11-10-2011, 04:32 AM
I think it's a right of passage for a person to have a really crappy car as their very first car. If you had rich parents that bought you a brand new Mercedes or BMW as your first car, this is not the thread for you. I don't want to hear about it and I dislike you.
My first car was a used (a crappy first car must always be used, and heavily so) 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit. I'm not sure how many kilometers it had on it because the odometer was broken, but it was stuck on about 350k. I have no idea how long the odometer had been broken.
My Rabbit was a 2-door with a 4-speed manual transmission. It had a wooden steering wheel, and a wooden gear shift knob. I drove it for 5 days before I learned that I had to press the gear shift down towards the floorboards and move it to the left and up for reverse. There was no owner's manual, so I just figured that it had no reverse gear. It was riddled with rust, but it had a sunroof.
I paid $800 for my crappy VW Rabbit, and I drove it for about 2 years. I have some great memories of it. I recall that $12 was all it took to totally fill it with gas (in Canada at the time, this was very good). I remember sleeping in the cramped backseat once or twice when I wasn't fit to drive home after a party. My parking brake didn't work very well, and my driveway was very steep, so I had to place a large rock behind my front tire so that it didn't roll out into the road when I parked it. I miss my "parking rock".
My first car was a used (a crappy first car must always be used, and heavily so) 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit. I'm not sure how many kilometers it had on it because the odometer was broken, but it was stuck on about 350k. I have no idea how long the odometer had been broken.
My Rabbit was a 2-door with a 4-speed manual transmission. It had a wooden steering wheel, and a wooden gear shift knob. I drove it for 5 days before I learned that I had to press the gear shift down towards the floorboards and move it to the left and up for reverse. There was no owner's manual, so I just figured that it had no reverse gear. It was riddled with rust, but it had a sunroof.
I paid $800 for my crappy VW Rabbit, and I drove it for about 2 years. I have some great memories of it. I recall that $12 was all it took to totally fill it with gas (in Canada at the time, this was very good). I remember sleeping in the cramped backseat once or twice when I wasn't fit to drive home after a party. My parking brake didn't work very well, and my driveway was very steep, so I had to place a large rock behind my front tire so that it didn't roll out into the road when I parked it. I miss my "parking rock".