Your first car.

[ragandbone]

I bought a white 1961 VW Beetle, when I turned 18, with money I had earned working at Music Plus. I loved that car! I replaced most of the interior myself, and had dried roses wound around the metal bars of the visors. It had an awesome stereo.

Once day, I drove back from a class, down the back side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula (on a road with no stop signs,) listening to "Houses of the Holy" with the sun in my eyes, when I came upon a stopped 1968 Cadillac. My brakes locked, and...well, hitting a cadillac with a beetle is like swinging a paper lantern into a wall. The car never ran again. I still feel guilty for killing it.