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> OT: What did your parents drive?, Not to work - for fun?
Pat Garvey
post Mar 19 2007, 08:40 PM
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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?
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post Mar 19 2007, 08:48 PM
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My Dad had some nice early Tbirds and a bought a new 64 Mustang 289 that was replaced with a new 68 390 AMX, after that nothing fun.
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post Mar 19 2007, 08:52 PM
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Cars in the family growning up were 1964 T-bird convertable w/ 390 and a 1970 VW bus (60 miles per hour, only if down hill in a hurricane). Wish the T-bird was still in the family. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Mar 19 2007, 08:58 PM
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Dad had a 76 corvette... Sold it the DAY i turned 16???

I learned how to drive in it though.

Also had some really neat cars pre-me. 55 2dr Cheby Nomad, Big Block Impala, Monster Maverick. Watched him break a front u-joint w/ no driveshaft loop when i was 7, maybe 8... Back of the Impala went straight up, and the rear end went straight back... Made for a LONG night.
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post Mar 19 2007, 09:03 PM
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Sunday go to church car and family vaction car 72 Lincoln Continental til 1989.
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post Mar 19 2007, 09:04 PM
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Fun was a 1968 Galaxy XL-500 GT. Yes... all the goodies.

Work was the bug. We had a couple combie's for camping (hence I learned to rebuild T1's regularly) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Mar 19 2007, 09:05 PM
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Very cool...
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post Mar 19 2007, 09:05 PM
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Back in the day, my dad was an Oldsmobile guy. We had a light blue '98 1963 and a gargantuan '88 1973 that I learned to drive on. I hated that car. Through the years he never had a fun car. Never, ever drove mine, never had the desire. In college I had a 914, Capri, Alfa Spyder.

Guess my car bug was a spontaneous mutation and not inherited!

Paul
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post Mar 19 2007, 09:07 PM
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post Mar 19 2007, 09:08 PM
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67 Mustang Convertable V8 289. Dad gave it to me when I graduated from High School.

I wish I still had it! I wrecked it and thats when I bought my first 914!
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post Mar 19 2007, 09:11 PM
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my dad had a '64 T-Bird Hardtop and two 914's.
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post Mar 19 2007, 09:20 PM
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my pop was always a british car man. He had a '58 AH 100-6 he loved and drove it till it was hinged in the middle.

when I was a kid there was a '54 corvette with a blown engine in the garage until I was about 6. He sold it to a guy in washington state who thought he could restore it in 2 weeks for his high school reunion.

He also has a '71 240Z (original owner) and 60' bugeye which we still own...
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post Mar 19 2007, 09:22 PM
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dad had an Jag E type... v12 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

has his eyes on an early 911 right now...
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post Mar 19 2007, 10:12 PM
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My dad liked little cars and sporty cars, I remember an XJ140 Jag project, a 62 Karman Ghia, a 63 Volvo P1800, and a 64 Alfa Romeo spyder among others. He is where I got my car restoration values from.

So I think it is fair that I blame it all on him (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I sure miss my dad. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Mar 19 2007, 10:19 PM
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My father-in-law had a bug and a bus, but was never mechanically inclined.

My grandfather was a welder for GM, and my father has been a mechanic his whole life. My grandfather still drives his 69 Nova, and still way too fast. He's the only old person I've ever ridden with where you constantly have to remind them to slow down! He's 86 now, and still romps on that thing like a 20 yr old.

My dad had a Vega wagon with a 283 in it, Fairlane 500, and a NovaII with a 327. That was all before I was born though. He is much more subdued now with his Buick LeSabre, go figure. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Mar 19 2007, 10:20 PM
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QUOTE(Aaron Cox @ Mar 19 2007, 11:22 PM) *

dad had an Jag E type... v12 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

has his eyes on an early 911 right now...


Have him go for it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

My Dad was out of a fun car for a while until he got his 71 911. He loves that car now (and has the horsepower bug so we're collecting parts for a really hot 2.2L (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) )

In his youth he had a hotrod Ford F-1 with an Olds 303 (I'm restoring it again now), a few rodded Pintos (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) , a 72 Chevy K10 with a hopped up 4bolt main 350, and his favorite and last, a 70 914.
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post Mar 19 2007, 10:47 PM
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Dad had a 64 Futura coupe (my first car) and my mom had an Impala. They settled down and bought Toyota's. Before I was around it was all about the Merc's. Grandfather on one side had a two door lincoln Continental and the other grand father had a 64 1/2 mustang fastback and a model A..
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post Mar 19 2007, 10:48 PM
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My father had a Karmann Ghia but bought a 1973 914 2.0 because "the wiper blades work better". At least, that is what my mother reports. This 914 is now in my garage and is the car that got me into cars. Thanks Dad! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap56.gif)
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post Mar 19 2007, 11:03 PM
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Austin Heally's, MG's, Alfa's and Fiat's made up my parents pre-child stable of cars. I don't remember any of the cool cars though. My folks had to <gasp> abandon an AH 100-4 back in the early 60's when the motor overheated and siezed in Denver on a cross-country trip. I always wondered what wound up happening to that car...

There were certainly plenty of cars in the later years. But the "cool" ones were all pre-child. Oh well...

Okay, so the Taxi Cab Yellow Pontiac Tempest, and the short box Ford Bronco were pretty cool too...

-Josh2
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post Mar 20 2007, 12:04 AM
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My dad had a 59' Ford Ranchero that he swapped a 12.5-1 427 with a 3 speed with electric overdrive. The 4 speeds couldn't handle to power and always broke under stress. The car is gone but he still has the engine (it went thru something like 5 cars) That thing was scary fast - bias tires, 4 wheel drum brakes and over 450 hp.
Now he has my nice docile 178mph 67' Mustang that he keeps wanting to drop that 427 into.
Yes he is the source of my car "issues" - thanks Dad!!!
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