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Posted: 2/3/2024 9:59:49 AM EDT

[#1]

60 Impala earliest one I remember, then 64 F100 to go with it and finally 66 Galaxie. Also 73 IH pickup for farm truck and I inherited the 64 F100 in 76.

Posted: 2/3/2024 10:00:45 AM EDT

[#2]

My stepdad drove a Mid 80s chevy suburban big steel fucker with a 350 in it.
My mom had a Blazer and then went to a cutlass (I think).
My dad drove a Chevy Corsica back in the day.

Posted: 2/3/2024 10:15:00 AM EDT

[#3]

Dad had a Econoline van, mom had a LTD and a Volkswagen Rabbit.

Posted: 2/3/2024 10:38:38 AM EDT

[#4]

I don't remember most of the earliest ones. Back then, families had no more than one car and most mothers were at home. I remember a red Ford station wagon and a dark green Pontiac station wagon. All used. I remember their first new car was a 64-1/2 Mustang with 289 & 4-speed; sure wish we still had that. Plymouth Duster and Old Cutlass after that.

Posted: 2/3/2024 10:48:13 AM EDT

[#5]

I remember a Kaiser and several Nashes. Two Rambler station wagons.

Posted: 2/3/2024 10:49:42 AM EDT

[#6]

Dad had a Datsun 280ZX.

Mom had a big woody wagon.

Posted: 2/3/2024 10:52:07 AM EDT

[#7]

Earliest memory was of a station wagon. Riding in the very back facing traffic ??.

Most memorable going cross country riding in the back of a 70’s Dodge pickup with the aluminum camper shell that had a makeshift bed.
Dad had rigged sound powered phones in it so I could talk to him and Mom on the drive.

Posted: 2/3/2024 10:58:53 AM EDT

[#8]

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:02:38 AM EDT

[#9]

Dad: Chevy Citation. White with tan interior.

Mom: Ford LTD. Mintish green with green interior.

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:02:40 AM EDT

[#10]

1970 Caprice with 400 small block

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:04:06 AM EDT

[#11]

42 Ford 1 1/2 ton truck-- What could be had after the war.
52 Chevrolet sedan -- What could be had later after the war.
64 Mercury Meteor-- Good cattle market.
66 Pontiac Chieftain -- Sold the ranch.

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:05:37 AM EDT

[#12]

Like this one but was a used car, paint already faded. Dad was very frugal. Never had a new car in his entire life even though he could have well afforded one. 1949 Ford:

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Posted: 2/3/2024 11:21:20 AM EDT

[#13]

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Posted: 2/3/2024 11:28:34 AM EDT

[#14]

Ford station wagon all the things. I think we owned a total of 6 of them when I was growing up.

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:35:32 AM EDT

[#15]

73 VW Bus and a 74 Land Rover.

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:39:06 AM EDT

[#16]

An 80s diesel dodge ram and a stick shift colt

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:40:48 AM EDT

[#17]

There was only three of us so single cab pickups were the norm. Then Jeeps, came around as well when we moved to New Mexico.

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:41:30 AM EDT

[#18]

Dodge omni and caravan.

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:42:27 AM EDT

[#19]

My grandma had an '84:Chevy S-10 blazer, then she upgraded to a '90 GMC Jimmy when I was 5. My mom had a '74-ish Buick Apollo.

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:46:39 AM EDT

[#20]

Step dad represented a local Pontiac dealer for many years. Mom had a new '69 GTO and dad liked the Le Mans sports.

Posted: 2/3/2024 11:56:30 AM EDT

[#21]

My dad bought my mother a Mercedes 220 shortly before he left for Vietnam. It had the vertical speedometer that changed colors as it rose...fascinated me as a kid.

They traded it for a 1972 280 SE 4.5 after he retired. Almost identical to this car, but my uncle put a black vinyl roof on it. Sounds like heresy, but he owned the Mercedes dealership and knew his stuff. It was beautiful.

