Summer evening, windows down, mid/late 90s, what are you driving, what are you listening to, and who is in the car with you?

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1101base2@reddit

Ford tempo, 6-9 people in the car (was one of the few people in my friend group with my own car) and probably heading to Denny's at 3am after working at the theater. Most co workers, few friends who also worked in the mall wanting to hang out. Probably listening to the rock station.

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YEMolly@reddit

I drove a Tempo too! “The Pimpo”

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1101base2@reddit

there were two of us in HS that drove them only one model year different. It was a POS, but also a tank. mine caught on fire, was in a few wrecks but i drove home from all of them, but at the same time i had to do constant maintenance on it (and the vehicle i learned how to work on cars on). i cursed that car a lot when i was breaking my knuckles trying to keep it running, but looking back i have fond memories of it and friends.

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YEMolly@reddit

100% all of that. It really was a POS, but driving it as a 16 & 17 year old, looking back, it did quite well ramping curbs and hitting shit. lol

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Boring_Blood4603@reddit

'86 Chrysler New Yorker. It's 1995, the car has no air, no radio, no heat, the door is ajar. Other than that the car runs great and the seats are super comfy. The battery powered boom box in my car is playing RATM, Queen, Metallica, SOAD or The Cranberries.

LooLee is in the car with me cause we are besties, along with my younger sisters. We are going to go camping where I work because employees can camp for free. Just graduated that year and spent as much time with my gals before I left for the Navy in November of '95.

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UnusualSnow506@reddit

92 red Ford ranger. My ex wife sitting next to me. We’re listening to what is now called classic rock radio.

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CivilExam1011@reddit

I wasn’t driving. But my brother drove a 97 dark purple Honda Accord. To this day, I don’t think ive ever seen a car with that color.

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s0urgrapes_@reddit

1999 Pontiac Firebird (pewter metallic), t-tops off. Definitely some mixed-cd I burned. Probably Limp Bizkit, Staind, Blink 182, RHCP, or something else along those lines. Probably on my way home from playing basketball with some friends. Man life was good back then.

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External-Film-1286@reddit

It's 1997. I'm driving home from high school my senior year. Its 2:10 pm. The highway is empty. I'm in my 89 white Camry. The windows are down, I just lit a cigarette and In the Meantime by Space Hog just came on WAAF. This is the happiest I'll ever be.

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Key-Lead-5642@reddit

I miss AAF so much. Only station i had on through high school

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s0urgrapes_@reddit

1999 Pontiac Firebird (pewter metallic), t-tops off. Definitely some mixed-cd I burned. Probably Limp Bizkit, Staind, Blink 182, RHCP, or something else along those lines. Probably on my way home from playing basketball with some friends. Man life was good back then.

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dancindead@reddit

This was the Liz Wilde years.

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Key-Lead-5642@reddit

Opie and Anthony were my favorite. I still have my demented world cd somewhere in my house. I listened to Rocko at night a lot too doing homework

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dancindead@reddit

Met them set up outside Great Woods at an Allmans show.

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sed2017@reddit

One of those perfect songs from start to finish… I always turn it up

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Tight_Cheetah_4474@reddit

That song is till so fucking cool!!

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No_repeating_ever@reddit

AAF was the best. Could get it almost all over the state! They turned it into some Christian BS

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darbm@reddit

I'm driving my silver Ford Ranger. Alice in Chains Unplugged is in the stereo. Just got off of work where I load bags of top soil into cars as they pull through the lot. A cigarette is in my future.

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starfriendship@reddit

My best friend Kristi, and we're in her Chevy Nova listening to Oasis, Sublime, Bush and OutKast 😂

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Prossdog@reddit

The Distance by Cake always made me drive like a lunatic with the windows down

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jar36@reddit

1996 Buick Skylark, Marilyn Manson, my LSD and my trippin pal Amy

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Sattaman6@reddit

A Toyota Corolla, blasting Wu-Tang at full volume

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joeliopro@reddit

1990 Buick Regal with a quality sound system cranking Sublime self titled or Toadies Rubberneck. Most likely by myself so it can be LOUD AF.

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Fr4nzJosef@reddit

88 Ford Ranger. It was pretty beat up but it ran and got me where I needed to go. What I'm listening to? Likely Rob Zombie, but could also be classical music. Probably just cruising by myself.

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rotorocker@reddit

1984 Pontiac Firebird blasting As I Lay Dying.

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No_Kaleidoscope9901@reddit

88 Toyota Corolla hatchback. Driving home looking at the sunset over the mountains after another day spent working as a lifeguard at the local country club. I’m tan and warm with the windows down, listening to Grateful Dead, headed home to get a shower and dinner with the fam before spending the night out with friends and then I’ll do it all over again. Life is good.

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YEMolly@reddit

Riding in my friend’s Dodge Neon. Smoking cigs (Camel Special Lights) while riding the “back roads”…. listening to Alanis Morissette.

Take me back. 😭

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No_Kaleidoscope9901@reddit

Dodge Neon!

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All_about_that_base@reddit

I’m alone and I’m blasting Boys of Summer by Don Henley 😎

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the_maddest_hatters@reddit

Yeeeeess! I had a 1985 98 Oldsmobile and loved that song! Takes me back too. What a time to be alive ! So nostalgic for it

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LeatherRecord2142@reddit

Eagle Talon. Cruising with my girls Claire, Nicky and Melanie and listening to Sheryl Crow, Mariah, and OutKast. We are definitely on our way to Blockbuster and to pick up a pizza.

