First Car!

Remembering my first car, oh my, this takes me back! I bought my first car from a body shop in Indiana Pennsylvania. It was a 1991 blue, Chevy Cavalier. I only paid $200 dollars for it. That right there will tell anyone the quality and condition the vehicle was in!

Growing up in my family we were taught if we wanted something we hard to work for it and earn it. Therefor, when it came time to drive and get a vehicle I had to get a job and pay for it on my own. I decided to work on the weekends and save until I found a car. I found an ad in the paper for a 1991 Chevy Cavalier, runs, needs minor body work. $200 OBO. Being ignorant about cars, I'm thinking to myself, hey a car is a car, as long as it gets me to where I'm going then who cares what it looks like. Wow, that was the wrong way to think about a vehicle!

I went to pick it up with my boyfriend at the time. Two hundred dollars in hand, ready to drive it home! Took one look at it, and almost turned around and went home!

This car had rust almost everywhere, needed a new hood, muffler, tires, you name it. I was desperate to have my own car and drive myself around so I bought it! A mistake that was!

This car had a remote starter. It messed up my ignition system and every time i started the car with it, it would stall out. Not to mention if the weather was even the slightest bit cold, the doors would stick! If anyone knows this model, they know how heavy those doors where to begin with!

For a while, the doors sticking and the car shutting off randomly were the only two problems I had.

Then the antifreeze began to leak and that was the end of that car!

As much as I loved it, and loved driving my own vehicle, I couldn't afford to pay for all the maintenance it was causing me! I suffered without a car for 3 months until I could afford a newer one!

I learned my lesson and looked my second purchased t car over with a mechanic friend before buying it!

I can tell you, I don't miss that car at all!