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Mom: There were probably more before I was born, but she hasn't told me about them.
Hillman Minx: first car.
MGB: She used this car on some huge road trip around the US that I've heard many stories of. My grandpa was going to restore it, but it ended up that he just stripped the body and it hung on the wall of his garage until he died. I think my grandma still has it in a storage unit somewhere. I don't know what colour it was, because grandpa stripped the paint off.
Mini: It was broken since before I could remember, and then my uncle fixed it up. I only remember riding in it once after that. It was red or orange and my uncle made a new dashboard out of wood paneling. It may actually have been a Beetle, I think it wasn't.
blue first generation Honda Accord: There may have been something between the Mini and this, but I was two or three, I can't remember. I do remember this one though. Sort of. I know the licence was NVC 742, the Camry kept the same plate.
'Toyota light blue' first generation Toyota Camry hatchback: She had this for a long, long time and I have a lot of good memories of it, but it slowly went to crap over the years. The last time I rode in it, it was stalling all the time and making some really bizzare noises. The interior was still nice (with the exception of a layer of dog hair on the back seat), but very few of the buttons did anything. She always complained about the blue tint on the top edge of the windshield and the pinstriping below the trim line because it was "so 80's it's embarrassing".
I used to know a guy who would thought it was really cool that my mom owned the first generations of Accord and Camry sequentially.
'87-'91 white Ford F150: My uncle gave it to us for some reason, and then bought it back later. I think maybe it was supposed to be mine, but I didn't have a licence yet. Nobody drove it, it just sat in the back yard.
white '93(I think) Toyota Corolla sedan (genericariffic!): I didn't have a car when she had this, so I borrowed it sometimes. It was really awful; no power, numb steering, alarming body roll, smelly. I used to wonder why auto journalists were always talking about 'soft touch plastics', because this had them and it was an alarming piece of crap.
The last owner broke off half the key in the ignition, so you could start it with anything that fit in the keyhole. Except sometimes that little key stub would get loose, and you'd sit there poking and jiggling at the keyhole for half an hour before it would get back in the right place.
red '5 Toyota Corolla: It's manual, she drives mostly on the highway and very conservatively, so she gets a billion MPG, and still complains about the price of gas. Surprisingly, it has no soft touch plastics and is a lot more cramped then the last one. I haven't driven it, so I don't know how much better it handles then the last one, but I know it's a lot. It seems to have trouble starting from a standing stop, it shudders a little, as if it was in second gear.
It's leased, so there's something else coming eventually. She agrees with me that the new Corollas are really awful looking, so I don't know what it'll be.
Dad: I'm sure there's a lot more I haven't heard about/don't remember, he goes through cars a lot faster then my mom.
'65 Mustang: All I know about this is that my mom crashed it.
Some old Volvo: It may have been pre-240, I may just be making that up.
orange first or second generation Toyota Corolla: Slowly fell apart over some period of time. He'd always park at the top of a hill, because the starter didn't work.
'79-'82 Ford LTD sedan and wagon: I'm totally guessing, I don't know what they were. I just remember he came to pick me up at preschool one day and his car had magically transformed from a sedan to a wagon (they were the same colour). Or from a wagon to a sedan, I forget which was first.
Many other gigantic station wagons: Probably? I was in preschool when he had the maybe-LTDs, but I was a teenager when he had the LeBaron.
white '77-'81 Chrysler LeBaron wagon: The first car I ever drove, just around the yard and driveway.
gold '84 Dodge Aries sedan: I don't remember much from when it was his, but this was my first car.
purple '89 Pontiac Safari: Conveniently for any time I need to mention it, wikipedia's illustration looks exactly like it. The Aries had some random thing wrong with it, so I took my drivers test in this, I made the instructor nervous when I squeezed between some parked cars and stopped traffic that was trying to merge ("this is a very large car, maybe you shouldn't do that"). Looking in the rear view mirror was like looking down a long maroon tunnel with some traffic off in the distance. I wish he'd told me he was selling this car, I would have bought it.
Plymouth Acclaim: This might have been my step mom's, I don't know what he drove between the Safari and;
Volvo 740: Worked for a few months, then the transmission blew, then something electrical happened. He wants to get it fixed, since he just bought a new transmission for it.
first generation Ford Taurus: replaced the Volvo, then something blew up, so it's sitting in his yard with no engine or transmission.
