Your first ride... and what happen to it.

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

I drove a vehicle that is the epitome of style and "pimpness" as they say - the good old, sea-green Gabrielov family Dodge Minivan (1997?). This is a very, very special car. First of all, the backseat doors only occasionally worked (the rest of the time they locked up regardless of whether not the car was locked up).

What happened to it?

I was driving along a residential street in my neighborhood at a fairly demure 20 mph or so. We had car problems in the past but nothing particularly extreme. Suddenly, I couldn't turn the wheel easily and the car seemed to be floating very strangely. Looking in my rearview mirror, I saw my transmission. On the road. In pieces. The thing fell off of the car apparently! I fortunately was able to swerve off of the road rather than incoming traffic. It would have been more expensive to fix the transmission and maintain it then to just get a new car...so off it went to be sold.