My First Car

Well like most everyone in the world, a person's first car usually very special to their owner. Well it was not any different in my case. My first car was a 1994 Jeep Wrangler. Ever since my dad bought it for himself i dreamt of driving it around. It was the Sahara edition with the bigger engine and some extra features. It was a 5-speed manual, 4.0L 6-cylinder in-line. This was very powerful engine for this car since it is extremely light. It had the soft-top which made it perfect for going to the beach but it was extremely hard to put back on.

A month before I got my license I would drive it around my neighborhood when my parents weren't home. So I made sure that I would pass my drivers' test and get my license. Honestly I was not sure that I would get that car once I got my license but my dad surprised me once I got home with my brand new license and he handed over the keys. That was one of the best feelings I ever felt. This car is not the most comfortable since it has leaf-spring suspension, but the good side of having this suspension is that it is extremely durable. Jeep changed that suspension in their 1996 Wrangler when it was redesigned to a coil-spring suspension which is some what more comfortable.

Since it had the soft-top it made it a little hard to unzip the plastic window when I came up to a tollbooth. Sometimes I would even be sweating in the car since the air-conditioning didn't work. But none of that mattered because it was my first car and no matter what I still love it more than any other car. I makes me really sad looking at other Jeep Wranglers around the streets ever since I sold mine last year. When my father and I were about to hand the car over to it's new owner, this guy was telling me what he was going to do with the car. He was saying that he was going to change all the bumpers to chrome and many other things. That felt like he was stabbing my heart. Sometimes I still think about my baby and I hope that the mean old guy is taking good care of it. I still dream of someday tracking down this guy and buying my car back!