I didn't drive until I turned 18, because my mother wouldn't let me get my license to prevent her insurance from going up. When I was 18, I no longer needed a parent to sign for me, so I went and got that license, but before I had it, I traded Tom an 8 channel analog mixer for a baby blue 1976 Mercury Monarch with busted power steering, bad shocks, and serious enough piston blow-by to prevent the vehicle from passing smog (the reason Tom was so willing to get rid of it). The first year I owned the car, I paid a guy $300 to "pass" it for me. Looking back, that shit was expensive. $300 in 1997 is like $500 now, and that's a lot of money. But it had a 5.0 engine that I tuned up, and before long I was chirping around corners in my first car.
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