[RKDinOKC]

My first car, and the car I drove to HS was a beat up old 1968 Ford Country Squire station wagon. Bought it from my BIL for $1. He had let my 14 yo niece learn to drive on their property with a lot of trees in it. Don't think there was one undented body panel or one that didn't have at least 2 colors of undercoat showing in places. Dark green with both brown and light gray undercoat. Told everyone is was camouflaged. It had a huge 390 V8 and got a whole 8 miles per gallon. The rear window had to be manually pushed up and down, not cranked, pushed. The front seat was two toned, khaki green and duct tape gray. The horn was a button I added to the dash to make it pass inspection, the ring on the steering wheel was gone.

Got some free tires for it. They were too tall and would rub if you turned the steering wheel full lock. But it would go anywhere. Went thru and over stuff all the 4x4 truck guys were going thru to their amazement. Mostly always made it I think because I had the attitude that if it got stuck, I would just leave it.

This one time there was about a mile of street they had ripped up the street and was grading it out to make it 4 lane instead of 2. It had rained a bunch and it was slick mud. I just drove right on thru winding thru the 10 or 12 cars that were turned every which way all over the 4 lane road including two police cars.

I drove it to go pic up my senior pictures. On the way there the engine caught fire. Fixed all I could and got it running, but the vacuum operated vent stuff in the dash was messed up so the heater and defroster didn't work. That's when I got another car for my primary car and kept it to carry my mowers to mow yards. The A/C still worked!

2nd car was the hot rod 71 Satellite Sebring Plus. 2 door size of a 'cuda, but looked like a roadrunner.
Within the next year also got a 72 Audi 100LS sedan, gave my brother the Wagon and also got a 64 Ford window van to use as my law mowing truck.
The van had a set of tires in it that the previous owner just left in cause he didn't want to mess with them. Put them on the Audi and the were a little oversized, but did not rub. The bigger rubber made it look like a nicer bigger sedan and not a small 4 door import. Girls really liked the Audi, they all thought it was a Mercedes. Quickly became my date dar. It was the only car I put a sticker on. Worked for a company that made and sold medical equipment and got a sticker that said "Not Sterile" in red letters that I stuck on the back window.