When your car was new...

[knightfan2691]

Simple question:
What were you doing when your car was new?


My current family...

1972:
I was a year away from making my earthly debut.

1976:
I was 3 years old. I welcomed my parents' first Monte Carlo to the family, a 1976 model that I "claimed" as "mine" in later years. I was also a year away from my first open heart surgery.

1979:
I welcomed my baby sister to the world.

1981:
I finished first grade in the spring; started second grade in the fall.

1987:
I was in middle school ... and had to say goodbye to my best friend who died of an asthma attack.


Former members...

1988:
I finished middle school and entered the world of High School. I first started thinking about having one of every single YEAR of the Monte Carlo. I later re-thought that ... with the goal of one of each generation, which I completed March 2002.

1997:
I started my first full-time job, after graduating from college a year earlier. I also put my '79 MC Landau (first car) away for the winter and bought a new "daily driver".

2000:
I was one Monte Carlo away from completing the family, having bought the '81 MC SC from my parents December 1999 and the '76 MC Landau a year before that; I've never bought a Monte Carlo brand new. I was still working at the same company, but had switched jobs in late 1999, about the same time I bought the 2000 vehicle. Health wise, I was (unbeknownst to me at the time) 3 years away from my 3rd open heart surgery.



Cort | 36.m.IL | 5 Monte Carlos.1 Caprice Classic | pig valve.pacemaker * 07/24/2010=ChitownMeet #3 *
MCs.CC | models.HO.legos.CHD.RadioShows | RoadTrips.us66 = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort
"The thing I find most amazing in amazing grace is the chance to give it out" ... Brandon Heath ... 'I'm Not Who I Was'

[MCbarto]

I was going through a divorce when I got my 02. I gave my 98 to my ex, which she destroyed against a fence

[XeoniteDog]

I was working 6 days a week over a 2 month stretch because of an injured employee, and at the end of the stretch with all the OT, I came home with my Monte Carlo. That was a nice reward to finish such a long work stretch.

[knightfan2691]

I gave my 98 to my ex, which she destroyed against a fence

Ouch.... A friend of mine had a '79 MC that he fixed up for his ex ... because she needed a car. Within 2 months of her owning it, it was in the junkyard...that's how badly she had treated it :(.



Cort | 36.m.IL | 5 Monte Carlos.1 Caprice Classic | pig valve.pacemaker * NoreastrTrekRT=Aug2010 *
MCs.CC | models.HO.legos.CHD.RadioShows | RoadTrips.us66 = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort
"There's things goin' on make me mad down to the core" ... Charlie Daniels ... 'Simple Man'