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First Car
...was a 1959 Simca Aronde. Four door, four on the column, cloth bench seats, pea green. French engineering with British mechanicals...the worst of both worlds. I bought a cheap set of Whitworth sockets at Pep Boys and resorted to an adjustable wrench when the sockets failed to fit. A cloth covered wiring harness and Lucas electrics completed this horror show. I worked all summer to earn enough money to rebuild the engine but came up short and couldn't afford to redo the head. Needless to say the car continued to run like crap and I was broke. To this day I don't have a picture of that car although I can still smell it...like an old horse blanket left out in the rain.
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