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Article #52: I Remember My First Car

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






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