My first car was actually fairly decent, '83 200SX though it was two tone brown and copper, it was loaded with every option, low mileage and clean and was only 6 years old in '89 when I got my license. It lasted about 9 months delivering pizzas before I ran a stop sign and got t-boned by a Lincoln Towncar. I had made an arrangement with my parents that they would get the loan to buy the car and I would make the payments. Unfortunately they also added me to their insurance and only put liability on the car so I was stuck making loan payments for the next two years or so on a totaled pile of twisted metal in the yard. I did recoup a little money parting some things out (much more difficult proposition before the intarweb), but spent the next 1.5 years driving whatever $250 car I could find. This was the first:
Yes, you could access the hatch area through the hole ripped in the fender. The rear bumper was attached to the car with telephone wire. Every couple days I had to pull the #4 spark plug and clean it for the car to run on all four cylinders. The two speed "Hondamatic" transmission was pretty sweet though.
Eventually, my stepfather who felt some guilt I think for the whole insurance situation on the 200SX since it was he that set things up with the insurance and loan, I didn't really understand anything about car insurance at the time I just wanted to drive. He bought this from a co-worker $500:
He gave me the Mustang with a couple conditions, the most ironic of which was that I had to cut off this glorious mullet:
Though the Mustang was only 5 years old at the time, the first owner had given it hell for five years, it had 115K miles on it, most every body panel was dented as the woman had apparently hit many thing with the car over the years, the headliner was falling down and would leave many bits in your hair any time you drove it, the clutch slipped, parking brake didn't work, lots of electrical gremlins, simply would not start if it was below 50 degrees outside, and would drain a freshly charged battery to death overnight if left attached so I had to disconnect the battery if I was going to park it for more than a couple hours. Oh yeah, and of course it was a four banger.
There were a couple other short lived crap boxes at the time, but I never bothered to take pictures of them and these two were the ones I drove most in high school.
Then I went in the Air Force and had a few extra dollars to spend so I redeemed myself with this bitchin ride:
Yes, that is gold chrome and I applied it myself by hand on purpose. It was a sweet car, but my decorative tastes came up a bit short there. I did eventually come to my senses and take all that off. Oh, and did I mention I bought that black car in Phoenix AZ in the winter and the A/C seemed to work when I bought it, however the first time I tried to use it in the spring there was an electrical short somewhere in the dashboard that killed the automatic climate control? That was a fun summer when I found out the repair bill was going to be $800. I did not have $800 so I sweated a lot that summer and saved every extra penny until I had enough to have it repaired the following winter. I looked pretty cool though and loved that Supra to death.
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