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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'

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When my car was new, I was just got my license.  I, of course, didn't own it yet ;)

Now, uh, I've been driving for 17 years. ;)

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2001 - Getting ready to graduate HS or starting my freshman year of college.

I would go check the build date, but it's late.

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1994- It was my first dreadful year of Kindergarten. :P

First?

dreadful?

Kindergarten?

hmmm.....

:)

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

"How could I be so blind?" ... Charly McClain ... 'Who's Cheating Who'

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