Author Topic: Your Favorite Car? (Read 1426 times)

Spirithawk · « **on:** July 23, 2010, 01:54:17 PM »

Folks, lets have a thread about something a bit less serious for a change. What was, or is now, your favorite vehicle you've owned? Preferably if a hot rod. Mine would be a toss up. When I first got home from Nam I bought a 1964 Comet with a Boss 302 out of a mustang. It had a dual line Holly and man would it fly. It was pearl white with red tuck & roll interior and chrome Cragar mags. Narrow up front and deep dish in back. It would pass anything but a gas station. lol The other was a 1958 Ford Custom. looked like a larger version of the 55 TBird. Same grill and hood. It had the ovals, custom done, behind the front wheelwells like a 58 Vette. The car was Candy Saphire blue and the ovals white with black marbling. The interior was blue metalflake tuck & roll. It was the most beautiful car I ever owned. God how I loved cruising in that car. So come on. Lighten up and lets hear what your hot rod was or is. What would your dream car be now? Here's mine. It's a pic of me sitting in one of Carol Shelby's own personal Cobras. His autograph is on the glovebox lid. It brought $400,000 at the auction. My son ran security for it so I got to see all the cars during the night before the auction. Gave me goose bumps sitting in it.

gstewart44 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 23, 2010, 01:57:49 PM »

the car I should have bought when I had the chance..... fire engine red 1965 Pontiac GTO convertible....389 with 6pack carbs......Hurst 4 speed.......really bad gas mileage.......worth a mint today. Oh well hindsight is .......

bobg · « **Reply #2 on:** July 23, 2010, 02:10:57 PM »

When my wife and i first got married she owned a GTO. It was a mile from our house to the first main road. I could smoke the tires for the whole mile. I tore the tranny out of it and she got rid of the car. I owned a Charder that would hit 100 in no time and that is just the way i drove it back then. In my old age i drive an old Chevy Lumina and don't worry about speed.

bobg · « **Reply #3 on:** July 23, 2010, 02:12:06 PM »

Charger.

Drilling Man · « **Reply #4 on:** July 23, 2010, 03:10:09 PM »

I once owned a nice 63 Impala SS with a 348 tri-power, 4 speed ect., ect... I got a ticket with it, for going 136 in a 55!

I also had a 66 Impala SS with a hi-performance 327, 4 speed ect., ect..

The vechile i loved the most, is a 1982 Chevy pu that i bought new, and still have, it has 200K on it right now, and is getting pretty rusty.

The car that i now drive and like very much, is a Chevy Caprice. It's my second one, they are nice cars with good fuel economy, plenty of room in them and very reliable.

If someone knocked on my door right now and said, i'm giving you any NEW car that you want, i'd take a new Vette.

DM

eye shot · « **Reply #5 on:** July 23, 2010, 05:36:48 PM »

I liked my 57 Chevy convertable but my quarter mile car was a 66 Chevy II SS with L79 327 Muncie 4 speed 513 rear end. It was a true big block killer. Now being older, well alot older I have a 87 Monte Carlo Aero Coup with less than 40k covered in the garage. I think I'll sell it, to many cops on the road now. Just last year got a ticket for squealing my tires on my 6600# diesel pu!

DDZ · « **Reply #6 on:** July 23, 2010, 06:02:08 PM »

With out a doubt, my 70 Plymouth Roadrunner. It had a 383 4 speed. If there was one thing I didn't like about it, was that it had 323 gears, but boy was it a cruiser on the highway. Also one of the nicest riding cars I have owned. I still often wish I would not have gotten rid of it, but it just didn't fit with a wife and kids at the time.

S.S. · « **Reply #7 on:** July 23, 2010, 06:06:40 PM »

1969 American motors AMX 2 seater ...I could kick my butt for not
keeping the one I had

LONGTOM · « **Reply #8 on:** July 23, 2010, 06:33:08 PM »

Mine are;
1 all the 56 Chevys I ever had (11 total with 3 convertables & 1 two door Handy man wagon)
2 the 65 Impala SS convertable with factory 6 banger (only 142 ever built with the 6) didn't know what I had til after I sold it!
3 96 Impalia SS (the last year for the rear wheel drive---160 on the speedodometer)
4 70 Buick LaSaber with a factory mistake 455 stage 1 motor (the only one ever built)
5 every Chevy truck I ever owned!!!
6 96 Chevy High Top Conversion van

Sorry, no pic of the 65 convertable or the dozens of other trucks I have owned.

LONGTOM

The Hermit · « **Reply #9 on:** July 23, 2010, 06:38:18 PM »

1949 Olds, V-8 Rocket engine with a back draft carburator. At the time, nothing on the road could touch it. It would accelerate to 110 very quickly. Car was big inside too. You could lay down in the back seat with both doors closed, incase you needed a nap.

The Hermit

Hooker · « **Reply #10 on:** July 23, 2010, 06:51:09 PM »

It's a toss up from three very different vehicles.
70 Dodge Charger R/T sold when we had my son.
1953 Chevy pickup sold to pay off some debt.
79 Ford Bronco still have it

Pat

WylieKy · « **Reply #11 on:** July 23, 2010, 08:44:57 PM »

Got you all beat.

