Today, I am going to write about my first car. This post is inspired by Eric Vance Walton @ericvancewalton and his Memoir Monday initiative.
I think it is a great idea to write a series of blog posts that bring back memories that would otherwise fade into the non-existentance with time.
My first post is answering the following question:
"What was your first car?"
My first car that I actually bought with my own money was Mercury Topaz in gold pictured above.
It was 1997, and I was a senior at the University of Kansas School of Business.
At the time, I was a student at the University of Kansas, and I sold an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme in maroon color to a dealer, added some cash, and bought the Topaz.
We got the Oldsmobile from my first wife's parents and drove it from California to Lawrence Kansas.
After a little while, we wanted something more modern, and that is why we traded it for a Topaz. At the time, online reviews were not yet the thing, so we had no idea how unreliable that car was. It was basically a Ford Tempo in a Mercury styling.
It was also a not very lucky car. About a week after I bought it, it got pummeled with a huge hail storm while it stood in an open-air parking lot of married student housing.
And that was not all. About a month later, I parked it on campus on the street by the Computer Center, where I worked an overnight shift and when I came out after work in the morning I discovered that someone ran into it and took out the rear bumper.
I reported it to campus police and even had a piece of the car that ran into me, but campus police never found the perpetrator naturally 😀
Before my graduation in 1999 from the University of Kansas, I sold the Topaz and my friend Sergei, who was a car dealer, helped me buy a two door white Ford Explorer Sport.
Ford Explorer served me really well until I traded it in under "Cash for Clunkers" federal program for Toyota Prius.
I still remember that old Topaz from my early 20s as it was the first car I ever bought and it was special for me.
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Nice car my friend, and awesome @actifit steps!
My first car……. A 1969 Super Sport Chevrolet Camaro!😇
Camaro is a really nice first car!
Very nice but way too fast Lol!🙄
It was a good car !😊
Looks quite iconic how the Topaz looks, I mean, for a 1997 car. How long did you use it?
Didn't use it for very long, about two years before I sold it to buy the Explorer.