MkIII Honda Accord: Replaced the Taurus.
Hillman Minx: first car.
MGB: She used this car on some huge road trip around the US that I've heard many stories of. My grandpa was going to restore it, but it ended up that he just stripped the body and it hung on the wall of his garage until he died. I think my grandma still has it in a storage unit somewhere. I don't know what colour it was, because grandpa stripped the paint off.
Mini: It was broken since before I could remember, and then my uncle fixed it up. I only remember riding in it once after that. It was red or orange and my uncle made a new dashboard out of wood paneling. It may actually have been a Beetle, I think it wasn't.
blue first generation Honda Accord: There may have been something between the Mini and this, but I was two or three, I can't remember. I do remember this one though. Sort of. I know the licence was NVC 742, the Camry kept the same plate.
'Toyota light blue' first generation Toyota Camry hatchback: She had this for a long, long time and I have a lot of good memories of it, but it slowly went to crap over the years. The last time I rode in it, it was stalling all the time and making some really bizzare noises. The interior was still nice (with the exception of a layer of dog hair on the back seat), but very few of the buttons did anything. She always complained about the blue tint on the top edge of the windshield and the pinstriping below the trim line because it was "so 80's it's embarrassing".
I used to know a guy who would thought it was really cool that my mom owned the first generations of Accord and Camry sequentially.
'87-'91 white Ford F150: My uncle gave it to us for some reason, and then bought it back later. I think maybe it was supposed to be mine, but I didn't have a licence yet. Nobody drove it, it just sat in the back yard.
white '93(I think) Toyota Corolla sedan (genericariffic!): I didn't have a car when she had this, so I borrowed it sometimes. It was really awful; no power, numb steering, alarming body roll, smelly. I used to wonder why auto journalists were always talking about 'soft touch plastics', because this had them and it was an alarming piece of crap.
The last owner broke off half the key in the ignition, so you could start it with anything that fit in the keyhole. Except sometimes that little key stub would get loose, and you'd sit there poking and jiggling at the keyhole for half an hour before it would get back in the right place.
red '5 Toyota Corolla: It's manual, she drives mostly on the highway and very conservatively, so she gets a billion MPG, and still complains about the price of gas. Surprisingly, it has no soft touch plastics and is a lot more cramped then the last one. I haven't driven it, so I don't know how much better it handles then the last one, but I know it's a lot. It seems to have trouble starting from a standing stop, it shudders a little, as if it was in second gear.
It's leased, so there's something else coming eventually. She agrees with me that the new Corollas are really awful looking, so I don't know what it'll be.
Dad: I'm sure there's a lot more I haven't heard about/don't remember, he goes through cars a lot faster then my mom.
'65 Mustang: All I know about this is that my mom crashed it.
Some old Volvo: It may have been pre-240, I may just be making that up.
orange first or second generation Toyota Corolla: Slowly fell apart over some period of time. He'd always park at the top of a hill, because the starter didn't work.
'79-'82 Ford LTD sedan and wagon: I'm totally guessing, I don't know what they were. I just remember he came to pick me up at preschool one day and his car had magically transformed from a sedan to a wagon (they were the same colour). Or from a wagon to a sedan, I forget which was first.
Many other gigantic station wagons: Probably? I was in preschool when he had the maybe-LTDs, but I was a teenager when he had the LeBaron.
white '77-'81 Chrysler LeBaron wagon: The first car I ever drove, just around the yard and driveway.
gold '84 Dodge Aries sedan: I don't remember much from when it was his, but this was my first car.
purple '89 Pontiac Safari: Conveniently for any time I need to mention it, wikipedia's illustration looks exactly like it. The Aries had some random thing wrong with it, so I took my drivers test in this, I made the instructor nervous when I squeezed between some parked cars and stopped traffic that was trying to merge ("this is a very large car, maybe you shouldn't do that"). Looking in the rear view mirror was like looking down a long maroon tunnel with some traffic off in the distance. I wish he'd told me he was selling this car, I would have bought it.
Plymouth Acclaim: This might have been my step mom's, I don't know what he drove between the Safari and;
Volvo 740: Worked for a few months, then the transmission blew, then something electrical happened. He wants to get it fixed, since he just bought a new transmission for it.
first generation Ford Taurus: replaced the Volvo, then something blew up, so it's sitting in his yard with no engine or transmission.
MkIII Honda Accord: Replaced the Taurus.