CHAPTER 8
Finance and Finances
It was a 1954 Ford coupe.
Like many men on campus, I had a love affair with my car that might have rivaled those I had with coeds. And though a Ford coupe was not prime muscle car material, I spent hours and all my money trying to convert it into a road monster. What I discovered is that although my love for cars is enduring, my love for that car was only temporarily endearing.
Like many youngsters, I failed to fully understand the expense of automobile ownership. Before the coupe entered my world, a bicycle got me around as needed. But bikes lacked the masculine panache of owning a car. An automobile offered the ability to take me wherever I wanted to go whenever I wanted to go there. Distance, rain, stamina, and ...
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