OT: What did your parents drive?, Not to work - for fun? Options

[Pat Garvey]

Just spent a nostalgic week with my parents/in-laws. Guess i know where I get my moto-DNA.

My father-in-law, who dies last week once had, as his premier car, a first-run Cobra! I never knew it! '64 289. kept it for 3 years, before deciding it wasn't a "family" car. Traded it for a Cadillac.

My father had 2 hemi-Dodges. A '55 and and a '56. Two-tone paint on both (black & red). Bought my Mom a deuce coupe in '60. She hated that car! Traded it for a '66 VW, which she still misses at age 93.

My 2nd car (after the beer wagon hand-me-down '60 Dodge) was a '66 Dodge Dart GT (I'd KILL to have it back). 273 cid, 4 speed, balanced blueprinted & dyno'd at 304 hp, Edelbrock, dual carter AFB's w/postive linkage. 6 mpg.

So....why have I spent 35 years with a 1.7 914/4?
Pat

[highways]

Dad had a WWII Williy's Jeep when he was 14. Then with mom they had an Austin Healy Sprite I think. Then they bought mom's dream car, a white Jaguar MK2... or there abouts. That car couldn't even drive around the block without breaking an axle. In the 1980's the Ambassador of Kuwait sent some representatives over and bought the Jag to add to his 100+ car collection. Then in 1991, during the first gulf war, Saddams sons stole the Kuwati Ambassador's car collection and hid the cars around Iraq. Dad also had a 76 Westvalia camper that we drove like a tank. And dad bought the 73 2.0 914 from a dealer- previously owned by Ernie Ball. I still have that one. Time to go install my new Boge's and Shea's front caliper's!