My daughter has had her permit for almost a year now. She has been practicing in our Honda Odyssey and has come a long way since the first day I took her out for a spin. I wanted to get her a small car for easier parallel parking, had to be a four cylinder and automatic. Sounds like a 318ti to me...
Of course my wife was like "you and your fricking ti's!" haha. I started looking around and I had a budget of around $1500. I found one after about a month of looking and decided to buy it. It was also getting close to Christmas so I was running out of time.
She is a 1995 alpine with 120k miles. Has a rough idle and needs a new ignition barrel. Of course, I'll need to update all the maintenance as time and money allows.
My goal is to have a safe and care free car for her to take to college next year. I want to overhaul the cooling system, suspension before she leaves. I have the ignition already and I'm ordering all new hoses and such (hopefully will fix the rough idle).
So here are some pics. She had no idea what was coming and was genuinely surprised and very happy.
We had the car parked a few streets away and actually had the cops call me about the car (whole other story, haha)
On a side note, my son just got his permit last Wednesday!!! I can literally feel the grey hairs growing
She was confused and didn't know what the keys were for....it took a few moments hahaha
A new member of the family 
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