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> OT: What did your parents drive?, Not to work - for fun?
LarryR
post Mar 20 2007, 11:33 PM
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My Dad has always been almost as much of a gear head as me. However, he has been more into cruisers than race cars...

a short list:

56 buick convertible
50 mercury convertible
59 impala factory tripple red 348 tri power
55 buick 2 door hard top

inspired by my tr6 he bought a 72 tr6 tripple black with wire wheels and restored it.

currently he is building a 50 mercury convertible with the drive train out of a new chrysler 300.

I think he was inspired by my 74 911 with a 96 3.6 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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post Mar 20 2007, 11:52 PM
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My dad drove/still drives the 914 he bought new in 1974.

It is a little modified now.... It's what we use as "the track car"

He's also had some other Porsches:

1973 911T
1974 911
1983 930
Many many parts cars (but never drove those)

and some other less eventful cars:

19?? Chevy
19?? Corvair
19?? Montego
1972 Beetle
1973 Pontiac Grand Prix
1979 Toyota Celica
1981-82 Delta 88
198? Cavilier Wagon
1989 S10 Blazer
1991 Suburban
200? Taurus (2 of them)
200? Grand Marquis

I know he's had some others, but I've probably embarrassed him enough.

Hi Dad.




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post Mar 21 2007, 12:36 AM
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My Dad was practical during the time I lived at home. I must admit though, our 1965 Mercury Colony Park with a 390 V8 4 bbl had some pretty good dragster qualities. We also had a TR10 that Dad used to commute to the train station in. It was a station wagon model which attracted a fair amount of attention. Later on, my Dad bought a Special Edition 280ZX. I was long out of the house and never drove it. I was happy to see him driving something that was special to him.

My best friend's Dad had a 1967 TR4A IRS that was our primary transportation and wrenching project in high school. I loved that car.

My highschool girlfriend's Dad had a 1970 Firebird Formula 400, first year of the new body style and last year of any HP for a long time. Somehow, I frequently found myself behind the wheel. That car was so tight in the corners with plenty of power.

Thinking about those cars brings back some great memories!

-Jeff
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post Mar 21 2007, 01:48 AM
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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.
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post Mar 21 2007, 08:33 AM
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John,

That was a 69 montego, and dad beetle was a superbeetle
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post Mar 21 2007, 09:09 AM
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My dad had some cool cars before I was around, including an XK140 and a 356, but I grew up in the back seat of a 68 GTO (see avatar) and a 61 Jag Mk.II. He's still got both, and is currently doing a rolling resto on the Jag.
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post Mar 21 2007, 11:55 AM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

You guys all lucked out with parents driving cool cars!

The first car I remember was a 1972 Chevy Malibu wagon that was puke green! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

The only reason my dad got rid of that was because driving back from the cape my parakete was in the back and got gased out from exhaust fumes coming through the rust holes in the body. That kind clued him into getting something else...canary in the coal mine thing.

After the station wagon my dad drove Dodge Caravans.

My family's car choices defined cool. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)

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post Mar 21 2007, 12:43 PM
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QUOTE(dflesburg @ Mar 21 2007, 06:33 AM) *

John,

That was a 69 montego, and dad beetle was a superbeetle



What does it matter? (the montego was no bigblock)
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post Mar 21 2007, 12:53 PM
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QUOTE(Pat Garvey @ Mar 19 2007, 06:40 PM) *

What did you parents drive?


you tell me ...

that's me in my dad's car. i have no clue what it is and he isn't around so i can't ask him ...
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) Andy




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post Mar 21 2007, 02:19 PM
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61 356B roadster
67 Camaro 6 cyl
70 Chevelle 2dr 307
76 Datsun 280Z
00 Trans Am WS-6
82 911 SC Coupe
06 GTO 6 Speed


Other generic cars deleted...
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post Mar 21 2007, 05:10 PM
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QUOTE(SirAndy @ Mar 21 2007, 10:53 AM) *

QUOTE(Pat Garvey @ Mar 19 2007, 06:40 PM) *

What did you parents drive?


you tell me ...

that's me in my dad's car. i have no clue what it is and he isn't around so i can't ask him ...
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) Andy


Sir Andy,
That car looks eerily like a 1958 Opel Olympia Rekord. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/yellowsleep[1].gif)
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post Mar 21 2007, 05:27 PM
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My father had a 1970 914 that he traded in for a 71 911 and then had two vette's before getting into the cadie phase. He makes fun of me for getting a 914 but I love it..
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post Mar 21 2007, 05:28 PM
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My dad's fun cars were 1926 Ford depot hack, 1927 Ford pick up, 1932 Ford model A with rumble seat. He now has a 1967 Mustang with vinyl roof. His non fun cars were Chevy citation "ticket to hell", Pinto wagon, Subaru 2 door. His tastes were eclectic at best.
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post Mar 21 2007, 07:47 PM
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The Original Hotrodder...

1951 Oldsmobile Super 88... big honkin' overhead valve V8, with, like 150 hp, but... big for it's day! Fastest stock car at Daytona that year...
1959 Galaxie 500, with the 352... another big honkin' worthless V8...sold it the month after I got my drivers license and nearly scared my mother to death trying to drift the rear end around a curve, just like all the Good Ol' Boys on the dirt tracks! The Galaxie did not know the meaning of the word "Drift", but it rolled like the Titanic on it's death dive...
He decided we needed to Go Small, and started with a '66 VW Fastback, which morphed into a '68 Fastback (w/ EFI), and a '66 VW Double Cab Pickup (yeah, it's as ugly as it sounds), and then a 1969 Fastback (fully automatic! think verrry slooooow). I left home shortly thereafter and bought a 1968 911L, and a 1972 Capri 2600 V6 4spd, which showed it's ass to quite a few BMW 2002's after a bit of carb work. That turned into my first 1973 914 2.0, and the rest, as they say, is history!
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Great responses - all of them!

Looks like a mix of moto genes - some inherited, some morphed. Just goes to show that most 914 people (hate the term "teener") got into these things for some reason of their own.

If my father were around when I bought the 914 in '72, he probably would have disowned me. "Jezzus Pat, it's only 4 cylinders and a third the size of a decent V-8" would have been about what he'd say. By now, I think he'd have understood.

What the hell will the next generations collect?
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post Mar 21 2007, 10:04 PM
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VW powered sandrail, motorcycles in the desert.
Dodge pickup while drunk driving.
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post Mar 21 2007, 10:33 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Ma and pa drove the venerable 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88 four (4) door with the rocket 455 HO...

It had a matterhorn white body and green vinyl top...

Bitch would smoke the bias tires to nothingness in 5 flat....

Pa is bipolar,,,, and took me for many rides while in a highly pissed-off state of mind.....I know from experience that this bad ass ride would unleash unreal whup-ass

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