Cars you've owned

[mmcat]

i'll admit it...back in the day i drove my grandmother's studebaker.

[dakareng]

1975 Dodge Dart: smallest 8-cylinder car ever made... Detroit's joke of the mid 70s (when gas was CHEAP). Got about 10 mpg took me to Daytona for spring break and to clinical sites while I was in college.

1982 Chevy Chevette: all I could afford as a new college grad but working nights at an inner-city hospital needed something that was not stylish and would start. No A/C. AM radio -- really, really basic transportation

1985 Chevy Cavalier: Moved up a little... now I had A/C and an FM radio (WOO HOO!!) but by the time I got to grad school 1990, the heater died (ever tried driving in Michigan in January with no heat??? I had to scrape the inside of the windshield!)

1993 Saturn SL-2: Working heater/ AC and am/fm/ cassette. Loved it! That is until I knocked the mirror off for the 3rd time so it wouldn't pass inspection in NC

2000 Saturn LS-1: little bigger, now I have a cd player too-- made the 12 hour drives home easier.

2003 Saturn L200: OK, so I like Saturns... Lots more bells and whistles (6 cd changer, automatic climate control, automatic lights) how I could get this for less than my payments on the 2000 car I don't understand but hey, I'm a nurse, not a car salesman.

[WCUgirl]

I also turned 16 in 1995. I drove a powder blue 1987 Mustang LX that used to be my brother's. It had over 200,000 miles on it! I think when I graduated it had 213,000 something. It was a stick shift - which I loved! I miss having a stick. It had a sunroof, but no a/c. Which was definitely hot in FL! But I suffered through it.

Went to college in NC, but the 'rents didn't think the car would make it. So I sold it to a friend and had no car freshman year. Complained so much to my parents after that first year that they let me take the 1991 Mercury Sable station wagon. Ugh! I hated driving that thing. We called it the shaggin wagon and the puddle jumper. Everyone knew me by my car.

Well, the shaggin' wagon died, so my last year I shared my fiance's 1998 Eagle Talon. It was much better than the wagon! I loved driving that thing.

Graduated from college w/ no car. Parents felt bad, so they sold me their 1999 Ford Contour, which is what I currently drive. Hubby now drives my parents' old 1998 Explorer so they could get a brand new one.

I've never owned a new car, but I think that when I do, my first car will be a convertible, and I'd like to go back to the straight drive.

[DeltAlum]

I've owned more cars than I can remember. Let me hit my favorites:

First Car -- 1958 Austin Healey Sprite (bug eye) High school wheels. Floor boards were rotting away, but the young women loved it. HS school "steady" said it would be impossible to have sex in. She was wrong -- but it took creativity.

College Car -- 1958 Triumph TR-3A Roadster with wire wheels. Damned car was bulletproof. Drove it until I couldn't afford to put new brakes on it. Future Mrs. DA loved it. So did some other young women.

Only car to break down to the point I couldn't get it home on the way home from a sports car race -- 1960 Chevy Corvair Monza (OK, my dad found it for me because he hated sports cars) What a piece of junk.

First Car after marriage -- 1970 Capri -- one of the first imported by Lincoln Mercuty

Then -- 1973 Capri V-6 -- great little Anglo/German screamer.

Along the way -- Two MGB Roadsters. Loved those cars.

Until Recently -- 1991 Miata Roadster -- High Tech MG type. Great car.

[CSUSigEp]

1999- 97 Ford F150 XL.

2003- 1992 Cadillac Seville.