1977 Aspen R/T Super Pak

This was my very first new car!  Well, sort of.  It was a dealer demo with 6000 miles on it.  I had been working since I was 16, saving and saving.  My dad was going to give me $500 for high school graduation to boot.  So in May of 1977, one month before my 18th birthday and my high school graduation, I was getting a new car.  I remember going to Pointe Dodge in Detroit and plopping down $4200 for this beauty.  My dad cosigned for my first loan.  I don't know how much it was for, but I remember my payment being $51 per month (that's what we pay for cable TV/Internet now!).  I had the dealer take the tires from my 70 Duster that I traded in and put them on the Aspen.  After a few months, out of high school and thinking  of college, I started getting nervous about the expense of a car payment and insurance.  In addition, the dealer never balanced the tires and the car shook above 60 mph. The stock AM/FM radio didn't sound like the stereo I put in the Duster.  I couldn't afford the wheel balance and a new radio in addition to the payments.  All this responsibility was too much for an 18 year old grocery store clerk on his way to the local community college.  I ended up selling the car for $3700, a loss of $500.  Boy was my dad mad.  He told me that was his $500 he gave me for graduation that I lost.  The day before the new owner picked it up, I scraped it against our house backing out of the driveway.  I had to drop the price another $50 bucks. All of my friends thought I was crazy.