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Posted: 7/5/2011 6:50:46 PM EST

[#1]

1976 Grand Prix

Posted: 7/5/2011 6:54:42 PM EST

[#2]

Quoted:
http://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/1966_Volkswagen_Type_3_Fastback_VW_Front_1.jpg

Stationwagon version of that..

Posted: 7/5/2011 6:54:49 PM EST

[#3]

69 Thunderbird. My most vivid memory of this car is when I was about 4 and we went around a corner and my door flew open and I fell half out. I had my fingers in the door pull and my toes at the sill and was watching the pavement go by until my step dad got the car stopped.

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:05:33 PM EST

[#4]

54 Lay down Rambler.

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:13:03 PM EST

[#5]

71 Charger 500

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:18:27 PM EST

[#6]

My Dad had a 1974 Green Plymouth Fury. My Mom had a Green 1976 Pinto.

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:19:22 PM EST

[#7]

Quoted:
My mom had a 1985(ish) tan Plymouth Reliant station wagon until 1993, then she upgraded to a 1988 Chevy Astro(which I miss to this day.)

Dad had an 1988 Chevy R30 cab/chassis with a utility box on the back. I think the Reliant probably had the 2.2L 4 cylinder. The R30 had a 350 with a 3/4 speed trans. The R30 got stolen in '95 or '96.

My mom had a orange Ford Pinto. I think it was a 77 but I would have to ask. We referred to it as the pumpkin. The thing I remember most was the black vinyl interior and lack of ac. That car was just horrible to ride in during warm weather. My dad had a 75 F-100 Ranger. Rusted out piece of shit with a busted out grille from hitting a deer and very little fender or rocker panel left due to rust. Two tone brown with a brown interior. I have a few pictures of old camping trips with it in the background somewhere.

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:24:41 PM EST

[#8]

I remember a mint green '55 Chevy Bel-Air they bought new. I think they had a Packard before that, but I don't remember much about that one.

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:30:46 PM EST

[#9]

1939 Morris 8

I feel like I'm REALLY dating myself in this thread..................

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:32:20 PM EST

[#10]

I remember a Chevy Nomad. The next I remember is the Chevy Panel Van probably late 50s as a used service vehicle, we did a lot of camping with that. Then there was a '62 Impala probably bought new. There where just pickup trucks after that until the mid 70's. I was born in 1960.

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:38:47 PM EST

[#11]

51 Mercury around 1960

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:46:21 PM EST

[#12]

I remember it, I see it every time I go in to the garage. Dads 1967 Pontiac Catalina.
He gave it to me as a wedding gift. We used to pile into it every summer for a road trip
to visit moms family in Nebraska. Currently has about 118,000 miles. Was the last brand
new car he ever bought.
400ci Pontiac with a 3spd manual trans, column shift.

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:49:52 PM EST

[#13]

Mid to late 50s Chevy. Not a 57, maybe 55 or a 58.

Posted: 7/5/2011 7:59:15 PM EST

[#14]

I don't remember what make or model, but I vaguely remember an old light blue pickup that I loved playing in the bed of. I couldn't get into it unless mom or dad helped me up.

The first vehicle I distinctly remember is dad's old saab. The upholstery on the ceiling was falling down, the supercharger had a whine I could pick out from half a mile away (dad had a lead foot in that car so I always heard him coming). I miss the days when he would take me somewhere in that car and take off from a stop just to make me laugh at being thrown back into the seat.

Posted: 7/5/2011 8:02:43 PM EST

[#15]

1952 Plymouth. Then we also had the use of a Navy car with a siren.

Posted: 7/5/2011 10:04:15 PM EST

[#16]

White early '50s Oldsmobile Rocket 88, still remember that gleaming chrome hood ornament.

Posted: 7/5/2011 10:06:31 PM EST

[#17]

1964 1/2 green Mustang convertable and a red with wood gran LTD station wagon for mom.

Posted: 7/5/2011 10:44:30 PM EST

[#18]

A Hillman Husky.
Really.

