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By Ben | 8:35 PM CST, Tue January 01, 2019

My first car was a 1976 Sebring-Vanguard Citicar we named Sparky. It was originally orange, but on the second day I had my driver's license, I hit a parked car and shattered the plastic of the front passenger side corner. Dad found me the necessary materials to repair the body myself, and then we had it painted candy apple red and made a new front bumper out of varnished pine! After I left for college, we sold the car to a collector.

The photos we have of the car are mainly from right after the paint job, but we also used it as a parade float once and entered it in a car show once.

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