My first car was "Bonnie" - a 66 Bonneville with a 389 4 barrel. Sweet! You could fit 8 college kids in it comfortably! It seemed like I got about 2 gallons to the mile! <BG>

>I used to cruise around in my friend's 1973 Firebird (350 engine). And then the "behemoth" - a 1967 Bonneville with a 455 HO engine (got it in 1976). It was owner by a college dean and only had 30,000 miles on it. Had a "Reverbamatic" stereo and got about 2 miles to the gallon.
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>>Fond memories, huh. Back then I used to cruise around in a '69 Pontiac Firebird convertible with a Hurst three-on-the-floor power shifter. (I still have it. I keep it a giant plastic bag in my father's garage.) Back then I had aspirations of becomming a fiction writer. The year after graduation I drifted around Europe with a backpack and a typewriter. Wrote two lousy novels and a ton of short stories. I ended up working as a journalist before I fell into programming.