In 1982, double-digit interest rates prohibited new car purchases for our cash-strapped family. So for $500 outright, my mom bought a '74 Duster with the 225 V6: the color of a metallic candy-apple coating with white vinyl top & interior. It was the typical one-owner old lady car with standard issue hubcaps & whitewalls. My mom bought it from the family of an elderly lady at her church who had passed away. It was immaculate inside & out. We had the car for about 18 months until mom got a new-in-84 Ford Tempo (which proved less reliable than the Duster). The Duster was rather reliable & an ideal beach car. It was the car that made me appreciate the intoxicating scent of a vinyl interior on a hot Florida day. With its V6 it wasn't going to win many races, but the metallic red with white color combo was sharp. Mom sold the car for about what she paid for it to a family down the street who gave it to their teenage daughter as a present.