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[QUOTE="Fishy, post: 87810, member: 1350"]
A 1980 Dodge Aries K.

Sky blue. Bench seat, stalk shifter, 13" steel wheels with 155/13s to get all them ponies to the tarmac.

I got it in the late 80s from an old lady who was dying of emphysema. It had about 8,500 miles on it. The interior was caked with smoke residue and didn't have a single option on it - it didn't even have a passenger-side door mirror. I bought four Sears tires for it and was good to go.

It was a raging piece of s*** from the second I got it. My brothers and I thought it'd be funny to see how long it would take to get to 80, so we launched it down the Taconic. After about 12 minutes of seeing the needle waiver between 65 and 70, we sorta figured that 80 was a bridge too far for the blue bomber.

It was resilient, though. They used to have gas stations in the median of the Taconic. We were at the one just north of I-84 when my brother and I accidentally set the engine on fire.

We tried to top off the oil and managed to splash some on the exhaust manifold which set the entire works to blazing. It probably took three or four minutes until we were able to run enough water back and forth from the softdrink fountain to put the fire out. (Busy gas station parking lot right on a heavily trafficked parkway - car clearly on fire...not one person managed to offer any sort of assistance.)

We stared at the car for a while after the fire was put out wondering what to do - we ended up just closing the hood and driving home with black scorch marks all over the hood.
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