Believe it or not, my first car was a 1972 De Tomaso Pantera, #3960, that I still own today. I worked for years while putting myself through college to save up enough money to buy a very tired, beat-up example, which I bought in October 1989. At the time, I didn’t have a driver’s license and didn’t even know how to drive a car!
Here is a pic my father took in front of our house in San Francisco on the day I brought it home....