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Posted: 2/3/2024 11:59:33 AM EDT

[#22]

mostly suburbans and pickups but there was an oldsmobile delta 88 in there somewhere

Posted: 2/3/2024 12:19:17 PM EDT

[#23]

Earliest memory…..

Mom, 64 Ford Falcon
Dad, 57 Ford station wagon.

Posted: 2/3/2024 12:31:59 PM EDT

[#24]

1937 Packard, 57 big finned Plymouth with push button shift, and more.

Posted: 2/3/2024 12:40:33 PM EDT

[#25]

Dad drove a '72 Olds Toronado 455 Rocket w/front wheel drive

Mom drove a '76 Olds 98 Regency brougham with a 455 Rocket/Th400.

Family has a thing for torque monsters...

Posted: 2/3/2024 12:43:18 PM EDT

[#26]

My dad bought a black 1948 Ford 2-door sedan after he got out of the army. Manual transmission with three on the tree. That was our family car until 1968. I remember it seemed so ancient compared to everybody else's. It looked like this except not shiny.

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Posted: 2/3/2024 12:45:31 PM EDT

[#27]

When we were we little lads, single digit age:

(None of these are original pics)

Mid 60's, I was 5 in '65, Earliest I remember, but light blue. Dad said he paid 2400 for it, lasted 10 years. He said the tops of the fenders started rusting out so he riveted sheet metal there to keep mud and dirt from flying on the windshield.

1965 Rambler Classic wagon

Then this, mid 70's(?) 1972 Suburban

Early/mid 80's:

78 Thunderchicken

75 Dodge Colt wagon

Posted: 2/3/2024 12:51:48 PM EDT

[#28]

When I was 3-4 years old, my dad drove a 1948 Willy's. It had no top and I can remember watching him shovel snow out of it to go to work. We ended up being able to save up enough money to buy a vinyl top and door kit through JC Whitney. My mom drove a late 60's, I think, Ford Country Squire in green.

Posted: 2/3/2024 12:55:12 PM EDT

[#29]

About a 1951 Studebaker four door. The rear doors on those cars were hinged in the rear and opened from the front.

Early 1954, going about 45mph, my then four year old sister somehow caused the door to unlatch, wind caught the door and swung out pulling her with it. She was rather severely injured but thanks to wearing a winter coat survived. Took several months and surgeries to heal.
My father got rid of that car soon after and got a Ford station wagon.

Posted: 2/3/2024 12:56:26 PM EDT

[#30]

Jeep Wagoneer. This is a screen cap from a home movie. All us kids unbuckled and jumping around in the back seat. The 70’s was a glorious time.

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Posted: 2/3/2024 1:03:07 PM EDT

[#31]

My dad always had a Cadillac sedan. My earliest memory was a mid 70s Fleetwood and his last was an early 2000s DeVille.

Posted: 2/3/2024 1:04:17 PM EDT

[#32]

My dad had a green 1956 Chevy Bel Air and my mom had a blue 1957 Chevy Bel Air.

Three on the tree, no AC, AM radio, vinyl seats. We drove from Colorado to Disneyland one summer. Very hot drive across the deserts.

Posted: 2/3/2024 1:04:54 PM EDT

[#33]

Mom had a new 65 Mustang, with a 6 banger. Before that I remember a late 50's Renault Dauphine.

Dad bought a 64 Impala SS 2 door with a 327, pretty sporty back in it's day.

Then went to a Bonneville with whatever big block Pontiac put in them 1972ish. Back when gas was still .35 a gallon.

Posted: 2/3/2024 1:08:39 PM EDT

[#34]

I remember a station wagon that was all metal inside when you folded the seats down. I used to lay in the back while dad drove around crazy and slid all around inside like an amusement park ride.

Next was a small AMC and then a Buick Regal.

We had a Bronco 2 in the 80’s and an Escort with the auto seat belts.

Dad had a ‘66 Chevy pickup that belonged to my Great Granddad until the late 90’s that I should have gotten but I thought it was a nerd truck then.

