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Hey folks, if you hear my voice that means you're listening to our eight-part series on the Ford Bronco.

If you're into cars, I think you're going to enjoy this.

Thank you, and Mahalo. I was 13 years old so I had just finished middle school and my parents thought it would be a good idea for me to go out and spend these summer with my uncle.

That's Mike Lavinino.

He's now almost 60, but he still remembers the summer he spent in the mountains with his

Uncle Rima.

He was really, really cool.

He was the uncle that every kid wanted and no parent kind of wanted to have.

He would give you all the things that Uncle should give you. I mean for one of my

Christmases he gave me a gerbil he always gave us water guns and

balloons and everything your father, your mother

really doesn't want flying around the house.

They spent the summer of 1974

crisscrossing Colorado in a bronco. We would go over some of the passes,

mosquito pass, I can remember vividly.

We also went out looking for mushrooms quite often.

It was a great mushroom year. He used to dry mushrooms. We were

Italian so we used to use them in spaghetti sauce and things like that. So we were

always in the bronco. In 1995, Uncle Remo died, it was a heart attack, sudden and unexpected. Mike went to Colorado to help settle the estate and that's when he saw the

bronco sitting in his uncle's driveway. He never got rid of it. He kept it running even though it was in

rough shape. I mean by that time it was 25 years old had

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