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Originally Posted by WNDSRFR

Wow, your Dad was very generous. My first car was a hand-me-down from my brother, which was a hand-me-down from my Father. It was a 1965 Toyota Corona. It had to be one of the very first Toyotas in America. It was considered to be a Japanese piece of crap at the time. Everywhere we went in it people would point and stare.(Kinda like when I first got the FR-S).
I used to beat the holy crap out of that car. It had an automatic transmission
(the only auto I have ever owned) so to do a burnout you had to put it in neutral, floor the gas and jam it into low. Or you could drive in reverse and slam it into low and floor it. I used to take that car over jumps, slide it around on the mud flats and drive it on the beach including in the water.
I was a surf bum at the time so I didn't have money for things like oil. So from time to time the engine would seize up from lack of oil. But I would let it cool off, fill it up with oil (used) and it would be good as new. The last time it seized was at the busiest intersection in town. It never recovered.

It may have been a piece of crap but boy that was a great car.

Everybody's first car was a great car no matter how bad it really was!