Growing up what was your favourite car?

[otters]

LOL I was a kid. All I knew was it was the first car I could see out of without sitting on my knees or standing up... and I could see EVERYWHERE. Seat belt laws didn't exist then. It felt like a Jetson's bubble car. It was also fairly unique in that is was so bulbous and not the big boxy shapes I remember everything else being - with the exception of VW Bugs.

Shouldn't you love LamBORGhinis?

 

[G-Lexington]

The price is not the be-all and end-all. As a kid, having enough money to buy a car of any sort is so far beyond you that it doesn't matter whether it's a thousand dollars or a million dollars - you don't have it.

The car has flip lights, and goes really fast, and is exotic, and looks fantastic. It's the basic premise of Knight Rider (even if KITT couldn't do half the stuff it does, it would still be cool). Likewise the Corvette driven by Face in the A-team, and Magnum's old 308 GTB. Fast and exotic, but mostly good- looking.

Even if most of the Bond cars hadn't been tricked out, it was the design and the styling and the speed which made them desirable. The gadgets just popped them up into the sphere of the truly amazing.

The desirability was never solely about the price. Otherwise every little boy would have Bentleys and Rollers on his wall, not superbikes or hypercars.

-d-

Just to highlight a few phrases. I guess it's inevitable that this discussion drifts into the objective vs subjective, and that weird murky middle ground where they uneasily meet.

When I was four years old, I had adults asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up. And I told them I wanted to be a fireman. Not because I actually wanted to, but because I'd already learned that there were right answers and wrong answers to that question. And "fireman" was one of the acceptable ones.

And so it was with pretty much any opinion-based question. They may seem like simple, straight-forward, "what-do-you-like" questions, but there are always answers that will be considered more "correct" than others. "Blue" is a totally acceptable response to "what's your favorite color?" "Magenta" might get you a few looks, and "mauve" pretty much demands an explanation. If your favorite movie is Casablanca or Shawshank Redemption, we're OK. If it's one of the Transformers movies, we need to have a little talk. And your pick of favorite porn star will immediately decide if you're normal or "have a fetish".

Picking the high-end sports car is in fact the "correct" choice. Some might not agree with your specific choice, but nobody will ever take you task for it. As you (accurately) point out, some of our choices here are "middle-class crap". It's like picking Transformers as your favorite movie - it implies either a very limited scope, or a shocking lack of taste. I'll leave it to the reader to decide which it was for me. (Hint - it CAN be both.)

Lex

 

[dereperez]

Finally! Welcome, fellow traveler!

I was not a fan of the 360. I didn't like the paired big nostrils on that very square bumper. I far preferred the 355 it replaced, and the 430 which replaced the 360. But my favourite was the 550 or 575, with that single nostril on the bonnet.

One day when I'm big, I will have one of these.

-d-

Right on! But I don't really like the 575 as much because of the nostril on the bonnet. I much prefer the newer 458 with the "semi" nostril, more shallow dip. It's a sleeker look and feel, IMO.

 

[dereperez]

^^ That, or a Ferrari FF.

 

[blackbeltninja]

Right on! But I don't really like the 575 as much because of the nostril on the bonnet. I much prefer the newer 458 with the "semi" nostril, more shallow dip. It's a sleeker look and feel, IMO.

Oooh, the 458 is like someone wrapped up sex and cocaine in aluminium, dotted it with carbon fibre and sprinkled little flecks of happiness all over it.

-d-

 

[JPGhost]

I hate sports car ugghhh..

I like mini car

the minier the better

 

[lambdaboy]

Cadilac Limo's even today when I rent one I refuse to rent the ridiculous stretch ones. From 1987 thru 1991 my bank work had me constantly travelling all over the world I would the car service company I used to get to and from the airport and 10 of them. One time my partner and I had two friends visit from Out of State. We ordered one to take us to a Broadway show and dinner. When we got out of the theatre one of the friends both straight women said I do not see your limo. The driver pulled ip got out and opened the door for them and whispered in my ear (as he knew me) I waved to you from the corner!. I said I do not pay you to wave at me lol.

 

[pigface]

I like mini car
the minier the better

You'll love the Peel

 

[smokeshadow]

Oh, how I tried to talk my parents into getting me used, 1967 Dodge Charger for graduation from high school in 1973



Unfortunately (or fortunately as the case actually was ), they bought me a 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna. Had that bulky urethane nosecone, front bucket seats that rotated 90 degrees towards the door and got about 8 miles to the gallon

 

[pigface]

You'll love the Peel

They broke my photo link!

 

[Rickrock]

My family was working/middle class and I admired the cars that our middle/middle class neighbors had. Yes, some had Cadilacs and Lincolns, but I thought that you had to have grey hair and be distinguished and old to have these cars. I knew I couldn't get away with luxury sports cars and couldn't keep up that image and personality. I never really saw people with foreign luxury cars at that time.

NiceGuywithBigDick, yes I first started to notice cars when they came out with the big tailfins. I loved those cars.

 

[ScottishBiTeen]

I stumbled across this in Glasgow City Centre back in April.

I think dereperez might like it.

 

[peeonme]

1971 Honda Sedan
Mine was red in color, I always had a taste for something different and unique.
It weighed 1200 lbs, it was powered by a 598 c.c. 2 cylinder engine and had a 4 speed manual stick shift, the shift came out of the dash as opposed to the floor, it had , pretty reliable little set of wheels.