Just in case anyone should think I’m a misomegatreisist (hater of the Big Three), behold the first American automobile I ever owned, and loved: a 1964 Chevy Nova. I bought it for $200 in the Spring of 1974. I sold it for exactly the same amount 4½ years later, having taken the odometer from 57,000 miles to 125,000. You don’t forget cars like that.