tabbs
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posted on April 21, 2001 01:14:19 AM
What car do you remember your PARENTS owned?
I can remember as far back as a black 59 Imapla 2 door HT with red interior and a 3 speed on the column.
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MouseSlayer
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posted on April 21, 2001 01:38:49 AM
Oh gosh, lemme see if I can remember! I know we had a big green Pontiac (we called it the green bomb) and an Oldsmobile (I think it was green too?). I also remember we had a white Chevy Impala with a sunburned roof, no kidding! No idea what year it was, but I had my first couple of driving lessons in that one. 
~^~  Hippy wannabe  ~^~
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yeager
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posted on April 21, 2001 03:41:19 AM
I was born in 1958 and the first car I remember was our 1956 Chevy Belair. It was a turquoise 4 door.
Tabbs,
I also remember having a 1959 chevy Impala. Ours was a white 4 door. Such cool styling of the 1950's!
I then remember a Vauxhaull, an import from (France?) sold by General Motors, then a 65 Ford Galaxie 500 and a 69 Chevy Impala.
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tomwiii
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posted on April 21, 2001 03:45:05 AM
1948 green Hudson...
Then we got my dream car:
1955 Buick Special red&white with gangster whitewalls! A true sweetheart!
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gravid
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posted on April 21, 2001 03:51:29 AM
49 chevy convertible I was 4 years old I remember seeing it with a bout a foot of snow on it because we had a bif snow storm Thanksgiving day of 1951.
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tabbinosity
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posted on April 21, 2001 06:49:31 AM
Grey VW Beetle, back in the days when Beetle owners tooted their horns at each other in greeting as they spotted each other on the road. (What can I say? My parents were trendsetters.)
My father's parents had a big green 1950s Chevy that easily fit all five grandchildren in the back seat. My mother's parents had an equally large black and white Dodge.
I miss those days...
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ExecutiveGirl
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posted on April 21, 2001 07:42:14 AM
When I was in Junior High school my parents bought a 1962 Valiant. (I think they bought this just to torture and embarass me). When my mom would drop me off at school I would duck way down in the seat and have her drop me off 2 blocks away from school and I would WALK the rest of the way because it was SOOO embarassing!
My mom still says she wants to get another one someday...... 
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mEyA
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posted on April 21, 2001 07:54:02 AM
My mom had a black Cougar for a short time that was awesome! I don't know the year, but it had those hidden headlights in the front grill.
I also remember a huge Plymouth Fury III that was like driving a boat.
We had a big old station wagon like the one they drive in That 70's Show. I learned to drive in that wagon and the Fury. It must be why I like driving my '85 Astro. I like big vehicles. 
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margot
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posted on April 21, 2001 08:40:40 AM
The first car my parents owned was a 1949 two door Chevrolet. It was blue. And, I remember the back seat windows wouldn't roll all the way down..I didn't like that.
We took a trip in that car the summer of 1951..from OK to WashDC...four adults and two kids! All of us stuffed into that car. I remember is how HOT it was! Ah, childhood memories!
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BlondeSense
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posted on April 21, 2001 10:58:52 AM
We used to stuff a family of 6 (and my dad is 6'4"!) into a VW beetle. I remember, as the youngest, riding in that little grocery section behind the back seat. We kept that car, or a reincarntion of it until we were well into our teens as I remember dad pulling the engine and switching bodies on it. I also learned to drive in it.
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MrsSantaClaus
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posted on April 21, 2001 01:13:38 PM
I remember riding in a rumble seat that was on the outside of the back of a car. I was really little then.
My Dad was a mechanic so we always had neat cars ....
He now has 2 VW bugs and an army Jeep tucked in the back yard (they live in the country)
He refuses to grow up, too!
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kraftdinner
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posted on April 21, 2001 01:19:16 PM
We had a 1963 (I think) Chevy Monza. It was a little blue sports type car that only 2 people could sit in. I'd love to find a picture of that car.......what memories!!
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sammysue
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posted on April 21, 2001 02:32:45 PM
A 1951 Red Ford Pickup when life was simple and it was okay to ride in the back with friends and family and go out on a hot summer day and get ice-cream cones and let wind hit your face and toss your hair around... Who cared? Not I! Not then!
