What car did your parents drive when you were little?

[infoiltrator]

1054 P0ntiac 2 tone green 6 cylinder standard
more or less rhis car without skirts or rear wheel well chrome as I recall light green body very dark green/black roof
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...67B448ABD57260FB2635CC933ED&selectedIndex=194

Do not remember a hot rodded '49 Ford
62 Pontiac Catalina 2 door
66 Pontiac Catalina 389 2 door
67 Pontiac Catalina 400 2 door
71 Pontiac Catalina 350 2 door
can you tell my uncle was a Pontiac mechanic

 

[brainhulk]

My dad had a dodge challenger, then a dodge daytona, then a dodge caravan

 

[Meghan54]

First I remember was a '57 Plymouth Belvedere with an awful blue/purple paint. Huge fins, huge grille.

 

[dawp]

1967 ford country squire station wagon with a 390
1973 ford station wagon with a 429 4 barrel
1963 fiat 600d

 

[vi edit]

First car I remember was a dark black Chevy Malibu. It was probably a '76 or so. I remember being young and trying not to get killed by the giant slabs of metal for doors when getting in and out of the back seat.

That went bye bye for an early 80's Ford Escort wagon. That got totaled after only a year or two when an old woman blew through a stop sign.

Then it went to Dodge Lancer that Mom kept for a long time. Dad got tired of it eating transmissions and eventually we moved to a early 90's Lumina. Had that through the time I graduated high school.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Exactly as pictured:

 

[herm0016]

89 suburban, 94 suburban, 87 roadmaster, 96 road master, 80s cutless, 03ish Yukon, 01? envoy, 06? envoy, and 2 century wagons of the 90s.

one time, we had a white with wood grain roadmaster, and a white with woodgrain century wagon. haha.

 

[ManyBeers]

Cadillac and a Studebaker

 

[Midwayman]

Earliest car I can remember is a early 80's audi sedan in brown.
had a late 80's accord, early 90's accord.
Grand Cherokee maybe early 90's.
Aerostar mini van in the early 90's.
Dad had a big pickup in the 80s too. f150 maybe?

 

[JulesMaximus]

My Step-Dad did have 2 cool cars when he married my Mom. A 1971 Triumph TR6 and a 1971 Buick Centurion Convertible (a car I used on a number of occasions one summer in the mid 80s including driving it to some concerts at SPAC). He let me drive the TR6 a couple of times and I have very fond memories of that car.

It was exactly like this car except it didn't have those big rubber bits on the bumper.

 

[ZipSpeed]

We had two Caprice Classic Station Wagons. The first was blue, the second, maroon. Both with the wood paneling. I can't remember the years though. They were awesome road trip vehicles. Before the push of safety and car seats that we see nowadays, my sisters and I would fold the rear seats down and we would have this cavernous area for sleeping and playing.

 

[KentState]

Two of the most awesome cars ever.

70's Olds Custlass - don't know the year, but that's what I came home from the hospital in. Front seat in my mom's lap. Oh the 70's and safety.
78 Ford Mustang
76 AMC Hornet

I think that Mustang grew the strong roots of hate for Ford with me. It was the most perfect piece of junk that a family could own at the time. The Hornet wasn't terrible, but it was at the end of AMC.

 

[franksta]

'78 or '79 Pinto station wagon, '83 Ford LTD, Mercury Monarch no idea what year but after I was born in '80 they brought me home from the hospital in it, and an '84 Thunderbird.

 

[etrigan420]

The first car I remember riding in with my dad (Back in '74-'75 ish) was a '71 or '72 AMC Javelin. Baby Blue with black top and interior. I used to ride standing up in the passenger seat...

Then he married my step mother and she had a '70's Capri (IIRC). We fell on hard times and it was a '76 Celica, which was our only car for awhile for our family of 5. Then it was no car for a bit, then an early '80's Ford van (with just 2 captains chairs in the front...us kids would roll around in the back.), then an '86 Prelude and an '86 Ford Bronco, and that's what they had when I moved out.

Now he drives a '14 CRV and my step mom drives an '09 (I think) Accord.

My mother has always been GM. '76 Camaro, '82 Firebird, '86 Z-28, then a C4 vette, followed by a C5 and currently drives a C6.

 

[rommelrommel]

75ish LeMans wagon
82ish Blazer
79 Grand Am sedan
85ish blazer
87 Grand Am sedan
89 K2500 GMC Crew/Long box
98 Blazer
98 K2500 HD GMC Diesel Crew/Long box/Diesel

 

[Kadarin]

We had a 1974 Ford Gran Torino station wagon, much like this one:

We drove all over the country in this one... It had a 400M engine that produced an incredible 168hp, and the shocks were so bad it felt dangerous to drive over highway 17 to Santa Cruz.

 

[Raizinman]

55 Chevy Nomad. I remember the front fenders rusting badly at the top and of course the chrome airplane on the hood. I loved that airplane. It was two tone, blue and white.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Awesome Victoria.

 

[WackyDan]

First one I remember is a 1970 international Travel-all. *six kids.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Chevy station wagon with not enough power for hills from when I was a baby in 1980 until 7 years old in 1987. They got rid of the old wagon, and picked up a ful size chevy van, 1987 with v8. I learned to drive in that in 1996. When I went to college in 98, and when moving my apartment in 2000, that van was the "moving truck".

My dad finally sold it in like 2005 or so.

Note: my folks had 2 cars some of the time I was a child, for a while, my dad drove around in a late 80s dodge omni. But for the mostpart, it was the big blue van.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Dad worked for GM so we had lots and lots of cars. A new one every year I think. Always had 2 at a time.
I remember:
80 camero
early 80's chevy station wagon (think it was a malibu)
84 chevy conversion van
early 80's chevette
87 cavalier (nicknamed the crapalier because it was just that; crap)
89 cadillac seville
late 80's gmc jimmy
various pontiacs I can't recall. one was a minivan.

 

[manimal]

My dad had just about every Alfa ever made. He was a race mechanic and engineer-fabricator back in the prewar race days and worked on the first inline water cooled engine that made it into the fiat spa fighter in ww2.

Dad had a Giulia sprint GT that made me love cars. Can hear that thing wind out in my head still.

 

[Drako]

One of these:

My dad would make me and my brother ride in the back. Safety was not a concern back then. 😀

 

[Belegost]

So when I was under 3 a Volkswagen station wagon of some sort - I only know this because I was ejected from the front windshield in the accident that totaled it, a story I heard many times growing up.

She then bought a yellow '79 Toyota Celica.When my sister came along it was impractical, so it went to my dad. He drove it to 320K and sold it to a friend. Last I heard about it around 12 years ago it was at 430K on the original engine/tranny. Damned near bulletproof car.

So then she got a 1978 Monte Carlo, in handicap blue. She had that car for quite a few years. And yea, the giant steel doors were scary as hell.

After that was an '84 Oldsmobile Delta 88, the most underpowered land boat ever. That got totaled when a crazy old woman decided to run a red light.

Which led to the '92 Ford Aerostar, pretty reliable for a 90s era Ford. She kept that until after I finished high school.

When my dad sold off the Celica, he got a 1986 Nissan Hardbody. Ended up getting that when I started college. I loved that truck.