RE: What was your first NEW car?
Patrick loves this.... my only brand new car was a 1980 Dodge Mirada. Silver, red velour interior, mighty slant six under the hood. Car was a jinx from the start. Had it for two months and had a minor mishap with a tree (left front fender); one month later, I got broadsided by a guy leaving a parking lot (left side of car); that winter, I slid off an icy road and took out a mailbox (with the left front corner of the nose); the following summer, had to have the left side repainted because the replaced sheet metal wasn't holding paint; The next winter, somebody backed into the driver's door in a parking lot; then, the final topper came on St. Patrick's day of 1982, when it burned up in a garage fire. Obviously, Patrick has had much better luck with his!