had headlights that partly opened up that were so popular in the 80s. I really liked this car, and was lucky to have gotten it actually since most of my friends drove serious pieces of crap like Omnis and Hyundais, if they had new cars at all. The kind of cars that leaked oil like sieves, with squealing belts and rusty floors. This was luxury in comparison.
I just liked it because it had a cockpit-like dashboard, and kind of looked like the DeLorean from Back to the Future.
Unfortunately it was not the turbo model, and the automatic transmission was a pig. It had some serious delay on hitting the gas, and had its fuel injection changed more than a few times. In fact, it was in the shop more than I'd like to remember.....I became quite familiar with the mechanics in the neighborhood.
It also came standard with a Bad Mojonator....it was plagued by awful luck like having its mirrors sheared off by garbage trucks, having a deer run full-tilt into the driver's side (fun!) and then the head gasket cracked. Twice.
Eventually it was in such bad shape, I just scrapped it for $50 to a junkyard owner in a trailer with a one-eyed bulldog on the steps. Grrr.
Still.....it was fun while it worked.
Had a phat cassette-player with 10-band equalizer, yo. :P
I just liked it because it had a cockpit-like dashboard, and kind of looked like the DeLorean from Back to the Future.
Unfortunately it was not the turbo model, and the automatic transmission was a pig. It had some serious delay on hitting the gas, and had its fuel injection changed more than a few times. In fact, it was in the shop more than I'd like to remember.....I became quite familiar with the mechanics in the neighborhood.
It also came standard with a Bad Mojonator....it was plagued by awful luck like having its mirrors sheared off by garbage trucks, having a deer run full-tilt into the driver's side (fun!) and then the head gasket cracked. Twice.
Eventually it was in such bad shape, I just scrapped it for $50 to a junkyard owner in a trailer with a one-eyed bulldog on the steps. Grrr.
Still.....it was fun while it worked.
Had a phat cassette-player with 10-band equalizer, yo. :P
Comments
I always thought it was odd to name a car after a speeding ticket. Especially one that is obviously not built for speed.
That thing survived me and my middle brother. For some inexplicable reason my mom sold it to one of our high school buddies for $200 because she thought it was going to kick and he drove it for three years before it died. We then drove our grandmother's K-car for two years and destroyed it.
That Citation might be amongst the last of the really well-built American cars.
Mine was a '64 VW Beetle. Slow as molasses, and handled like a U-boat.
Had a phat cassette-player with 10-band equalizer, yo. :P lol
Memories!
Yoiks, mine was a 1974 Buick Skylark. It had a dark brown roof and a golden tan body, so I thought it looked like a buckskin horse. I bought it from my grandpa in 1979 for 400 dollars.
*Singsong* Din---0----saur!!! (yeah, me, not the car! ;) )