RedPachyderm

1969 Camaro Z28

Abo

Quick car.

daeod Loc: Levittown, PA

1966 Ford Mustang convertible, 4 speed and 289 in V8!

DRam11 Loc: Polson, MT

Groan. The ignorance of youth. In 1960, at the age of 17 I was shopping for a car. Next to the 1957 Buick I purchased was a 1954 Corvette. But it had a puny six cylinder and the Buick had a V8. And besides my dad told me the Corvette was going to disintegrate because it was fiberglass. For $495 I could have had a true one of a few. Have I kicked myself over that choice? Yes.

I don't want to speak of the 1956 T-Bird I passed on because the owner hot rodded around town. Poor choices, poor choices.

JoeN Loc: East Texas

My father owned a Dodge and Plymouth dealership from just after the depression, so mid 1930s, to 1969 so I grew up immersed in cars. There are so many great cars to choose from but the first car I fell in love with was a 1960 Mercedes Benz 300 SL Gullwing Coupe. But now with my arthritic knees and back I couldn’t get into most of the sports cars. What I would really like to have now is a 1948 Plymouth Special Deluxe Coupe. That’s the car I learned to drive in and drove throughout high school. I would love to have one to upgrade slightly to make a highway cruiser out of it.

That old Plymouth had a manual throttle cable on the dash you could pull to set a fast idle while warming up the engine on cold mornings. However, my older brother discovered that you could pull the throttle out once you reached a highway speed and it worked as a cruise control. The only problem was that when you had to stop, you had to remember to quickly push the throttle knob in. More than once that feature almost caused problems.

FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga

KTJohnson Loc: Northern Michigan

I kind of like this one I just came across at a car show last week. It's a 1930 Cord L-29 Cabriolet.

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robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

The reason I went with the 350 over the 427 was I was bound back to college and would only be working part time. I needed to save somewhere and gas was where I saved. Besides I got a Yamaha RD 350 two stroke for fun just about as soon as I graduated and had my teaching credential. The days I rode it to work the students got a little bug eyed. Esp if I drove my car and my wife, looking about 16 but with rings and expecting, would show up to have lunch with me - on my RD 350. Trying to tell her to drive her car was a losing fight.
About 10 years later when Michael was 9 and they went places together she still looked young enough people thought she was his big sister and if I was with them I kept hearing "...your son and daughter..."

And the Chevelle, well some of the police in Southern California had hopped up Chevelle pursuit cars, the 4 door version and in solid dark colors - mine was forest green. I used to get mistaken for a plain cloths cop by people. I would find I had a string of cars stacked up behind me because they were reluctant to pass me at speed on the highway. I would pull into a rest stop and let them go on by. It felt like I was leading a parade. If I came up behind someone they would often pull into the slow lane and slow down until I was out of sight. Once it was a Corvette doing about 90 and he left rubber and smoke he hit the brakes so hard. I was late getting home from a fishing trip and didn't want the Sunday home bound traffic to catch me. I was sort of flying low instead of driving.

Oldeio

2009 pontiac G8 love the look and the last year they made them.

Oldeio

2009 pontiac G8 love the look and the last year they made them.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Maybe if you had bothered to change the oil and replace the filters, the car would have lasted more than 50,000 miles. My uncle had a 1964 Impala that he maintained properly and put over a quarter million miles on.
Just because you didn't know how to maintain a vehicle doesn't make it a reason to bad mouth those of us who do. The topic is, what is your dream car, not how can you insult someone else. Besides, if you really paid attention to my post and actually read past the first sentence you'd have discovered my dream car is not a Chevy at all, it's a Ford.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

What is that? Is that a thunderchicken!?

tommy2 Loc: Fort Worth, Texas

Wow, sure glad this isn't a thread on "the cars we used to own"! Too many memories there for me. So to answer the question I have to say I wish I had my '04 Commemorative Corvette back. (See my avatar.).

Abo

Sweet,

I'd be shooting for a "Bullit" Mustang though... that car looks, dark, understated
and earnest... Not as earnest as the Bullit Charger though.

danersmiff

me too, just a different color.