Of cars and times long past

So valonia was talking cars (again) and it brought up my own car history. I'm not sure I have pictures of all the cars I've owned, but I did find a picture of my very first car. It was a hand-me-down, a car my mother bought for $400 and drove for a few years before I got it. We ended up selling it for $60 a year after I got it, because it had a new battery. It had a LOT of problems - I think the engine block was cracked - but I hear it ran for a year after we sold it. Anyway:

( pictures of the car here )

It was a 1972 Toyota Corona, and I think I got it in 1989. Back then, in Kansas, you could get your restricted driver's license at 14-ish (I can't remember when exactly I got mine, but it was before I was 15, I took driver's ed in 9th grade, which was Aug 1988-May 1989, and of course I didn't turn 15 until October). I drove it until... I want to say 1991-1992, I know I got the Rabbit in high school, I think between my junior and senior year. I loved the Rabbit. It was a silver 19...80? model, hatchback. I've missed the hatchback ever since. It was the last car I could really get anything in easily (I did get a Lay-Z-Boy home in my Sentra, but it wasn't pretty). I want another hatchback. When I graduated from college, in 1996 I got a 1993 Nissan Sentra. I drove it until 2003, when we bought the 2003 Hyundai Elantra. I drove that a few months, then my husband decided it was more comfortable for him than his 1989 Ford Mustang, and we traded. He now drives a 2010 Ford Fusion Sport, I'm still in the Mustang.

The best thing that can be said about the Mustang this time of year is that when you say, 'pardon me, I'm a bit chill, could I have a spot of heat?' the car hears 'please boil the fluid inside my eyeballs, thanks'. It may suck on snow and ice ... and damp... and pavement markings... but oh my god does it have a kick-ass heater. You will broil in that car.

Anyway, enough cavorting down memory lane... unless you'd like to see a picture of me when I was driving that car?

( here )