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I hate to drive. Always have. (5.00 / 2) (#55)
by magisterludi on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 06:55:31 AM EST
I got my license at 25 under duress. We moved and I could no longer walk to work (public transportation is  a punch line in TN).

First car-'66 Dodge Dart station wagon with a slant-6 engine that actually got decent mileage.

I've always been an energy and resource miser. My grandparents were organic farmers and great examples of people who used everything and wasted little. One did not run water without a short reminder that water wasn't an inexhaustible resource and to be mindful of that fact. Same with gasoline- we were taught to combine all shopping excursions into "missions" and plot our course for the most efficient routes.

Sorry i got off topic- my mind just went there.

Always hated driving-- (5.00 / 2) (#78)
by Arcadianwind on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 08:25:06 AM EST
that goes for me too. My first car was a '66 Chrysler 300 convertible. That was in 1970. It was fun for awhile, but I soon realized I just wasn't into cars all that much. A couple years later I got one of those GTOs (like the one in the photo)in a trade for an old van. Had it less than a year and the Oil Embargo hit. I said "screw this", and took up bicycling. Parked the Goat in the driveway, then sold it two years later...

My favorite car though, was my '84 Mazda 626 hatchback. I bought it used in 1994 for $700, and drove it for 7 years. It got 35 mpg on the highway, and handled better than anything I've ever driven. It would do 500 miles on a tank of gas.

I still bicycle several times a week--cars suck...

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