What was your first car? What was the best car you owned? What's your dream car?

[SusanJillParker]

What was your first car? What was the best car you owned? What's your dream car?

My first car was a 1985 Mustang GT that my brother sold me for a dollar in 1990 on my 18th birthday.

I loved that car.

Then, I bought a new '96 Camaro Z28. I hated that car. After driving the Mustang that gave me plenty of road feel, the Camaro felt numb and twitchy at speed. I felt as if I was sitting down low as if in a bathtub or in a Corvette.

I sit on the Mustang seat instead in the Mustang. I had the Camaro for 4 months before crashing the car in a wall and totaling it. I bought a 96 1/2 T-Bird with the insurance money and loved the car. Loaded with every option, I looked good in that car.

Then, missing my Mustang, I sold the T-Bird for a 2000 Mustang GT. The first thing I did was to remove the driver's seat and replace it with a Recaro seat. I loved that car and kept it until 2011, when I lost it in the 100-year flood of the Susquehanna River on 9/11/11.

My dream car is a new Mustang GT with a six speed, orange with black stripes, and Recaro seats.

So...what about you? What was your first car? What was the best car owned? What's your dream car?

 

[lovecraft68]

First was a 1974 orange AMC Matador

My favorite to date was a 1968 Barracuda I had in the late eighties.

I don't know that I have a dream car. As for daily transportation I have a rather unspectacular 2012 Mazda 626. but its a good car and does handle well.

I suppose it would be an old muscle car maybe a 1972 Nova SS, but I think at this point I would pony up to buy it mostly restored, my patience and drive to work on cars has faded over the last ten years. Its why I recently sold a 69 firebird I bought a few years ago to restore, just not into the work anymore.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

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My first car was identical to this 1949 Oldsmobile 88. I had the sun shield, too.

 

[dearc]

First car was a 1956 VW Bug. I paid more for a set of recap tires for it than I paid for the car.

Dream car is the one I have now a 1989 Mercedes 560 SL convertible. Only the second owner and it has less than 95,000 miles original miles.

 

[SusanJillParker]

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My first car was identical to this 1949 Oldsmobile 88. I had the sun shield, too.

What? Huh? A '49 Olds?

Did they even have cars in 1949? When did you start driving at age two?

How the Hell old are you (lol)?

 

[SusanJillParker]

First car was a 1956 VW Bug. I paid more for a set of recap tires for it than I paid for the car.

Dream car is the one I have now a 1989 Mercedes 560 SL convertible. Only the second owner and it has less than 95,000 miles original miles.

Wow! Nice car. That car will last at least 300,000 miles.

I couldn't even afford the maintenance on that car.

That's the type of car that the service manager walks out wearing a white coat as if he's a doctor.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

What? Huh? A '49 Olds?

Did they even have cars in 1949? When did you start driving at age two?

How the Hell old are you (lol)?

It won Daytona that year.

 

[jomar]

First was a 1967 MGB

Best was a 2006 BMW 330i

Dont really have a dream car.

 

[SusanJillParker]

First was a 1967 MGB

Best was a 2006 BMW 330i

Dont really have a dream car.

Pretty much any BMW would be my dream car.

Have you seen the new six series?

"Wow!"

 

[jomar]

Pretty much any BMW would be my dream car.

Have you seen the new six series?

"Wow!"

Yeah, they're pretty sweet. They say the six series can pass anything but a gas station.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Yeah, they're pretty sweet. They say the six series can pass anything but a gas station.

The Ultimate Driving Machine are big bucks and not for poor people like me.

I used to want a Mini Cooper, especially now that they're made by BMW but they have way too much front drive torque steer. Unlike a Mustang GT, if you stab at the brakes of a Mini without holding the steering wheel with two hands, you're going to go for a ride across the road.

Much like driving a roller skate, the Mini gives a lot of road feel though.

Now BMW owns the ultimate luxury car, the Rolls Royce.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

First Car Owned: 1966 Chevy Nova II - 293 cu in V8 with a Powerglide transmission. I added 327 heads and a Holly 850 double pumper.

Favorite Car: 1970 Plymouth Road Runner (meep, meep) 383 Magnum, 4 speed. It was brand new when I bought it for $3,850 - List was $6,580. 1970 was a bad year for Plymouth.

Best Car: 1986 Ford Thunderbird, it was a smooth running car, it was also the last year they made them. I had it on a least and brought it at the end of the least.

Dream Car: Current car - 2000 Monte Carlo LS. No matter what this car just keeps on running. The only time it quit was when the starter crapped out.

 

[SusanJillParker]

First Car Owned: 1966 Chevy Nova II - 293 cu in V8 with a Powerglide transmission. I added 327 heads and a Holly 850 double pumper.

Favorite Car: 1970 Plymouth Road Runner (meep, meep) 383 Magnum, 4 speed. It was brand new when I bought it for $3,850 - List was $6,580. 1970 was a bad year for Plymouth.

Dream Car: Current car - 2000 Monte Carlo LS. No matter what this car just keeps on running. The only time it quit was when the starter crapped out.

Instead of a 2000 Monte Carlo, my dream car would be a 2006 GTO. It doesn't look like much but it's a really fast car. My ex-husband had one but would never allow me to drive it (lol).

That car had the most comfortable driver's and passenger seat of any car I sat in but for a $1,200 Recaro seat.

One of my brothers had a '70 Chrysler New Yorker with a 440 Magnum TNT police interceptor engine. He claimed his engine put out 30 more horsepower than the stock 375 hp.

