EdoHart
Grasshopper
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I bought my first car at 17. It was a 4 door Maxda RX2 which my Dad steered me toward because it required a lot of mechanical work to get it running properly, and he thought that the time I spent working on the car meant less time driving it, thereby lowering the chance of having an accident (he was willing to put me on his insurance for my first car).
What he didn't know was that car was a rocket. It got 17 MPG no matter know matter how you drove it - slow, fast - it didn't matter. So I drove it as most 17 year old kids would drive it - fast, and that car was fast. I learned a lot from that car, how to perform 4 wheel slides, tires so bald that the steel belts are exposed are a lot of fun in the rain, tires are expensize, getting airborn bends parts, getting water in a distributer kills the ignition system, how to replace an engine, how to climb a hill which only 4x4 trucks had made (and how to back down a hill which only 4x4 trucks had made), I don't like body work. I had a lot of close calls, but thankfully no accidents.
As much fun as that car was, I've had nightmares about owning that RX2 again.
I bought my first car at 17. It was a 4 door Maxda RX2 which my Dad steered me toward because it required a lot of mechanical work to get it running properly, and he thought that the time I spent working on the car meant less time driving it, thereby lowering the chance of having an accident (he was willing to put me on his insurance for my first car).
What he didn't know was that car was a rocket. It got 17 MPG no matter know matter how you drove it - slow, fast - it didn't matter. So I drove it as most 17 year old kids would drive it - fast, and that car was fast. I learned a lot from that car, how to perform 4 wheel slides, tires so bald that the steel belts are exposed are a lot of fun in the rain, tires are expensize, getting airborn bends parts, getting water in a distributer kills the ignition system, how to replace an engine, how to climb a hill which only 4x4 trucks had made (and how to back down a hill which only 4x4 trucks had made), I don't like body work. I had a lot of close calls, but thankfully no accidents.
As much fun as that car was, I've had nightmares about owning that RX2 again.