My first car was a 1978 Trans Am (think Smokey and the Bandit) that I bought from my brother for $200 in 1985 while I was still in high school. He was in the Army and got transferred to Fort Wainwright (Alaska) and didn’t need it. It got about 5 miles to the gallon with a tune up and ate oil, but I didn’t care. It was mine, and I drove it till the floorboards rotted out of it in 1995. What a guy magnet!
I think that because I drove a number of old cars, as did my BF’s, that I learned a lot about them (both the cars and the guys :P. Also took a class on car repair so changed my own oil and Spark Plugs!
D calls me and describes a sound and I give her my ideas and then research online and often am right on.
H cannot do this as he had a brand new Saab as his first car.
But remember doing things like bleeding the brakes? Or popping the clutch? Pushing the car off
the road. Driving with a broken window wiper?
I popped the clutch a time or two. But most kids don’t know what that is these days. When S1 was in high school he only knew two other kids who could drive a standard. When I was in high school nearly everybody did.
Red 1964 MGB. Unreliable. Impractical. And I loved it!!!
@Pizzagirl It is probably news to the tax payers of NY. The OOS and International tuition at SUNY is very low. Much lower than nearly any other public school system. Tax payers are paying a larger portion of the costs of the SUNY system. NY tax payers are subsidizing the education of very wealthy international students. It is something NY tax payers should be aware of. The tuition for International students should be raised appreciably. There is no justification for NY tax payers to subsidize the tuition of international students.