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Originally Posted by derf
Man, I miss my old 77 Caprice wagon. It got me through high school and most of college. It was faded orange with the anemic 305 that hadn't seen a tuneup in about 100K miles. It's a good thing it had that engine or I would have killed myself with it.
That thing could fit 6 of us in the fraternity with 4 kegs in the back. And the beer store/gas station we went to had free air so I could jack up the air shocks in the back to handle all that weight. Those were the days...
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LOL! You too? My first car was the family orange-with-fake-wood-grain-siding '78 Caprice Estate Wagon. 'Thing was loaded for its time with vinyl seats (can't count the amount of times growing up and nearly burning my a** on those!), power windows and locks, cruise control, etc. Ours could have legally seated 8 with the backward-facing 3rd-row seat; I'm surprised you said you only fit 6 in yours, but with 4 kegs, that makes sense)... But man, was it slow and a gas-hog (11 MPG)! What was more embarrassing than driving it to school was wrecking it in front of school on the way there one time; haha (laughing now, but it wasn't funny then 'cuz I rear-ended a lady who stopped to turn left with her little kids in the back; TG I didn't hit 'em too hard and they were alright). Until then, I thought the thing was an indestructible tank. Unfortunately, what I got to replace it wasn't much better, but an improvement (and it lasted me through college; I once squeezed 8 in this smaller sucker)--a used, but well-cared-for, s**t-brown '86 Cavalier wagon (thanks, Dad).
