I bought a 1979 Olds Omega coupe the summer after first year university (1988) as I got a summer job working roughneck and needed to get out to Fox Creek asap. In retrospect, I should have got a pickup but I pounded that car up and down lease roads all over the province. Got it stuck on a muddy lease out near Drumheller at one point and had to have it dragged out. But it had cruise and a tape deck and it took me a lot of miles.
Eventually the hatch was being held down with some rope as it wouldn't latch and reverse stopped working. I talked a girl I met at Curly's one night into helping me push it out of a parking spot so I could give her a ride home. Probably got a good three years out of that car which for a couple of grand wasn't bad.
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