New car

Mark’s first car that he buys is a piece of junk. He has made some money working at the restaurant and decided it was time that he bought a car. He said that he didn’t want anything nice, just something better than the VW bus. Looking through ads in the paper he found a 1969 Triumph Spitfire. Mark knew nothing about cars and the seller was asking for two hundred. Without hesitation Mark went to the seller’s apartment, signed some paper work, and got the car. The issue was that the car didn’t really work. The whole engine needed to be replaced and Mark knew nothing about how to fix a car. His friend Lenny who knew everything about cars came over to his house and they took the engine out of the car. They brought the engine into the basement because it was in the middle of the winter. Mark realized that he has only basic tools and wasn’t quite sure if those tools he had would even work for taking apart the engine.

When I was 16, almost 17, I got my driver’s license. It was a great feeling but I didn’t have a car to drive. Just like Mark I was considering buying a junk car that I could get for really cheap. Instead I made a deal with my mom. My mom owned a 2004 Audi A4 1.8L turbo and it had been sitting in our garage for months. She didn’t use it anymore because she rode her bike to work every day and she said that I could make an agreement with her so I could start using it. I signed a contract that she wrote which stated, if I mess the car up in anyway shape or form, I’m toast. If I was out past 12 with the car, I was toast. If I smoked in the car, I was toast. You get the point, but I signed the contact and gave her the $400 that I got from Christmas and I took it out for a spin. Driving in my own car for the first time felt great, until I noticed that the cars sway bars didn’t work, at all. The car was stupidly fast because it had a turbo. It was like a little rocket machine. After only three days of driving, I could drive it anymore. The axels were having problems, the sway bars were broken, the tires needed to be replaced, and the oil filter was shot. None of these problems were caused by me, it was just because it had been dry docked for so long and Audi’s require a lot of maintenance. Gas was also extremely expensive so I stopped driving it, got the $400 back from my mom and we both thought it would be a good idea to sell the car. We did sell it, and we got $8000 for it. I know how in Mark’s situation he can’t really use his car but I can relate to sharing the first car feeling with him.