Leigh Guidry Lafayette Daily Advertiser Published 5:38 p.m. UTC Jun 25, 2018 We asked people to tell us about their first cars — more than just the make and model. What was it like? Was there a smell? All the details. We asked a few questions. The ones who could find photographic evidence of these classic memories sent them my way. You can find them in our “My First Car” photo gallery. Here’s what people across Louisiana (and Facebook) had to say about them. The submissions have been slightly edited for punctuation or length, but mostly, they remain in their own words. Marguerite Shipley, Lafayette “Ezzie” was an 1983 Oldsmobile 98 Regency. My mom bought her for $400 in 2003. She was brown? No, gray. No brown. She was somewhere between the color of mud and the color of paint primer. She had a lot of dents and the cloth on the rooftop was cracked and peeling. The upholstery on the ceiling of the car was held up with thumbtacks. When I drove with the windows down (most of all the driving I did) the wind made the loose upholstery look like moth-eaten curtains in a haunted house. The speedometer didn’t… Read full this story
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