Well my FIRST car was a hand-me-down from my parents, a 1970 Dodge Dart 4-door with the trusty Slant-6. For you younger guys who may not know about the Slant-6, they couldn't get out of its own way... but you absolutely couldn't kill 'em no matter how hard you tried, those damn things would run forever. When I got the car in 1984, it had 193,000 miles on it - the motor still ran great, but the floors were totally rusted out. Lift up the floor mats and you could see road running underneath you [sm=yikesomg.gif](my friends all nicknamed it the "Flintstone-mobile"). I ended up junking the car with 201,954 miles on it... but the Slant-6 still ran.

My first "official" car that I bought with my own money was... a 1970 Dart Swinger (2-door) with, you guessed it, the Slant-6. Had that car my junior and senior years of high school, it never let me down - started every morning even during the harshest of sub-zero Pittsburgh winters, even when my parent's new K-car sometimes wouldn't. I sold it to a friend of mine in 1987 when I went active duty AF - he got drunk one night, ran a red light and got T-boned by a Ford LTD wagon, so it unfortunately met an untimely demise... [sm=outcold.gif]