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Posted: 2/2/2024 11:21:55 PM EDT

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1967 Park Lane
1969 Coupe DeVille

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:23:02 PM EDT

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Ford Pinto

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:23:03 PM EDT

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Amish so pretty easy to figure out.

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Tangent to this thread.

Did you really grow up Amish? (Did you never come back after Rumspringa?)

If so, please start a thread about that! I think that is really interesting. I do not know much about the Amish, other than what is see on TV and a time or two driving through Amish country. I assume I have some bad info.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:23:11 PM EDT

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1968 Ford Country Squire station wagon and a Pontiac Tempest, I forget the year.
As I recall, the Pontiac was a POS, and the old man got rid of it. We had the station wagon until my sophomore year in HS (1980).

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:24:33 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/2/2024 11:26:14 PM EDT

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T-tops were dabomb

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:28:58 PM EDT

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Dad had a 3/4 ton Cummins, mom had a couple different vans.

Eventually they bought a Corolla and a Highlander, kept those for awhile but then both ended up with Subaru Foresters.

They just bought my F150 because mom can’t stand the amount of space in the Subaru

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:29:42 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/2/2024 11:30:41 PM EDT

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'68 Pontiac Firebird and a '73 Suburban.
Dad was stationed in Germany and bought the car through the px. It was waiting for him at the dealer when he got home to Colorado Springs. He picked it up and drove back out to California where he was working before being drafted. When he and my mom got married a few years later, mom promptly claimed the Firebird as hers. So he sold his '57 Chevy that he had before the army as well as her Valiant and bought a '70 F250 which he later sold and bought a '73 Suburban.
Mom drove that car, with manual steering and manual drum brakes for 20 years before she bought a T-bird after dad died. The Firebird remained parked for a couple years until I got my license and I drove it to high school. I still have it.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:32:39 PM EDT

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1962 Plymouth Valiant.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:33:19 PM EDT

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As a kid my Mom had an Escort (wagon, I think), and a Taurus wagon.

My dad had all sorts of shit. A few 4cyl foxbodys, a Pinto, a 2wd 4cyl Ranger, a couple old Chevy pickups, a Willys pickup, a couple Bronco IIs, 68 International crew cab. When I was born I'm pretty sure he had a Mustang II, but it wasn't around long enough for me to remember it. That doesn't include his two toys, a 69 Roadrunner and a 56 F100.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:33:31 PM EDT

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Blue Ford Cortina, with black vinyl roof.,.

Before that, a light green AMC Pacer.

Wpuld love to find a Cortina, but they didn't export into the US.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:35:07 PM EDT

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I remember a 1968 VW Beetle, and later a beater 1969 Buick Skylark purchased used that smelled like cigarette smoke. These were followed by a string of Buick station wagons. From the early 1980s until his death about 15 years ago my father drove a series of Cadillacs, ending with a Lincoln SUV of some sort.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:35:40 PM EDT

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I came home from the hospital in a '68 SS396 Chevelle, but it got traded off and the only memories I have of it are second hand. The first family car I remember is a '73 Chevelle. I remember when we rolled the odometer over in that beast. Later on Dad gave it to Grandpa and after he passed away he bought it back from Grandma and we went through it and I put another 100K miles on it. Unfortunately the last time I saw it was stripped down in a salvage yard. The '73 and later A-bodys don't have the aesthetics of any of the earlier models but for purely nostalgic reasons I would love to have one to play around with now.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:35:47 PM EDT

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My adopted parents bounced my head of the windshield of 67 barracuda as an infant.
68 ford van
76 ford van
80 ford granada
There a few more in there.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:36:08 PM EDT

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Mom had a 76 Grand Prix and Dad had a 78 Gremlin. Later my Dad got an S-10 and my Mom got an 87 Cavalier wagon. My sister had Nova.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:36:11 PM EDT

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First cars I remember:

Dad's car:

Mom's car:

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:36:37 PM EDT

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Red Astro Van, with red interior. Rode in that beast to go see Jurassic Park in the theater.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:37:02 PM EDT

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1972 Firebird 455 Ram Air similar to this.

