QotD: My First Car

What was your first car?

A beautiful pea green boat.  It was enormous and that awful sea-sick green color, the color of the sky during a tornado.  It took me from Searcy to Boise and back to Shreveport.  And died on a railroad track, but I managed to get it off before any trains came.  Traded it in on a little Horizon car which lasted the next 6 years through my teaching years, and eventually John and I sold it for a dollar to a man who needed a car.  He ended up blacking out one day and sailed it into a telephone pole (broke the pole) but he was not hurt badly enough to be admitted to the hospital.