Cool cars we used to own

[SoCalDem]

Bought it for $500 from my mother.in 1967..(mine was blue)...
left it to my brother when I got married..
he wrecked it a few years later

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Bought it for $20 in unpaid parking tickets and a tow..
put in a battery and a starter and then
traded this baby in on a 1973 Maverick

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This was my husband's car when we married,
(ours had the le mans chrome front bumper)
and after a while we traded it in on a
used Chrysler Station wagon





Where is the emotion for kicking yourself in the ass :(

[Ptah]

1. The first auto I owned I paid $35 (US) for.

Same model,but somehow mine never looked this good:



Edited for typing skills (like that would help)

:dunce:

[MrScorpio]

2. My Favorite Cars

My Very First: 1972 Torino



My Texas Machine: 1976 Monte Carlo



My Autobahn Burner: MB230C




My Current Love: 2003 Sebring Convertible

[Clintmax]

20. You and I owned the same cars!

My first car was a '72 Gran Torino, then I got a '75 Monte Carlo! Ok...maybe not the EXACT cars, but damned close! After the Monte, I got an '85 Chevy S-10, and now own a Red '96 Mazda Miata.

[Jamastiene]

3. Love the cars, cool.

I don't know if I can find a picture but the first car I ever paid for (had to put it in someone else's name because I didn't have insurance and wasn't driving but we needed a car) was a 1978 baby blue Pontiac Grand Prix. It was beautiful. I loved that car. I sure miss it.

[SoCalDem]

4. When i was a kid, these were the family cars

Ours was more bronze with white


traded in for this,,,ours was white, though

[Jamastiene]

5. Sounds like you come from a cool cars family. Wow.

Until I managed to score the beautiful Pontiac, my family only had two other cool cars, a red 65 Ford Mustang and one of those white Mach 1 Ford Mustangs. The rest were typical cars like Mercury and the Nissan I drive now. I guess it's environment friendly (although it's an 89's model) and saves on gas, although it coughs and sputters when I use anything less than midgrade. Okay, that's the positive point about the Nissan. It sucks. It's boring and the a/c leaks every summer onto the passenger side floor board and I have to blow the insulation out of the evaporator back in place to stop it. It flooded the floor board this summer bad enough that one of my teachers had to help me try to fix it. I ended up still have to take it to somebody...Don't have a compressor of my own.

I have to give it credit for lasting so long and being so trustworthy though. I just wish it was prettier and maybe had enough room at least in the trunk so I could carry my guitar amp somewhere to practice... I wanna start back playing.

[SoCalDem]

6. Actually in their day, they were not THAT extrordinary

My grandparents had a gold colored 1949 Hudson Hornet..that my grandmother absolutely HATED.. every time she got in it, the door frame would knock her hat off.. (ladies wore hats all the time back then)..

[VOX]

7. 1965 Lincoln Continental sedan w/ "suicide" doors...

Was my mom's car, black w/ black leather interior. I "inherited" it, and cared for it like it was a spoiled infant. Finally sold it for a few hundred bucks. These babies can now fetch $25K and up, depending on their shape.

It handled okay for such a big ride, and it was **smooth**. I'll always remember tooling up and down Hwy. 111 in Palm Springs in this baby. Sigh. :)

[MrScorpio]

8. I'd love to get my hands on one of those babies

And Pimp it up right

[Robeson]

9. The first car I owned was an AMC....

...Gremlin!...

The first cool car I owned was a 66 Mustang with a candy apple red bottom and black vinyl top. I kick myself in the ass all the time for selling that car.

[HeeBGBz]

10. Cool cars!

This was my first car of my own.



A 67 Impala. Ran like a scalded dawg. Nearly hurt myself driving out of the lot because I didn't realize the engine power it had. Bought it for $200. It was a spray painted blue color. Drove it all over and sold it for $200.

This next one was one my first husband and I had.



A maroon Mercury Montego. Probably the best car I ever co-owned. Drove it back and forth across the country during our gypsy years. Never any major problems. My ex gave it to his brother who wrecked it in a month. Grrr.

The weirdest car I ever owned was this one.



Just the same color too. Lemon yellow for a lemon on wheels. What a mistake that was!

