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Originally Posted by Martian
I guess that you only paid $100 for it is telling, but it amuses me that the thieves were so unimpressed with your car that they decided to give it back.
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What it tells might be wrong, so I'll tell you what I thought, if I may diverge from this being a "first car" story. I bought it in 1974 and the car was a 1961 Plymouth Valiant. It had the famous slant-six motor and push button on the dash Torqueflite transmission. The car had 42,000 miles on it, one owner, owned by my very good friend's dad, who realized that I needed a car then and he had already gotten a new car and felt that he'd had the Valiant for 13 years of reliable good service and it didn't owe him a dime, so he said "give me a hundred bucks for it". That car never hiccuped or missed a beat the whole time I drove it. To the collector car afficianados
I'll add that it was a historically significant car since it was the
first car ever built in the U.S. with unibody construction ...so this sort of turned into a "first car" story anyway. Forgive me for my temporary insanity going O.T.
I think the reason they gave it back was because they found out it belonged to me and were somewhat fearful that I'd find out who took it, and in my mind/inner fantasy world I was an inner city bad ass and my potential revenge was more than they could bear. Either that or they got tired of it.