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MIKE ADAM GUS BROWN PONTIAC, BUICK, GMC Mike worked in Toronto for an entire summer when he was 16 years cold to save up $800 to buy his first car - a 1966 burgundy Chevelle with a 283cc engine. He recalls the car was really nice on one side, but the other side had body fill and holes. So, when he returned to Grade 10 at Port Perry High School that fall, he would park his car facing the wrong way on the street so the bad side couldn't be seen. He said it was so great having the freedom to come and go when and where he wanted to, and in particular he remembers packing up the car in the winter to drive to hockey games with his buddies. Mike only kept his first car one year before selling it and purchasing his favourite car ever - a 1967 Chevelle. He’s not about to forget it either, since it greets him every day as a screensaver on his work computer. MAGGIE DAVISON CARQUEST - PORT PERRY Maggie has been working in the car business for 25 years, but when asked about her first car - she hesitated.“I think it was a silver 1979 Chevette” she finally replied, admitting she knew very little about cars at that time. Maggie was 18 years old and working at the Port Perry Diary Bar when she purchased her wheels privately and for cash — but she can’t remember how much she paid. She kept the little four-banger for about. five years before trading up. ‘What Maggie really liked about the Chevette was that is was small and easy to park, since she hated parallel parking. She remembers many good times, but mostly her trips with a group of girlfriends to the drive- in theatre in Pefferlaw. When asked about her favourite car - she smiles and says believe it or not, it was a little four-door Skoda that we used here at Carquest as a delivery vehicle. LARRY TAYLOR TAYLOR FORD - PORT PERRY Larry was 18 years old,a graduate of Ux! High School and working as an apprentice mechanic at a Stouffville garage when he pur- chased his first car back in 1964. And he can still remember the 1960 Pontiac Strato Chief sedan he bought at Hooker's Sales in Kinsale. The green four door sedan had only six cylinders and Larry recalls re- building that engine, cylinder by cylinder over the next year: Finally an old friend convinced him to put a new engine in the old clunker . \fter about one year, he moved up to a 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible - which he claims was probably the favourite car he ever owned. It had leather seats, an eight-track cassette radio and all the bells and whistles a car of that calibre had in those days. When asked about his favourite memory of the car, he sits back in his chair and smiles - then says “I have a lot of good memories, but I can’t talk about most of them. FOCUS - OCTOBER 2011 17 OCTOBER.FOCUS.40.indd 17 921 10:12:53 AM