ur parents have beaters growing up

[Fritzo]

My parents always had pretty nice cars. My father bought Buick exclusively, and my mother's first car was a Buick. She later switched to Toyota. Me OTOH, have had almost nothing but beaters. My current Jeep was the nicest car I've had, but it's now a beater. It was three years old when I got it in 2000.

My dad was the same way about Buicks. He traded in his Satellite for a Buick Regal in 1980, then another one in 1984. In 1987 he traded in for a "sporty" Buick Skyhawk. The 4 cylinder turbo in that car sounded freakin' amazing, but the engine blew up after only 50K on it, so he never bought another Buick again.

He's been with Jeeps for the last 20 years now.

 

[crownjules]

My dad drove an early 1980s brown two door Ford Escort when we first moved to the US. I vaguely remember it having a bit of rust on it around the wheel wells. After that though it was new or in good condition stuff.

 

[zinfamous]

why do you type like a retard?

smarter than you are!

 

[who?]

My stepmothers Vega had the three speed which was fun to drive but it had the overheating problem until GM invented the overflow tank system for the Vega which is now standard on pretty much all cars.

 

[Murloc]

though her favorite where the old HUGE wagons or the huge full size vans.


it was funny actually. my mom was a tiny 4'11 maybe 100lbs heh

well big vans have a higher seat position so they attract small people.
Nowadays it's all about SUVs though.

 

[JulesMaximus]

My Dad had a '71 Mustang Mach 1 that rusted out so badly you could see the road through the floor when seated in the rear seat. He had a Gran Torino after that along with a myriad of other piles of junk over the years.

 

[Fritzo]

My Dad had a '71 Mustang Mach 1 that rusted out so badly you could see the road through the floor when seated in the rear seat. He had a Gran Torino after that along with a myriad of other piles of junk over the years.

Too bad he didn't take care of that Mustang. They're easily selling between $20K-$30K these days (the new Mustang's design queues from the Mach I are really helping sales).

 

[xj0hnx]

Vega, Chevette, and a Chevelle (not a beater), an old Caddi with the huge fins, that's all I remember.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Ahh... nothing like spacing in a postman thread on a Monday.

 

[Raduque]

Up till we left Miami, all my family had WAS beaters.

Ones I remember
77 Cutlass
85 Delta 88
88 Taurus
79 Z28 (looked like ass, went like stink, ate ignition modules like candy)

My 88 Accord was a beater. It looked like crap, had holes in the rear wheel wells, no AC, the fans were connected to a toggle switch, but it ran like a top and handled like a Go-Kart. I miss that car. 🙁

Come to think of it, my '98 Nissan was kind of a beater too, after the accident.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Beaters. I remember the Plymouth Valiant. rusted and burned oil. You filled the tank and the Crankcase as well. And on idle, if you hit the pedal you would fumigate the entire back section of traffic with a black smoke. Annoying crowds. no problem, push down the pedal and poof!.

Rust like a Mofo as well.

 

[lxskllr]

Beaters. I remember the Plymouth Valiant. rusted and burned oil. You filled the tank and the Crankcase as well. And on idle, if you hit the pedal you would fumigate the entire back section of traffic with a black smoke. Annoying crowds. no problem, push down the pedal and poof!.

Rust like a Mofo as well.

That was my brother's first car. He got it from a relative. When you opened the glove box, leaves blew in :^D

 

[rasczak]

Don't remember the year, but my pop had a ford maverick and another ford something or other. i remember that maverick's front fender like it was yesterday. Rusting and help up with rope. 😀

 

[Homerboy]

More or less, yes my parents did. We never had a "nice car"

But today's parents all feel they NEED to drive 2 luxury vehicles and have the latest and greatest everything -- so both work and the kid goes to daycare.

 

[BUTCH1]

My Dad had a '71 Mustang Mach 1 that rusted out so badly you could see the road through the floor when seated in the rear seat. He had a Gran Torino after that along with a myriad of other piles of junk over the years.

