Originally Posted by Mike-in-Orange

My first car was a 1974 Dodge Colt GT. This was a Mitsubishi built rear drive coupe that my sister bought new and my father talked me into buying from her. I desperately wanted a '74 Dodge Charger SE with a 440 auto that I found on a local dealer lot but dad said I'd kill myself in the thing. I really didn't want a little 4 banger but he made me an offer I couldn't refuse and, as time went on, I grew to absolutely love this little car. My sister had only put about 30,000 miles on it, and I ran it up to almost 200,000 before passing it along to my young brother in law. I ended up loving that fact that it had a manual gearbox, that it was light and tossable, and it gave me an appreciation for small cars that I've never lost. In fact, to this day, my preference is still for smaller cars.

Mine looked like the image below, except I didn't paint my stock wheels black - I swapped 'em for a set of American Racing mags.