First Car Air Conditioning

First car air conditioning. Plasma air conditioner.

First Car Air Conditioning

air conditioning

air conditioner: a system that keeps air cool and dry

(Air-conditioned) buses fares cost a little over four times the fare of an ‘Ordinary’ route covering the same distance. Those buses have route numbers starting with A.

A system for controlling the humidity, ventilation, and temperature in a building or vehicle, typically to maintain a cool atmosphere in warm conditions

An Original Equipment or Aftermarket accessory system that cools and dries the incoming passenger compartment air. Aka: a/c

car

A vehicle that runs on rails, esp. a railroad car

the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant

a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; “he needs a car to get to work”

A road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people

A railroad car of a specified kind

a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; “three cars had jumped the rails”

My First Car

I apologize for the bad picture, but this is the only one I have of my old car that shows it clean and shiney. This was probably taken with my father’s first digital camera (with on board memory only) back in 1999.

This was my first car, a 1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic in sea-foam green. It was originally my grandmother’s, but she didn’t trust automatic transmission much early on, and later she developed lung cancer, so she didn’t drive it often.

After she died, my grandfather, not needing two cars, gave the car to my father. It had sat under a pine tree uncovered for years, so it was covered in rust from head to toe from the pine sap. He drove it for several years until passing it on to me.

As a present (graduation, Christmas, I don’t know), after my father passed it on to me, he had the air conditioning fixed (I drove it for a year or better with none, in the Houston heat) and a new paint job. I sprung for the baby moon hub caps. As old as the car was, I felt pretty pimpin’, even if I was never actually cool.

1987 Chevy Spectrum

My 1987 Chevrolet Spectrum, my first car, which I purchased from Kenny Ross Chevrolet brand new, in September 1987. I literally drove it off the showroom floor; the sticker price was $7,500 and there was a $500 dollar rebate. The car had no air conditioning and am/fm radio, 5-speed manual. It was good, solid car built for Chevy by Isuzu. I took this photo in the fall of 1987 using a Mamiya 35mm and 50mm lens.