From Jessy

I originally just sent this to Jenny, but I resending because I want to read the others too. Dates refer to actual dates, not the ages of the cars!

Early 70's I remember the Rambler because I remember driving with our large family in it. I remember me William and John in the far back laying down while you and Jimmy and one of the twins were in the middle row, and Mom, Dad and another twin were in the front. I remember this as the car which went into the snow bank on the way back from the farm in 1971 on Easter causing us to take refuge in a school bus. Also in this car when I was 10 or so Dad and I went to the Oley Dairy for our regular 6 gallons of milk. He loved to go fast on the stretch of road there and we were hauled over by a cop. I remember Dad explaining that he couldn't get the registration out of the glove box because it was locked. The key was in the ignition, but if her turned it off, it wouldn't restart due to a dead battery. We had jumped it at home and kept it running in the store. Also, as Dad pointed out, he was buying milk for his 7 children, of which I was one, and was left-handed and poor and dyslexic and could he be let go. Result: received warning.

Mid 70's Of course I remember the Caddie. I remember the day we got it and how Dad said not to get in it with our ice creams which we were eating when he came down the driveway with it and how John or William got in with the ice-cream and spilled it anyway.I liked the fold down jump seats and the "electric eye" which lowered the high beams, but not really fast enough. It ended up parked in the field after a little accident, where it acquired a yellow jacket nest. Someone sent me out there to check for a saw when I was maybe 12. I was attacked by the bees and stung all over, running into the house and tripping and falling over the rusty saw, screaming. Jimmy had this car fixed up and I drove to my wedding in this car, 6/9/1990. It had a theme song to the tune of Yellow Submarine, but the words were" We go to school in a long gray limousine, long gray limousine, long gray limousine."

I remember Dad dropping me off to kindergarten in a panel van, which had high seats and no front door - don't fall out!

Mid 70's Ford Van (someone can tell me if this was a Craftsman or another line. I can't remember)  Dad would drive us to school or pick us up in this classic cargo van with no seats in the back. We got to stand up as we drove in basically snowboard or surfboard position, trying not to fall when braking or going around curves. Lots of pre-seatbelt fun.

Late 70's I remember how the Pontiac station wagon we got from Grandmom had car trouble on the way back from the farm and Dad put vice grip pliers on some part which remained there til that car was towed away by someone when mom insisted we cut back on the clunkers.

Late 70's, early 80's I remember the red vw van because I learned to drive on that one. Letting the clutch out while not drifting back was a tricky business in hilly Reading.

80-'83 I drove my bf's '69 Dodge Dart which we spray painted a camo pattern. I crashed (totaled) that car when I was 17 and stupid by turning in front of another car that was running a red light.

'80-'81 Drove to school in Johns cars, which included the datsun, played lots of Who on the tape deck. Ran out of gas on the Schuykill Expwy when I was 14 and John was 16 on the way back from a Who concert. Cop wanted me to move it because I was in such a dangerous spot. I said, "I'm 14!"

Early 80's I remember the white honda civic which didn't have 2nd gear, couldn't open the passenger door, and you had to turn it off to get it back into 1st gear. I drove it the summers I was in college to my crappy jobs.

Avoided having cars for years.

Got my first car in 1996 when I was 30, a blue Toyota Corolla wagon for $6500 in Ann Arbor for the purpose of delivering cakes for my new bakery. I liked this car and used it until someone T-boned me when I was pregnant with Julie 1998. That scared me and totalled the car.

1998 bought another station wagon, a white Honda Accord Wagon. This had all those car seats buckled in while I drove kids around. I needed a bigger vehicle. 

2003 I bought my Toyota Sienna van just two years old then. I still have it and it's been trouble free and blameless for 10 years. I haul kids, camping stuff, groceries, dorm stuff, apartment stuff, Ikea stuff etc.

The only other thing I would add is that I always loved the cars my siblings had, like the Mustangs, Bugs, Land Cruiser, New Bug, etc.