[ edited by sammysue on Apr 21, 2001 02:34 PM ]
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MuRiEl
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posted on April 21, 2001 03:39:31 PM
This is so funny, because at the Easter dinner table my husband and his family made a list of all the cars their parents had, and it came out to 32! Heck, my mom and dad only had 8 (in the following order):
1949 Ford (maroon - or so I hear)
1957 Ford (brown and white)
1963 Rambler American (mint green!)
1966 Ford Galaxy ("Emberglow"
1973 Ford Turino (green)
1982 Chevy Chevette (blue)
1969 Volkswagon Beetle (white)
1985 Pontiac Sunbird (navy blue)
That was it. My dad died and my mom went into a nursing home.
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barrybarris
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posted on April 21, 2001 04:24:55 PM
Parents; A yellow Studebaker, unknown year
Grandparents, 1959 Cadillac, with those huge wings
Barry (Mom now has a Ford Escort, she has hit 2 Subaru's with it in 2001) Barris
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mEyA
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posted on April 21, 2001 04:33:03 PM
I remembered something while reading this thread. I had a wonderful Great Aunt and Uncle when I was young. My Uncle died in 1965, but my Aunt lived until 1997. I was 6 when my uncle died.
About 8 months before he passed away, he bought a brand new 1964 Pontiac. It was pale yellow if I remember correctly.
I still have the sales slip from that sale, the car was new, and cost $3,538.25.
He traded in a '58 Chevy that they gave him $438.95 for.
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Powerhouse
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posted on April 21, 2001 09:09:31 PM
Hmmmm...Parents car, huh?
The first car I remember was a red Austin Healey. A two door, rag top, no A/C, stick shift. Definetly NOT a family car.
That was turned in for a Ford station wagon. Green, think it was a Country Squire model with a 400 block and faux wood style paneling on the side. Spent a lot of time at the drive-ins in that one.
Then there was the disasterous Chrysler as a second car. Forget the model, but it was that infamous piece of junk that the guy from Fantasy Island used to promote. (Maybe it was called Concorde?)
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yeager
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posted on April 21, 2001 10:09:19 PM
Hello Powerhouse,
This is Ricardo Montoban. Let me introduce you to the Chrysler Cordoba. It's a fine two door, personal sized automobile with a fine Corinthian leather interior. See your Chrysler dealership today for a test drive of this magnificent automobile.
They used to advertise it non stop, and it's engrained into my mind!
Is this the one?
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justjoan
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posted on April 21, 2001 10:19:13 PM
My very first car, a 1947 Buick convertible.
Dad bought it from a junk yard, and traded a truck for it. He put an Earl Schrib 29.95 powder blue paint job on it and it was mine.
I of course had to pay for it. So had a car to get me to work, to pay for the car to get me....you get the idea.
Clutch went out and you could push it down but it wouldn't come back up. So broke, I tied a rope to the peddle,when I shifted, would pull on rope to get the peddle back up.
Gads I remember it well.
Joan
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RichieRich
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posted on April 22, 2001 12:54:05 AM
My parents car - it had lots of wheels and windows. Don't know the year. Held about 70 or so people. It was called a BUS. We paid money to get on it and take it to our second mode of transportaion called the SUBWAY.
I was born and raised in Chicago, we walked, took the bus and/or subway everywhere. Until my little brother was about 5 and then in the summer we would ride the bikes to get where we had to go. Imagine a mother and her 3 out of 5 kids riding single file down the busy streets of Chicago.
My mother finally got a drivers license in 1970. She shared her first car - a brown Cherovlet with my oldest brother. They bought it from Hertz rent a car. Had it two months before my brothers friend was driving down the street and my brother opened the drives down and the guy hit the door and it fell off.
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xifene
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posted on April 22, 2001 04:02:49 AM
My folks first drove some large show-boat car -- I was never good at car names -- in lavender. The back windows were broken - and they replaced it when they moved from California to Florida with a pale blue minibus from Volkswagen. I remember that car 'cause its the one I learned to drive first.
