RummyTheDummy
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:42 PM
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Flashback: 1988, my first year driving |
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Junior year of high school. I remember the first time I filled up my new first car...75 freakin cents a gallon. I could drive around for a week on 5 bucks. The good old days.
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RockaFowler
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:46 PM
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That was the same year I started driving - we are the same age it looks like (88 was my Junior year, too). I remember when we could fill up for $10 and I had a Mustang for God's sake. Oh to remember the good ole days
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:50 PM
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I loved it, but she later turned out to be a real dog. Still, making minumum wage, still in HS, $98 a month car payment, I had more money than I knew what to do with. Of course the downside was my state (Oklahoma) was creamed by the oil bust and a lot of people were out of work. I saw a freeper the other day saying we need to drill more in Oklahoma and Texas. I don't know about Texas, but this state is no longer producing oil on any substantial scale. Hasn't for several decades now.
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:53 PM
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I had a '76 Ventura. Ahh..that thing could suck down gas. Nothing like delivering pizza in that car with an AM radio and no AC in the Arizona desert.
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:55 PM
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4. Wow ...two class of 89ers. |
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That must have been miserable but I guess the pizza stayed nice and toasty.
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Wed Aug-17-05 09:03 PM
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5. I paid $1 for my first car. |
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A 1972 Ford Gran Torino. 351 V8 Cleveland engine. A kind of bilious green color. My grandpa sold it to me on my 15th birthday for $1.
God I loved that car.
Good thing I still have it. :evilgrin:
Later,
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