[AlexW]

I remember when Pontiac was quite the cat’s meow, back in the early sixties.
It was the favorite of rich kids that had their own car.

[Nip]

My first car was bought used in 1972 for less than a grand. It was a 1970 Pontiac le Mans GTO. It was a semi-muscle car, a mid sized V-8 with dual carbs and an automatic transmission.

It would go much faster than I felt safe going. But it also had the punch to get me out of trouble on the interstate more than once. Plus, it was rock stable as I accelerated - something than every car that I could afford since then have lacked.

I should have kept the car when I went back to SEA for a year in ‘75. If I could have seen the future, 12 months turned into 7, it would have been well worth it to put it up on blocks and keep it.

But then, if I had accurate foresight, I would have bought gold jewelery, baht chains, buy the pound when gold was less than $ 40 an ounce too.