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Posted: 7/5/2011 2:28:12 PM EST
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I was actually brought home from the maternity ward in a '57 Olds Delta 88.
My first recollection of my parent's car was almost identical to this, a '63 Rambler Classic sedan.  |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 2:28:31 PM EST
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I remember my mom and dad's car was a 1962 Chevy II Gold in color like the one in the pic
 And Dad also had a 1954 5 window Chevy Pick up |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 2:38:43 PM EST
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The first one I remember was a Pinto Wagon, probably a 73 or so. I remember the 1976 Maverick he had after that much better, and the car that replaced the Maverick was a 1978 Fairmont wagon, which he drove until we went to Germany for the last time in 86.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 2:44:01 PM EST
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The first car I remember was a 1969 Torino GT in dark green. Loved that car, wish my dad never traded it.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 2:47:25 PM EST
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1966 Ford Zephyr in red.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 3:02:45 PM EST
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A pink 60s Rambler Station Wagon. My mother ran a stop sign in it, t-boned another car and I broke my nose from the impact.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 3:07:28 PM EST
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1984 Caprice Classic. White with red interior.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 3:08:03 PM EST
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Early 80s Olds Cutlass Supreme for my mom
And the 87 Toyota 4runner my dad bought new right after I was born. I've been driving it since I was 16 (8 years). |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 3:11:15 PM EST
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1969 Chevy Camaro RS
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Posted: 7/5/2011 3:31:22 PM EST
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A Chrysler station wagon that reminds of the Family Truckster
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Posted: 7/5/2011 3:36:19 PM EST
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The first car I remember my old man having was a late 60s Ford galaxy 500 I think it was called. He also had a 59 vette.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 3:40:42 PM EST
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my dad had a javelin.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 3:43:48 PM EST
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Dad had a '68 Cyclone, solid red (like this, minus the pin stripe)
Mom had a Nova wagon 
Those were the daily grocery geters for the longest time. I was born '79, dad still has the Cyclone and mom sold the Nova in '95-6 for a '85 Monte-Carlo SS, but both are in the garage for storage. |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 4:33:38 PM EST
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fist car I remember my parents had was a white Opel Record D not sure what the year of the car was but I must have been a 1974
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Posted: 7/5/2011 4:37:19 PM EST
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I vaguely remember a black LaSalle.
The one I remember cllearly was a 53 Ford. |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 4:41:17 PM EST
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My parents had a brownish BMW 528, probably 78 or 79. Must have been an E12. I think they sold it around 1983 because the replacement was an 82 model year. I would have been about 3.5 years old the last time I saw it.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 4:41:34 PM EST
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'73 Chrylser 4 door of some sort with a 440 engine in it. It was a nice car, power windows/seats/ac.
Shortly after that my dad got a little Toyota station wagon that lasted about forever. At the same time we got a 1975 Chevy Blazer. I don't remember a time in my life my mom and dad didn't own at least two cars and a truck of sort. Chrylser looked like this but a darker green. 
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Posted: 7/5/2011 4:45:07 PM EST
[#18]
1988 Ford Bronco II
Was the first vehicle I remember. The oldest is my Dad's '66 Chevy C-10 |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 4:47:13 PM EST
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56 Crown Victoria Wagon....Red over blue.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 4:48:58 PM EST
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1958 Chevrolet BelAir Yeoman station wagon.
Like this one: http://www.lapua.com/en/products/reloading/vihtavuori-reloading-data/relodata/5/44 , except ours was pink and white! That car sat down in the woods for years after the last owner was finished. |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 4:50:48 PM EST
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My folks had THE quintessential pussy wagon- an 84 Chevy Celebrity, in brown of course.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 4:51:07 PM EST
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Plymouth, it was blue.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 4:58:57 PM EST
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1942 De Soto coupe, just like this one except ours was green.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10JFLyew-40 |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:01:45 PM EST
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My Dad had a gray 1958 Chevy Apache stepside, with starter on the floor. I still see that pickup every once in a while in our little podunk town.
Mom drove a light brown 1962 Chevy Belaire. At least, those were the first cars they had that I remember. LC |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:03:45 PM EST
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The first car I can remember was a light blue 1967 Plymouth fury 4dr sedan. Drove to florida in that car several times. Then my father sold that car to a guy he worked with and got a 73 fury station wagon, brown with wood paneling . The bolts that held the seatbelt to the floor would get so hot you could burn yourself on them. The only car my father ever bought new was a 1970 red VW bug.he loved that car we changed the engine in it when I was older.I will carry the guilt to my grave of the day I flipped his car over and totaled it. After that was a 78 honda civic .
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:05:07 PM EST
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One like this, but more "red" than "orange": http://images.walkthelot.com/1095/1424/1424-9H93H620075-1.jpg That was the car I drove in highschool....Orange with a white vinyl top... Mine had a 351... I loved that car 
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:06:25 PM EST
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first car I can remember them having when I was a kid was a 69 gran torino, 4spd with I think my uncle said it had a 428 or 429 (can't see any badging in the pics my mom got of it).
my uncle said when he came back from vietnam he used to street/drag race and drive the hell out of it when my mom would loan it to him. |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:07:17 PM EST
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1985 Ford Taurus 2.3l 5 speed wagon
1985 F-150 300/3 speed and a Plymouth Sundance(sucked so bad) |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:11:29 PM EST
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My dad had a 1982 Dodge Omni 024 until about 1988, was a rustbucket piece of crap. Replaced it with a 1985 Monte Carlo.
