| I remember my first car a 1971 Dodge | | | | I should have. I lost control just before |
| Challenger. She was metallic green with a | | | | entrance to the left turn lane. The car spun |
| white vinyl roof. A 340 four barrel pushing | | | | a full 180 and the rear wheel smashed against |
| 275 horsepower mated to a slapstick 3 speed | | | | the island and threw the back end of the car |
| automatic and a positraction rear end. Which | | | | up on top. Just as the car was spinning a |
| meant to my eager 18-year-old ears I could | | | | Greyhound bus came flying past. If I hadn't |
| burn out both rear wheels at once. I remember | | | | spun out we would have T-boned the bus |
| the guy who sold it to me bragging about how | | | | driving past at around 70 MPH. For some |
| he would race it up the highway and do spin | | | | reason my girlfriend never trusted me fully |
| outs on icy roads. At the time this was a | | | | in the drivers seat afterwards. |
| selling point. A more mature self would have | | | | |
| translated that to "I beat the crap out of | | | | That wasn't the last time my teenage |
| this car I hope you have a lot more money to | | | | bulletproof delusions took me close to the |
| spend". But I was all emotion and the | | | | edge in my metallic green challenger. Somehow |
| gleaming metallic paint job and rumbling | | | | I managed not to injure others or myself. The |
| engine destroyed all semblance of logic. In | | | | car however didn't fair too well. On the |
| fact I was so green I bought the car 3 weeks | | | | outside it was immaculate. The inside was |
| before I passed my driver test. Need less to | | | | another story. I ended up selling it a couple |
| say I ended up spending a lot more then the | | | | of years later for $1300.00. I met the buyer |
| $1000.00 to purchase the car. | | | | a while later and he told me that he hated me |
| | | | for selling him that car. Later I saw it for |
| It wasn't entirely the fault of the seller | | | | the last time. Someone had painted it a |
| that I had to spend so much on repairing and | | | | bright fire engine red. I wonder if it's |
| maintaining the challenger. I did my fair | | | | still driving around somewhere or if it's |
| share of burnouts, racing, and general | | | | someone's washing machine. I hope it's the |
| beating of my poor car. I remember my | | | | former. |
| girlfriend's stepfather warning me he knew it | | | | |
| I was squealing the tires at the end of the | | | | This sudden rush of nostalgia came to me when |
| street every time I left. Then telling me I'd | | | | I saw a picture of the new Challenger coming |
| better stop this behavior or I wouldn't be | | | | out in 2008. Since then I've been telling my |
| taking her anywhere. Good thing he never | | | | wife that it's my mid life crisis car. I'm a |
| heard about how I almost killed my girlfriend | | | | lot safer driver now so she wouldn't have to |
| and I the first night I drove the car. | | | | worry about greyhound buses on rainy nights. |
| | | | So all I'll need is the money (lottery |
| We were driving back from Alice Lake to the | | | | ticket, inheritance, bag falling out of an |
| highway. The road to the highway gets really | | | | armored truck) and then next year I'll sit in |
| twisty just before the turn off. It was dark | | | | my Hemi Challenger, start up the engine and |
| and raining and I was going a bit faster then | | | | say to myself I remember my first car. |