Yea, Ford had major rust issues with the early '70's cars, my parents bought a '73 Grand Torino, 4 years later the frame was rusted so bad the mechanic told them it's going to "collapse" if it hit a big enough pothole, they scrapped it.

 

[Fritzo]

Yea, Ford had major rust issues with the early '70's cars, my parents bought a '73 Grand Torino, 4 years later the frame was rusted so bad the mechanic told them it's going to "collapse" if it hit a big enough pothole, they scrapped it.

Interesting

The lack of popularity and the low numbers of Torinos in existence today is likely due to the Torino's durability issues that caused low survivability. Torinos had serious problems with chassis and body corrosion as well as having a less-than-perfect reliability record. In areas where severe winters exposed these cars to road salt, Torinos were reported to have major rust problems within the first 5 years of ownership. To further worsen the corrosion problems, 1969–1973 Torinos were reported to have severe paint-peeling problems. As a result, Torinos had the lowest resale value of any of the American intermediate cars in the 1970s used-car market.[15]

 

[JulesMaximus]

Too bad he didn't take care of that Mustang. They're easily selling between $20K-$30K these days (the new Mustang's design queues from the Mach I are really helping sales).

We lived in upstate NY and this was his sole transportation so he drove it year round. It was a pile of rust back in the mid 70s... I'm sure that car has long since turned into iron oxide.

 

[TwiceOver]

No, not really. My dad had an old POS but I don't really remember it all that much.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

somebody had to show a vega some love 🙂
sis got one new at the same time we got the 510. Let's drive to Vegas with 2 little kids and whole slew of family, in the summer! No air conditioning!
Head warps on vega with all of 2000 miles on it, lets gasket go somewhere in the middle of the trip.
**9** people pile into the 510 while vega sits at some dealership, waiting on parts. 9.
2 toddlers who would alternately play nice, or go to war. one more small child and the rest adults.
I was not on that trip 😀
Next vega story. Sister is sitting in the middle of a 5 lane intersection waiting to turn left. Shifter comes off in her hand in neutral. That vega died while the 510 was just getting broken in🙂

Had a 73 Vega station wagon with a 307ci engine, and glass packs. Peoples eyes would kinda bug out whenever I started it up. With the stock
suspension you really had to grip the steering wheel.

 

[RedRooster]

How do you ignore users again?

 

[ZaneNBK]

My dad had a green Gremlin that whistled and when you took a left turn you had to hold the passenger door or it'd fly open. Hope you remembered to wear your seatbelt. 🙂

 

[mmntech]

My parents were more or less established by the time I was born. My dad always had company cars since he was a civil engineer and had to drive to job sites all the time. He had a maroon Chevy Celebrity sedan when I was really little. My mom had a great big 1983 Caprice. Was a grey coupe with a red interior.

Mom's cars
-Volkswagen Beetle
-AMC Gremlin
-1983 Chevrolet Caprice
-1990 Oldsmobile Delta 88
-1997 Lexus ES300

Dad's cars
-Chevrolet Chevelle?
-Chevrolet Celebrity
-GMC Jimmy
-1995 Ford Explorer
-2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee
-2006 Audi A6 Quattro

I actually don't know what my dad's first car was. I think it was a Chevelle. Not sure what, if anything, he had between the Chevelle and the Celebrity.

 

[foghorn67]

We lived in upstate NY and this was his sole transportation so he drove it year round. It was a pile of rust back in the mid 70s... I'm sure that car has long since turned into iron oxide.

Like any Lancia? 😉

My father had a Datsun B210. What a pile that was. Cars seemed to age fast then.
I would love to find that car and restore/mod it. I always liked the way they looked.

 

[brianmanahan]

my parents never had have a car newer than 7 or 8 years old

they save a buttload of money that way

 

[HamburgerBoy]

They married in the mid 80's and they had some kind of shitty Japanese motorcycle from the 70's until it was stolen. After that they had to driver a shittier 70's Honda Civic until my dad finished his B.S. in EE and got a job at NASA.