how did you get hooked?

[botboy]

When I got my licence, I had bought a '90 dakota with a bad rear pumpkin, so for the first two weeks of driving before I had that fixed I was pimpin about in my dad's '69 Crew LWB, 350/SM465/4x4, got about 7 MPG, wouldn't stop for anything less than my entire weight on the brake and wouldn't burn out either.

Got my dakota, sold my dakota, bought a '70 Chevelle Malibu, sold that because it had more rust than I wanted to deal with fixing despite how much it hauled ass. Went without a car for a while, decided I really wanted a pickup again, was perusing ebay when I found a '72 C10, LWB, Coil spring rear and beefed engine in a local impound lot that nobody had come to claim, body in rough shape. Bid a grand on it, won it at $910, paid to get it retitled, sold the mopar carb off of it and put on a Q-jet, been driving it ever since. Getting a nice body and bed for it tomorrow (hopefully!).