This Weekend's Question: Your First Street Car  

Dad knew better than to let me get something decent for a first car.  So I spent $400 on a 1974 Pinto Wagon.  Left school early one day Senior year in the rain and spun off the road, up the embankment and over one time, landing back on its wheels.  Less than 100 yds from where good friend Eddie Harrington rolled his car a couple years earlier.  The passenger roof was smashed down to the dashboard.  After contemplating what to do for a couple minutes I started it back up and drove it home in the rain with no windshield.  Sold it for parts to Howie Cronce's body man (my future father-in-law) T.A. Bachardy.  The next couple cars didn't end up much better, so Dad was right.