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Michael Martel's avatar

My first car, I was sixteen. It was purplish. I bought off a fellow dishwasher at the cafeteria I worked in 1980. It was in bad shape, and the brakes tended to lock up, but I loved it.

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LC Sharkey (they/them)'s avatar

The teenage girl down the street - the one all of us tweens on the block wanted either to be or to date - had one her daddy bought her. It was gold. Sparkly gold. It made her seem even more rad than she had before.

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Lisa Cramer's avatar

It’s my birthday today. Apparently I launched a few years prior to the Gremlin. This is a great piece of birthday trivia!

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Robot Bender's avatar

Hey, I liked my '71 yellow and black Gremlin! It was a great college kid car. It got decent mileage and was stone age simple to fix. I put over 150K on mine.

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