"Fight the Bees for It"

[geminiwench]

The least I've ever paid for a car is,
"Fight the bees for it."

It was a '92 Corsica
with no speedometer
and a 6 mile range
before it start stalling.

It was my friend's abandoned car,
that wasps had settled in.

This was probably 2008.

I currently drive a 1988 Mercury TopazI love this car

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[taz_39]

Those are some cool cars you have/had!

My parents never got a car for free that I know of, but they definitely had the crappiest car.

Guess what it was?

A YUGO.

You couldn't even get those things repaired because no one freaking knew how to work on them. Somehow ours lasted for several years, but I have distinct memories of dad pushing it across an intersection when it died or of playing in our local repair shop while it was worked on.

My first two cars were a gold Saturn Twin Cam, which had one of those removeable cross-body seatbelts, the hook for which sliced my dad's head open and he had to get eighteen stitches...

...and a Pontiac Sunfire, which was so well behaved until it hit 150k or I moved to New Jersey, whichever came first.

Then there was a used 2009 Corolla, which I am convinced would have lived forever if a bunch of children driving a big red lifted truck hadn't totaled it on FL-429.

[geminiwench]

I've heard the myth of the Yugo!!

That nasty hook feature on that Saturn sounds AWFUL!! O my god! 18 stitches!!

We rented a Pontiac Sunfire for a month or two while our 1989 Pinto Station wagon was being worked out when my mom was t-boned in it. It was SO believably fancy to us.

The Corollas are supposed to be forever-cars.
Except of course... so many good cars leave this world totaled. Hope everyone was ok!!

[daphnep]

330,000 miles! That is really something.
I like how, when I read “1988” I pictured in my head “an 80’s car” and then clicked the link…the picture is satisfyingly like I imagined. 😂

[geminiwench]

I know **exactly** what you mean.

Imagine, it's working on it's 10th trip around the world!

[amw]

I only owned one car in my life, and it was a red Toyota Celica, as old as i was. It was from the era when the Celica was still a rear-wheel drive car, and it was before they upgraded to fuel injection. So i had to learn how to tune the carburetors in cold weather, and i learned very quickly on the first day that it rained how far the back will skid out when you have rear-wheel drive

[geminiwench]

Initial D sounds like a good show!

Sounds like you had some wild times in that Celica!
I also like the fantasy about it's end life.

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[spaciireth]

My parents gave me my first car in 2014, it was a 2000 Mitsubishi Lancer that they had had for years. I thought they were downsizing because two people over 60 surely don't need two large sedans, but no, they actually did go and replace it with another sedan, and they still have two when I don't know why. Very rarely do they go out to different places at the same time.

Anyway, I digress. Unfortunately, that one got rear-ended and written off within six weeks of me having it.

So then I bought a new Kia Rio, which I have called Carla and which suits me very well. I also don't get the need for having the most fancy expensive car. Rio is the top-rated for safety in its size, or at least it was at the time, anyway, I haven't checked back. But that's really my only priority other than "Does it get me from A to B?"

I am lucky to live somewhere where I can take public transport to work the bulk of the time and mostly the car is for getting to my hobbies which are across state lines and run until late at night.

[geminiwench]

Your car setup is how I used to live.

I would always walk or bus to/from work... but when it came to running errands (a car is so nice so that it doesn't take all day just to run two or three errands) or going to see friends/hobbies.

Then I moved into the suburbs and I don't want anywhere.
It's ugly/smelly, no one is used to pedestrians and like to threaten them with dangerous driving, and even though most of the things I need are close.... I'd rather drive than walk in this area. I love our bit of property and all my memories here (I grew up in this house... when there were still more orchards than mini malls) but I hate the location now that the city has swallowed it. And not the good part of the city.... the shitty outskirts part where there is no live music but lots of gas stations.