My parents had 3 cars in the early 1970's - when I was first driving. The newest was a 1973 Grand Am 4 dr in Admiralty Blue with a black interior. 400 V-8, 2 bbl, automatic transmission. But it was regarded as cool by my friends and the girls in my high school, so it was a huge plus to be driving. My parents kept the car until after I had graduated from college, then as an 8 year old 120k+ mile car they gave it to me to use in Madison where I was attending graduate school. It lasted to about 127K and then the increasingly frequent repairs made it infeasible to keep. I ended up selling it for $400, which was about the going rate for a set of the Rally II mag wheels it had. The next time I saw the car it was in the parking lot of a west side shopping mall, the Rally II wheels were gone (replaced with plain steel wheels and no hubcaps) and there was a massive Metallica sticker in the rear window along with other indications of its desecration. Nostalgic bubble popped!