12 Things You'll Remember About Driving if You Got Your License in the '90s

• February 24, 2016
• / Story By
  Kristin Cline - Editor-in-Chief

12. Growing up, you either wanted Knight Rider’s K.I.T.T or the A-Team van. Or both.

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11. You had a Ferrari F50 or Acura NSX poster hanging on your bedroom wall.

10. Stop-ins at 7-eleven were frequent. Not just to get Slurpees, but more importantly to use the pay phone so you could answer your page.

9. Newsstand picks included Mini Truckin, Sport Compact Car and Turbo.

8. Daydreams of fleeing down the freeway like O.J. Simpson filled your mind at least once during homeroom.

7. Your tapes, or later, CDs, came from BMG music mailers advertising 12 for $0.01.

6. If you were lucky you might have pulled up to high school in a Ford Lightning, Toyota Supra or Chevy Camaro.

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5. If you were un-lucky, the parents handed you keys to the Oldsmobile passed down from your grandma, the family Ford Aerostar van or a Chevrolet Caprice.

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4. Tape deck adapters connected to CD players were the latest thing to plug into your pop-off face radio.

3. The Big Johnson shirt you were wearing proved your juvenile age about as much as the graduation tassel hanging on your rearview mirror.

2. Hanging out in a parking lot always involved a hackey sack or deck of playing cards.

1. Napster revolutionized your mix CDs.