My parents have only twice bought brand new cars. The first was in 1969, when I was about six years old. It was a 1969 Falcon station wagon. The second was in 1988. They looked at a lot of different cars, and decided that the 1988 Tempo was the car for them. They talked to different dealers, to see who would give them the best deal. They wound up buying from the very same dealership from which they had bought the Falcon 19 years before. The salesguy who sold them the Falcon still worked there, and remembered them. When they bought their Tempo, they gave me the Falcon, which I continued to use for many years after that. I had become very attached to this car, and the day I finally had to haul it to the junkyard was a very sad day for me.
This picture was taken just before we took it to the junkyard.