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My father tried raced a BMW 3.0CSI on the autobahn, got up to around 130 a threw a rod.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:37:20 PM EDT

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Mom’s car:

1966 Volvo 122S.

Later, I learned how to drive in that car.

ETA

Dad’s car:

1958 Plymouth?

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:37:55 PM EDT

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We had a 68 Catalina that had replaced a 67 GTO (it always ran hot and dad traded it in) . I do not remember the GTO , I was born in 66. They both shared the Catalina as mom didn't work.

About 73 dad bought a 69 chevy pickup and mom got the Catalina.

Grandparents had a 70 Impala. Every vehicle they owned were Impalas.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:38:14 PM EDT

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I think the year was a 72, Caprice. Metalic Pea.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:39:08 PM EDT

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260zx, 280zx, 300zx, Baby Blazer....for my mom
Dad was a wood panel, gold/brown, Pontiac station wagon with the suicide back facing 3rd row seat.

Guess when my brother and I outgrew Z car back seats lol

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:39:12 PM EDT

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I remember exactly this is gonna go until I graduated HS

Dad a\..F100, Ranger, Ranger, 1991 Wrangler, 2002 RAM

Mom olds 98, astro van, suburban, tahoe Limited, 740i, Mustang GT, Jeep JK

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:39:20 PM EDT

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Earliest car memories are my dad’s blue 1965 4-door Chevy Impala and my mom’s green VW Beetle.

I hated it when I got too big to ride in the rear storage area behind the backseat of the Beetle.

I also remember my father complaining about the poor gas mileage of the Impala in the 1973-1974 timeframe (OPEC embargo).

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:39:38 PM EDT

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1970 Mustang Mach 1 Twister Special, Dad is the original owner and still has it.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:40:14 PM EDT

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A tiny MG of some sort. I had to stand between the seats as there is no back seat. Dad got a pickup when I was 4.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:41:15 PM EDT

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Rusty shitboxes

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:41:38 PM EDT

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I was born in 1971, earliest I remember was an early 70's red Toyota Celica. Pretty sure they traded it for the first 1976 FJ40 Landcruiser (red of course) and then that one got upgraded in 79 with another just like it. Those were Dads, first car of Moms I remember was a mid 70's Pontiac Grand Prix, Red with White Pleather interior

. We had a lot of cool cars, Olds Toronado, RX7, Cadillac Coupe De Ville, Jeep J10 that I loved, various pickups. My first car was a 1980 Scout II, black with white rallye stripe. Man I wish I still had that thing and those land cruisers

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:41:59 PM EDT

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Mom: '78 Camaro (bought new, 1st car I really remember her driving; she had an older Camaro before that, I think), '82 Riviera (bought used in '85, she drove it until after I graduated high school)

Dad: '77 Camaro, '87 Isuzu pickup (bought new, he drove it until he died in 2010; I got his Camaro when I turned 16...still wish I had it)

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:42:58 PM EDT

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I was 6 years old in 1969, and we lived in a trailer similar to this about a 1/4 mile from the railroad tracks in southern Iowa. My mom would have been about 21 and my dad would have been about 26 years old. My dad was not very responsible and he had the two cars pictured below (not my pictures, I should see if my mom has any pictures left).

True story.

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351 Cleveland with a manual transmission. My mom could jam some gears and smoke the back tires up to 3rd gear. She is 75 years old now.

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302 Boss with an automatic transmission. We ran out of gas A LOT of times in this hot rod.

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Good times. Thanks for this thread OP.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:44:25 PM EDT

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'61 Eldorado convertible. White with red leather interior.

Some kind of old Chevy panel truck with see through floor boards.

'65 I think Corvair Spyder.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:44:58 PM EDT

[#33]

Mom had this.

Dad had this.

Those were the same colors they had too.

