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

[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!

[nomore9one4]

Dads still has
'62 Galaxie XL500 convertable
'63 T-Bird
Factory Five Cobra

Had
'66 T-Bird
'55 ford-several
'66 Charger
'70 camaro
'69 camaro
'68 Camaro
'67 Camaro
'57 Chevy
'71 Mustang Fastback
'73 Mustang Grande
'77 Mustang King Cobra
'49 willys Pro Street
'80 something Merkur XR4ti piece of crap
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) and many others I am missing

[SGB]

64 Olds Rocket 88
67 Olds Vista Cruiser
67 Austin America
74 AMC Gremlin
72 Honda Civic CVCC
73 Ford 500
76 Volvo 240
76 260 Z
84 Golf Diesel
90 Jetta GLI
91 MB 190
97 Passat
02 MB 320

[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

[Allan]

My Dad had a '55 Corvette convertable. Snap in plastic windows, straight six with triple side draft carbs.

Traded it for a Model "A". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

[johannes]

In the early sixties my father owned a Simca Plein Ciel a few weeks ...
Totaled the car (no injuries)...
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After that he only owned "serious" cars. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
That's why I bought a 914 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

[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

[Tobra]

TR-3, XKE series 2(silver), XKE series 3(baby blue,V-12),911 carrera cab

all Dad's cars, but I remember Mom flat smokin' some fool in a Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am from a roll, jumped on it hard in first, caught 2nd and ran away from him

Oh yeah, had a '67 Buick Riviera big block that was pretty nice. They sold it to one of Mom's friends, whose son promptly wrapped it around a light pole.

[sk8kat1]

my first car 1966 T-bird white w/ the landau top and the 390 ..I really miss that car (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

my moms evryday driver when I was groing up 1970 bug .. robins egg blue

[Scott S]

We had some fun cars. Mom drove a VW square back that my dad kept in almost concour condition. Little yellow car - man I would love to have it today. She traded up to a two year old 1979 VW bus that was in nearly the same shape - had this giant sun roof and a way cool cassette player. My dad drove a 68 Cutlass untill 1974 - thats when he bought his 1971 914-6 that a neighbor was selling. I need to see if he has the serial number and see if anyone on this list owns it. It was the lighter orange with black. Plate number was California blue/yellow 787-ELU. Even had a factory bra that covered the entire front hood. I would love to find that car....
He sold it in 1981 to buy a 930 (from the same neigbor). It was a tad blinged out for dad - red piping on the seats, speakers in the headrests, red piping on the mats and the wheels were polished with the red background. I dont think he ever took that car over 70 mph. Unfortunately he thought it would be silly to own such a car when we moved to colorado - so it went away. He had a company car and mom traded the bus for a full size blazer. Other than some grey market Audi 100's and my grey market GTI, things were pretty practical until about 15 years ago. Since then we have been collecting and restoring all sorts of stuff - most of it british and all under the premise of investment. We try to keep at least a 50% debt to equity ratio - not including our personal time we have invested.

Dad still loves Audis. He drived the a-4 and mom has the TT. He has been looking at the A8 recently as the A-4 is getting old. He is a pretty big guy and I think he would be more comfortable in a bigger car. He loves my Sliverado!

[914wizard]

Lots of 40's and 50's era hot rod cars before I was born. These are all the ones I remember:
1960 MGA
1961 356 B Super 90
1964 Austin Healy Sprite
1964 356 SC
1964 Volvo 120
1967 Fiat 850 Spider
1968 Fiat 850 Special
1971 914 1.7
1971 Datsun 510
1974 Ford Capri
1984 911

Now he is back to Hot Rods again
1928 Model T Roadster with SBC V8
1940 Ford Coupe with SBC V8

[nomore9one4]

[quote name='sk8kat1' date='Mar 20 2007, 09:36 AM' post='877147']
my first car 1966 T-bird white w/ the landau top and the 390 ..I really miss that car (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

That was my first car too. But it was black on black with white interior. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[mattp]

Dad had some cool cars, money was tight but:
68 GTO
66 Ponitac Lemans
87 buick grand national
some real early 30's hot rods way before I was born

I got it from him, I keep getting smaller and smaller cars

73 buick century
77 Nova (2 dr, buckets, 390 horse 350, posi, lowered slightly, real sleeper)
84 mustang GT
87 Mustang gt
74 Triumph tr6 (stil have it, 3x webbers, lowered, all poly suspension, stiffer springs, high compression, headers, lots of fun)
91 prelude
jeep wrangler
jeep grand cherokee (I lost my way there for a while)
94 BMW 530
90 carrerra targa
suburu wrx
infinitui G35 coupe (daily driver now)
75 914

eventually Lotus Elise

[Luke]

Up until I was in High School Mom drove a '64 GTO ... I still have it ..

Dad had a good list early on ... '35 coupe .. '58 Impala, '55 Chev .. Hot Rod (I still have), 67 El Camino, '50 Chev Truck, model-A ... and some 80's/90's junk .. ending out with his hot rod '74 Stepside ..

[jim912928]

My Dad taught me how to drive in his 72 GTO...what a way to learn! He's now 81 and tools around in his restored (took him 5 years) 57 TR3....hmmm....where did I get the car bug from ? lol

[dflesburg]

When I was a little boy, Mom had a 69 Merc Montego with a big block.

She got rid of that because she said Ford paint sucked. And gas was getting expensive, like 25 cents a gallon or something crazy like that.

[914forme]

Dad had a 64.5 Mustang Conv,
A 67 Lotus Elan
A Lotus Europa
A Triumph Stag
and a 914-6

[bernbomb914]

my Dads coolest car was a Bristol 401 Solon witha stage 2 bristol engine which he wore out . then he went to Shelby and put in a 260 V8 It was called the Businessmans Express he also had a 41 ford woody. My most exotic car was a 62 ACE Accea cp with a stage 2 bristol motor. had to sell it when I had my 3rd child. I wish I had that car now

Bernie

[DanT]

Dad had 41 Ford Convertible with flat head V8
55 chevy Bel Air Convertible with 265V8 with powerglide
58 Chevy Impala coupe with 348/four barrel
59 Chevy Impala coupe with 348 with 3 twos
60 Pontiac Bonneville with 389.
62 Caddy Deville coupe with 390
63 Chevy Impala SS with 283
64 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible with 390
65 Caddy Deville coupe with 429
69 Ford Mustang Mach I with 351 Cleveland 4 barrel, 4 speed- the car I learned to drive stick shift on.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
70 Caddy coupe De Ville with 472

[VaccaRabite]

Mom had an early Barracuda in the late 70's. But it was not a "fun" car. It was just her car, and hand-down from her sister. I don't think mom ever had a fun car, and I have no idea what Dad drives/has driven.

Zach