Westworld Alberta

Fall 2013

Westworld Alberta

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What Was Your First? We asked AMA members to tell us about their first cars. From rolling rustbuckets and home-painted hatchbacks to cherry convertibles, it seems everyone has a story to tell about their first set of wheels. " When I was 13 years old, I decided I wanted a car. My dad said he would pay for the first year's insurance, but it was my responsibility to buy the car. I worked for two summers and saved $300 to buy a 1949 Ford sedan. It was big enough to hold a party with all of my friends. –Blair Northfield, Pigeon Lake " "O n a summer night in 1989, my Dad and I bought my first car. We responded to a newspaper classified ad listing a 1974 AMC Hornet for "$750 – FIRM." When we arrived, it wasn't much of a negotiation. "So, your ad says firm, but will you take $550?" Deal!  With that, I was a car owner. That green Hornet was symbolic of my senior high-school year in every way. Hockey games, coffee runs before Social Studies, lunch runs to Lethbridge, shooting pool during our spares – it was all enabled by the car. I loved that car. My dad didn't make it long enough to see how much that car meant to me, as he died just a few short months after we bought it. All the plans I'd made about him teaching me mechanics never came to fruition.  We may tie memories to physical things like cars, but in the end, it isn't the hunk of metal that brings meaning to those experiences, it's the people we share them with: my dad and my friends who were there with me, riding around in that ol' green Hornet." –Dan Overes, Cochrane iPad & online readers: check out more fun first-car stories. Plus video! ama.ab.ca/Westworld 46 W e s t w o r l d a l b e r ta | f a l l 2 0 13 p46-47_FirstCars.indd 46 blair northfield, wikipedia (hornet, thunderbird) 13-08-12 10:06 AM

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