I learned to drive on my friend's 1969 Dodge Coronet, but my first car was a 1975 Gran Torino (not red with a white nike swoop, alas). It was actually my mom's car, but I considered it mine. That lasted a year and then I bought my a 1979 Mercury Zephyr from my dad's company. The Zephyr lasted me 10 years and was the most basic, underpowered, poorly made pile of crap that America could produce in the late 1970s. A 3.3 liter inline 6 with a single barrel carb and under 90 hp, and I still figured out a way to get in lots of trouble.
