What were the first few cars you remember your parents driving?

[Vannie]

And a Corvair...not sure of the year.

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[Alistair]

The first car I remember had 'suicide doors'. I still have the scar on my lip to show what you shouldn't do with them.

Was it a Lincoln Continental?

 

[roadtripboy]

The first car I remember was a 1963 Olds Starfire. Looked just like this one. Bright red paint, white stripe. Except ours had a white seats. My Dad liked red cars.
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My Dad traded this car two years later for a 1965 Starfire. We were going on trip to the Grand Canyon and the "63 didn't have air conditioning.

 

[G-Lexington]

The first one was an Audi - don't recall the model. It was dark green - I do recall that much.

The second was a black Ford Granada, with red interior.

Lex

 

[G-Lexington]

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You can't. What I tend to do is see if that person has posted in that same thread, and then comment on THEIR post. Or else leave a "visitor message" on their page.

Lex

 

[Alistair]

I've received two post comments on this. Thanks guys.
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My Dad traded this car two years later for a 1965 Starfire. We were going on trip to the Grand Canyon and the "63 didn't have air conditioning.

There's no way to direct respond. Only easy way is to go to the thread and comment if they left a post, or send them a pm by clicking on their name in the comment.

 

[mikey3000]

1973 Pontiac Astre wagon http://bestride.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pontiac_astre_1974_brochure-2.jpg

 

[roadtripboy]

^I've never seen those that I remember. A Pontiac Vega.

 

[seven2go]

I bought a Chevy Vega in 1971.
Just like this one.

 

[ronboy]

My dad was a GM guy through and through...

Earliest car I remember was his 1960 Chevy Belair, which was exactly like this (right down to the same color)


He traded it in for a brand new 1966 Chevy Malibu, exactly like this one.


In 1972, we became a two-car family, and he bought my Mom a brand new Malibu exactly like this one. In fact, we drove it out of the showroom!


In 1974, he traded in the 1966, and bought himself a Chevy Nova. It was our first 4-door car.


In 1977, he traded in the Nova, drove the '72 Malibu himself, and bought my mother a brand new Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme exactly like this one. That would become my first car!

 

[Paradigm]

1973 Pontiac Astre wagon http://bestride.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pontiac_astre_1974_brochure-2.jpg

Canadian! Back in the days when Pontiac was the GM brand in Canada. Now it is all the same.

 

[seven2go]

^ I have a friend who has a 1951 Canadian built Pontiac Chieftain.......VERY nice car.

 

[Alistair]

The car after the Pontiac stationwagon that my day had was a 1990 Nissan Axxess

The coolest car my dad ever had was an AMC gremlin

 

[TickTockMan]

It was something like this, but I want to say an '88 or '89.

edit: Why are none of my pics showing up now?

 

[Happenis1]

1989 Pontiac Firebird (I thought it was the coolest thing in the world). It was small but I remember all my parents, brother and I jamming into it and taking road trips to South Carolina and Pennsylvania from NY:

My mom drove an early 1990's Ford Clitaurus with the number buttons on the keypad to unlock the car:

 

[Vannie]

@ Ford Clitaurus ^

 

[Charon]

My dad owned a red Camaro, I'm fairly sure the model was from nineteen-eighty-something.

 

[frankfrank]

I barely remember some kind of Nash...

which was replaced by a brand-new 1956 DeSoto.

There could have briefly been a car inbetween the Nash and getting the DeSoto...

 

[RoadBike]

1956 Chevrolet 210 2-door sedan w/ 2 tone black and white paint. 6 cylinder automatic.
replaced by:
1965 Chevrolet Impala 2-door hardtop blue with black interior. 327 V-8 automatic
replaced by:
1972 Chevrolet Malibu 4-door sedan dark blue w/ light blue interior

 

[Paradigm]

You are probably thinking of either a Rambler, or an AMC Rambler.

The first car I actually remember was an AMC Hornet Wagon. Ours was green though. I know they had an old Chevy Impala wagon before that, though my recollections of it are few.

But the first car I remember was my grandfather's Oldsmobile Toronado. I love that car! This isn't it but it is almost identical.

Sooo.. that Toronado is still sitting in a garage. Hasn't been started in 10 years, I think the engine is seized (last we remember anyways). My granfather's estate was never properly wrapped up so it still sits there. My father had just started the process of settling everything, and the Toronado was going to go to him. Unfortunately he just passed away, and now if I want it that car is my and my brothers. But we don't know whether it is worth it to throw a bunch of money into it to rebuild the engine. Unfortunately Toronados were not the most collectible of the cars.

What do you think?