Flashback: 1988, my first year driving

[RummyTheDummy]

Junior year of high school. I remember the first time I filled up my new first car...75 freakin cents a gallon. I could drive around for a week on 5 bucks. The good old days.

[RockaFowler]

1. OMIGOD

That was the same year I started driving - we are the same age it looks like (88 was my Junior year, too). I remember when we could fill up for $10 and I had a Mustang for God's sake. Oh to remember the good ole days

[RummyTheDummy]

2. I had a Bronco II

I loved it, but she later turned out to be a real dog. Still, making minumum wage, still in HS, $98 a month car payment, I had more money than I knew what to do with. Of course the downside was my state (Oklahoma) was creamed by the oil bust and a lot of people were out of work. I saw a freeper the other day saying we need to drill more in Oklahoma and Texas. I don't know about Texas, but this state is no longer producing oil on any substantial scale. Hasn't for several decades now.

[GreyPilgrim]

3. Another Junior in '88

I had a '76 Ventura. Ahh..that thing could suck down gas. Nothing like delivering pizza in that car with an AM radio and no AC in the Arizona desert.

[RummyTheDummy]

4. Wow ...two class of 89ers.

That must have been miserable but I guess the pizza stayed nice and toasty.

[Cicero]

5. I paid $1 for my first car.

A 1972 Ford Gran Torino. 351 V8 Cleveland engine. A kind of bilious green color. My grandpa sold it to me on my 15th birthday for $1.

God I loved that car.

Good thing I still have it. :evilgrin:

Later,