Ask any random pool of people about their first car and you’re bound to get very similar answers. It was a junker, it was handed down from parents, it waswonderful. There’s something about first cars that bring so many good memories along with them. But as adults, if you were asked to trade your current car in for your first – how many of you would do it? The truth is, not many of us would. But the assumption goes that if you wouldn’t (which I’m assuming is most of us) than you like your current carmore than your first. When’s the last time you’ve talked about your daily driver like this… “It had a cracked dash, no heater and a leaking sunroof…most of mybest youthful memories.”
-Jane Mitchell on her 1979 sun-bleached maroon Toyota Celica
“…it was the ugliest car I’d ever seen – but driving this woefully underpowered crap-colored car made me feel…like I had I hada taste of real freedom.”
-David Ho on his 1983 Nissan Stanza
“I was given the car and was instantly popular. It was a gasolholic and was rusting all over, butit was mine!”
-Brad Bisgard of his 1975 Ford LTD Station Wagon
So while our daily driver may not be our absolute dream car and may fill many conventional roles in our grown-up lives – take some time to find joy in its quirks and remember the good memories it’s making along the journey. [caption id="attachment_3135" align="alignnone" width="533"] The author being "given" her first car, a 1983 VW Golf - favorite feature: moonroof.[/caption] -Kristin Cline Pictures courtesy of: Brad Bisgrad, Jon Johnson, and Ashliegh Brookham.
