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