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

[Ferg]

My Dad owns a Fleet Leasing company, so his toys and his Daily drivers change about every 5k miles... Some of the highlights I remember as a kid:

1978 TA silver with the blue thunder chicken LOL
A Bricklen safety orange (my brother killed the battery first night showing all the kids in the neighborhood the doors go up and down LOL)
Deloreon (what a pile)
1987 Mercedes 560sl

Corvette's of every year (he's a vette guy) my fav's were:

1982 Collectors edition, silver with the fade on the side ect
1984 He had the first one in West MI for a while, quite a attention grabber
1991 dark bronze, car I learned to drive stick on
1992 Twin Turbo Stealth (small town cops, see below LOL)
1993 Polo Green (cops in my small hometown still looking for that one...)

I go back this summer, right now he's got a 01 vette roadster, and a 04 SLK AMG package roadster. I'll be snagging one of them to (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) up to Northern MI to the 356 Registry meet in June.

Ferg