The spring of my Junior year in high school, my grandparents graced me with my first car.
It was my choice out of two cars. I test drove both and ultimately picked my car because of it's "sporty" appeal and the fact that it had a factory CD player. Back in 2000, that was pretty unheard of to get a CD player to come standard in your car.
This is the beaute I chose and drove for 4 years...
I'll be honest...I thought I was the SH*T in this car.
I cruise that thing around town in hopes of someone seeing me and thinking "Damn! Is that Beth? In a new ride?" Up until that point, I would have to borrow my mom's car if I wanted to go anywhere or I would hitch rides with Sandi or other friends.
I can remember pumping the beats of B. Spears' first album.
A few months later I decided I wanted to "pimp" my ride a bit. After having my first ever job at Winn-Dixie grocery store (I worked a register...that's another story for another time). I forked over about $50 to have my windows tinted.
BAD. ASS. I tell you.
I then decided to get a vinyl sticker of my name to place on the drivers side window. Yes...I did that.
It was placed "strategically" at the top of the window, so when I was to pull over and chat with friends in a deserted parking lot aka loiter for hours I could roll down my window but leave just enough to show my name. Really, Beth? Was this necessary?
Trust me...all my friends did it. So when you're in high school you do what all your friends do.
To complete the pimping process, I purchased a mirror license plate to grace the front of my car.
Yes, that's what it said...I was so original. This was a year or so before I came up with my "Sweet Bef" nickname.
I miss that car sometimes. And if that car could talk...it would too much sh*t on me I would probably have to take it to junk yard and have it murdered.
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My first car was a 97 Sunfire as well. 4 door. No CD player. Got it for my 15th birthday back in 2000
ohhh window stickers. I had a really great one that my parents HATED and eventually made me take off...it was in this like "typical college font" (I don't really know how else to describe it, but it looked like the font a lot of universities used to use on their letterhead and whatever) and it said "Your College Sucks". I was in high school, so you know, go me. ::rolls eyes::
My first car was a Dodge Neon. BLEHHHGG
Hahah love all of the pimped out details. :) My first car still embarasses me even though it's long gone. I'm not even going to tell you what it was.
My first car was a 94 celica which my father and I added pink underglow and pink interior to... it was such a hot mess and I loved it! OH the joy's of a first car! I'd give anything to have it back though haha
This is completely hilar. I think it's so funny that in high school everyone wanted a sporty car and now I have no interest. My first car was my mom's old Mazda 626 that my friends called the Mazda on dubs. Awesome.
HAHA! I love it! My first car was a 1999 Isuzu Rodeo & I thought I was hot stuff! Oh the days of being young! LOL!
hahhaha i love this. i also had my name on my first car..twice on the back spoiler like i was for real the shit or something. but i was also super lame and had my name in chinese/japanese (not sure what) on the hood..yeah i thought i was tokyo drift in my blue celica.
OMG we may be soulmates...er...carmates! My first car was a two door, green Sunfire with a spoiler. It was the only car I wanted and I got it my junior year in high school too! I drove it until the transmission went bad my second year of grad school almost 8 years later.
I always thought it had awesome bass for the factory speakers, so I used to turn the bass setting way up and jam on my way to school. Lol!
It had roll up windows (not automatic) and a roll back sunroof.
I love, loved that car! :)
Oh man... wayyyyy better than what I had in 2001 which was a 1994 Ford Tempo. It was horrible!!
This is too cute. Hahaha, oh cars. The secrets you hold... it's kind of frightening/embarrassing huh?
This is so funny! It reminds me when I was 16 and my Dad got my my first car, I BEGGED for a spoiler on the back. I was soo mad that he wouldn't let me get it!
oh man this was a classic post. my first car was a red pontiac trans am. i also thought I was the shit in my car, especially with my t-tops down. boy was i cool? (insert sarcasm)
Ooooh. my. gah. The "spitfire". How I remember that car and then my teal "spitfire"I had. Remember that one time we like legit had a wreck by ourselves and spun around in the road on way to brandon scotts house or something...we both looked at each other in dead silence and then just kinda took a deep breath, shrugged shoulders, like "ok, carrying on...." and off we went! BAHAHA We were rebels without a cause. Nothing was stop us from getting to BJs bar. Nothing.
Okay, love this. My first car was a Volvo 240DL, the big boxy thing. I think it was like a 1988. When my sister got her license two years later, she got the Volvo and I got a PONTIAC SUNFIRE. Which I am pretty sure was a 1997, also. It looked just like yours but it was eggplant purple. I had beads (not from Mardi Gras, from the strip at Myrtle Beach) hanging from my rearview mirror, and later that changed to my graduation tassel. Awesome. It lasted me all through college and then everything started breaking on it.
LOL IRL. This is effing hilarious.
"I then decided to get a vinyl sticker of my name to place on the drivers side window. Yes...I did that."
I can't ... I can't ... I can't. NO YOU DID NOT!!!!!!!!!!! This must be some small town SC shit because we most certainly did not put our names on our cars. hahahahaha
My first car was a 4 door RED civic stick shift. 1993 or 1994 I think? The year was 2000 when I turned 16. Possibly 2001, my memory fails me and I'm not about to do the math.
Anywho - i was not happy about my car but it was not a bad first car. At least I can drive a stick shift now.
This made me laugh so hard!! I can just picture it all.
My first car was a 1991, Oldsmobile Delta 88... that my parents bought when I was in like Kindergarten... Two toned.. white with grey at the bottom and navy blue velvet seats. So embarrassing. But a doctors kid had the same car, so I couldn't complain too much ha! O man... She was known as "the grocery getter" and definitely had one of those huge phones installed in the floor board from when my mother had her... O man..
This post just made my day. Hilarious. We did the same thing, thought it was so cool to sit in the Wendy's parking lot night after night... ohh life in a small town!
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