I don’t have a photo but I saw a photo very much like my first car, 1970 Impala. It was a gift from my boyfriend, except I did not know how to drive so I gave it to my mother.

The first car I bought was a 1974 Firebird Espirit. It was sitting on a dealer’s lot. I was passing by on the streetcar on a rainy day, and I swear, the car called to me. Firebird red outside, white leather inside. It was way sexier than the one on Rockford Files. (The bottom picture.) And possibly faster too, it was stripped down and souped-up. Weighed close to only 2000 lb. This was the car I learned to drive on. It took my entire year’s salary as a beginning teacher, but I loved that car.

It was my car buddy - there was never a moment when I didn’t know where that car was. Rear wheel drive no winter tires (I didn’t know about them) the car taught me how to get along with it in winter, on wet ice, on hilly streets - never mind, I loved that car!

Lol, you’d have to speak 3 languages and know how to solve probit equations for my security questions.