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I mentioned the Blazers (Babs and Cathy), but forgot about my very first car.
It was a 1971 Dodge Colt. Two doors. Pale yellow. I mean PALE, faded yellow, so odd that at night it looked ghostly. So ugly that I put the bumper stickers of a local radio station on the rear fenders to try to make it look better. It didn't work. The only vehicle I ever got on two wheels. No, it was not intentional. This was a truly disposable car. (I bought it for $400 in 1990.) For the short time I had it before I managed to blow it up, my friends and I called it the UAV: Urban Assault Vehicle. Somehow it seemed to fit.
My second car is the only one I ever had that never got named. Or it was already named. It was a Dodge Shadow Turbo, and calling it The Shadow just seemed to fit. Especially because, with the turbo, the car was much faster than most people would think (it looked like an econobox, but had major balls!), so it pretty much snuck up on most people.
My little sister names her cars too, but she has had the worst luck with vehicles lately. She has been living in England, since she married an Englishman, for the last four years. And yet she is already on her FIFTH vehicle. I have only owned four in my LIFE. And the one before my current one, which I have had just over a year, lasted me seven and a half years. And was the first vehicle I owned that I actually traded in, and didn't run into the ground, like my first two vehicles. Both of which were Dodges. (Yes, they are the reason I won't buy Dodge anymore.)
Anyway, poor Lil Sis. Her luck with cars has been so bad lately, she hasn't even bothered naming her vehicles. They don't stick around long enough to get names.
It was a 1971 Dodge Colt. Two doors. Pale yellow. I mean PALE, faded yellow, so odd that at night it looked ghostly. So ugly that I put the bumper stickers of a local radio station on the rear fenders to try to make it look better. It didn't work. The only vehicle I ever got on two wheels. No, it was not intentional. This was a truly disposable car. (I bought it for $400 in 1990.) For the short time I had it before I managed to blow it up, my friends and I called it the UAV: Urban Assault Vehicle. Somehow it seemed to fit.
My second car is the only one I ever had that never got named. Or it was already named. It was a Dodge Shadow Turbo, and calling it The Shadow just seemed to fit. Especially because, with the turbo, the car was much faster than most people would think (it looked like an econobox, but had major balls!), so it pretty much snuck up on most people.
My little sister names her cars too, but she has had the worst luck with vehicles lately. She has been living in England, since she married an Englishman, for the last four years. And yet she is already on her FIFTH vehicle. I have only owned four in my LIFE. And the one before my current one, which I have had just over a year, lasted me seven and a half years. And was the first vehicle I owned that I actually traded in, and didn't run into the ground, like my first two vehicles. Both of which were Dodges. (Yes, they are the reason I won't buy Dodge anymore.)
Anyway, poor Lil Sis. Her luck with cars has been so bad lately, she hasn't even bothered naming her vehicles. They don't stick around long enough to get names.
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Yea the one tire is a little different width, but the same overall diameter, besides, it is on the back anyway. Why would the lack of airbags disqualify it, what does that have to do with safety on the road? Any time I would need the horn I am too busy avoiding the accident.
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