What was your first car?

[KDubU]

A brand new 1985 Suzuki Samurai. Loved jeeps but could not afford a jeep jeep so opted for the next thing. Loved my Samurai, sure it was slow as a snail, noisy, etc. but it was mine and it was a convertible that I drove in the Montreal winters no problem. Had my worst accident in it when a guy in his Trans-Am t-boned me doing 40-50mph. The nose of his car went underneath and flipped me over a couple times. I had my seatbelt on and ended up climbing out the passenger door as it was on it's side. I don't really recall the impact other than seeing a white flash out of my peripheral vision just before it happened. A lot of damage but nobody hurt.

[Jeff Kleiner]

...flipped me over a couple times...

Yeah, they're kind of prone to that! Back in my Jeep days a couple of Samaurai guys often went trail riding with us and it became almost expected that there would be at least one Suzi belly up every trip. Beauty of them is that they roll slow and are light so 4 guys could usually get them back on all fours. After giving them a few minutes for the oil to run back down to where it was supposed to be they'd fire up and roll on. Like the early Toyota pickups they were tough little suckers that didn't make enough power to hurt themselves

Jeff