"So what you are saying is that you want help picking out your first car. Well I would advise that for you first you make it no older then 20 years and less then 100,000 miles. That will be about the best used car you will ever get for you first one."

"It also wont matter if you ding it up or not because it just has to get you from place to place without breaking down. It will teach you all the little tricks that new drivers have to learn the hard way without costing you 50,000 dollars in the process. If you pick well it will last you until you are ready to get something better on your own."

"Learn how to maintain it and get into the habits of checking you oil periodically if you can. The skill will last you a life time. Now me I drive a Caddi now days but my first car was a Cadillac series 62, I guess you can say that it left an impression on me."

She was old when I found her. Sitting in a junkyard rusting away. I knew right off the bat that she was the car for me. I pulled her home with some of my friends and fixed her up as best as I could. Got the engine reving up nice and smooth. Then came the body work. A new coat of paint and some new seats to go along with a nice shifter. She rolled smooth down the road.

Of course my fool self liked to take the old girl out to the race track and have fun. I wont lie to you and say that I won every race. Far from it in point of fact. What I did was learn the car and how she drove. I learned how to make her dance and sing. I learned how the open road felt children, and I loved every bit of it. I still look back with fond memories of going down the open road with the top down. Cruzing down the town streats with an ice cold coke in one hand. Nothing beat that in the slow times of my youth. Nothing but the feel of the wind in my hair when I parked on a nice tall shady spot during the summer months.

My first road trip happened in that car. The first time that some friends and I decided to go out for a while. The drive was beautiful and the destinations were worth the trip. Of course gas was .31 cents a gallon in that time.