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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Back in '74 a friend of mine owned an original Bronco. Very nice li'l trucklet. I wanted one but my wife wanted something sportier, so the only new car I ever had was a Mustang II.
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I like the original Broncos, at least looking in from the outside. I've never driven one but every so often I see one that's been kept in good condition by its owner.
A good friend of mine owned a used Mustang II shortly after he graduated high school. He kept it running for close to a year or so before a gasket somewhere on the engine blew out - that was an afternoon I will never forget. Driving anywhere with him was memorable anyway, but that afternoon was the only time he'd ever left a smokescreen. He had just changed the oil and when he turned the engine over again it started acting up. Next thing we knew we were all standing in a cloud of smoke. Well he figured that was the end of the line for his car, so we loaded up and drove halfway across town to the JB's restaurant for coffee. The smoke trail we left on the way was so thick that the police had trouble keeping track of us. Once they drove out of the smoke trail they realized that we had turned off into a parking lot. It wasn't but a minute later that they caught up and politely asked him not to start the engine again until he got it fixed.
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Originally Posted by jimbuna
The first one is always the one you rmember....Ford Escort 1100 estate 2- door.
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Seeing that car reminded me a lot of the Honda CVCC wagon that my grandparents owned. They bought it new in the late 70's and kept it running long enough to pass on to my mother, who in turn passed it down to me. That car served three generations of our family over the course of more than twenty years.
Almost the same color.
Interesting part of our car's history: my grandparents were living in the Idaho panhandle when St. Helen's erupted. The ash that came downwind afterward ruined the engine and they had to have it replaced. So Honda, being the awesome company that it was back then, put a new engine in for them free of charge. Anyway, the CVCC wagon was my very first car. The first time I drove her I hadn't quite figured out how to use the clutch...
and there I was, hurtling along at 40mph in second gear. *wwwwhhHHHIIIIIIRRRR!!!!* "Oh crap! I'd better shift
now."
