:inlove: First car . . . by a long shot.
:inlove: I still remember my first girlfriend, Janet Jordan . . . 2nd grade . . . still have a picture of her somewhere . . . thought she was the sweetest, most beautiful female on the face of the earth. I was head over heels in love. :inlove: Then after a couple of weeks the new wore off and I decided I had better things to do. She was dragging me down. I had that 2nd grade boy's need to climb trees and get dirty, and baking cakes in her Easy Bake oven every afternoon after school got old, so we "broke up" but remained friends . . . then I lost all contact with her when I moved in during the 5th grade. I don't once remember regretting that we lost contact.
My first car was a 64 Buick LaSabra . . . a baby blue battleship on wheels. I inherited it from my mother after the insurance company had totaled it out for the second time ($600 worth of damage in a fender bender totaled it!) and Dad bought her a new Dodge. I hated it . . . but I was 16 and it beat walking! It was beat up. It was big. It didn't have air conditioning! But, over time I figured out that you could cram 15 friends in it and get each one to pitch in 50 cents for gas . . . and after cruising all night, still have enough gas to last the rest of the week! I ran it in a ditch once and rolled it over on it's top . . . we got out and rolled it back on it's wheels and continued on our way! (It did warp two wheels, and put a few scratches and one dent on it). I eventually ran it hot and warped a head. While the heads were off, the water sitting the block froze and cracked the block in two places . . . the engine was a small V-8 and had aluminum heads and an aluminum block with cast iron cylinders. I remember the heads were light as a feather compared to the Chevy V-8 heads I was used to. Anyway, I put the reworked heads back on, "fixed" the block with some Alumiseal stop leak and sold it for $75. I've regretted letting it go for the past 24 years.
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