July 15, 2013 New Car Memories

Joshua went and bought his first car on his own, a low milage 2012 Ford Fusion! After inheriting my 1964 Corvair from my brother Joseph as he went off to the Air Force.  The first car I bought  from a dealer was a Green Volkswagen Hatchback.  Unfortunately, it did not last long.  On a ski trip to Vermont we hit some heavy snow slid out and that vehicle was totaled.  It was back to the Corvair.  The next time I bought  a new car was coming back from Viet Nam.  Through AAFEES we were able to preorder a vehicle to pick upon our stateside return.  I had been drooling over an Audi 100 LS, silver metallic, five speed.  I picked it up in San Francisco.  That was interesting in that I had never in my life drove a manual transmission.  I taught myself to to drive a stick shift on the hills of San Francisco.  That car lasted through Anesthesia school and part of my assignment at Fort Rucker in Alabama.  There I became interested in showing  my English sheepdogs, so I replace the Audi with a Red Pontiac station wagon.  That vehicle lasted till I left for Belgium, so I replaced it with a Oldsmobile Omni.  While in Belgium, i replaced the Omni with my all time favorite vehicle the 1982 Saab 900 Turbo, midnight blue. That was  ultimately replaced with a little red Sentra to commute in and around Philadelphia. Following that was green Ford pick up, a used white Crown Victoria and now my second favorite car the Chrysler 300.