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Dalis

Dalis

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At what age did your parents gave you a car? (If ever)
 
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I'll start. Mine never have me a car, they gave the extra car to my boyfriend when his broke down. So on his graduation day I stole the keys and didn't return the keys until my graduation on year later. (Btw. We are talking college years)
 
Never. My husband and me bought our first car when I was 35, he 40... we just never were in need of an own car before that.
 
I got my mom's Mazda Protege when I was in college - I think it was my sophomore year. I was on the college newspaper so I was able to have it on campus. I had to share it with my brother, who was at the same school, but it was still a pretty good deal for us.
 
My dad always said he would get me a car when I passed my driving test. I failed 4 times!!!! Then gave up LOL

I really should try again now I'm older!
 
I got a car when I was 14, as soon as I was old enough to drive my sister and I to school (we lived 17 miles from town and my mom worked 45 miles in the other direction). I wouldn't say they "gave" it to me, but I did drive it until I went to college, at which point they got me a different car and my sister started driving that one.
 
I was given my Grandma's car when I was 16, she had got a new one and I was responsible enough to take on driving. It was a Chevy Nova 1986! It was around the time Disney had that tv movie Zenon Girl of the 21st Century.. I had a ridiculous set of "passenger rules" due to my friends being really horrible in my car. I taped them to the dash.. what I can remember was... No eating in the car. You must lift your legs off the floor boards during tunnels, no chewing gum. Gas money had to be deposited to the ash tray and seatbelts clicked on before the car would move. The first thing I did every time we got into the car was play this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTIcIzKjGjg We also named every parking spot in the parking lot of our high school. Poor Frank the unpainted parking spot. He always had that trunk that leaked oil parking in him. Looking back.. we were all a bit too immature to have free reign of a car!
 
I've never had a car and neither has my husband. My parents offered to buy me a car if I went to college near them, and I laughed at them. I spent my entire life complaining about where we lived *and* I never had any interest in driving, at all. So it was just a silly offer. I moved across the country and got no car.
 
never... I was 18 almost 19 (1980) and shared the car my Mother was driving [a 1962 Starfire Oldsmobile] so I could go to work. I then got it handed over to me when my parents got another car. I drove the car for 3 years when it had reached it's lifespan and then I bought my 1983 Nissan Sentra - a standard shift with no A/C... I couldn't even drive it out of the showroom. My brother had to drive it home and then he took me to the church parking lot to teach me how to drive it. I practiced for 3 days before I would take it out onto the highway. That Monday when I went to work, Dad followed me to the parkway exit on ramp so that I could get things in gear and get going without worrying about someone hitting me as I was scared that I would slip gears!!! stupid to not get A/C as I thought I could not afford the extra 300 dollars... I guess I didn't think of the math... 300 over 4 years.. ummm duh... LOL instead for 13 years I sweated my bum off living in NY, FL, TX and GA with it!!!
 
First car. 2012 Electric Blue Ford Escape. I was 23.

My 18 year old sister has her own car.

How is that fair?
 
krscraps said:
First car. 2012 Electric Blue Ford Escape. I was 23.

My 18 year old sister has her own car.

How is that fair?
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Kim, I agree...


All, I love reading your stories and how things have changed.
 
My parents gave me my brother's car when he could no longer make the payments on it and handed it over to them (he's 8 years older than me), although it did come with some restrictions. If I wanted to drive it to school, I had to get up early in the morning and take my dad to work and then pick him up after school. It became mine completely when I graduated high school. I loved that car… it was a white 1989 Ford Escort GT. I drove it until I graduated college and landed my first job.
 
I got the family pass-me-down car, a blue 1978 Toyota Corolla lift back that kinda looked like this:

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My oldest sister had it first when my mother was done with it & broke the passenger side door hinge when a strong wind blew on it. I got it later when I went to college and lived in Jamaica Plain in 1986, I think. About a year later, it was stolen (I'd heard) by some idiot who thought it was a drug dealer's car, which looked just like it.
 
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Looks like I'm in the minority here. I was given a brand new Ford Mustang for my 16th birthday (not the high powered fast model though... the one that just looked like it). Two major factors here though... one, I'm an only child and two, I was in a very bad car accident two years before (riding with a teen driver). My parents were completely freaked out by this as I was injured very badly and wanted to make sure I had a new, safe car with all of the latest safety features. I also was completely freaked out by the accident and refused to learn how to drive. I had the car for quite a while (a year?) before I ever managed to work up the nerve to take my drivers test. I still, to this day, hate to drive... which is one reason why I love living in the city and not having to drive. I drive a handful of times a year when we're outside of the city, but other than that, I walk, bus, train or cab it if my husband isn't home to drive :-)
 
I was 17 when I got my license, at first I was driving my parents blue station wagon with fake wood grain trim. My parents took pity on me and gave me my mom's 68 Mustang since it was to hard for her to drive. (No power steering). Fun part was the car had bucket seats so I needed to sit on a big fat pillow to see over the dash board.
 
javamonster said:
I got the family pass-me-down car, a blue 1978 Toyota Corolla lift back
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Yay for 1970's Toyota Corollas! It was not "mine" but I got the use of a 1977 Toyota Corolla in high school. Drove it from 1984-1986. I did a layout about it here (way back when Michelle Godin was Pixelworks :)).



I didn't need a car in college, so the first car I actually owned was a 1990 Ford Probe that I purchased when I got my "real" job after college. :)
 
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