Fun fact, Babe and I went to driving school together! He passed the test with flying colors his first time. I.… well I needed a couple more tries at the parallel park part. Which I still claim is not my fault. The instructor I had tried to teach me the “duct-tape on the steering wheel” method. It didn’t work.
We are not car snobs. This is completely evidenced by the history of cars we have driven. If it started, warmed up most of the time, and got us to next party, class, job, etc we happily accepted it. Stasha’s topic this week was 10 things about your car. Here is a list of the 10 cars that Babe and I have traveled through time with.
1. My first car was a light blue with matching fabric interior, Plymouth K Car Reliant. She was a good little car that happily drove me to and from school, work, and dance rehearsals.
2. Babe’s first ‘car’ was not in fact a car. it was a 1988 Ford Econoline… or what we prefer to call it; the party wagon. I’ll let you imagine the rest from there.
3. Also during high school Babe drove another party wagon, just a much smaller version of it… the Geo Tracker.
4. Also during high school and through college Babe drove his favorite car the Volvo. This lovely had over 250,000 miles on it before it got a new home. Rumor has it she’s still running strong in Florida as a to and from the golf course car.
5. A portion of my college years were spent driving the boat. Once my Grandfather passed away I was deemed worthy to take over his vehicle. I could move myself and a roommate out of our Sorority house in this bad boy.
6. The Ford Escort got me through the rest of college, back and forth to Cleveland multiple times and finally to our first condo together. It was a stick shift and I loved driving it.
7. For a part of our lives in Cleveland Babe got to drive his Mom’s old car… a red Sunbird Convertible. He got lots of interesting looks driving down Lake Shore Drive with the top down and his tie blowing in the wind.
8.The first car I bought with my own money was a Saturn Ion. It had a sunroof and 6 miles on it when I picked it up. Saturn was the most customer-service friendly dealer and service shop I’ve ever dealt with. My brother-in-law has her now. That was a really good car.
9. Babe always said when he finished law school he was going to buy his own car. A big car with leather seats and a CD player that worked. He graduated in April and he bought the GMC Enovy that same month. She’s still with us. The boys always pick driving with Daddy’s car when they can, they think it’s so much cooler than mine. They’re right.
10. With the addition of car seats I knew I’d take the plunge eventually. And honestly, I love it. The robot doors, the dash, the DVD player. I’m just fine driving my precious cargo around in it.
We plan on driving both of these cars until they simply can’t drive anymore. Biggest can’t wait to drive Daddy’s GMC, I told him that I would record that statement and remind him of it when the time came!
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20 Responses to driving miss crazy
Sisterhoood of the Sensible Moms
Replied on: August 22, 2012, 9:21 PM
I cannot believe you were allowed to go out with a boy that had a van like THAT.
GMC Envoys are way cool, but so are robot doors, especially in the rain. Ellen
Jamie
Replied on: August 23, 2012, 9:49 AM
That is such a good point, I can’t either actually!!
Robot doors beat the Envoy hands down in the rain… and when there are 4 small people trying to hold on in the parking lot!
Ducky
Replied on: August 22, 2012, 6:25 PM
You’ve been through a lot of cars! I have too though now that I look back at what all I’ve driven since i was 16. I have a lot of cars I can pack into…er…uh…5 years
And I don’t think my parents would have ever let me out of the house if my boyfriend had a Van! That’s awesome!
Jamie
Replied on: August 23, 2012, 9:47 AM
So funny about the van… I’ve heard that a lot and never thought about it then. But NOW? With two baby girls I will so think about it in the future!
Audrey
Replied on: August 21, 2012, 6:31 PM
I love your post! It was so fun seeing all your cars
I bet that van was a party wagon!
Jamie
Replied on: August 21, 2012, 8:30 PM
Oh yes it was. Yes it was!
Robbie
Replied on: August 21, 2012, 1:36 AM
Isn’t amazing the memories a car holds for us?
Jamie
Replied on: August 21, 2012, 8:26 PM
Oh yes, I agree!
Stasha
Replied on: August 20, 2012, 11:49 PM
This is so neat. Now can you imagine or son’s spending their summer job money on #2 and pulling into the driveway? our parents are rather cool people aren’t they
Jamie
Replied on: August 21, 2012, 8:25 PM
I’m not ready to tell them they’re cool yet!! But, yes, they are!
Jill
Replied on: August 20, 2012, 10:09 PM
I love Volvos! The party van looks cool
Jamie
Replied on: August 21, 2012, 8:22 PM
They are the safest cars!
The Volvos. Not the vans.
There was actually nothing safe at all about the van
Kim @The G is Silent
Replied on: August 20, 2012, 5:54 PM
If the van is a rockin’, don’t come a knockin’.
Jamie
Replied on: August 21, 2012, 8:22 PM
you know it!
Jamie@SouthMainMuse
Replied on: August 20, 2012, 3:18 PM
Loved the trip down car memory lane. I like you drove many a boat. Chevy Impala, Caprice…my parent’s station wagons.
Jamie
Replied on: August 21, 2012, 8:19 PM
It’s part of growing up… driving a boat and working in some service related job!!
Mark
Replied on: August 20, 2012, 2:57 PM
I like that car history!
Seriously, I wish I would have take photos of the cars I owned to make a list like that. Oh well!
You like the black cars, huh? They ARE nice!
m.
Jamie
Replied on: August 21, 2012, 8:19 PM
Ya know, I noticed the same thing and almost commented on it myself!
RoryBore
Replied on: August 20, 2012, 2:49 PM
the old Reliant reminds me a bit of the blue Ford Taurus I inherited from my mom. that thing was a beast. it was constantly requiring work, but it could handle the worst Canadian winter weather and I could easily fit all my camping gear for week long summer holiday.
my mom says I should be proud of my minivan, but I think it’s significant that she gave me the Ford Taurus.…..and Not the Z28 Camero, candy apple red thank you very much. don’t tell me you don’t understand about giving up your “cool factor”! ha
Jamie
Replied on: August 21, 2012, 8:14 PM
Is it some passing of the torch that ALL old cars were blue? Ha!!