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My first car- A 1986 Ford Crown Victoria LTD
This was my first car given to me by my father. A luxuriously roomy and "road worthy" car. I gave rides to tons of friends throughout my last few years of high school, mostly though to my foreign exchange friends from Zambia. Many times I would get lost in this car. This of course was the days before in car GPS. One time I forgot the way home and the only way I knew to get home is to go the length of the Las Vegas strip. You can imagine the excitement of my foreign friends as I crawled along the Las Vegas strip to get us all home on a busy Friday or Saturday night.
This wasn't always a great car. Purchased for $1700 by my father, we put at least the same amount in it to make it a real nice ride. Originally, the car was a faded royal blue, which we eventually painted white. Before it was my car, my mom would drive it to take trips from Lake Havasu City, AZ to Kingman, AZ and sometimes Las Vegas, NV for doing clinical work during her nursing school. All her nursing friends would love to go on trips for the roominess of the Crown Vic, which we called "the box." They liked it so much that they never wanted to go on a trip without it.
This was the car I learned how to drive in. I'll never forget how nervous I was driving it on Highway 95 which was the main drag of Lake Havasu. But how lucky I was to have eight cylinders! I may never again drive a car with a V-8, but it sure was nice while it lasted. We ended up selling the car to an old man, similar to the old man we originally bought it from. The selling price? $1700 with a smog check.
My first car- A 1986 Ford Crown Victoria LTD
This was my first car given to me by my father. A luxuriously roomy and "road worthy" car. I gave rides to tons of friends throughout my last few years of high school, mostly though to my foreign exchange friends from Zambia. Many times I would get lost in this car. This of course was the days before in car GPS. One time I forgot the way home and the only way I knew to get home is to go the length of the Las Vegas strip. You can imagine the excitement of my foreign friends as I crawled along the Las Vegas strip to get us all home on a busy Friday or Saturday night.
This wasn't always a great car. Purchased for $1700 by my father, we put at least the same amount in it to make it a real nice ride. Originally, the car was a faded royal blue, which we eventually painted white. Before it was my car, my mom would drive it to take trips from Lake Havasu City, AZ to Kingman, AZ and sometimes Las Vegas, NV for doing clinical work during her nursing school. All her nursing friends would love to go on trips for the roominess of the Crown Vic, which we called "the box." They liked it so much that they never wanted to go on a trip without it.
This was the car I learned how to drive in. I'll never forget how nervous I was driving it on Highway 95 which was the main drag of Lake Havasu. But how lucky I was to have eight cylinders! I may never again drive a car with a V-8, but it sure was nice while it lasted. We ended up selling the car to an old man, similar to the old man we originally bought it from. The selling price? $1700 with a smog check.