Posted: 7/5/2011 11:30:19 PM EST

[#19]

'49 Mercury.

Posted: 7/6/2011 3:09:37 AM EST

[#20]

Giving away my age.....a red 1960 DeSoto wagon, with the push button automatic. I remember it because it wound up skidding off the side of the road during a snow storm when I was about 5 or 6, so that would be almst 50 years ago. I thought it was a great ride!

Posted: 7/6/2011 3:29:09 AM EST

[#21]

66 Impala, this color but a sedan.

Posted: 7/6/2011 3:29:11 AM EST

[#22]

1951 Kaiser

Posted: 7/6/2011 3:32:00 AM EST

[#23]

54 Lincoln Premier.

Posted: 7/6/2011 3:38:36 AM EST

[#24]

1966 Dodge Charger. Dad bought it new.

Posted: 7/6/2011 3:54:04 AM EST

[#25]

When my father was Mil. and stationed in Austin and when he was a MTI in Lackland I remember him having:

1968 Impala SS with ~500HP with a Muncie 4 sp

1965 El Camino with a massaged 327 and Muncie 4sp

1956 Belair with a built 400ci

1966 Chevy SWB Pickup with a nasty 396ci and a 4sp

I remember the truck because it was bright Bronze color and had a nasty cam that rocked the whole truck when it loped at idle.

He would strap me in the truck and I would scream "GO fast daddy! Go faster!"

I cried like hell when he got orders to Tucson, AZ and had to sell three of the hot rods, including the truck.

Posted: 7/6/2011 4:22:32 AM EST

[#26]

A big black 1968 Chrysler Newport.
I was very young when we had it so I thought it was huge. My mom left my sis and I in it once when she went into the bank. I got in the front seat played with gear shift and ended up rolling the thing into the street.

Posted: 7/6/2011 4:32:49 AM EST

[#27]

Quoted:

69 Thunderbird. My most vivid memory of this car is when I was about 4 and we went around a corner and my door flew open and I fell half out. I had my fingers in the door pull and my toes at the sill and was watching the pavement go by until my step dad got the car stopped.

Exact same thing happened to me when I was about that age. I was in my grandmother's Chrysler (not sure what model, but it was old enough to have tailfins –– '60ish?). When the door was locked, the door handle didn't do anything, and I used to play with it and act like it was a brake when we slowed down. One day, I pulled it while the door was unlocked and we were turning a corner. Next thing I knew, the door was open, I was hanging onto the door handle with one hand, my grandmother had reached over and grabbed the waist of my pants, and I was looking down at rushing asphalt for a couple of very long seconds until she got me pulled back into the car. Thanks, Granny!

Posted: 7/6/2011 4:38:51 AM EST

[#28]

Quoted:
1939 Morris 8

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zFHwVDJu4cE/TP8tke-EsHI/AAAAAAAAA-k/QI7UXNf5r_Y/s1600/Morris_8_Series_E.jpg

I feel like I'm REALLY dating myself in this thread..................

That ain't too bad.

If THIS is what you remember, you ARE dating yourself.

Posted: 7/6/2011 4:48:34 AM EST

[#29]

Quoted:

Quoted:
1939 Morris 8

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zFHwVDJu4cE/TP8tke-EsHI/AAAAAAAAA-k/QI7UXNf5r_Y/s1600/Morris_8_Series_E.jpg

I feel like I'm REALLY dating myself in this thread..................

That ain't too bad.

http://www.fin.ucar.edu/sass/security/images/horse-buggy.jpg

If THIS is what you remember, you ARE dating yourself.

One day sir, if you would be so kind, I'd love to hear your remembrances from the days back before the Iron Horse conquered America.