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Outrageous-Suspect82@reddit

It’s 1995, in a 92 Thunderbird, listening to TLC, Biggie, and 2pac. With a car full of just us girls. Cruising down that one street everyone was cruising on.

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anthonylabatt@reddit

It’s 1999 I’m cruising with my best friend along an Ontario Canada beach in my blue pontiac sunfire, mid-summer blasting LFO Summer Girls.

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Milky-Way-Occupant@reddit

1962 VW beetle, Sublime 40oz to Freedom, my bff

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CrimsonVibes@reddit

74 Ford Maverick.

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whitethug@reddit

I didn't learn to drive until well into the 2000s (city kid) but in this scenario I'm driving in a Red Pontiac Fiero, listening to B*witched.

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Starbugg1@reddit

Mortal Kombaaaat!!!!!

I was way more rock/alternative but for the scenario mentioned, that song from the soundtrack would have been on max, rattling the shit out of my Ford Escort 's speakers.

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ex_gratia_@reddit

1960 Galaxie, 1997, probably either Superunknown or Undertow.

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HAL2077@reddit

1984 Volkswagen Scirocco. Sailing the seas of cheese by Primus!

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TryTwiceAsHard@reddit

1996, there car is a 1992 z Honda Accord driving home from a Disney theme park with my two best friends. Matchbox Twenty is definitely playing.

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frecklemimus79@reddit

Pontiac Grande Am, top 40 radio, me and four friends (someone has to sit bitch in the back). IGA’s the first stop for gummies and AriZonas, then we go too fast down the backroads to the second-run theater (doesn’t matter what’s playing). Decide whether it’s too late to hire the mall. Stop off at a guy’s house, slow idle thru “the nice neighborhood” while blasting the Black Album. Hit the C store for caffeine, visit another friend at work, drive too fast down the backroads with a detour to see if someone (friend? enemy? teacher? cop?) was home, and back to someone’s house for hours of video games.

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EastCoastDizzle@reddit

I was so bougie with my purple neon blasting money ain’t a thing (or is it thang?).

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mtrxgltchs@reddit

Picture this. It’s a Friday evening in the summer of 1996, and I’ve just wrapped up my sophomore year at my small (approximately 800 students) county high school. It’s one of those gorgeous Southern Appalachian nights. It was clear, still, and just humid enough to feel the air. I’m cruising down a back country road in my 1987 Chevy S10. She’s beige and a bit ugly, but not a beater by any means. She's got a four-speed manual, and she's my baby. The windows are cranked down, the back slider is open, and the Sony CD deck I installed myself is pushing Dave Matthews Band’s #41 into the night. I’m headed to meet a couple of my cronies, just to drive nowhere with a truck bed full of friends. Who knows what we'll get into.

Jesus, I miss those times so much.

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YEMolly@reddit

Feel this. 😭

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Pk-Low1980@reddit

Summers ‘98 and ‘99 - 1985 Olds Cutlass Supreme. Blacked out limo tints with a white pioneer sticker in the rear window. Plush velour interior like a couch. Usually playing Sublime 40 oz. to Freedom or blasting the Freestylers on the way to a rave in Southern Ontario/Toronto area. Usually 4 or 5 buds with me. Good times <3

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Eziekiel23_20@reddit

Convertible 5 liter Mustang driving home from college for the weekend jamming to Korn or Limp Bizkit.

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bascule@reddit

With my best friend listening to Aphex Twin or Nine Inch Nails

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pantheroux@reddit

Who are all these people who had cars as teens?

I was riding public transit with my Discman. Radiohead and Portishead were favourites, along with The Saint soundtrack, Cowboy Junkies, Nirvana, REM or some Big Shiny Tunes (yes I’m Canadian).

I was usually by myself, but sometimes with friends heading to a movie or the mall.

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SirLexington81@reddit

2 door Honda Civic. Wu Tang Clan CD

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hahaha01@reddit

This is a secret question prompt. Not sure if you're a bot or just need to know what people were driving but these questions are way too specific.

I was driving a POS car and listening to medium pace.

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Cattle-egret@reddit

1991 Toyota Tercel. Stick shift. High school girl friend. Just Free Fallin’ out into nothin.

Or me and my best friend in a heaven only knows how old Volkswagen Bug. Listening to Celine Deon :)

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Wak3upHicks@reddit

95 Dodge Neon, 100.3 the EDGE and probably no one

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Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit

100.3 and 106.3 the EDGE?

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fannyalgerpack@reddit

One of those out of Dallas right?

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FacePalmTheater@reddit

I wasn't driving yet, so I'll just fast forward to 2000 when I got my first car.

87 Honda Accord. Listening to either Ozzy or Slayer. Nobody in the car with me because my friends all got cars sooner than I did. We'll all meet up at whatever party we're surely headed to.

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Kalel42@reddit

Technically 2000 for me, but my 89 couch-on-wheels Bonneville listening to MxPx.

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boodgooky@reddit

Hell yes MXPX I’ll raise you a Five Iron Frenzy

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Kalel42@reddit

I have a poster from an MxPx / Five Iron Frenzy show signed by the band!

