The fact that my first car was a Pinto will tell you all you need to know about my own auto-owning experience. The photo on the right shows I did not inherit my Dad's auto buying expertice..that's his first car in 1945 on the right.
I don't know what ever happened to Dad's car (a Ford? Anyone recognize the model?), but my 1972 Pinto finally bit the dust in the first months I lived in Alabama when someone ran throught a light downtown and into it. No injures, but I was able to replace it with a VW 411...an unusually large-interior four-door vehicle that had continuous electronic ignition problems. I still liked it. Not in any particular order, there was also a Cougar, a Mustang, a Rodeo an EXP, a....a.....there I was a few moment ago, stuck on the name of a sports car I owned in the 1980s' I could picture it, but not the model. So I did what we all, do I googled and after a while came up with a picture. A picture from this very timlennox.com blog when I posted about the Fiero the day GM deep-sixed Pontiac. Talk about the snake swallowing its tail!
I have to wonder if The Great Recession and The Internet has killed off America's love affair with the automobile. A Washington Post story yesterday reported a significant drop in the number of teenagers going for their license as soon as they turned 16. It's not as important to them as it was to previous generations. Will the same be true of car ownership? Especially with the net and mass transit in the larger cities?
I didn't get my license until I was 26. My bride drove us on our honeymoon!
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ReplyDeleteThe Pontiac Fiero was - IMO - a great little sports car. However, having never owned one, I write from a distant perspective. There is, however, a Fiero-only junkyard here in MadCo!