robertjerl wrote:
None of these, I had a 1954 Buick Century* with a 1955 Buick Road Master v8 engine. I drove that from 12th grade, halfway through my second year of college when the engine blew. I went to the local salvage guy's garage and bought a 1949 Studebaker for $35 to finish the college year before moving to So. California to live with my Mom and Step Father.
I got a job to buy another car and get back in college but got my draft notice before I could afford a car. So I said, "Hell no, you aren't drafting me!" and enlisted in the regular army.
When I came home after discharge in Jan '69 I picked up a 1969 Chevelle 4 door V8 I bought from the GM rep at the PX in Vietnam. They delivered it to a big dealer near the LA Airport a week after I got home and the next day was my Mom's day off so she drove me over and dropped me off so I could pick it up. I drove that until 1976 when a light went red in front of me on a rainy day. I braked, but bad luck, I was on an oil slick and a down hill slope so in spite of going slow in the rain I slid right into the first car going through the light, totaled both cars.
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Lots of bad luck there for you. but you came home and survived a major car wreck. Welcome home, brother.