My First Car
1980 Mercedes-Benz 300D It was one of those cars you buy from your parents because you don't have any money. Since it was such an old car, it was a collector's item. If only it had been in mint condition, I could have sold or traded it for half the price of a new car. Aside from that, I was fixing this car every week for the first two months I owned it. I really didn't know much about auto repair other than what I learned in my small-engines class in high school. But to me, mechanical systems have a sense of order, and I can generally figure things out. It just takes me longer than someone who has the know-how. Most of the repairs were relatively small, such as leaking vacuum lines and starter problems, among other things. Eventually, it was able to go for a month or two...