1984 Mazda 929

After a while of being married and my wife had gotten her drivers licence, we decided that it was time to get another car.
Something nicer this time.
When we looked around, we found a nice car that fitted the bill - I like rear wheel drive.\; my wife wanted something that was nice to be in and nice to drive.

We came across a white Mazda 929 sedan which we could "sort of" afford.

This was one nice car - light grey velour trim inside, electric windows, air-conditioning, fully independent suspension.
The downside (for me) was only a 2.0ltr 4 cyl engine - but it actually went quite well.

We still had the Subaru, so if we needed to go to different places my wife took the Mazda and I took the Subi. (The Subi was still fun, but, well..........)

But the Mazda was definitely the nicest thing we had ever owned - the FIAT 2300 was nice, but way older and so it didn't have all the mod cons....

The strongest memory I have of this car was when my wife was pregnant - I had gone to a men's breakfast at church, but half way through we got a phone call at church - this was before mobile phones - and my wife was really sick. Now you have to understand that we had already had several miscarriages, and when I found out that she had gotten suddenly sick, I knew that she would be devastated at the possibility - as I was.
I left immediately and raced - literally raced - home.
I was weaving through the traffic at high speed - and when I say high speed I mean that I saw the speedo on that Mazda hit 180kph - the fastest I have ever driven (even to this day) - and that speed was on a single lane each way road - I must have seriously scared some people, and I looking back it was so stupid.
I would be no use to her dead.
But she needed me, and I needed to be with her.

I got home safely - I have no idea how - the Lord kept the traffic out of my way I guess.
And as it turned out she was very sick, but it wasn't the baby - and our first son was born a few months later.

But that Mazda got me home safely, and although I was incredibly stupid, the car was faultless in its operation - I don't remember thinking that it was out of control at any stage - but in fact, I don't remember thinking anything but about my love and my baby.

Dumb, dumb, dumb, but that's what you do for your family....