What do you think of this

When I was a kid I spent every weekend at the dragstrip with my dad. He was racing a badass '70 Challenger with a 383 pushing about 600 hp. When I became a freshman in high school back in about 1997 we started looking for my first car. I was only about 14 at the time but my dad planned on building a car that I could use as my driver when I turned 16 as a father-son project. He found an original 1969 383 Dart GTS that was primer red with a pretty rough interior but the engine was freaking built and sounded mean as all hell.

We had it for about a year when I started to worry about what all the other kids in school would think of it. It really did look like a POS despite the fact that it actually drove pretty well. Anyhow, I convinced my dad to sell it and we bought a four year old Mustang instead.

I'm thirty years old now and I still think about that Dart all the time. I've even gone so far as trying to find it but I don't think I could even afford an original big block Dart anyways. But most of all I wish I had taken the opportunity to spend some time working on it with my dad. That's a memory that I WISH I had but I was too young and dumb and ended up pissing it away.

Take my advice, enjoy that Duster. What the other kids think about it makes absolutely no difference. And if you have a chance to turn some wrenches with your dad, make sure you appreciate it because you never know when you might not have that opportunity anymore.