What I Know About Driving.(Column)

Byline: Cory Farley The 16-year-old neighbor, the one I helped "restore'' (read "tune and wash'') a Pinto station wagon a couple of years ago, showed up Saturday with his 15-year-old son. The kid-the younger kid-just got his learner's permit, and they were practicing when they saw me in my driveway.

As happens these days, it turned out my sense of time had slipped a cog: The former Pinto pilot is 40 now and drives a Saab, which is just weird. The Pinto had been his grandmother's, handed down. Her maintenance-is-for-sissies attitude, plus the months the car sat until ...

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