Posted: 2/3/2024 1:10:45 PM EDT

[#35]

Various 1970s F100 with big block engines
Volkswagen beetles
1950s chevy apache

In the 1980s a dodge Aries station wagon.

Posted: 2/3/2024 1:12:50 PM EDT

[#36]

My dad drove a 1987 Chevy Spectrum, with a manual transmission. He taught my brothers and I to drive in that car. When he let us drive, we beat the absolute shit out of it and it still kept trucking along. The clutch drops done on that car (we'd be going in reverse first) must have been in the thousands.

Posted: 2/3/2024 1:14:29 PM EDT

[#37]

I remember my mom had a red VW bug and crawling/riding in the back cubby hole and then an old Bonneville (probably 4th gen) that was light brownish/gold. My dad had a yellow f100.

Posted: 2/3/2024 1:14:39 PM EDT

[#38]

My dad had a '63 VW Karmann-Ghia in two-tone green. Mom had a '75 Olds Cutlass 2-door. That got hit, and they bought a '70 Cutlass station wagon. We put a LOT of miles on that wagon including long road trips towing a house trailer.

Posted: 2/3/2024 1:23:27 PM EDT

[#39]

I'm an 87 model but growing up all I ever knew were square bodies from the 80s. We had a fleet of four of them, all 6.2 diesels. Three 2wd half tons (two custom deluxes, one Silverado) and one 3/4 ton 4wd with a flat bed. We had a Datsun little pickup for a few years and eventually around 2000 picked up a couple S-10s (one S-10 and an Isuzu Hombre). I think about 2004 dad got a 3/4 ton quad cab 1997 ram with a Cummins and flat bed. My first pickup was an 87 Silverado with the 6.2 I bought at 12.

The sound of a 6.2 and sun faded cracked dashes all take me back.

So in short- "I was born into the square body, molded by it."

Posted: 2/3/2024 1:23:34 PM EDT

[#40]

Dad drove a series of Chevy Impalas. In the 80's he tried a Citation and has been driving Toyotas ever since.

Posted: 2/3/2024 2:24:52 PM EDT

[#41]

Jeep commanche and a sweet little 70s toyota corolla

Posted: 2/3/2024 2:47:50 PM EDT

[#42]

41 Studebaker, 2 dr. coupe; 53 Plymouth, 2 dr, wagon; 1958 Ford 4 dr. ; 59 Impala, 4dr., reverse hardtop
When I was a HS senior; New, 1966 Dodge Coronet hardtop; 383, 4-speed, posi-traction, tack, HD suspension: Fast on the hi-way.
Someday I will list all the cars I have owned.

Posted: 2/3/2024 4:14:55 PM EDT

[#43]

Mom drove a red two door 80s Ford Tempo. Dad had a baby blue 70s Ford Grenada that he called the grenade. Then mom got a fuchsia early 90s Ford Escort wagon, dad a wood panel and teal 70s Chevy Caprice wagon with rear facing, vomit inducing seats and no reverse, then mom got a red late 90s Dodge Caravan. My parents have never owned a new car.

Posted: 2/3/2024 4:25:41 PM EDT

[#44]

The two I remember most were the ‘66 Buick Electra 225 convertible and the ‘67 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham.

Posted: 2/3/2024 4:33:34 PM EDT

[#45]

My dad drove Lincolns from 1961 (I was 6) until 1984 when he bought his first Mercedes which he drove for the rest of his life. He had a couple of beautiful maroon Continental Mark IIIs (first in 1967 and a second in 1969). My Mom always drove Mercurys (station wagons and later Cougars) as she thought Lincolns were too ostentatious.

Posted: 2/3/2024 4:37:47 PM EDT

[#46]

1963 Chevy Impala 4-door. It was white with a blue interior.

Posted: 2/3/2024 4:38:12 PM EDT

[#47]

My father had a '67 SS/RS 396 Camaro

Posted: 2/3/2024 4:42:07 PM EDT

[#48]

Home made conversion van from cargo to passenger put the back windows in ourselves.
Ford fiesta 3 of them.
My parents bought nicer cars once the kids were out if the house.