Getting old is like driving a car built the year you were born.

[panader0]

My "car" was made in 1950. The tires are going bald. There's some rusting and creaky parts. Occasionally some bad exhaust.
I don't drive at night anymore because my headlights are getting dim. You can't find parts for an older model, and even if you could, you couldn't afford them. I wonder sometimes when it'll break down, maybe a blown head gasket, transmission or engine seize-up.
But oh, the places I've gone, radio blasting, wind in my hair, joyriding. I've got an even stretch of road about now. Just cruisin'.

[antiquie]

1. You are not alone.

[tk2kewl]

2. not quite as old but still unsafe at any speed

My first can was also built in the year i was born

[Trailrider1951]

3. Old, but elegant

In fact, when I was a little girl, my father had a car just like this.

[rug]

4. Yeah, but we still don't need seatbelts.

[Brother Buzz]

5. I was comfortably reposing in a dark shed, enjoying my golden years when....

I was rudely yanked out and shabbily converted into a Tucker lookalike then forced to be a stunt double

[panader0]

6. Great version of 'Mercury Blues'

[In_The_Wind]

7. We had a blast just tooling around.

1948 Chevrolet Model 2109 Fleetmaster. This year's model set the record for Chevrolet woodie production with 10,171 wagons built. Both Cantrell and Iona built bodies to fill the demand for the last Chevrolet wagon with structural wood.

[rurallib]

8. is that Cantrell and Iona and the bodies they built in the picture?

Me like.

[jakeXT]

13. I guess sitting in the sun or rain isn't that problematic as it is for the car

[panader0]

15. My best year for woodie production was when I was 25

[Art_from_Ark]

9. Here's my car

A 1958 Edsel. 'Nuff said!

[kwassa]

10. I was always kind of a custom job.

edit to add:

Cars that really looked good from my year:

[Art_from_Ark]

11. I once had a Matchbox car that looked like that green Jaguar

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. That's known as British Racing Green.

I thought it was just forest green.

Jags are cool cars.

[cyberswede]

14. My car

I feel like this:



But probably run like this:

[Ampersand Unicode]

16. Yours is snazzy. My model-birth year leaves me with this

1996 Saturn SL2.

Pop in a CD -- or a cassette (yes, they still had those) -- and crank up the Wallflowers, Donna Lewis, Beck, the Cardigans, Weezer, Shawn Colvin, Matchbox 20, Jewel, and, uh..... no, no, nooooooooooo...!

[Iggo]

17. Will they still need you? Will they still feed you?