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boodgooky@reddit

Ahh jealous!! I saw FIF live last year but missed MXPX when they came to my city. It was like $50 and I was too broke. Next time.

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HipHopGrandpa@reddit

Saw them in concert. They put on a killer show. I’ve never seen guitars throw so far and so high.

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Kalel42@reddit

Lol, the guitar tosses is always one of the first thing I tell people about. They're still great live! I've seen them 15 times over the past decade.

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bassman314@reddit

87 Plymouth voyager. 2.1 L straight 4, with a stick shift. I could get 0-60 in 4-6 weeks with $3.95 postage and handling.

Probably coming back from work at the local amphitheater or the bar and grill in the little resort area near the river, so I would be by myself.

Probably blasting Pennywise, Rage, or something else suitably counter to the area I was from.

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LetsHookUpSF@reddit

94 Toyota corolla - Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel

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B-SideQueen@reddit

1994 civic hatchback si and it’s bad religion all ages, rancid let’s go or offspring self titled. Bff in tow smoking cigarettes, sunroof down.

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seg0d0gg@reddit

1986 Ford Taurus blasting Metallica

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picklecruncher@reddit

My buddy Justin had this old red T-top firebird we'd rip around in. Usually had my best pal Melissa and our buddies Bryce and Jeremy loaded in. Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill blasting. God, those were the days.

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Door_Number_Four@reddit

Never got drives in the evening, as I was always working in the summer.

after midnight, a 92 Ford Tempo ( sneakily good stereo standard) , with Sonic Youth and the Replacements scrubbing out all the Jimmy Buffet music they played at the tiki bar I worked at.

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boodgooky@reddit

My crush drove a two-tone Tempo; blue on the bottom and white on top. I miss those days.

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lexypher@reddit

Honda Civic crx, and Therapy? Troublegum.

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boodgooky@reddit

CRX! I saw one of those yesterday but all the emblems were long gone and I couldn’t remember the name of those for the life of me. Great little cars.

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981GTSF90M5F87M2C@reddit

'97 Tacoma. Bad Religion's The Gray Race. Best high school friends (guys or gals).

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boodgooky@reddit

Damn, brand new truck!

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Formal_Ground6513@reddit

Toyota Celica. It's my best friend's car and she taught me how to drive stick so, she doesn't have to. We're listening to Jane's Addiction (Ritual). Summertime Rolls specifically. Long winding country roads. Smoking a pin joint and drinking Sundrop from the corner store.... Take me back!

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nola_mike@reddit

92 Chevy Cavalier RS Coupe but the windows are up because I live in SE Louisiana. Probably listening to Incubus or Deftones and my best friends are in the car with me.

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boodgooky@reddit

I was in FL so, same. But sometimes I’d blast the AC and have the windows down if I was driving A1A/the beach.

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Majestic-Marzipan621@reddit

'88 Honda Accord. A guy at high school whose locker was next to mine was like here's a cassette, I don't like it.

I'm like hmm...it's got a naked baby swimming after a dollar bill. Weird but I'll give it a shot.

That cassette? Nirvana - Nevermind

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boodgooky@reddit

94 Jetta named Derek, and it’s a toss-up between Jars of Clay, the Supertones, or K-92 FM Orlando Country.

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Intelligent-Salt-362@reddit

Late 90’s (summer of ‘98), I’ve borrowed my mom’s ‘97 BMW 328ic convertible for the night. Screw windows, the whole top is down. It’s late summer and I am on i95 south heading home (alone) from hanging out with friends on Lincoln Road (Miami Beach). Busy Child by The Crystal Method is pounding through the speakers as I decide to open it up and see what this thing can do. I hit 139mph before I feel it pull back as the governor kicks in slowing fuel flow to the engine. She definitely could have done more but the brochure said 139.5 and I guess they didn’t lie. I do miss that car…

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KinkMountainMoney@reddit

73 Ford F100. All black. No chrome. Frankensteined together from all over the 70s. 10 inch lift. Unmodified but very shitty exhaust could be heard starting a quarter mile away. Whole thing cost me $900. Radio and heat directly wired to battery to switches under the dash. Probably belting out CCR’s Chronicle I. Speed uncertain because speedometer always dangled in a mostly downwards direction.

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Lawnlady1980@reddit

88 Ford Bronco II. Mariah Carey. Daydream album.

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dogtor_howl@reddit

1979 by Smashing Pumpkins.

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

'91 Toyota dual cab mini truck, rocking out to Soundgarden's Down on the Upside. My best friend Tito is acting like a goof in the passenger seat.

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b_o_m@reddit

The wife and I in our first and only new car - a red 1990 VW Golf - with Aztec Camera's "Deep and Wide and Tall" blasting on the stereo - a detachable face CD player, of course!

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jarosity@reddit

1987 Dodge Ram van with a sun roof open. Probably rocking a mixtape of Radiohead b-sides or HUM or Digable Planets on a discman with 2 second skip protection with a tape adapter.

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Underfyre@reddit

I've always hated driving, and I've never understood driving just to drive, especially with no destination in mind.

That said, I'll just assume this is a mid 90s "on our way home from weekend BMX racing" kind of night. Be that the case, we're in the old Thunderbird listening to Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a Redneck if" cd, or maybe Sublime.

