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The Seventies

The best days of my life were growing up the 1970s. It was a time of fast old cars and good classic music. Car shows and pizza restaurants seemed to go together.

The 70s slipped away from me, and I moved to North Carolina from the big city of Baltimore. In the 1980s I went to work in the automotive field. I wanted so hard to bring back the 70s. My brother had two old cars for sale. One was a Cutlass Supreme, the other was a ‘71 Cutlass Olds with a 350 engine. That’s the one I wanted to fix up real nice. So I bought it and started fixing it up. For about five years all I did was work and fix up my car. I had a custom-built car and a real nice jam system.

One day I was riding through town and the 70s slipped away from me again. Someone ran into me and totaled my nice car out. Now all I have is memories of the 70s, but I hope one day I can bring them back.

Jerry Kaifos, Laurel Hill

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