At least two of our faithful readers knew us in high school and will therefore no doubt remember the above car, or at least one that looked just like it. One of them in fact should have quite vivid memories of at least the miniature backseat design of this little Japanese beauty (damn we were limber back then). The above car is of course the vaunted 1989 Toyota Celica, and it is the same make, model and color as our very first car. We had just wrecked our dad's 1984 Renault Alliance, better known as Napoleon, after a motorcycle decided to play with fire and get in our way, and what do our parents do to reward our safe driving? They buy us the only car on the road smaller than Napoleon. We think it was $2,000.
It looked just like the one above only it was waaaaay cooler. Ours was much sportier. It had a rusty sunroof, some subtle racing strips over the rear wheels, and of course a foam spoiler we had attached after painting it with $2 black spray paint. It kicked serious ass!!!
Well today, when driving at lunch we saw the old bastard driving on a local highway. 19 years after rolling off some assembly line near Osaka, the Blue Bolt was still ripping up the streets of Central Texas. Spoiler still intact.
It was kind of like seeing that hot student teacher from third grade at the supermarket 15 years later. You remember the teacher, the one who caught you looking down her shirt in the produce section last year and then got all hot and bothered when you told her it hadn't been the first time you'd sneaked a peak. It was great to see it/her and you remember all the good times, but with all the body damage, discoloration, and a trunk that was much much bigger than you remember, you just couldn't help but feel a little sad.
2 comments:
uhhh... it looked just as shitty back then as it does now, i assure you.
Dude, not cool...
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