That amc was way ahead of its time.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:45:52 PM EDT

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My parents always considered a vehicle to be transportation. Over the years my dad drove old VW Beetles, a VW bus, Chevy pickups, smaller pickups of various name plates, a Fiat that he absolutely hated, an old school Mercedes, etc. They only ever bought one new vehicle that I remember, and they drove that until the body rusted off the frame. He spent a good chunk of my youth restoring a 1930 Model A Ford Coupe. He later swapped that out for a '29 ragtop.
My mom eventually settled on Volvos. She liked the reliability, I guess. A string of Volvos for the last 20-some years of her life.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:46:25 PM EDT

[#35]

1960 Mercury convertible in black

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:47:15 PM EDT

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My dad was a foreign car mechanic when I was at home, we drove many English and French and some German cars. Also had straight 8s Fords and Pontiac(?). My high school car was a 58 Citroen ID 19. Also had a 58(?) Simca. Dad had a Simca 62 he put some mods into, duel SU carbs and stuff. English Fords, Anglica(?) and Auston of England. Many others. He put a super charger on the AoE. hot little car.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:47:17 PM EDT

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1965 Plymouth Fury with 318 V-8. Not very fast.

Before that, 1957 Ford Station Wagon, V-8.

Before that, 1955 Chevy Belair. Engine unknown.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:48:08 PM EDT

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Ours was the same car but without the shine.

This is the same as my mom's car but hers had the stock hub caps w/o trim ring, IIRC.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:48:19 PM EDT

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The first car I remember my dad driving was a barracuda, which was red with black interior. My brother and I sat in the back. If it had seatbelts were never wore them. While dad drove we would jump up and down and yell faster Daddy, faster. When dad slammed on the breaks we would tumble over the front seats and land on the floor in the front. Ah there was no child safety in the 60's. The next car my dad had was a 1972 Plymouth Scamp. My dad drove this car until about 1980 when he bought an Oldsmobile delta 88 diesel. It was my first car. It was a horrible car, ran great but my two older brothers and I were all over 6' tall by 1976, it had black interior and no ac. It made life in Southern California pretty miserable. Every summer my dad would drive our family (5 kids, two adults) up to Oregon in what was essentially a two door car the size of a Toyota. Dad chewed tobacco and I sat behind him and he was kind enough to yell Duck before he spit. ahhh the not so good ole days.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:48:32 PM EDT

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Lada in Russia:

Then a Buick LeSabre when we came here:

Then a Chevy Astro

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:48:36 PM EDT

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'51 Chevy two-door sedan, black, 235 six with 2-speed Powerglide.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:49:15 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/2/2024 11:51:16 PM EDT

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Early 70s Grand Prix parents had I remember as a kid. Then they got a Honda Civic Accord late 70s I think. And dad had a 67/68 ford 250 that was used for camper,working at house,etc

Dad also had a nice 65 mustang fast back he restored since his side work was body work and painting cars

But overall they had many different cars of all makes.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:51:25 PM EDT

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1956 two-tone Dodge.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:51:27 PM EDT

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1952 Ford flathead with 3 on the column. I was born in 1953 but dad kept the car into the mid 60's. I learned to drive it.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:54:02 PM EDT

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Oldsmobile station wagon. With wood panels of course.

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I babysat for a woman who had an Old's station wagon. She caught me elbow in the window with the automatic window openers (must have been a new technology) and they had to remove the window for me to get my elbow out of it.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:54:29 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/2/2024 11:56:53 PM EDT

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1975 Plymouth Fury. It's the kind of car the "hold the damn flashlight still" and "hand me the wrench, NO the OTHER wrench" memes are born from.

I learned a lot about working on cars on that POS with my dad as a kid.

Posted: 2/2/2024 11:57:27 PM EDT

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(Early 70's) My dad drove a 1967 Pontiac GTO similar to this one. The vinyl top was white with a white interior. He installed Thrush side-pipes. I recall him taking us for a ride up on the new interstate. He came to a complete stop then dropped it. We about got sucked into the trunk. We couldn't lift ourselves off the back seat.

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I remember this shifter but it had a chrome "T" across the top instead of the ball.

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At the same time mom drove a 1968 Olds Delta 88 coupe very similar to this car. It was no slouch. She liked leaving tailgaters in her wake.

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Posted: 2/2/2024 11:57:38 PM EDT

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Not actual photos but same colors. '81 Chevette and a '76 Dodge van.

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