@mitchw This makes me wonder if my mom’s old 1985 Plymouth Reliant K-car is still on the road in the Antelope Valley outside Los Angeles where she sold it to a friend. I really should have kept it but I was barely 16 and dad gave me the Datsun 200SX instead

@mitchw I have a list of things I’ve said that I regret. One of them was when my mom got her very first new car (they’d all been hand-me-downs from my dad before that.) It was a 1974 Ford Pinto and I mocked her for it. I still feel bad that I was mean on what was a super fun day for her. She did say that they figured buying the car AFTER the other ones blew up that it was probably one of the safest cars you could buy.

@mitchw true— and it was a 5 speed so I had to learn how to drive manual transmission which is a good skill to have.

But I probably could’ve kept mom’s car going a bit longer than dad’s since those K-cars were built like small tanks.

@mitchw @starrwulfe Cool auto history here. I had a standard shift ‘85 Isuzu P’up that I put 200K miles on here on Hawaii Island. I had bought it at the dealer for $5,999. It had no A/C or power windows, but had the bigger engine. Sold it for $1000 in 2000. Wish I still had it

@hawaiiboy My favorite teacher in junior high in L.A. had an Isuzu Pup that was dropped 2” and to this day I’m convinced it’s why my dad bought an ‘85 Toyota pickup and did the same low rider drop and put mags on it. We both used to say how nice that truck was whenever he came up to the school.
I miss my daddy’s truck more then him I’ll bet too