The first time you saw your love

I remember the first time I saw my Duster (this was about 8 years before I bought it, so about 1982).
Ernie, the guy who built it (took out the bench, the 318, the original rearend and put in the buckets, the (extremely well built) 340, and the 8 3/4 with the 4.10s, painted it, etc) had it at a garage in town putting the hoodpins in it. We stopped to hang out (whoever I was cruising with must have known Ernie or one of the other guys hanging around).

I remember someone pointing at the trunk lid and saying "Look- a dust!!!" (yes, A dust) and Ernie coming over and going "WHERE???" and blowing it off.

Yes, he was meticulous about this car lol.

I ended up buying it after two other owners -the last of which wrecked the front bumper and the pass. fender when he hit a pole with it- I guess the power caught him off guard. He bought a fender off my brother( who also had a '72 Duster). I bought it and repainted it to (sort of) match the red acrylic paint the car had on it.