--xifene--
http://www.auctionusers.org
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nettak
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posted on April 22, 2001 04:21:02 AM
I don't remember what year it was but I think my mother's car was a little mini, which she drove until about 1966 and then she got a Toyota Sedan. She continued to drive that car until about 1981, she got a new car then and gave the Toyota to my brother to drive to Uni in.
Dad drove whatever was the company car at the time, they used to update them every 2 years from memory. He drove mostly chryslers(sp?). They were always big flash looking cars for some reason. They always had that newish smell to them, that made you want to be sick if you had to drive too far in them. I remember we also always had a strap attatched to the back of the cars, it had to be a leather one. This was to stop you getting car sick....I am not sure if it really worked or not, because I can remember some of my sisters' getting car sick on long trips. LOL
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Powerhouse
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posted on April 22, 2001 05:09:02 AM
That was it, yeager! A Cordoba.
Sorry to hear that it's ingrained in your mind like that though.
My best memory of that car was a Mad magazine spoof they did showing Ricardo being unable to get one started and then shoving it off a cliff. LOL.
What a piece of junk!
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curlectables
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posted on April 24, 2001 09:12:21 AM
Boy do I feel old. First car I remember is a 1939 Plymouth coupe that a friend of mine used to drive the whole gang around when I was a young teen. There were 14 of us. He'd taken out the back shelf of the coupe and most of the guys rode in the trunk. Girls sat behind the seat on the trunk deck edge and 4 people sat on the front bench seat. Two on the drivers side (guy nearest door steered and did pedals, girl next to him did the shift which was on the floor. Never had an accident, never got a ticket, just a lot of fun and transport to all those fun innocent places teens used to go to.
PARENTS DIDN'T HAVE MONEY FOR A CAR UNTIL AFTER WWII Then the first one was a Ford Thunmderbird. Think it was a 1948
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ubiedaman
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posted on April 24, 2001 02:39:54 PM
This was our "second car", a '57 Merc
The first "regular" family car I remeber was a '65 Fairlane 4 door...Dad drove a rural mail route, and I remember ALWAYS having to put a blanket down on the backeseat when we were dressed for church to keep from getting too dusty...all of our cars always had the "dust smell" from driving 100 miles a day on gravel roads.
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
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Powerhouse
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posted on April 24, 2001 02:46:48 PM
Keith, you actually still have your second car?
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zilvy
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posted on April 24, 2001 03:00:38 PM
A used but mint condition 1940 two tone tan and brown Hudson. My dad looks real "spiffy" in his Sunday suit smoking his pipe, standing next to it.
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ypayretail
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posted on April 24, 2001 03:02:25 PM
25 years ago we had a chevy suburban - then called carryall. Cool now but hugely absurd then - I was always embarassed as it was so big.
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ubiedaman
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posted on April 24, 2001 03:04:38 PM
Nope..tho I wish I did (just a pic I found on the net)....at the same time, we also had a '49? Studebaker ( the one with the bullet nose) that was won in the annual American Legion national drawing. The Stude was dead, and I never remember it's running days. It eneded up going into the car crusher in the late 60's. 
After we got rid of the Merc as a second car, we had a '55 Chev 4-door which was sold to a friend to use as a stock car.
The next was a '62 Chevy II with that dandy 2 speed auto tranny!!
Wow...what a bunch of classics they are now...just junkers back then!!!!
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
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ktsclutter
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posted on April 24, 2001 03:14:53 PM
I do not know what type of car it was, but clearly remember sitting in the back seat thinking about the door that wasn't latched tight. My little three year old self thought, daddy just opens the door and slams it shut even while driving on the highway. I remember so clearly thinking he would be proud of me if I opened and slammed the door tight. Well I opened that door alright. The wind suction took me right out that door and slung me out along side the highway, face down, sliding along on the gravel. I know now that the doors in the back of some of those old cars are called "suicide doors" for a reason. I remember waking up in the back seat of a cop car on the way to the hospital. I remember blood. I remember a little boy in a crib beside me in the hospital room. I also remember waking up in the middle of the night and the little boy was gone. I'll never know where, but a nurse gave me his teddy bear. My husband and I are classic car collectors. We'll never own one of those cars with backwards doors.
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