New Car Smell

The approval from Ford Credit came through in three days and the sales guy called me from the office to say I could pick the car up.

In addition, Ford had a $500 cash back promotion that he had wangled for me, so I didn't have to pay any deposit.

On the 21st of January, 1988, George Sonnenburg gave me a lift up to the Ford dealership in his Volkswagen Rabbit, dropping me off, I signed my life away and picked up the keys.

It was a puzzling five minutes in the car park as I tried to start it, the trick being to push the clutch pedal in when turning the key, after a few days, I would be a master of that particular operation.

I breathed in the new car smell and drove home to Ajax.