Faults:

General old age. Air conditioner had a lot of problems.

General Comments:

I've got a story for you guys. It was 1994 and I was 17 years old. After 2 wrecks and numerous traffic tickets, my father and Uncle had determined that I was somewhat of a danger on the road. Worried that I would soon kill myself in a car wreck, I was forced to drive my uncles old mint green 1984 Monte Carlo. This thing was like a tank. I remember my boyfriend used to ollie his skateboard off the roof onto the hood, leaving not even a dent. You could literally feel how heavy it was through the gas pedal. I hated it. My friends called it The Green Machine. Looking back now, it was the most fun I ever had driving a car and it did actually save my life.

One late night I was driving on a dark highway, coming from Alabama and into Georgia around 3:00am. We had been to a party and I was blurry eyed while my roommate Lori was passed out next to me and Joel was stretched out in the back seat. I'm not sure if the car even had seat belts in the back, but luckily this night, Lori and I were both wearing ours upfront. This car is so large and heavy, you didn't really think about seat belts most of the time.

Anyways the Green Machine sort of drove itself by way of pure gravity once it got up to about 70 miles per hour. Not paying attention as usual, I did not see this little pickup tugging along ahead of us carrying a full-sized bed mattress which had suddenly flew out of the back of the truck and bounced onto the road directly ahead, laying flat in our path ahead. I remember, in that moment that I realized what was actually happening, I heard my fathers voice telling me to never swerve the car unless it was for a person and so with both feet I slammed on the brakes and... BLAM! we hit this mattress on the highway. I have no idea our speed upon impact, but we bounced up in the air in slow motion, hovering for a split second with what felt like all four wheels in the air. Joel came floating up and then immediately crashing down into the back of our seats before landing on the floorboard as the car dropped down back onto the asphalt and it remained heavily pressing onward into the foggy night without so much as creaky wheel. Now I did notice that it was turning kind of awkward when I made a left or right turn and we could all hear a scrapping noise coming from the tale end, but I had classes starting at 7 am the next morning so I kissed the ground when we made it home and immediately went inside and straight to bed without inspecting the Green Machine for any damage.

Lori and I woke up late for school the next morning and we seemingly had completely forgotten that we had bounced off a mattress on the highway just hours before,as we both jumped back into the Green Machine and rushed off to class. We immediately started to notice people honking their horns at us and waving until finally this one gentlemen convincingly waved and shouted at us to pull over into a parking lot at a red light. We got out of the car and walked to the back of the car before realizing that the Green Machine had been dragging the mattress along behind us, caught up in a cable coming down from under the car. Don't ask me why or how I didn't notice it driving home or how we didn't even see it that morning. All I can say is that I was a bit of a dink when I was young. I ended up taking driving lessons and perhaps maturing a little so that as of today I haven't had a wreck in 20 years nor a traffic offense in 10. Still, my advice for all you dads out there with dinky reckless daughters, I highly recommend the badass 1984 Monte Carlo. Make sure it's mint green.

Faults:

Blew out 3 distributer modules.

General Comments:

My car has truck tires, which are great for when I go out in the mud. I also have made it a 4x4 so it can go out with the best of them.

I mainly use the car to pull out my friends 1987 Crown Victoria, because it is a Ford piece of crap.