r/BeAmazed • u/girlysunshinehihi • Feb 27 '25

Miscellaneous / Others 96 year old speeder and judge

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u/piratehalloween2020 Feb 27 '25

My first car was a 94 cavalier…let’s just say it was not hard to get them going well over 100mph.  The trickiest part was keeping it on the road because of the shaking.  I did once (barely) outrun a tornado in it, though. 

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u/Enigma7ic Feb 27 '25

I also had a 94 Cavalier for my first car. The AC didn’t work so I bolted a big ol fan to the dashboard. I miss that landboat sometimes…

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u/piratehalloween2020 Feb 27 '25

Mine caught fire from a faulty starter the week before finals.  I can’t say I miss it terribly…the damn thing are my textbooks!

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u/tedivm Feb 28 '25

My first car as well. The blinkers would stop working every time I put it in reverse until I changed the fuse.

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u/radabadest Feb 28 '25

Not my first car but was my brother's and I drove it from San Diego to Houston when he got deployed in 2004. The radiator blew up just outside of Tucson and I had to spend three days there while it got fixed. Luckily I had friends at the University of Arizona and could sleep on their floor. Also could only afford to buy one used tape. So I listened to Dark Side of the Moon on repeat from Tucson to Houston

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u/stobors Feb 27 '25

She just has to time her shakes with the car's shakes.

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u/Flowers_lover6 Feb 28 '25

My first car was a 2003 Cavalier. The shaking was not greatly improved in the nine year difference lol

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u/piratehalloween2020 Feb 28 '25

Hopefully they improved the “spontaneously combusts” issue by then at least!

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u/Miami_Mice2087 Feb 27 '25

because they were a steel tank. Mass times acceleration = force. My first car was my mom's 89 chevy wagon (in 1999), it had an all metal outside and it weighed 2-3x what modern cars weigh. My parents wanted me to have it bc it was one of the safest, most solid cars on the road.

But all that weight sure as hell sped up fast on the downhills. Everyoen called me a speed demon until I traded that care for a horrible 4-cylendar POS saturn that you had to turn off the A/C to go up a hill. For the FRUSTRATION of trying to pass on the turnpike.

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u/msgnyc Feb 27 '25

Had a Sunfire. Same exact car aside from the styling. Wasnt hard getting over 100 at all. 74 would've been cake.

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u/Calicat05 Feb 28 '25

I had a 97 and that car had more balls than any other car I've ever owned.

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u/wrx7182 Feb 28 '25

my 2000 sunfire would govern out at 180km/h (about 110mph)

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u/whizkey_tx Feb 28 '25

My bro had an 82 Cav. On the way to class, we took on a US mail truck. We got smoked.

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u/TROLLBLASTERTRASHER Feb 28 '25

We had a new 1994 red cavalier Z24

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u/buttcrackmenace Mar 01 '25

im stealing that for the next time i get stopped

“sorry i was going so fast, officer. i was running from a tornado.”

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u/piratehalloween2020 Mar 01 '25

Haha, it was really scary and in a time before smart phones.  I was heading out to my dad’s for a visit and thought the sky looked odd, but didn’t think much about it.  The sirens went off when I was on the highway and I remember looking up and seeing it directly behind me aways back.  I managed to put some decent distance between me and it, but it sure did feel like it was chasing me.  I took the turn off to my dad’s and it started catching up because I had to drive perpendicular to it for about 10 mins.  I got to his house just as the winds really picked up…I remember my car getting rocked with it.  Ran into the house and straight into a closet, lol, to ride it out.