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The car I most remember in high school was Janice Drake's little red chevette. She got to drive first with a November birthday so her car was the first I got to ride around in. We went everywhere in it. It was a tank. She had no pictures to speak of, so I raided Flickr and found this (even if it is blue). Come to find out after graduation the Chevette eventually got a hole in it on the floor passenger's side. When it was moving you could lift the floor mat and see the pavement flying by! Your first car or ride, what did you drive or ride around in? I know some of my friends cars had nicknames, did yours?
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This was my senior-year car:
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Wayne's World made the model popular years after I sold it.
I loved the way the glass rattled when you raced the motor to a breakneck speed of 45.
And all you girls were lining up for a ride! :-)
O.K.
I did not love that car nearly as much as my friends did. I remember that Marcie and Leigh Ann always wanted to drive it. (I could never understand why.) I could tell stories about that car all day. I remember one time it started smoking while I was driving down the road and Jeff Spears was yelling that the car was on fire. I also had to have a parking space at JHS with a curb because the brakes would "ocassionally" not work and I would have to hit the curb to stop. Looking back I can't believe my parents let me drive that death trap. One thing though, was I never worried about anything, like say scraping the building in the McDonald's drive-thru.
Janice
John Works also drove a Chevette or just "The Vette" as he called it. The best thing about that car was the horn. It sounded like an 18 wheeler trapped in the shell of walnut. Fantastic. I never tired of hearing the monstrous, yet lonely, honk of the Chevette's horn as John Works went driving by.
Ah hahahahahaha!! Too funny! I don't remember Janice's car or John's car. I had Blue Bubble for a while, the Mercury Capri hatchback that was like one big magnifying glass in the summer. Then my senior year I got a Mercury Tracer which was awesome!! I had to give it up to go to private college though - booo.
My sister, Shelby, and I had to share a car since we were just a year apart in school. My/our first car was a white, 2-door Grand Prix with red velvet interior (surely pre-1980). We called it the "G.P. with no G-O". Others called it the "tampon on wheels". Whatever it was, it still made its rounds down Nettleton, circling at the Sonic and Burger King on Friday and Saturday nights with a large can of hairpray on the floorboard just incase a bang slipped out of place.
Ashley (Thompson) Day
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