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2/6/2013 5:20:00 AM
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Your first car
I had to start this after seeing this http://www.bungie.net/en-US/View/community/Forum/Post?id=59767423 thread in the mains. I found a picture online of my first official car, and I have to admit, I'm a little choked up. I loved that car and still have dreams about is and my '86 Mustang GT sometimes. Well, this one wasn't mine, but it is almost exactly the same.
This car is a 1972 Mercury Montego GT. Mine was the same color, and rims, though I had 60's on the back, shag carpet, even in the trunk, 8-track tape player and customized (bastaredized) speakers, 351 windsor 2 barrel and a glass pack muffler. The only difference is, mine was originally an MX. not a GT (a little more elegant rear window line, not the fat fastback look). I was driving to school one morning, hit black ice and ended up wrecking the front end. My Dad found a GT front end for it, and we replaced it and repainted it the same basic green, only metallic. It really rocked back then. I wish I could find it again. I'd restore it, and make it a cruiser/toy.
I miss this car.
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3 RepliesI don't have a picture of it, but the one above ought to let you know what I'm on about. 16th birthday, neighbor walks up and hands me the keys to his old car that's been sitting for a few years. Says it's mine. A 1984 Mercury Grand Marquis Colony Park Wagon, in Navy with wood paneling and whitewalls. Thing was awesome. I had to get a new battery, fix it's brakes, most electrics, and she was a great high school car. I loved that thing. We even bought a crash helmet and put it in the car for whoever drove it cause it was so boatish, you felt like you were going to die making a right hand turn at 10 mph. It even had the seats in the rear that came out of the floor and faced each other. It ran well for 3 years, then I went on an LDS mission, and it got neglected at home. When I came home, it was dead and covered in weeds and spiders. Friend was looking for a demolition derby car, so I offered it to him. Felt fitting somehow. He drove that sucker to second place, even after the passenger front wheel came off. Now I drive an Outback. Guess you can still see the love for the wagon.