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Hot_Albatross1608@reddit

89 ford probe, delivering pizzas listening to, korn or maybe some toadies.

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

'83 Oldsmobile Delta 88

I also had this car. Biggest piece of shit ever. Would stall out right in the middle of the highway.

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HeureuseFermiere@reddit

‘98 jeep wrangler, the Verve Pipe’s Villains album on repeat

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TheseMaize8547@reddit

1987 v6 5 speed Acura legend with blue lights on interior smoking kool milds with 400w amp pushing 2 x 12” kicker subs and 2 6x9 jbl playing some 2pac All Eyes on Me

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Aggravating-Try1222@reddit

87 Nissan Stanza, with my girlfriend Tara, listening to The Who, on our way to the creepy diner by the river

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andy_nony_mouse@reddit

95 Wrangler, top down and doors off. Listening to the Bob Marley box set, disc two, or Jimmy Buffett’s live album, feeding frenzy. I’m heading to Northern Michigan to go camping with my friends.

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ZealousidealEnd6660@reddit

I'm driving an 82 chevette, I'm listening to Suicide Machines, my bff is in the passenger seat and our skateboards are in the back.

What a lovely blast from the past!

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Dicfive@reddit

88 Buick park ave. Mix tape with 80s and 70s rock.

My brother is in the car next to me. We’re talking about girls and magic the gathering

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dancindead@reddit

I beat the crap out of my 1st car. But my Magic deck from the 90s is in a safe deposit box at the bank.

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Weak_Radish966@reddit

Summer 96, EPMD So Watcha Saying blaring outta my mom’s Civic speakers. Discman connected to tape deck is on the passenger seat.

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nanneryeeter@reddit

Lifted shit box Jeep Cherokee XJ. Well used kayak ratcheted on the top.

Sublime.

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Kilo_sevenXxx@reddit

1977 Chevrolet Caprice blasting tapes of The Misfits, Wu-Tang, Rancid and pretty much any of the gangster rap from the time, Both coasts. My bro Chris shotgun, both of us chain smoking Marlboro Reds. And despite the fact my Caprice had no AC and was a beater that must have reeked of sweat and cigarettes we didn’t have much trouble finding girls who would hop in and go with us to the skateparks or other street spots around Phoenix. The car ended up burning to the ground. I still have a picture of it in my garage as well as the license plate.

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red286@reddit

'78 Chevy Nova big block, driving without a license, listening to Too Dark Park cranked up way too loud, speeding excessively because my friend didn't believe it could get past 120kph (despite it being a fucking 70 zone), getting pulled over by the cops (ohshitohshitohshitohshit) only to have them wave me off 30 seconds later saying they misidentified my car as one that had been reported stolen earlier that night and telling me to have a nice evening, but maybe turn the music down a bit.

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Extreme-King@reddit

OP I had a blue 85 Delta 88 we called The Beer Wagon. HUGE engine.

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here_we_go2324@reddit

90 Chevrolet Celebrity, have some great memories associated with Scooby Snacks by Fun Lovin' Criminals. Great cruising song!

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MartyK3000@reddit

‘96. Shit brown Pontiac Sunbird. Bone Thugs “E 1999 Eternal” the version w/ the remix of the Crossroads. Any of my 3 best friends are with me and we’re heading to the only drive thru party store that would sell us Cigarettes underage. What a time to be alive!

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chriscbr500r@reddit

I drove my mom's 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme... It was white and I would usually listen to classic rock or anything from the 80s. Back then I didn't listen to modern music... And now I listen to mostly 90s and 2000s alternative and pop.

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Fantastic-Sea-7806@reddit

1996 ford escort, You Oughta Know. Absolutely no one else in the car, singing at top of my lungs.

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Intelligent-Invite79@reddit

96 accord, Korn follow the leader. Adam, Seth, Carl, and Diane heading to the old, abandoned industrial road we used to hang out at. Best fucking years of my life.

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Leilani3317@reddit

86 Honda Accord (named the Duke of burgundy) with a steering wheel so loose I could turn it with two fingers. Blasting sublime on my way to the beach to go surfing. I’m alone and free and full of angst but also somehow happy

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ohfrackthis@reddit

1982 Honda hatchback and PJ Harvey.

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dirtjiggler@reddit

91 sentra, 2pac and linkin park on a burned cd

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al_brownie@reddit

Coming home late from babysitting in my ‘86 Ford Bronco II blasting “Big Empty” by Stone Temple Pilots.

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stormbringerelric77@reddit

was that on The Crow soundtrack? or the purple album? i listened to both like crazy back then

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al_brownie@reddit

Both! Yeah I wore those and Core out.

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pokecheck33@reddit

94 maxima. closing time-semisonic

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NakedJayBirb@reddit

It is 1997. I am driving my 84 Ford Escort home from my job at the library, singing along to Tori Amos's album 'Litte Earthquakes' at the top of my lungs. I am alone. I feel alive.

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DufuqKyle@reddit

69 Chevy Nova, The Crow soundtrack, and my mate Donald who was an exchange student from Scotland who ended up moving in with us because his fundamentalist host family kept trying to convert him, and our 2 lesbian friends were making out in the back seat while we tried not to watch, and all but one of us was smoking cigarettes.

