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My older brother had one of those Plymouth Fury II's that someone mentioned. What a boat!

My first car was the hand-me-down from my mom: 1973 Plymouth Valiant, 225 slant 6, automatic trans, kind of greenish-tan color with an dark green vinyl top. Seriously styling! Was the first year of electronic ignition for Plymouth, as I understand, and would occasionally just quit running. Learned to keep a spare ballast resistor in the glove compartment. When it ran, it was SLOW. But at least it also had horrible gas mileage. What a pile. But it got me where I needed to go and that was plenty good enough for me!

Family musical cars ensued a year later and I traded WAY up to a 1979 Monte Carlo with the 305 V8. Had bucket seats, console (auto) shifter, rally wheels, nice tan color... I thought I had died and gone to heaven! This was 1982 or so so it was only a few years old. I was living large!

Another year later, another round of musical cars, and I ended up with a 1979 F150 which I drove for 17 years. Funny thing... never really liked it. Maybe 'cause I lost the Monte Carlo for it? LOL. And I think since then, all manual tranny cars for me.

Bikes: I guess someone said that's a different thread, so I'll restrain.