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TOliver

Remarkable coincidence. My very first car that was entirely my own was a '58 Anglia, white, with red vinyl seats, purchased in 1962 for about $300. Constantly having things going wrong with it, but it kept running, being easy to fix by using the 280-page owners manual that came with it. It blew a head gasket once, and I managed to drive it for about another 150 miles before getting it fixed, by constantly pouring water into the radiator and occasionally siphoning excess water out of the crankcase. Needed to get it up to about 30 mph to smooth out the engine under those conditions, but my gas mileage almost doubled until I got it fixed. "Burned" twice as much water as gas. A year later I was sitting drinking beer with one of my professors, whose wife had recently left him, and he was saying that he needed to get a smaller car, and I said that I needed to get a larger car, so we went down to the courthouse and traded cars, my anglia for his '56 Chevy wagon. Cost us $10 in processing fees to make the trade, and the clerk threw in a half-bushel of cucumbers free. I then drove that chevy wagon for the next 4 years.

Charles