Last week gkirlin and kkirlin stopped buy with this little treaure. A tiny diecast model of my 1st car in LODEN GREEN! JUST LIKE MINE! I think they found it at the dollar store. But to me, it's priceless. (Much more than the actual car.) When I die, they will be peeling this out of my cold gray hand.
The Pacer has the best visibility of any car on the road before or since. It was a fishbowl on wheels. It could corner at 70 miles per hour because it's wheelbase was as wide as it was long. I delivered thousands of pizzas in it.
What was your first car?
Last week gkirlin and kkirlin stopped buy with this little treaure. A tiny diecast model of my 1st car in LODEN GREEN! JUST LIKE MINE! I think they found it at the dollar store. But to me, it's priceless. (Much more than the actual car.) When I die, they will be peeling this out of my cold gray hand. 
The Pacer has the best visibility of any car on the road before or since. It was a fishbowl on wheels. It could corner at 70 miles per hour because it's wheelbase was as wide as it was long. I delivered thousands of pizzas in it.
What was your first car?
here she is, in all of her glory.
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But mine was blue, and I bought it for $300.00
Ahhh, the memories. Thanks.
Huindai Pony... It was the love at first sight... This one is not mine, but exacly like mine
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They really were a fishbowl on wheels.
ReplyDeleteA volkswagon bug...bubblegum blue with no working heat....."sigh"
ReplyDeleteMine was a 1979 Toyota Corona (not Corolla) wagon, plain grey. It had this fantastically intricate grill that would, for a second, look like a mercedes in your rear view mirror. It died a horrible death after being t-boned on the passenger side at 45 mph, bleeding and leaking all over the intersection, bent nearly in half with a sudden wheel amputation. But I have a souvenir: a small piece of car-door shrapnel loged near my left knee. God, that was in the days before wearing seatbelts were required, and airbags were still some designer's wet dream.
ReplyDeleteMine was 1965 Buick Skylark that was manufactured the same month as I was born. It had great big bouncy seats.
ReplyDeleteMine was the same color as thie one:
http://www.buickclub.org/MemberGallery/Buick_B.jpg
Back to the days of my youth...
ReplyDeleteThe spring of 1970. My first car was an almost new yellow 1969 Austin Healey Sprite. A toy-like car, very small. But it could move! I got it up to 96 mph on a new interstate the first summer I had it.
But, the rag top was a pain. You froze inside that car in the winter! The rear window became scuzzed up and impossible to see through before I had it 2 years. And it was impossible to keep the dual carburetors running in sync unless you were a great imported car mechanic.
I finally sold it 4 years later dirt cheap, cause it was too much trouble to keep running.
You can see what it looked like (someone else's car) at http://quicksitemaker.com/members/topless/foreign.html
Jeff - my memory of this lovely auto is from the day I split my bottom lip completely in half on a rear bumper of one of these ugly cars. We (my childhood friends and I) were playing touch football in the street, in Burlington N.J. in my grandparents neighborhood. I was 9 yrs. old. I caught a pass, was pushed from behind and knocked out cold. It was awesome!!! Until I had to go to the hospital for stiches. I've hated this automobile ever since. Funny how different one's perspective can be eh?
ReplyDelete"the gay cuban" -- a 2 door 1990 Nissan Sentra, bought from a gay cuban... the license said "viva cuba" -- there were rainbow stickers all over the back window... great car :D except it didnt have a cup holder :(
ReplyDeleteOoo! My first car was a Ford Maverick, too. It might have been a '74, but I don't remember exactly which year.
ReplyDeleteIt was brown and it was a lemon. Didn't like damp weather. I live next to the ocean. You can imagine the hijinx that ensued from that combo.
My friend Dave had a Pacer. We taunted him mercilessly about it.
But you have to admit, they did have the best visibility of any car ever made.
P.S. - EXCELLENT little diecast. g and k must love you a lot!
ReplyDeleteMy first car was that damn 1998 Subaru, oh yeah, it was last year, haha, I have a new car, YAY!! It was red, and pretty, until I drove it into a bog!! I bought it for $2500, then you wanted to buy it from me cause you loved it, then I sold it, for $400, to a junkyard, I cried!! But, wait, oh yeah, I HAVE A NEW CAR!!
ReplyDeletemaybe they should bring back the pacer and market it to everyone over 70 yrs of age...you know, due to the visibility factor...probably still won't help! no offense grandmom!
ReplyDelete$500 1980's 2-door Toyota Tercel- lt blue... Until the clutch went on it.......... Then I bought a real car.. Plymouth Laser~ blue~ best car I've ever owned! drove awesome through any snow storm~ clutch went on Forrest Ave. in Portland~ I quickly learned how to drive without a clutch!! Then my boyfriend put in a new clutch~ boy was that the best car ever! I wish I still had it!
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ReplyDeleteIt was a 67 GMC Puke seagreen pick up truck. Gear shift on the steering wheel, but I could sure clutch it on a hill. It wasn't actually mine but the only vehicle my dad let me drive during my impressionable Highschool years. By that time it was 15 years old and so not cool.
A 1977 Honda Civic CVCC Hatchback in deplorable condition but drove great back and forth from Phoenix to San Diego or Los Angeles many a late night adventure. I remember almost getting run off the road by the big rigs getting in their wake. Aahh, those were the days.
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