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CalamityClambake@reddit

Shout out to the lesbian in the back seat who could smoke a cigarette and make out simultaneously.

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_NoleFan6@reddit

It’s 1999, I’m driving my 1991 Accord EX 5spd, listening to Juvenile 400 degrees, with my 3 homies in the neighborhood (Terry, D Roc, & J), headed to the mall to scope some chicks 😆. Wish I could go back

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stormbringerelric77@reddit

86 LeBaron, not a convertible. Listening to Pavement, Cut Your Hair

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bjgrem01@reddit

A 1984 Mazda 323 hatchback, Acid Bath in the tape deck, and way too many people to safely fit in a 1984 Mazda 323 hatchback.

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meldiane81@reddit

Rat in a cage Smashing Pumpkins

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

1982 Ford Fairmont listening to Green Day Dookie. I was one of my only friends who drove, so it's everybody.

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SteveEcks@reddit

91 Escort GT

Rage Against the Machine

Chris and Pat

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CookieBarfspringer@reddit

1985 AMC Eagle + Grandaddy

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kingskrossing@reddit

A.M. 180

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BatDad83@reddit

94 Chrysler LeBaron convertible, Deftones tool nin powerman 5000, guys I was the best of friends with who I rarely ever see anymore usually on a country cruise.

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TenaciousBe@reddit

'87 Buick Regal, and depending on the day, could be Wu Tang's 36 Chambers, could be Goo Goo Dolls, could be our local country station, could be old school Def Leppard. The 90s were great for having eclectic musical taste.

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larry_alligator@reddit

driving a 1995 black Volvo 850 listening to 2Pac with either my best friend or high school gf riding shotgun.

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Cisru711@reddit

1991 Plymouth Acclaim, kind of a magenta color. Probably listening to the Blue Album, the Pumpkins, Jagged Little Pill, Tonic, Third Eye Blind, or the Offspring depending on the year. I'm probably heading by myself to work at a fast food joint.

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Living-Video-3670@reddit

More early 2000s, but I had an 88 Chrysler Lebaron. Cruised around with friends jamming mostly non modern music. Metallica, Slayer, Sabbath/Ozzy, zeppelin, etc. Most modern music I was into at the time was Rammstein, Type O Negative, and System of a Down.

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eskimoboob@reddit

89 Buick century. I’m listening to house DJs on the local radio station (B96 in Chicago) and my GF (now wife and I) are looking for a good makeout spot at 11pm

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spookyhellkitten@reddit

Jeep Wrangler, top was also off. Listening to either Ma$e, H2O, or Hatebreed. Nicole is in the passenger seat, the rest is irrelevant.

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hi984390@reddit

1997, my Honda accord with the flip up headlights, smoking Marlboro lights. All my girlfriends packed in listening to garbage or poe, or 7 year bitch, screaming along. Looking for somewhere to smoke 😂 miss those days!

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Jimmy_McAltPants@reddit

96 Mustang, Hotel California, alone. Always loved just taking off and driving the backroads through the mountains listening to my parents music

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SnooKiwis2161@reddit

It's funny, because I'm not really a sports car person, and I'll probably never own one. But just seeing those mid-90s mustangs still makes me so nostalgic, I can see myself picking one up used somewhere if I ever have the cash.

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Jimmy_McAltPants@reddit

They weren’t quick (even for the day only the Cobra had any decent power) and they didn’t handle particularly well, but I loved mine. I have told my wife that I want to get one and restore it at some point. She rolls her eyes, but you always have a soft spot for your first, you know?

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JonSnowsLoinCloth@reddit

In my best friends Dodge Avenger, listening to Biggie or Phish

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Ilves7@reddit

Rocking my parents maroon minivan with red hot chili peppers onway to practice with my friend

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SnooKiwis2161@reddit

Oof.

Maybe we're cruising in the Fairmont with high school friends, listening to the kinks or early trent reznor demos (der komissar, uh oh!). An old friend will accidentally lock us out of that car with only an hour to make it to graduation on a crowded shore town island. We made it to the stage in time.

Or maybe it's the motorcycle on the coast. Everything is quiet. Since you're not around... I live in the numbness now in the background. That whole album on repeat.

Coming back at 2 am from the local theater for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, 7 of us jammed into a car that only holds 5. We'd stop at the diner or the denny's. We'd play the radio and it was stuff like Meredith Brooks and Shania Twain and Chumba Wumba.

I think I lived so many lifetimes rolled into one. It's a shame all of my friends didn't quite overlap, so one group ever really knew I had a life outside the other. That was never intentional, it was just a quirk of my weird life. Maybe I was the richer for it, though.

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unnccaassoo@reddit

My glorious FIAT Panda 750cc, DIY oversized car stereo playing Odelay by Beck or Faith no More' s King for a Day, with one of my sister's friend. She eventually got mad at me because I ended up dating with 3 over 4 of them.

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Anieya@reddit

Ford escort wagon, stick, Matchbox 20, probably by myself

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PatchworkGirl82@reddit

My first car was an '86 Ford LTD, I'm probably listening to WCYY or WBLM out of Portland, ME, and I'm by myself. Probably taking a long drive past the beach, on my way home from my job at the video store.

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NiceGuy60660@reddit

That sounds amazing. Youre like a Stephen King protagonist.

