VROOM, Baby! (Mary Strand)
This month at YA Outside the Lines, we're reminiscing about first cars. SWEET! I'm a car chick. I'm also kidlet # 7 out of 8 in my family, and put myself through college, and rarely had a spare dime until I became a lawyer ... so I didn't get my first car until law school. I bought it from my brother Brian for a dollar. He also let me live with him free for the three years of law school, so Brian and I collectively put me through law school. But back to cars. My first car, courtesy of Brian, was a gold 1974 VW Sunbug. (So it had a sunroof, not a convertible top.) Also, courtesy of Brian, it came with a musical horn. Also, unbeknownst to Brian, it came with a rusted-out undercarriage, including the muffler, the tie rod, and eventually the brakes. The musical horn was fabulous, the other items not so much. It also came with a stick shift, so I had to learn to drive one. We lived in Bethesda, Maryland, because Brian and our other housemate, Rich, were doi...
