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Old Dec 16, 2012 | 03:07 AM
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Default Re: Everybody Remembers Their First

Ii'd rather forget the car since only owned it 6 months. it was a 1965 Impala Super Sport that hadn't run in 5 years. It had the 327. the car had 19X,XXX miles on it and was wrenching on it constantly to keep it running. And to think $200 was a good buy (this was the late 70's and any car would do, especially if it had racing flags as part of the factory emblem). I ended up trading a guy for a yellow '73 pinto which ran great and the first car I learned to replace a starter for. Then it was a'65 Sunbeam Alpine for one summer (fixed gas tank, fuel pump, + others). Traded in the Alpine to a local Buick dealership for a rare, hardly used(as in, it was a trade in at 42k miles) '72 Buick Skylark Sun Coupe. This was my first "real" car (ie; didn't some kind of wrenching the day after I bought it). I ended up keeping the Sun Coupe for 10 years (a long time for a then 20 year olds life). I advertised it in Hemming's' when I decided to move on and Hedy Lamarr's son ended up purchasing it! I've bought, sold, and traded many cars over 30 years. My final configuration is the best. All of these were bought new... '03 Tacoma w/64k, '06 4runner w/61k, '05 graphite metallic srt-6 with 8,XXX (woohoo! I'm on another road trip next week to visit my brother in Half Moon Bay with the graphite, a fantastic GT-ish feeling car that's been on a couple of long distance, in-state excursions), '05 black SRT-6 with 1,3XX than ran out of the box like a finely tuned swiss watch. It was a good day at Karmann. Needless to say, I love my current line up...however, a new GT-R would be quite acceptable to the stable. However, the crossfires would still occupy the best spots in the garage.
 

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