First Ride Friday
C10 Talk
Truck Talk Media
4.9 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This Episode of First Ride Friday is brought to you by
New series where Ronnie discuss with his quest their "First Ride". What it was, and what it meant to them or maybe means to them now.
Also - their "First C10/K10/K5" was as well.
So I Starts things off with his "First Ride" which was an '81 Plymouth Horizon Mizer.
At the time, it wasn't his favorite, but it grew on me and as an adult with a son about ready to drive it was wheels, non the less.
Thanks for tuning in, have a great week C10 Nation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to C10 Talk, your C10 truck podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Here's your host, Ronnie Wedge. |
| 0:11.0 | Chiggity check, check, check. |
| 0:15.0 | What up, what up, C10 Nation. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, um, another one of these Friday 15s. |
| 0:24.4 | And I thought I'd change it up on you guys. |
| 0:27.3 | So what I'm thinking about doing is I think our first car or vehicle truck plays such a pivotal role in our automotive experience. And it kind of got me thinking. |
| 0:42.4 | A while back, I recorded episode 99 with John Myers from Kicker. And that was a lot of fun |
| 0:50.5 | and the tech. Well, one of the funny things that kind of came out of that was John was |
| 0:57.5 | talking to me about how, you know, no matter what car, you can find something cool. And I thought |
| 1:04.5 | that it was so funny to kind of hear him, well, I responded about my first car and how there really wasn't anything |
| 1:14.5 | cool about that. I think he said the door handles or something were cool. And that's actually was |
| 1:19.7 | like the nemesis of my first car. So my first car was a 1981 Plymouth Horizon, and it was also called the Miser, Horizon Miser. |
| 1:31.2 | I think it was also the Chrysler Omni. |
| 1:36.9 | So, no, Dodge Omni, Chrysler, Plymouth, Horizon Miser. |
| 1:41.5 | So Sarah Losh, Mama Lash, aka Mike Losh's way better half, she responded. She said, |
| 1:50.0 | hey, that's funny because I had the champ. And she's like, of course, she had to one up me. |
| 1:54.6 | And she posted this thing that showed kind of the cost of these vehicles and kind of the layout of how they, you know, |
| 2:03.9 | what their MSRP was and their fuel mileage and so on and so forth. |
| 2:07.3 | So in 1980, 81, a Plymouth Horizon Miser was MSRP 5,299 bucks. |
| 2:17.5 | Wow. |
| 2:18.7 | It shows the estimated fuel mileage at 30 miles per gallon. |
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