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

[rick 918-S]

My real dad was just like me. He had several hundred cars. Most all exceeded the cool factor. Some of the ones I remember:

47 chev bone stock
55 lincoln Capri
55 ford (the bumble bee) two tone black and yellow
55 chev 350-4sp beam axle front
55 chev leadsled custom 57 vette style pancake hood and grille 58 Impala tail lights I custom painted it for him 30 years ago in aztec gold, pagan gold, gold flake and pearl scallops. I ecperimented with using enamels as the base coat and had binder added to Centari mixing clear as a clear coat and it worked.
57 turnpike cruiser
55 hillman panel
57 morris minor
63 Impala SS
64 Impala SS
65 Buick Wildcat
41 Hudson with a Pontiac 389
47 Plymouth with a ford inline 6
a host of Cadillacs and Lincolns