Car from Childhood

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My first car memory was of my dad's 1956 Dodge Coronet Lancer. It was a three-tone with a cream top, charcoal hood and trunk, and coral along the sides. The interior was black and white with a push-button transmission. I used to think that push-button trans was so cool. What impressed me the most though was the engine. I can remember going into the garage and lifting the hood to just gaze at the most beautiful sight I had ever seen (I hadn't started noticing girls yet). It was a big red engine with Red Ram spelled out on the valve covers and a big, black air cleaner sitting on top. I knew then what an awesome sight a V-8 engine was. I never got to drive it as before I reached driving age my dad had traded it in on a new 1965 Dodge Coronet. It was a shade of light (ice) blue with a blue interior. It was the car I first drove, and it also had a red engine (no script on the valve covers though) with a black air cleaner. It didn't have the magic or sheer attraction as the 1956 did to my young mind though.