On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > Erin has been driving Liz's 1993 Buick Century since we bought in in > 2000. Well, 9 years of abuse and neglect(she did not realize > maintenance was needed on cars,) saw the thing fall apart, however, > due to a sale by Jame's Mom has resulted in Erin now owning her first > car, a 2001 Honda Civic for $4100 off a lease. > > She is pumped.:-) > > My little girl has grown up.
I remember my first car (that I owned, as opposed to a parents' car that I drove). About 1980 I bought a '72 Toyota Corolla for $200. It needed a valve job and was already rusting to hell (no rust treatment on Japanese cars in those days). I mechanic friend did the valve job for $200 in his driveway. I riveted galvanized sheet metal to the rusted out bodywork and spray-painted it with red primer (it sort of matched the Volcano Red original paint) The car had 40,000 miles when I bought it, and it finally died at 100,000 miles about 7 years later. I did all my own repairs and tune ups, so for a total of $400 I got a car that drove me 60,000 miles. Very slowly (its inline 4 cyl. 1200cc pushrod shook and rattled and complained over 55 mph), but with good economy (50mpg on the highway - I could fill up it's small tank in Montreal and drive to Kitchener without filling up - that's over 400 miles). That car got me through university and law school... Memories... Congrats to Erin on her first "owner"! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
