My First Car really was a Studebaker.

Get an old black hearse!
That will do it.
(driving down the road).
 

Well, maybe not this old.
 

jimusic
I don't know how you've survived 43 years without driving. My life wouldn't have been the same without it.
 
I got my license at 16 in a blizzard. I was freaking out because I was 1-1/2 hours late for my 8 AM appointment, and we only lived 30 minutes away. The blizzard was that bad.
 
And of course I had even more nervous tension about taking the test in a blizzard as opposed to the dry roads I had practiced on throughout autumn.
I thought for sure that I failed before I even got there and that the guy would 'ream me out' for being so late.
 
On the contrary, he was so happy just to see someone actually show up, that he couldn't wait to get out there, and basically rushed me out the door.
 
Naturally because of the weather, I slid a tiny bit on an icy incorrectly sloped corner when turning left and I hit
the thin white plastic pole during parallel parking, [which I was otherwise quite good at], because there was so much snow on the back window, I couldn't even see it.
 
But he passed me anyway.
 
As stated above, driving can be really fun - especially if you get comfortable and confident with it, and find yourself in a nice little sports car with a manual transmission, fat tires and 'balls of steel' with plenty of 'snot' to peel down the open road.
 
Fun Fun Fun!!

Let's see...
 
I spent the first twenty some years in a small 11 000 souls town, where you could get from just about any A point to any B point in about 20 minutes walking. Winter was brutal, but when you're born and raised in that stuff, that's just the way it is.
 
Then I lived in Quebec City - I could get anywhere I needed to go either by bus or by walking.
 
 
Then Montreal - even better, there's the subway. A car is actually more of a problem than anything else in Montreal - talk about spending 20 minutes trying to find a parking almost every night. And in the winter, having to wake up an hour earlier because there's been a snowstorm and the car is hidden under 2 feet of snow...
 
And then there's all the parking time limitation; so even if you don't NEED your car that day, you MUST move it after x time. And try to find another parking. But wait - they're removing snow from the streets so there's no parking spot available anywhere near.
 
Or then, you could just walk to the subway... That's how I survived. :)
 
 

Lovely caddy. But it would quite literally cost you more to drive to the store than what you were going to the store for in the first place.

yorolpal
Lovely caddy. But it would quite literally cost you more to drive to the store than what you were going to the store for in the first place.

Filling a Cadillac here in the south would probably cost me as much as filling a moped in Canada...

Perfect vehicle.
http://www.remarkablecars...uct=16817&cat=4225
1981 CADILLAC TERMINATOR 3 MOVIE HEARSE
 

 

BTW - I took my driver's test in that Caddy.  Talk about fun to parallel park!  NOT! 

Yea...but the caddy would for like an hour and the moped would run for six months:-)

Rain
Let's see...
 
I spent the first twenty some years in a small 11 000 souls town, where you could get from just about any A point to any B point in about 20 minutes walking. Winter was brutal, but when you're born and raised in that stuff, that's just the way it is.
 
Then I lived in Quebec City - I could get anywhere I needed to go either by bus or by walking.
 
 
Then Montreal - even better, there's the subway. A car is actually more of a problem than anything else in Montreal - talk about spending 20 minutes trying to find a parking almost every night. And in the winter, having to wake up an hour earlier because there's been a snowstorm and the car is hidden under 2 feet of snow...
 
And then there's all the parking time limitation; so even if you don't NEED your car that day, you MUST move it after x time. And try to find another parking. But wait - they're removing snow from the streets so there's no parking spot available anywhere near.
 
Or then, you could just walk to the subway... That's how I survived. :)
 

Ah yes - Montreal.
My understanding is that many of the roads are in dire need of repair as well, so that would be another good reason.
Myself, I was born and raised in Toronto, so I can certainly related to all you've said here.
 
We also have the subway, so I use to take the bus to the subway, and then ride it a-ways to college & back.
 
As for driving, I use to hate shoveling the big-ass chunk of snow the snow plow would make right in front of the driveway.
 
And scraping the ice off the windows - no fun.
 
So I hear ya loud & clear.
 
On the other side of the fence, I can't imagine just how much money you've saved over the years - vehicle purchases, insurance, gas, repairs, tickets - sheesh!