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sexwiththebabysitter@reddit

Pontiac Bonneville, Capone N Noreaga, me and the homies passing a blunt around

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

Couldn’t drive until ‘01. Also, if I were, it’d probably be on the radio listening to my local rock station.

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Kbalternative@reddit

My Fiat Cinquecento, I’m listening to Tupac or Snoop and three male friends are in the car with me. We drove around like for 2 summers in a row and it was glorious.

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SlackerDS5@reddit

My Hyundai excel and I’m listening to summertime by the Fresh Prince. Or a mix of hiphop songs and if I’m alone, cruel summer by Ace of Base.

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kace66@reddit

1991 Oldsmobile, Dispatch "the general" and I am with my buddy TJ. We are off to the cape for a dune party.

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hyperunfocussed@reddit

‘93 Impreza. I’m in the passenger seat, Mikey is driving with Ben and nick in the back seat. Bumping some No Limit.

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GruntPickle@reddit

1990 Volvo wagon. Phish tapes from Fall ’97 tour

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TijayesPJs443@reddit

Notorious B.I.G. in my 318i - best bud riding shotgun and the bimmer bunnies in the back

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anan1016@reddit

My old Corolla, hand me down from my sister, probably listening to Summer Time in the LBC with my best girl friends at the time.

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HasturCrowley@reddit

87 Honda CRX, Korn , u/Portlander. We might also be in his Mustang. Theres a better chance i parked down the street from his girlfriends house after I left mine to wait on him to leave and commit crimes all the way home.

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Portlander@reddit

I still remember being banned from taking separate cars. Times I thought I was going to die from your driving and times you almost died from mine. 😂 That little red MR2 you had was fun too.

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MoparViking74@reddit

‘86 Olds Cutless Supreme, listening to Cake, George Clinton, Metallica or Jimi Hendrix, usually just me. Sometimes friends from football or band or a girl I never got the courage to ask out.

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cbih@reddit

A white, 1992 Ford Taurus, listening to Tool, with my friends, and cruising Gratiot for chicks and weed

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Ok-Pin6704@reddit

My 1984 Dodge piece of crap (Colt). Radio got stolen (twice) so I’m listening to Green Day or Blink 182 on mini speakers plugged into my discman. Driving home from my job at the movie theater at 1am or going to pick up my best friend from her job at the water park and taking her home .

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SnooMuffins7284@reddit

V, the boys and I were pumping Gangstarr and driving loops around the coffee shops in one of our mom's cars. Lol

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staring_at_keyboard@reddit

I’m not giving you my password hint answers.

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LaRamilia@reddit

1991 Nissan Sentra (manual transmission, two door, back window covered in band/record label stickers). Anything on Fat Wreck Chords, Honest Dons, Drive-Thru Records, Asian Man Records, Equal Vision Records, Second Nature Recordings, Revelation Records, Big Wheel Recreation, Doghouse Records, Moose Records (was a local Arizona label), Fueled by Ramen & Fearless Records. Jimmy Eat World during those years always remind me of driving around Arizona at that age 🥹

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thejunkmanadv@reddit

This is exactly what I was driving. Then girlfriend with me and another friend or two in the back seat. Windows down, because my car didn't even have AC as an option when new. I did eventually put a "hang on" AC unit under the dash. Gear heads will know what that is. Otherwise on long trips I had a "Comfort Aire" swamp cooler in the passenger window. I even have a short video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHoNtD6oVg

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subsonicmonkey@reddit

I got to cruise around in my family’s 1985 Chevy Astro minivan.

Well, until I crashed it in ‘97 anyway…

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Any_Nectarine_7806@reddit

Subaru Justy, 102.1 out of Toronto, my buddies and we are alternating cigarettes and joints.

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mellow-drama@reddit

92 teal Camaro. Definitely One Headlight, that song was on endless repeat; or if I put a CD into my Discman it was Stone Temple Pilots.

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pug_fugly_moe@reddit

1993 Isuzu Rodeo manual transmission, blasting Fear Factory with my high school buddies.

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Leucippus1@reddit

Wasn't the Rodeo what Honda used to make the original Pilot, if you wanted a cheap Honda Pilot you just bought a Rodeo.

But, seriously though, I remember driving stick shift SUVs, those days...

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skeptical_hope@reddit

93 Ford Taurus station wagon driven by my best dirtbag guy friend, blasting Dave Matthews on the way to hang out in some pal's basement till 3 am

Or driving to dirtbag guy friend's house to make out during our Friend with Benefits phase. Either playing Dave Matthew's or Soul Coughing.

Ahhh, memories.

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

87 Honda Accord. Probably had either Grassroots or Music by 311 in the Pioneer Tape deck.

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TheJokersWild53@reddit

90 Chevy Cavalier, blasting Van Halen

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kolemsai@reddit

89 Nissan sentra. Pearl Jam

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FloatingSilently@reddit

1970 Monte Carlo. Cracker-Kerosene Hat or the soundtrack to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. My boys Nate and Robinson. A joint or two might have been there too

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L31121@reddit

One Headlight also comes to mind for me because I had a 1989 Pontiac 6000. I got into a lil fender bender about a month after buying it, and it was left with one headlight for the rest of the time that I owned it. Googling a picture of it now I don’t recognize the front end because it was damaged for so long haha

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nopester24@reddit

88 caprice. Guns n Roses. your mom

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

93 full size bronco with the top off. I am sure it was some kind of metal music. Mid to late 90's sadly I was by myself.

