Me (far right, obvs) with my dad (far left) and a Cuban mechanic that he knew with our (now my) Fiat at our house in Atlanta in 1990 or 91. We got this car as a father-son project in spring of 1990 (so this picture is probably summer to fall 1990), when I was in 9th grade, from a friend of his who had bought it new. The idea was that I would drive it in high school but my mom nixed that, so he drove the Fiat as his daily and I (and then my sister) drove his 320iS. The Fiat is an '81 Turbo Spider. Eventually he gave the car to me and I still have it. By now it's a rolling/drivable restoration project, but I have a very strong emotional attachment to it. My dad died in 2005, aged 63. I miss him very much.
