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[hafoc]

For a couple of miserable years I lived in the suburbs of Detritus, Michigan. It was the Motor City with a vengeance. The Ford kids beat up the Chevy kids. Both of these gangs beat up the few miserable Chrysler kids in the school. My father didn't work for any of the car companies, so everyone beat me up

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[thewayne]

My first car with power windows was a 1990 Mazda 626LX that I bought new. I told the broker: 'white, A/C, automatic, and that's it.' They called me a couple of days later and all they could find had alloy rims and moon roofs, which I bought. I quite liked that car, though when it started hitting end of life it was really racking up repair bills. I think my dad had a Caprice Classic with power everything before I had my Mazda, but Caprice Classics were power everything even at the base model, if you wanted fewer luxuries, you bought an Impala. I got no options with my current car, a 2005 Toyota Matrix AWD, though I wish I had gotten alloy rims which I will have on all future cars. I did get an aftermarket stereo installed so I could plug in my MP3 player, now my iPhone. My wife's 2010 Subaru has an Aux jack, so that's no longer the issue that it once was. And yes, I remember the mechanical clocks. IIRC, the first family car that I remember was a '69 Impala that had one, it was replaced with a '73 Impala which became my first