For such a big heavy car, he raced a friend's '69 Corvette to Provincetown, Massachusetts and beat him.

The Corvette couldn't handled the undulations of the highway but the 4,600 pound New Yorker felt as if it was going 80mph instead of 120 mph.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

First was a 1967 MGB

Best was a 2006 BMW 330i

Dont really have a dream car.

I once threw a 635i around a race track in Wisconsin. Fun was had by all - it was BMW Auto Club event. My boss at the time took me and we took turns racing his 635i. It was fast and easy to drive. They restricted the car to third gear. At the end of the straight it would be doing a hundred and the straight wasn't all that long.

Oh it was a road race circuit.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

http://www.maplehillresto.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/DSC_00341.jpg

My favorite car. 1964 1/2 Mustang 289 V8

 

[oggbashan]

My first car

http://www.fordprefect.co.uk/prefect_e493a.jpg

It wasn't as good looking as this one when I bought it. It was when I sold it.

Two years ago my youngest daughter arranged for me to have a ride in a preserved one. I told the owner more about his car than he knew.

I even wrote articles for the owners' club magazine.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I once threw a 635i around a race track in Wisconsin. Fun was had by all - it was BMW Auto Club event. My boss at the time took me and we took turns racing his 635i. It was fast and easy to drive. They restricted the car to third gear. At the end of the straight it would be doing a hundred and the straight wasn't all that long.

Oh it was a road race circuit.

What I don't like about the 635i is that it's too heavy and it's a convertible. I don't like convertible. It does a job on my hair (lol).

 

[NotWise]

first: 1963 Galaxy 500 XL. Had bucket seats and a built-in beer cooler.

best: Not a car. 1976 F100 w/302 engine

dream: I don't dream about cars. Never have. I dream about sex.

 

[SusanJillParker]

http://www.maplehillresto.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/DSC_00341.jpg

My favorite car. 1964 1/2 Mustang 289 V8

Okay, now we're talkin' about a real car.

The only problem with that car is, much like the Pinto, the old mustangs had the gas tanks right by the rear bumper and if someone smacked you had enough from behind, you could kiss your ass goodbye in a fiery explosion.

When confronted about the gas tank, Lee Iacocca said that people with cars that old, referring to the old 60's Mustang, should buy a new Mustang. He was so smugly arrogant, the prick.

 

[SusanJillParker]

http://www.fordprefect.co.uk/prefect_e493a.jpg

It wasn't as good looking as this one when I bought it. It was when I sold it.

Two years ago my youngest daughter arranged for me to have a ride in a preserved one. I told the owner more about his car than he knew.

I even wrote articles for the owners' club magazine.

Damn, Og, it looks like an old English taxi. I think I'd rather be driving around in JB's '49 Olds than in that thing.

It doesn't look very fast.

 

[oggbashan]

My Dream Car

http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Bentley/31-Bentley_8Ltr-KM-08_RH_01.jpg

1930s 8 Litre Bentley Van Den Plas tourer.

But one is so expensive that I'd be afraid to drive it. I met one in Northern France a few years ago, returning to the UK after a Peking-Paris race. The fenders, and mirrors were held on with Duck Tape and a headlight glass was broken. The owner thought the repairs would only cost about £5,000 but it was worth it to have driven such a car thousands of miles. Even filling the tank cost 200 Euros.

 

[oggbashan]

More realistically, I'd love to have one of these again:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i04eAFtNOU0/Tt-LFhG0dxI/AAAAAAAAL4k/7VxipL5tXjQ/s1600/1.Morris%2B%2526%2BSimca.jpg

A Morris 8 Series E Tourer. I'd like an earlier Morris 8 Tourer but I know I can't drive them. My feet are too big!

 

[oggbashan]

Damn, Og, it looks like an old English taxi. I think I'd rather be driving around in JB's '49 Olds than in that thing.

It doesn't look very fast.

Fast? It was seriously scary at 40 mph. In theory it would do 59 mph but you needed a delicate hand on the steering, and a death wish. Of course I drove it at 59 mph once - downhill with a following wind on an empty road.

It was based on the 1933 933cc Ford 8, (57 ci) with the same suspension system as the Ford Model T. The lights were useless. The screen wipers stopped when climbing a hill or accelerating. But the back seat was large enough for...

 

[oggbashan]

I had a much modified and adapted one of these:

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/uploads/cars/wolseley/3585096.jpg

It's a Wolseley 6/80 as used by British Police in the early 1950s. The standard model had a top speed of about 85 mph. The Police version did 90 mph.

Mine had been altered for saloon car racing. It had four wheel disc brakes, modified suspension and a seriously uprated engine. I don't know the top speed. I was stopped by the Police for doing over 110 mph. They let me off the court appearance because 'the magistrate wouldn't believe it'.

 

[Handley_Page]

First car: Morris Oxford. 1584cc like this:- https://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A9mSs3fMTzZWsnIAyWVLBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTByZmVxM3N0BGNvbG8DaXIyBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Morris+Oxford+Cars&fr=chr-greentree_ff#id=11&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.staticflickr.com%2F3150%2F2851055144_0d3b4b0786_z.jpg%3Fzz%3D1&action=click

It wasn't invented for speed, but it was quick enough on the country roads I drove.

Best Car ?? Ford Capri, 2l XL with limited slip diff.
Somewhat like This:- https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A9mSs3HSUTZWSAwAfi5LBQx.?p=ford+capri&fr2=sb-bot&fr=chr-greentree_ff&type=201692

Would I have another?
In a heartbeat, but I doubt I could get into one at my ages!