[Ep. 49] A 1998 Pontiac Grand Am Named Milo

What was your first car—and how much personality did it have?This week, Trever and Bry take a drive through the cars that shaped their childhoods, teenage years, early relationship, and eventually their marriage. At the center of it all is Milo: Bry’s $200 red 1998 Pontiac Grand Am, complete with mismatched hubcaps, a sticker-covered ceiling, helicopter-sounding air vents, windshield wipers with a mind of their own, and—for a glorious period of time—a magnetic mustache. They swap first-car stories, debate whether every teenager deserves a slightly terrible “beta car,” remember learning to drive stick and survive Colorado snow, and revisit the time Cars may have genuinely helped prevent a highway disaster.There are also giant steel station wagons, questionable ’90s road-trip safety, Mustang Girls, perfect parallel parking, hail damage as a purchasing strategy, and the realization that neither of them actually cares enough about cars to have a normal dream car.So buckle up for an episode about the vehicles we loved, the ones that tried to kill us, and why sometimes the best car is simply the one that’s paid off.Also, apparently there’s a meaningful difference between a winch and a wench. One of us still can’t hear it.