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OldBaldy1701E

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24. It was a car. A 1979 Ford Fairmont.
Sun Apr 28, 2024, 06:30 PM
Apr 2024

A good friend named the car 'Amway'. It had some kind of experimental carb on the engine (this was the Energy Crisis time after all) which did not work right. It was always stalling out (it was an automatic) whenever I had to climb any kind of hill. I finally got rid of it after it sat in my yard for a few months.

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