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Audis, as an automotive-knowledgeable friend once observed, are overengineered. But Volvos are excellent.

 

I miss Saturns.

 

I miss the K5 Blazer.

 

When she graduated high school, my mom bought a '63 Stingray. She traded that for a new '67 Camaro. In '71 she got me and 4-door Galaxie 500!

 

My mom got an RX7 in like 1986. It became my car less than 10 years later. It was fun but man it had so many problems. I literally had to keep pliers in the car to clamp down on a tube to keep the engine from flooding when starting. That worked every time, though. I don't know how we figured that one out in the days before Google. You never knew if it would go or not! So many things overall were wrong with it, outside of that flooding issue. It taught me how awful it is to have an unreliable car. We eventually just donated it after it was broken down in the parking lot of my college apartment. I wonder if a car like that at that time wasn't exactly designed to last more than a few years.

Did yours have bucket seats? How in the world did you get car seats, especially in the 80s, in that thing?

 

Great band.

 

My parents had three Corvettes and a 1970 GTO Judge before I came along, and even then their "family car" became a 1976 Monte Carlo.

 

My first new car was a 2004 Saturn Ion, which had the instrument cluster centered on the dash. Took some getting to used to, both when I got the car and after I got rid of it a few years later and got a car with a normal set-up.

 

wut

 

How did I not know this dash thing was a thing?

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Batman's Ion:

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My dad had a Monte Carlo.

I liked driving it with that long fucking hoodline.

 

I learned to drive in two of the least similar cars imaginable -- a Ford LTD station wagon and a '67 Volkswagen Bug.