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Originally Posted by swimdawg
Snipped from OP by Alan
Have you ever owned a Mustang? Great car!
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I had a red '67 Mustang hard top with the 289 engine.
Sounds nice hey? And now for the rest of the story ...
Like many
children of privilege my Dad bought me my first car in 1975 or 1976 (I forget exact year) as a gift. It was the red ’67 Mustang, my first
very own car.
After we towed it home from the seller’s house
, he then taught me how to replace a water pump and tune the car up so it would run. I wonder how many other kids learned how to use ether to start their first car.
The car cost $100, did not run and it had a dent in the rear trunk, but the trunk still worked. I cannot recall, but I bet we got my “new” water pump from a junk yard. "We" got it running and I could not have been happier. If you squinted your eyes it looked nice enough and it ran great.
I had parked it in front of our house and the neighbor backed out and ran into the trunk. It was already dented there and I saw no appreciable difference to the dent. Insurance company came out, considered the car totaled and wrote me a check for about $325
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I drove it for many more years through college…