By 1976 the Firebird had turned into a Fred Flintstone Car as Michigan's winters did not interact with a poorly made unitbody car. You could see through the floor mats to the road below. We really needed a replacement car that I didn't have to work on as I was having severe back problems. Everything my wife wanted was too expensive and too small. I was doing some work at an AMC dealer and saw a Pacer and fit in it. Brought her to see it. She hated it, but was realistic. She cried on the way home. Her first new car is a Pacer!!!!!!!!! She cried when she sold it 5 years later.
I liked it so much I bought a '77. Sold it to one of my employees and he tried to make it fly, which it did, it just didn't land well.
This is the only picture I can find of our TR-6. I was restoring it when the garage burned to the ground. Still have a brand new tail panel.
Back problem cleared up so I bought a '79 RX-7. It's funny seeing someone 6'5" get out of one.
Liked the style change on the '80 RX-7 and wanted to trade in the '79. Wife said, "I'll be damned if I'm going to drive a 5 year old Pacer while you get another new car, so she took the '79 while I got an '80.
My next car was a BMW 528e. I hated it. It was so slow it wouldn't get out of it's own way.
My wife got an '82 325e and loved it, but it was for **** in the winter. I got tired of the 528e and got an '83 533i and loved it.
In '88 we got another two BMWs. I got a 750iL that had horrible electrical problems. replacement car was defective, too. Sent us to Munich first class to pick up number 3, which I still have.
