This has nothing to do with anything, other than the fact it was a car.


I got my first new car ever in 1978 off the showroom floor at C&C Ford in Horsham, PA for $4500. It was a Pinto wagon with 'California Touring Options', which consisted of some striping, no typical side windows other than two little portholes, and louvres over the back window.


My older brother used to call it the 'Cabesa' party wagon....but that's a whole different story. It had a three speed on the floor. People told me I was and idiot for buying it. I may have been an idiot for other reasons, but that sucker ran like a champ for 14 years (and 200K+ miles) and I got rid of it about a month before I moved down here in 1991.


Ahhhh...the stories I could tell about the adventures in that car.


Well...the ones I can remember anyway....

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