1985 Chrysler New Yorker
Lifespan: ~5/1995 - ~1/1996
It wasn't much too look at, but it didn't look all that bad. It was a nice
first car. Most of all, it got me addicted to luxury seats and loud stereo
systems. I put a few stickers on the bumper ("My kid beat up your honor
student" my football coach loved that!), as well as a few
chrome showgirls on the trunk lid. This car had a V6, and it didn't go very
fast, nor did it spare any gas mileage. In fact, I remember one time I was
climbing over an overpass, I slammed on the gas, and the transmission slipped
into neutral!!! That was fun. This car went through so many different
stereo systems, I could not even begin to name the different items. Needless to say,
I knew the car inside out. In any case, this car came to it's demise a few
days before New Years Eve '95 (It's lifespan reads '96 'cause that's when the
insurance people came and took it away :) ). Well, I was sitting on Front
St. waiting behind two cars, the first of which was waiting to make a left
hand turn. I was there for roughly 10-15 seconds, when WHAM. The
next thing I know is my seat lock had broke, and I had a monster lean...
like, in the backseat. My CD player had flew out of the console and into
the backseat. Well, apparently a young woman had not been paying attention
to the road, and decided to make a dent in my car. Well, she did that
alright! The car was totaled (I was lucky she didn't hit me any harder, for
the gas tank was close to rupturing!). And for the first (and only) time,
I got a good insurance settlement, with them giving me the blue book value
for it.