1985 LeBaron. 4 cylinder TURBO (if it wasn't TURBO you'd have to push it up a hill.) Baby sh*&t yellow with a red interior. Named her Hester the Molester and drover her till the engine fell out when I was jumping some rail road tracks. Had a lot of good times in that car, with a lot of good friends. /sigh/

williamlayton · « **Reply #12 on:** July 24, 2010, 03:23:11 AM »

I have had a few--old Triumph Spitfire convertable--sigh.
Then came the years of family cars---ugh, & trucks.
The Mustang is my concession to a third childhood. Convertable--candy apple red.
Cruises like a limo and runs like a scalded dog.
Blessings

Brett · « **Reply #13 on:** July 24, 2010, 03:27:40 AM »

My favorite car that I owned technically is not a car. It was a 1978 Jeep Cj7 with a 305 V8 mated to a Turbo 300 trans. and jeeps original full time 4 wheel drive 'Quadratrac' system. I had the leaf springs re-arched for a 3" lift and ran 32" General Grabber A/Ps on it. It would run in mud clear up to the tops of the door sills without getting stuck and it would chirp all four tires on pavement if I punched the gas. It took my wife and I to many a flea markets, balloon races, and fishing holes. In the summer time she would go topless... the jeep... not my wife.

mechanic · « **Reply #14 on:** July 24, 2010, 04:34:42 AM »

1st....64 1/2 Mustang

2nd....69 Roadrunner, 440

Now...the one that's paid for.

jhm · « **Reply #15 on:** July 24, 2010, 05:29:37 AM »

A 1961 chevy impala convertable green body and white top, I miss that car and the hair I had back then!! Jim

Brett · « **Reply #16 on:** July 24, 2010, 05:30:58 AM »

Quote from: jhm on July 24, 2010, 05:29:37 AM

A 1961 chevy impala convertable green body and white top, I miss that car and the hair I had back then!! Jim

Hair today gone tomorrow.

LONGTOM · « **Reply #17 on:** July 24, 2010, 07:34:54 AM »

Quote from: Brett on July 24, 2010, 05:30:58 AM

Quote from: jhm on July 24, 2010, 05:29:37 AM
A 1961 chevy impala convertable green body and white top, I miss that car and the hair I had back then!! Jim

Hair today gone tomorrow.

Wish it was hair today.
Gone yesterday, many yesterdays!!!

LONGTOM

scout4 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 24, 2010, 08:31:49 AM »

Yeh Man! Here we go! My all time favorite car! That would be my very first road legal car

had an old off road beater before my favorite that I more or less taught myself how to drive

Then a friend an I found out about a 1941 ford coupe sittin in a old garage somewhere, we checked it out! Everything was there! Even had original black paint! It was a Super Deluxe model! And it was for sale!

...for $75.oo!!...My friend did'nt care about it! I told Dad about it and He said, lets get it Ray, because I know someone that will make an even trade with you and he has a 1949 ford tudor sedan thats in beautiful condition and that be your first car!!! And it was! 1949 Ford tudor, V8 flathead engine, three on the tree, with overdrive which was pulled into gear via a big chrome knob just below the dash. She was beautiful!! scout4<><

Foggy · « **Reply #19 on:** July 24, 2010, 08:40:15 AM »

the Paid off one

nw_hunter · « **Reply #20 on:** July 24, 2010, 10:04:08 AM »

If I ever win that elusive lottery, I'll have to buy one of these.
My favorite American car. A good friend's older brother bought a 57, and he kicked everyone's butt at the Drag Strip (A straight stretch of Hy 15 in Arkansas)

OH yea! It's a Studebaker Golden Hawk

born-to-hunt · « **Reply #21 on:** July 24, 2010, 10:22:07 AM »

being 15 I have never owned a car but I do really like the 65 Camaro Shelbys look pretty cool and you gotta like the El camino i've actually been looking for one as a first car but also wanting a truck

spikehorn · « **Reply #22 on:** July 24, 2010, 10:59:17 AM »

It would be my first car, A hand me down from my sister. A lemon yellow 72 Plymouth Duster 340. Lost control on snow and ice and totaled it. The car I would want now is a toss up between a 69 Charger RT with a 440 or A 65 Corvette Mako Shark II ( my oldetst brother had one of these when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. I remember going for a ride with him and litterally getting set back in my set)

Sourdough · « **Reply #23 on:** July 24, 2010, 12:12:38 PM »

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When I was 16 the man across the road, (Roy Orbason) let me drive his Mercedez Benz Excaliber. Can not remember what year it was, somewhere around late 20s or early 30s. Then he took me for a ride in a Lomborgini GT. Don't remember what model, just remember it had a tranverse V-12 engine, sitting mid ship. Got me hooked on Exotics, and high performance sports cars. Never got real interested in American Muscle cars.

My first high performance car I owned was a 1956 Corvette. I would not have bought it, but it was given to me. When I got it the car had been sitting in a barn for several years with a blown motor. Chickens and other animals had ruined the interior. I replaced the original 6 cylinder with a 283 with tri-power. 9" Schafer clutch, and 4 speed tranny. Took it down to Tiajania, and had it reupholstered. White Naugrahide, rolled and pleated. Then had it painted metal flake coppertone with seven coats of laquor. Let my roommate talk me out of that one.