[icymist]

11. Wow! I had many cars that were cool!

I'll start with the 1970 T-Bird. Man, that was a fast car! It had a 429 ci engine and would sit and spin when I hit the gas all the way down! The next cool car was a 1974 Monte Carlo with a 454 stock. Dependable. Next was a 1970 Monte Carlo that I dropped a 350 from a Camero SS into. I put headers on this beast and, as my friends said at the time, "That car is get up and gone!" I now drive a 1988 Honda Prelude with dual overhead cams. Times have changed.

[SoCalDem]

23. Yep we went from station wagons, to the big van and now an Accord

We have arrived at FuddyDuddy-dom:)

[billyskank]

12. Was that last one a Dodge Charger?

I'm British so therefore mostly clueless about US cars.

[SoCalDem]

13. 1968 GTO with a chrome Lemans bumper

:)

[punpirate]

14. Just a few...

... of the many I've owned:

This was the first:



This came later:



Even later:



Took this off someone's hands as a favor:



Sort of the same situation with this one:



A few of these:



A few of these:



Somewhere in between those was a `68 Plymouth police car and `67 Ford Custom 500.

[SoCalDem]

15. Love the mini.. I want one so badly

but then I always wanted a VW beetle, til I finally bought an old super beetle a few years ago.. UNCOMFORTABLE..so I gave it to my son.. He loves it.. The old school beetles are better left to the young kids :)

[punpirate]

16. The Mini was...

... an early one, with a somewhat tired 850cc engine. 50 mpg and 50 mph, tops.

Somewhere in there was a `69 Beetle, the story of which is best left untold. :)

[SoCalDem]

17. There's a MightyMax pickup in my history that I totaled

I loved that little truck.:(

[misanthrope]

32. We've got...

...a '73 Super Beetle and a '73 Thing out in the carport right now.

I had a '64 Karmann Ghia back in the '80s but eventually sold it. Sure would like to find another one, but they're getting scarce.

[baldguy]

18. Looking at the rest of these, I'm embarrassed.

[ClintonTyree]

19. My first car......

A 1956 Nash.......My FAVORITE, over the years?



A 1970 Plymouth 340 Duster. Mine was metallic green though. I couldn't stand the "Plum Wild". That car was balls to the wall F-A-S-T! I smoked many a hemi, 327, even a 427 once! That was back in my wild and irresponsible days, but now that I'm approaching my "golden years" I've been thinking about trying to find one to restore. Just for the hell of it I guess.

[SoCalDem]

21. Here's one for sale..ops they sold it.. BUT

You can probably find one one by googling:)

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://dustman.net/andy/mopar/duster.html&h=245&w=342&sz=29&tbnid=3bHB08fg94EJ:&tbnh=82&tbnw=115&hl=en&start=7&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dplymouth%2Bduster%2B1970%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

[SoCalDem]

22. My best friend had a 59 Studebaker lark.. what a cool car

Olive green..looked just like a little tank:) We had SO much fun in that little bomb:)

[progressoid]

24. AMC Hornet?

[samplegirl]

25. i feel fortunate to still own a cool car

Mine is the white one and fellow D.U.er JohnnyRingos is the Red one.

[gmoney]

26. Had a 67 Impala SS

That's not mine, but pretty similar. My folks bought it back in the day... it lasted until about 85 or so. Terrific ride...

[nytemare]

27. 1987, I had to have a Mustang, this was the only one I could afford

Mind you, it didn't look like this when I got it. The passenger door would fly open when I made left turns. The idling was messed up, even after constant adjustments, I had to keep my foot on the gas a bit at stop lights and signs. So, to this day, I drive with two feet in an automatic.



But, 18 years later, this is my baby now! (this isn't actually mine, but closest image I could find. Mine has a cool tint job and a bra for frontal support)

[Tom Kitten]

28. My favorite car I still drive

Next year it will be 30 years old and here are two pics taken after my dad and I restored it after it was totalled...Just passed 190,000 miles!

[Poiuyt]

29. Bugeye Sprite

I've had a lot of nice sports cars in my day, but this is the one I wish I still had. It was like driving around in a roller coaster car.

[SoCalDem]

30. Hey..right out of Toon Town

and a beauty :)

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

31. 1963 Pontiac Star Chief

sky blue, 4-door... just like this one.
v8, baby!