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Edited by Cobravert:
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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1 ReplyEdited by Kickimanjaro: 2/16/2013 4:47:45 AMI totaled it two weeks ago. Miss that car, collected my stuff from it earlier today and handed it over to the insurance company. Don't tell anyone but I took the Mercury badge from the front grille. In the end, I'm glad no one was hurt, and that my car was basically the only car damaged in the crash. It was not too severe, but it was my first and it somehow destroyed the frame. It could not have come at a worse time, however, as I had just moved out of the dorms to start commuting from home. Now I'm commuting without a car, that's tricky...but insurance is doing what we paid for, and I'll certainly be a more attentive driver in the future. Probably looking to buy a cheap used Corolla, but I'll miss that Mercury.
