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Letter of the Month: Father/Daughter Project

Thank you for the great magazine, I’m a longtime subscriber. The no-nonsense approach you use to supply content is second to none. I thought I’d share my latest story with you.

I’m a diehard GM guy, so of course, when my 13-year-old daughter got the car bug, she started asking about… Mustangs. At that point, I had to decide: Do I dig in my heels on a GM product, or do I let this path establish itself?

Recently a pair of Mustangs came up for sale locally, so I told her we’d go look. We looked at both being offered: a Lime Gold ’68 notchback and a school bus yellow ’66 notchback. The ‘68 was rough, but the bones were

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