Also had a 1976 F250 4x4 that I thought was the coolest truck in the world. got rid of that around 1991. |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:15:34 PM EST
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We lived with my grandparents, and my grandad had a 1940 Plymouth Business Coupe. It was a 2-seater........no back seat at all. In 1949, he bought a new Dodge 4 door. In April of 1953 my mom, a widowed schoolteacher, finally saved up enough to buy her first (and only) new car. It was a 1953 Chevy "210" 4-door, and cost $1890.00 with no radio or heater (both of those were extra-cost options). She bought a radio (AM only) from Sears several months later. And by the fall had a heater installed. It was a 6-cylinder, straight shift, with blackwall tires, but I was the proudest 10-year-old on the whole street.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:16:42 PM EST
[#31]
65 Chevy Nova and a 71 VW Van. I remember dad selling his van and buying a 73 Datsun pickup. Sold the Nova and bought a 69 Plymouth Belvedere.
Kept the Belvedere and it was my first car. |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:19:38 PM EST
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I vaguely remember my moms early 70's camaro. She traded that in for a new corvette in 77.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:21:44 PM EST
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Quoted:
The first car I remember was a 1969 Torino GT in dark green. Loved that car, wish my dad never traded it. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v429/TimDawg/p83776_large1969_Ford_Fairlane_Cobra_1969_Torino_GTFront_End.jpg No way!! Mine was a 69 Torino Cobra.............all black and hot as hell growing up. Car was purchased brand new the year I was born so I pretty much grew up in that car till they got rid of it in 80 or 81. |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:21:59 PM EST
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About 1955 my dad brought home a 1947 Buick it was dark green. I was about 7 years old.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:23:41 PM EST
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Im enjoying reading this thread...
 to the OP
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:24:39 PM EST
[#36]
I remember riding around in a 1961 Rambler sedan. I do not remember them buying the brand new 1967 Ford Galaxie 500. They also had a pink Rambler station wagon, and a Ford Falcon (my grandfather's old car) at one point. I learned to drive in a 1974 AMC Gremlin. That car lasted until the late 1980s.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:26:48 PM EST
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Im enjoying reading this thread... to the OP+1...a lot of you all had folks with really cool rides! |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:27:38 PM EST
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1960 Ford Galaxie 352 4 barrel. Purple in color if I remember.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:28:23 PM EST
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Dad had a Hyundai Pony
mom always had a different new car, since she worked for Hertz.
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:30:02 PM EST
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1949 Nash Rambler..
and a blue 1960 Rambler wagon that replaced it... |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:31:51 PM EST
[#41]
1969 AMC Rebel
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:32:46 PM EST
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I remember riding in the back seat of Dad's 1953 Bel Air and looking up in the sky to see if I could see Santa Claus and his reindeer. It was Christmas Eve (had to be about 1959 or 1960) and the radio at Naha AFB was doing that little thing they always did about picking up the UFO on radar, scrambling some fighters (would have been F102's because that's what Dad worked on at Naha) and the pilots reporting they saw the sleigh, the reindeer and Santa Claus. I just knew if I kept watching I'd see him, too.
I remember being out in the yard at Bucknerville and on base at Naha and seeing Dad come home from work and getting excited because I knew we'd be doing something (wrestling or tossing a baseball back and forth.) It was a 2 door sedan. Blue and white. Lots of shiny chrome with a 6 cylinder and a 3 speed on the column shifter (I actually don't remember that but I heard him say that's what it had in it.) We left it on Okinawa when we came home in Jan. 1961. We stopped in Detroit and he bought a brand new 1961 Bel Air from Shala Chevrolet. He still has that one. |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:33:21 PM EST
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There is one of those parked next door to my business. 
BigDozer66 |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:35:02 PM EST
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1960 Rambler Classic
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:35:28 PM EST
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I remember one night in 1970......my dad came home and surprized us with a new Ford Galaxy 500.
We all went out for a drive. |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:36:02 PM EST
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1957 four-door Chevrolet station wagon, with a six.
ETA: looked EXACTLY like this: 
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Posted: 7/5/2011 5:36:41 PM EST
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I remember we had a 1966 Pontiac Bonneville and a 1966 Mustang Coupe.
We had a 1966 Rambler at some time then but I think it was between the Pontiac and the Mustang? 
BigDozer66 |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 6:03:18 PM EST
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Dad had a '85 GMC s-15 base model that was burnt orange he bought it new, and I think we had a 88 89 fullsize chevy van. The van got traded in for a '91 k1500 extended cab chevy cheyenne w/ 350 4 or 5 speed. Sometime in '92 we got a bse model cavalier that was a 5spd.
'85 blew the engine sometime in 94. van was traded and then sold to the guy that owned the local hardware store, he had it for 10 or so years. 91 k1500 was sold to my dad's friend in '94 and he drove it until about 2006. Cavalier was my oldest sister's first car and she drove it about 8-10 years and traded it in Colorado. |
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Posted: 7/5/2011 6:38:58 PM EST
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'58 Nash Rambler
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Posted: 7/5/2011 6:48:34 PM EST
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I don't remember the car itself, but I do remember my dad and his friends trying to make gaskets for it in the driveway. Long time ago. The first car I DO remember was in England. A "mini?" We also briefly had a Citron.
When we returned from England, dad bought a 1963 Plymouth Belvedere station wagon with push button transmission. 1966 or so. Drove it till '73, when we got a '73 Chevy Caprice wagon. |
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