Thursday Thirteen - Cars

Some people are freaks. And then there are car freaks. I think I fall into the second category!

Hubman and I've owned a lot of cars and had to sell some that we really loved. None of the photos here are the actual cars but I chose ones that were really representative. Here's my list:

1. I learned to drive on a '49 Plymouth. We called it the "Green Wienie," because of it's color! The real "wienie" never looked this good!!!

2. Would you believe I got my very first driver's license driving this boat? That included parallel parking and I did it the first time! The instructor knocked off three points of my total score because he said I swung too wide making a right turn. Well, yeah, I didn't want to wipe out the whole city block! (Isn't it funny how you can remember things like this? I got a 97% total score)
3. I drove this '62 Buick Skylark in high school and to work. It had an aluminum block engine and looked very innocent but it could take just about anything off the line. It had a neat little four speed and was hot to trot! It taught me how to throw a speed shift. It also gave me my first speeding ticket! (I've only had two!)

4. The first new car we owned after getting married was this one. I remember racing a Corvette on the freeway and backing off at 100 mph. Common sense kicked it, thank goodness!
5. When my mom passed away in 1992, she wanted me to have her '92 Cougar. Looks can be deceptive. It was a speedy little devil! My mom gave me me fondness for fast cars. She could drive circles around a lot of people... 6. The first hot rod hubman and I bought was a '32 five-window coupe. It was one of those garage affairs that wound up being "almost" perfect and made him pretty well decide against a another do-it-yourself job. It sure was gorgeous though...

7. If I ever get another classic car, I'd love to have another Mustang. I love the lines and the way it moves... Mine was blue.

8. One of my very favorites was this '51 MG TD. These guys weren't built for speed but for endurance! When you took it on the freeway it started doing the "shimmy, shimmy shake" at about 50 mph. But in the early evenings in the spring, it was always so much fun to go tooling about town with the top down. Mine was white.
9. One of hubman's favorites was this '56 Chevy Cameo Pickup. This is one we hated to see go! 10. At the time hubman and I married, I was the proud, yes - I say proud - owner of a Ford Pinto Station Wagon, the stuff jokes are made of! My first husband and I owned it less than six months when some old lady pulled out in front of me and almost totalled it! I had four kids in the car - no seat belts.

11. Back when we first got married, we had six kids every other weekend. The wise thing to do was buy a van!

12. Hubman has a '69 Chevy El Camino. His looks almost this good, except it's blue. The main draw back is that it doesn't have air conditioning!!! 13. We presently drive a Chrysler Sebring LXI. This is our third one - never even had them in the shop! Ours is midnight blue. Our second one was silver and the first was black.

We've actually had a few more but these are the ones with the most memories. I hope all you fellow car buffs enjoyed them. For those of you who could care less, I'll come up with something more universally interesting next week! Thanks for your patience...