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

[KELTY360]

My dad had a series of comapany cars; '52 Plym, '53 Ford, '55, '56 & '57 Plym, '59 Ford, etc. mostly 2dr sedans, all pretty boring. Coolest car my mom ever had was a '50 Studebaker Starlight Coupe. That's about the only one i wish they'd kept.

My car sickness is not hereditary. I must have caught it when we moved from Buffalo, NY to the car paradise of SoCal. The good stuff was everywhere, the exotic was commonplace.....and I learned to drive in a '64 Rambler American - 3 spd/od. The good news was all the great twisties in Orange County in the 60s. After all the boring cars I steered around those roads, my first car, a '64 TR4, was a real awakening.