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The port was Bayonne, but I spent three months at a large Army base right next door to a huge Air Force base waiting for orders. I know what you mean about fast cars being out of style and cheap. I paid $2,600 OTD, for the '72 Mach-I HO. a few years later a '71 Boss 351 was only $2,900 and with...

It depends on how you drive them? Heavy use of the right foot kills the mileage, light pedal done correctly gives enough performance to jump ahead of most, 99%, of traffic. Lighter throttle and the cruise control gets great gas milage down the highway. Maybe mid 20s!! It is so much better on the...

Gas used to be 27 cents a gallon in the PX! You bought "Coupons" that could be traded for Liters at any ESSO station in Europe. But the Insurance was the Magnum-cum-Opus killer back then. You could drive on green USAEUR Plates for five bucks, IIRC, but the insurance was more than the cost of the...

It was never panic selling, but either money troubles from being in the Army, or a better deal, I thought at the time. But back then people traded cars every year or two and you could buy them used cheap! What I'd give for my bank account today and a time machine. I'd have to rent a barn! A big...

No, as my fortunes rose and fell, I went through a Porsche 911 and the cost of getting it back into the states, two used 71-72 mustangs, a trio of wrecked Honda Z-Coupe's for the misses, then bought an 82 TransAm. as great as it's handling and aero was, it desperately needed a BBC swap. A...

I bought the first on leave from a dealer in, or near Skokie, ILL. It was one of two Boss-429s made that model year, as told to me by the dealer, I now suspect he was not truthful, but it had the big valve covers and huge headers, this being august or September of 1970. It was dark/bright blue...