My mommy is taking over today but not until I say Happy 16th Birthday to Madi! Now that she is old enough to drive, here are some of the cars that were my mommy’s favorites. Take it away, mommy!
Juliea here: when I was 15 I took Drivers Education at our High School. They made us watch scary movies about accidents and drive simulated cars (kind of like you find at video game playing places) and they had us learn how to drive stick shifts as well as automatics. This was in 1975. There weren’t a lot of automatics around then. There was a very steep hill we had to master right outside the school grounds. It took awhile, but when I mastered it, it was the best feeling in the world! I could balance my feet between the clutch and the gas pedal like a pro. It was exhilarating!
When I turned 16, I wanted my own car and I accidentally found the perfect way to get one. I took a part time job at the local pizza parlor and my hours were 6pm to 2am on Friday and Saturday nights. My parents didn’t want to let me use their car for all that time and they didn’t want to get up in the middle of the night to come get me so I got this:

A 1969 Toyota Corona. Kind of a funny looking little box of a car. I didn’t have it long when somebody ran into me and totaled it. Funny thing is they brought me home the same car but one year newer. Both were yellow with black tops. But the newer one had a lift kit and Crager wheels!
Much sportier and my boyfriend jacked up the back end so it was like a mini-muscle car with much cooler wheels than this one. But my all time deal changer car was a 1973 Triumph Spitfire kind of like this:
But it was very expensive to find parts for. So I bought something more practical, haha
What a dinky picture for such a great car! And there were a few others but those were my favorites and most memorable. And it was a great car. A 1986 Pontiac Fiero. Fun, fun, fun to drive and the little boys in the neighborhood thought it was a Ferrari! It had a moon roof that came out and drove great in the snow and ice since the engine was in the back and the radiator up front. It was very well balanced. I wish I could find another car like it! I also loved that it was a two seater because I didn’t have to drive other people around.
I now drive a Toyota Yaris which gets great mileage but is a boring automatic and just boring all the way! It might be time for me to buy another sportier car!
Miss Juliea