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Being the third child with the older ones wrecking and trashing theirs purchased by the "Daddy-Dollar" bank, when it came time for me to join the driving set, I was told "You're on your own". I joined the Service and purchased my first vehicle after saving for two years of military pay for cash. A 1974 dodge van for $3600.00 new------I drove that for 25 years before I bought another vehicle for myself---the current "Diesel Beast" Ford Pickup, which I have been driving for over a decade now. If I don't have the cash for it, I don't buy it. By the way, the Van had a nickname too----it was called the "possum van" after a simalar van on the Red-Green show. I sold that Van after I bought the "Diesel Beast" to a Kid for $400.00 cash that answered the ad in the local paper I wrote: 1974 Dodge Van 318 V-8, three on the tree, one owner, runs okay. The Kid took one look inside at the fur covered bed, plush carpet, paneling, but it was the 1968 decopage of "Miss September" hanging up that I said went with the Van that sold it. He drove that Van off with a grin from ear to ear, telling me he was headed for the lake that weekend for a "party".