Then I got a Auston Healy Bug Eyed Sprite (I know not a performance car, but qute). Buddy wrecked it at the bottom of Waldo Grade just before going onto the Golden Gate. God takes care of Fools and Drunks, that night I was both. I opened the door and got out doing between 75 and 80. No injuries what so ever, my buddy driving was not so lucky.

Then I got a 1949 MG TC. Right hand drive and a real eye catcher. It was stolen, and insurance replaced it with a 1952 TD. I did not like the TD, it was not as appealing as the TC had been. Came out of the Dorm on morning and caught two guys trying to steal it, so I traded it for a 1955 Jaguar, 3.8 ltr sedan. Got orders for Alaska and sold the Jag.

Got married and started driving a Toyota. But while in Las Vegas, got a part time job as a courrier. Transfered Brief cases between LA and Vegas. The Casino furnished me with a Porsch to drive. One morning they called me and had a hot drlivery. When I got there someone had ran into the Porsch so the Boss handed me the keys to a Ford GT-40. That was the fastest trip I ever made to LA and back. Fell in love with that car. Very Spartan interior, but gosh could it move and handle. Between Jean Nev, and Barstow Calif, I let it roll.

Got divorced and got a Fiat 124 Spyder. Had a blast with that car. Dated Michelle in that car. We got into horses and I traded the Fiat for a Dodge Truck. Had nothing but trucks till just recently.

Then three years ago Michelle decided she wanted a Sports Car. She bought a Mazda RX-8. If I'm good she will let me drive it sometimes. Last year I bought myself a Mitsubishi Eclipse GT, gosh that thing can perform. I went on vacation to Florida, and when I came back Skyler had taken over my Eclipse. Sky paid me the differance between my Eclipse and his Chevy S-10. So now I'm driving an S-10, but I am looking for something differant. The Nisson 380 Z currently has my eye, but not decided yet. Sky wants me go get a Viper, but also thinking about another RX-8.

Heather · « **Reply #24 on:** July 24, 2010, 04:28:08 PM »

Any one that is payed for!

Heather

squirrellluck · « **Reply #25 on:** July 24, 2010, 05:02:59 PM »

My first , a truck. 1962 chevy shortbed stepside, 235 straight 6 with optional oil filter.

1marty · « **Reply #26 on:** July 24, 2010, 05:09:08 PM »

My first car was a used 56 chevy-maroon and cream color. It got about less than 12 miles to a gallon (19 cents for a gallon of gas) and 200 miles to a quart of oil. However, best of all I remember those saturday nights in the back seat with......... oops my wife is coming need to signoff.

Swampman · « **Reply #27 on:** July 24, 2010, 05:35:52 PM »

I'd like to have a Prius.

born-to-hunt · « **Reply #28 on:** July 24, 2010, 05:39:49 PM »

Quote from: Swampman on July 24, 2010, 05:35:52 PM

I'd like to have a Prius.

my dad has one he says it's pretty cool when your going farther distances with the gas milage being so good.

Sourdough · « **Reply #29 on:** July 24, 2010, 06:20:29 PM »

OOps, I blew it. I told about the hot cars I had. They were my favorite at the time. Most were great cars, but they were not my all time favorite.

My all time favorite was an old Volkswagon Van. I had more fond memories from the time I was running around in that old van than any other vehicle I ever owned. Yea, it did not have enough power to get out of it's own way. I learned the hard way never take it into San Fransisco. It was slow, and did not do hills well. But for around town in San Rapheal and Novato, it got along just fine. I owned this old beater when I lived in California, and I used it to carry my tools and plumbing parts for jobs off base after work. I owned the Corvette, the Austin Healey Sprite, and the MG TC at the same time. I drove them around during the day and if I wanted to go somewhere where I did not need to carry tools and stuff. For running into and around San Rapheal, I used the VW. Basically it was my daily driver. Mileage was not all that great, and it leaked oil. But hay, I was single at the time, gas was cheap, and the California girls of the late 60s loved VW Vans. I'd take my tools out for the weekends and it was good to sleep in while at the beach. Differant girl every weekend to Stinson Beach, Bodaga Bay, Clear Lake, Point Reyes, Mendocino, Point Arena, Monteray, all the places young people went to do cool things.

Then I fell for an older woman, (today we call them Cougers) she forbid me to park it near her house. So I left it on base most of the time. Guys in the dorm borrowed it, and things started breaking. And since my lady friend did not like it I felt it needed to go away. I gave it to a little Hippie Chick (Tina)that lived in a house boat, near my Lady friends big house in Sausolito. Tina finally got her head straight and drove it back to her parents home near Medford Oragon. Tina and I are still in touch. She told me after she went back home it died one day so her Dad pushed it out behind the garage, and there the rusting hulk sits today. Full of junk and trash. I've bought two VW Vans in 1997 and in 2002. But I could never bring myself around to restoring them, and I sold one and gave the other one away. It just did not seem the same.