In my lifetime I have owned quite a few cars: mostly older models and a couple of really nice vehicles.
When it came time to share the driving experience with the two daughters we had it was decided, as did everything else, to be on an equal basis.
The first vehicle that was handed down was a 1972 Mercury Comet to our oldest daughter, Lisa. She drove that poor thing until it died. It was time to find a vehicle for our youngest daughter, Michelle. We talked to friends and they said they had a 1972 Datsun 240Z. Now, I know nothing about cars, and what I heard was the year 1972. This was the same year as the vehicle above, the Comet for Lisa. We purchased this car almost sight unseen. At the time we purchased the Datsun, it was silver. I felt okay. It looked a little sporty, but again it was a 1972. (things need to be equal between the girls.)
It was during the holidays that my oldest daughter and her husband came home. I was cleaning when my son-in-law came flying down the stairs and said, “Whose 240Z is that parked in the garage? When I told him we bought it for Michelle, he went flying upstairs saying, “The youngest always get the best”.
When we purchased this car I called Lisa and asked her if she knew what a Nissan vehicle looked like. She said they are kind of a boxy kind of car. O.K. this sounded like it was an o.k. purchase. Never did I feel it was a cool car.
Talk about thinking about safety. I can’t believe we purchased this vehicle for our daughter when safety was utmost in our minds. This car was not meant for the winter months. To drive it you had to give it all the gas and roar down the street. My poor youngest had some very interesting happenings with this car. One thing is she could never start it in cold weather. She worked at Burger King on campus at 6:00 a.m. and would have the garbage men push her out of the alleyway so she could pop the clutch and get the car started in order to get to work and school.
After a while of ownership, Michelle wanted to change the color from silver to a deep green. We were told this would be too much work as every nook and cranny would have to be painted. Michelle was gone for a weekend and while Art was driving it, he ran into a pole at the baseball diamond. When Michelle got home, Art looked at her and said “What color did you want your car painted?”
We want to sell this car as it is only a warm-weather vehicle, and no one in our family has the time or expertise to fix it up. It doesn’t have power steering, no power brakes, no power windows, no air conditioning, and has bucket seats. The car books say that if the original dash is in it that is worth $1000.00 alone. Raccoons visited this poor vehicle and now the seats have no upholstery and it has some rust on the floor. Still, we, or some of us, love owning the Datsun, and we are not willing to just give it away.
There is just too much history and good stories about this car and it is ours until it is not.
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