Posted: 7/6/2011 8:11:02 AM EST

[#30]

63 Ford Falcon

Posted: 7/6/2011 11:07:51 AM EST

[#31]

65 Ford Mustang.

Posted: 7/6/2011 11:11:01 AM EST

[#32]

Opel Kadett B, red just like this one:

Posted: 7/6/2011 11:11:33 AM EST

[#33]

Old style VW Bug

Posted: 7/6/2011 11:15:20 AM EST

[#34]

White, 4-door, 1971 Ford LTD hardtop

Posted: 7/6/2011 11:22:30 AM EST

[#35]

Posted: 7/6/2011 12:16:27 PM EST

[#36]

Im older than most of you and was born overseas. They first had a 1959 Renault Dauphine, Dubarry Blue. Swapped that for an English Ford a few years later.

Posted: 7/6/2011 12:43:29 PM EST

[#37]

The first one I remember was a '50 Studebaker that my mom drove. I remember it because she broke a front ball joint in a parking garage and had the place bottled up for a couple hours until my grandfather brought the tow truck from his gas station to rescue us.

Posted: 7/6/2011 12:47:15 PM EST

[#38]

Maruti 800

Posted: 7/6/2011 12:56:21 PM EST

[#39]

Quoted:
A Hillman Husky.
Really.

http://www.whatsahillman.com/images/Husky1.jpg

I believe there just might be one of those not 10 miles from my home as I type this. But that green Jeep on the other side of it is calling my name. Damn! That is sweet.

LC

Posted: 7/6/2011 1:16:20 PM EST

[#40]

Chevette

To this day my dad swears up and down it was the best car he's ever owned.

Posted: 7/6/2011 1:49:31 PM EST

[#41]

1970 Ford Econoline green passenger van. 7 kids in an old school Catholic family.

Then a 1975?? Dodge Aspen station wagon, color tan. A true POS

Then a 1979 Honda CVCC wagon color rust.

Then a 1984?? Ford Thunderturd, another bucket of fail.

Posted: 7/6/2011 1:52:32 PM EST

[#42]

Quoted:
Orange 1973 Westphalia

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/lit/73westy/front.jpg

My stepfather had one in Red. the curtains were the same as yours though. I spent more than a few nights in the canvas cot pop up or in the one that went over the front seats in clips. Heck now a car wouldn't support a human without buckling; the cars got lighter and the people got heavier.

Posted: 7/6/2011 1:56:03 PM EST

[#43]

I remember a Ford Granada and a 70's yellow toyota hilux

Posted: 7/6/2011 2:17:38 PM EST

[#44]

I remember, I believe it was a 58 Rambler wagon Dad called Smokey. It wasn't because it could roast the tires.

He had a 64 Chevy SWB stepside with a six and 3 on the tree. Learned to drive in it.

Posted: 7/6/2011 4:20:07 PM EST

[#45]

Mom had a 65 Galaxie 500 convertible, white, and Dad had a 69 Dodge W250 Stepside, red.

Posted: 7/6/2011 5:39:19 PM EST

[#46]

1964 Black Chevy Impala.

Soon thereafter a white 1967 Dodge Polara with red interior. My mom drove it around until the very early 80's.

Posted: 7/9/2011 3:56:08 PM EST

[#47]

Mid 70's Ford Van

Posted: 7/9/2011 4:12:20 PM EST

[#48]

That I was around for? Old Blazer.

Posted: 7/9/2011 4:18:49 PM EST

[#49]

Early 90's Geo Metro
4 door with the massive 1.0L 3cyl engine.....automatic

That car was funny but it got like eleventy billion MPG and got us from A to B so it was a good car.

Posted: 7/9/2011 4:32:59 PM EST

[#50]

I was born in 57, the first cars I really remember was my Mom had a 61 Ford Country Squire wagon and my Dad bought a brand new, VW Beetle in 63. in 2 years he went from loving that Beetle to hating with with a white hot passion. He hated that car so bad it was almost comical.

My Mom felt sorry for him and gave up her next new car (she really like that big ass Ford wagon anyway) and let him have 2 in a row. He chose a 67 Ford Mustang, fastback, 390 and automatic. He loved that car till the day he died. I've still got it.

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