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Exciting_Agent3901@reddit

1995-96. 1984 Subaru wagon. Listening to the greatest FM radio station to ever exist- WBCN with whoever can fit into the car.

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Final_Comparison9727@reddit

1989 325i Coupe, Pac, no one because it's just me against the world

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Sensitive_Pianist777@reddit

89 Caprice (96-97) with the vinyl bench seat at the front. 3-4 in the front, 5 in the back, last minute late impromptu BBQ by the beach. 98 onwards, 87 Astro van. Camping, clubbint.

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Obi_Wan_Benobi@reddit

1996 in an ‘88 Aries K station wagon packed to the brim bumping Fugee La

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limelight022@reddit

85 cavalier hatchback, Green Day Dookie, Insomniac or Nimrod, alone. Maybe with my best friend if we were going to the arcade to spend the evening playing videogames.

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casdoodle527@reddit

1990 Nissan pickup, George Strait, Tim McGraw, JoDee Messina, The Dixie Chicks

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OwnPlatypus4129@reddit

Deftones My own summer And no one

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rebretz000@reddit

1986 Dodge Omni 5 speed. Blur, Oasis, Green Day, Nirvana, Offspring, Sublime on a mix tape. Then Buddy Holly’s greatest hits.

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Otisthedog999@reddit

I had 2 Delta 88s. A livingroom on wheels. I loved those cars....

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IvenaDarcy@reddit

I had a hooptie. It was a 1982 Chrysler impala. God I miss that car. So comfy. Listening to some hip hop like Mobb Deep or maybe some local music like Lady Red Smokin Dat Weed. We kept that song on repeat for years. Still fire! I’m riding with my first love! We were together for about 7 yrs. Some of the best times of my life.

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jtmann05@reddit

1991 Ford Probe and then 1995 Dodge Ram around 2000. I had a bunch of burned CDs after coming across deal on an open box burner at Best Buy. Just about every music you can imagine - from plastic rock to Notorious BIG.

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Leucippus1@reddit

I was almost certainly listening to Goo Goo Dolls. In either a 1989 Eagle Summit or a 1992 Chevy Corsica. Don't worry, they were both trash. Along with me was one of a few possible girlfriends.

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Jaded_Jaguar_348@reddit

94 jeep grand Cherokee Laredo, listening to something on the alt rock station with either my friends or solo.

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National_Fig_812@reddit

It's 1996, I have no friends or self-esteem. I'm driving a 1991 Jeep Cherokee and am stereotypically listening to Marilyn Manson of course. He became a springboard to get into music like Skinny Puppy, Bauhaus, Misfits, etc.

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timmytoads@reddit

88 Chevy Blazer. Phish playing from a discman with Velcro attaching it to the center council and one of those CD to tape deck adapters. I’m not really sure how that ever worked, but the discman -usually- didn’t skip!!

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iforgotmylogin32@reddit

1993 Nissan 300ZX, T-tops off, Green Day’s “I wanna be the Minority”, and my buddy John who now lives in the UK is riding shotgun wishing he could grip the “oh shit” bar that isn’t there.

Thanks for the memory OP!

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TraditionalTackle1@reddit

My best friend had an 84 Cutlass that looked brand new, we driving around listening to Rob Thomas and Santana. My first car was a 97 Escort my parents gave to me in 99. I didnt want it but it was practically a new car for free.

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ravenpen@reddit

Chevy Chevette (year unknown) Violent Femmes sitting alone.

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rikafell@reddit

I was into import racing so I had a 96 Mitsubishi eclipse, lowered, with a full body kit. Drove down sunset blvd in Hollywood bumping 2Pac Ambitionz of a Rida with two 10” subs

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VincentMac1984@reddit

78 Buick Regal, my Girlfriend and Radiohead.

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59apache01@reddit

Was driving a 1977 Jeep J10 truck listening to whatever was on the local radio station (no tape deck or CD player). I would've kept that truck forever had some drunk not smashed into it while it was parked at a curb.

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Dark-Empath-@reddit

Nissan 100NX, a mix tape of Rave/Techno, and my girlfriend is in the car with me.

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KhaGhah@reddit

87 Chevy Suburban. Probably listening to Dave Matthews Band and riding with another theatre kid.

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Maximum-Aardvark9467@reddit

My parents '88 Ford Tempo Sedan listening to Weird Al, or Bloodhound Gang. My musical taste was very underdeveloped (Though I actually still have respect for Al)

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the_kid1234@reddit

My buddy driving his econoline conversion van that we installed a new stereo with subs into, playing Beck’s Odelay.

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Maximum-Aardvark9467@reddit

My parents '82 Ford Tempo Sedan listening to Weird Al, or Bloodhound Gang. My musical taste was very underdeveloped (Though I actually still have respect for Al)

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just-_-just@reddit

71 El Camino, Pearl Jam, a lesbian I think I have a shot with

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GarciaWolf@reddit

87 Monte Carlo, and probably The Grateful Dead

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ErnieBochII@reddit

This tape fuckin’ smokes, man. Wanna just keep driving?

