Writer's Block: My First Car
May. 3rd, 2008 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Officially (as in, it was bought for me to use) a 1980 AMC Concord station wagon.
Shaped like this
But mine was fire-engine red with a beige interior.
It survived three fender-benders over about a three or four years of service in my hands, but on the weekend of the Pan Am bombing (yes, I remember that time very vividly) the transmission failed and left me stranded in Clearwater for an afternoon. When the replacement tranny was put in, I didn't care for the result, and so I handed the car to my brother, got the Tercel (which also lasted a good long time) and moved on.
Officially (as in, it was bought for me to use) a 1980 AMC Concord station wagon.
Shaped like this
But mine was fire-engine red with a beige interior.
It survived three fender-benders over about a three or four years of service in my hands, but on the weekend of the Pan Am bombing (yes, I remember that time very vividly) the transmission failed and left me stranded in Clearwater for an afternoon. When the replacement tranny was put in, I didn't care for the result, and so I handed the car to my brother, got the Tercel (which also lasted a good long time) and moved on.
