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51. Mine was a Pinto, don't remember it's year. Paid $700

Thu Oct 8, 2020, 10:00 PM

Oct 2020

for it at a crappy lot in ‘81, start of my Sr year in high school. POS car, it broke down on the way home from the lot, shit you not. Over the next several months I remember my Dad towing me home several times. But it was before cars got so complicated and computerized, he enjoyed taking it apart and fixing it - showing me how a combustion engine works, showed me how the pistons moved, had me hold the light thing while he adjusted the timing belt. Crap car, but good memories 😊

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