re: First vehicle that your parents bought or gave you

97 grand am. Bought at auction for 4500 bucks. Had 86k miles on it. I put 70k of the hardest miles of all time on it in two years. Every single shift of that 70k miles was a floor shift at 6300 rpm.

I used to drive the poor thing around in 3rd gear tached out because third gear didnt have a cut out, fourth gear did.

We bombed down pipelines constantly, sunk it twice, and melted the coupler from manifold to downpipe. Literally melted the plastic heater core.

It was a streetracing machine. That 2.4L was a hoss.

Traded it in two years later at price LeBlanc for 2000 bucks.

I'll see if I can find the pictures somewhere of it 4ft pff the ground and floating like a butterfly.