Tell me about your crappy first car!

[DeeBye]

But, I also had the Shoju's wagon, same year, only a Ford model. Mom had hit a deer, and crumpled the hood, and Dad had replaced it with the primer only rust colored one. The rest was powder blue.

My mom's all-time favourite car was a late '70's Ford wagon very similar to that one, only it was brown and didn't have the fake wood paneling. The thing I most remember about it was that the back window could be opened and closed by pushing a button on the dash. She would often volunteer to cart kids around to various school field trips because you could pack about 20 small people in there (seatbelts? heh).

The radio never worked unless my mom smacked the dashboard in just the right place. Only my mom knew the exact place to hit the dashboard. She was like Fonzie.