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travelinmatt76@reddit

Late 90s I would be driving an 85 AMC Eagle, listening to Pearl Jam. But definitely not with the windows down, it's probably still 90 degrees and 85% humidity.

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AFWolverine@reddit

First car circa 1999 was an 87 Grand Marquis. I'm listening to whatever is on the Cleveland alternative station 107.9 The End. In the car with me is my HS best friend and we're just cruising around carelessly burning gas that's only ~$1 a gallon.

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igorpk@reddit

Late 90's here - 1982 Ford Cortina Station Wagon, Offspring on tape and rocking out with 4 (up to 6) on our way to a bar/show.

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cleanhouz@reddit

I wasn't driving yet. Riding in my best friend's family suburban, voodoo glow sculls, best friend and some friends going to a show.

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dougefresh_one@reddit

Acura Integra, listening to the Throwing Copper by Live

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Chernabog801@reddit

92 teal Honda civic. Top gun soundtrack, Sublime or Jimmy Buffet songs you know by heart.

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instant_ramen_chef@reddit

Driving my modded 90 civic hatch(EF), listening to happy hardcore, riding with one of 3 possible girl possibilities.

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RelevantNothing4653@reddit

96 Toyota Carolla, just me solo .... probably playing Semi-Charmed Life, Everlong, etc at full volume

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Normal512@reddit

77 Chevy pickup.

Probably fugazi.

Mostly my good friends, occasionally a girlfriend, and also quite a bit of times everyone who could fit in the back and crammed into the cab en route to "the field."

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Adventurous_Cloud_20@reddit

1973 Chevy Cheyenne 30, it had the stock Delco AM/FM radio in it (and still does) so I'm probably tuned into 95 KGGO, Des Moines classic rock.

Odds are my ride mooching best friend Mark is riding shotgun, his car was a piece of shit (clapped out 1980 Ford Fairmont) and regularly broke down. If he'd spent less money on the sound system, he might have been able to keep that car on the road.

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Nervous-Shark@reddit

90 Honda Civic Hatchback, listening to The Fugees with my best friend. I also loved to get in my car all alone on hot summer nights, roll down the windows, smoke cigarettes, and listen to (depending on my mood): The Cranberries, R.E.M., Panterra, Bad Religion, The Smiths, Patty Griffin, Beastie Boys.

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vidvicious@reddit

1990 Volkswagen Jetta with no radio and squeaky fan belts. Had a Walkman hooked up to two speakers in there. Probably something from Lookout or Epitaph Records in there.

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Wapiti_whacker82@reddit

1986 Chevy S-10. With a 10" subwoofer in the back. Probably listening to some mix CD.

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johnb300m@reddit

Wasn’t driving till ‘00.

But in summer ‘00, we were in my mom’s ‘92 Dodge Dynasty, 3.3L! Racing fart can Civics, and winning! Blasting some Third Eye Blind, Everclear, or Uncle Cracker.

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Twanlx2000@reddit

'88 Ford Taurus. If I'm by myself and being contemplative, it's Alice In Chains' Jars of Flies or SAP. If there's a girl in the car with me, I'm playing Jewel's Pieces of You because it held special powers.

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Dranem78@reddit

1991 Geo Prizm with 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins blaring through my sweet "face-off" Kenwood stereo lol. My friend and I are going to head to the mall and wander aimlessly before seeing a movie or going to play mini-golf. Putting out vibes for girls like dorks.

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higglesworth@reddit

1983 Saab 900s, probably nine inch nails on the tunes, best bud (still is) riding shotgun

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_Satincoffins@reddit

‘96 Jetta - Common - One day it all make sense Or The Jayhawks - sound of lies

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Mizeru85@reddit

My bf is driving a red 80s toyota corolla all track. We're blazing and blaring skinny puppy or nin xD so edgy

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Relevant_Leather_476@reddit

90’s Ford Taurus .. Jamin that Alt Rock like that rock decade was never gonna end..

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sarahcasarah@reddit

88 Camry. Spice World. Ready to Die. The Immaculate Collection.

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dipietron@reddit

82 Toyota 2wd truck (with the little triangle window turned out for extra air flow), Deftones playing loud, four assed monkey sticker in the back window

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RipErRiley@reddit

I only drove my beast of a car (Lincoln Town Car) to/from school & work. So I would probably be in my buddy’s Buick Century with his custom speaker boxes playing some 90’s rap because…bumps.

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dreadpiratemyk@reddit

Jeep YJ that drove like it had square wheels. No top of course, because I did not own one.
Korn or Deftones or Bone Thugs n Harmony or Metallica before they got haircuts and became hypocrite bitches
My (now) wife, my (still) best friend, wife's best friend, 30 pack of Miller Lite (quit drinking), and a 13mm wrench in case the Jeep needed to be taken apart.

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Zeke688@reddit

‘83 GMC Jimmy. Korn, Rage Against the Machine, or Wu Tang Clan. Definitely up to some hood rat shit.

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RogowskiCoil@reddit

Driving my first car, a 1985 Toyota Corolla coupe with the sunroof open, manual crank windows rolled down, probably listening to Van Halen, Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd or Zep. Riding around with one of two good friends from high school. Though if it's after 1996 I'm carless living in the dorm.

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