The Coolest Car You Ever Owned....

You know, with the current success of the Retro Mustang, Camero, and Challenger; I'd be surprised if they don't do a retro version of the Classic Cougar and 'Cuda for that matter.....

 

There was some big international car designers convention I read about a couple years ago....That model Citroen won best designed car of all time.... And I saw a making of Top-Gear Special and they used one to carry a TV camera for following all their high speed test drives because nothing could hold the camera as smoothly as your car.....I thought that was really cool...

 

I learned to drive in my Dad's '66, Fire Red 396 Impala.....First week I was hitting 3 digits....Terrified, but loving it....ha,ha,ha...

 

I dig it's name....I wonder who your kids inherited that trait from.....ha,ha,ha....
Great ride, and I see; like your razors; it gets used the way it was meant to be.....

 

Yo Dale....I had one of these...Are you kiddin'? Extreme Coolnes factor....A Fun machine and your right, it would fly.....I ended up flipping mine, lucky I had a roll bar put in....I rolled it 4 times....

 

Yeah it was my first car too. My father and I found this one with some extra parts for $400. He tossed in a second parts car for $50. It was about a 6 month rebuild of everything. I still have the black shift knob in a box somewhere.

Being upside down sucks.... I was broad-sided by an F-150 and ended up hitting two cars from the initial impact. Walked away with just a bruise from the seat belt and a small cut on the top of my head where a piece of glass got me.

 

You did very well walking away from that. hope your luck and health continues on the same path

 

When was that ?....I think I heard you screaming through Sand Springs grabbing rubber in 3 gears, one night, a few years back...and you're right....you should have been arrested...

 

Ha ha! That was back in 1994 ... bought the car brand new.

 

Thank the Lord above you were able to walk away!

 

Flip her back over, she'll run. Seriously though, you got lucky on that one buddy. I remember when you posted this pic a while back. Cherokees are pretty capable too.

 

MG 1100 which was a 1964, with a four speed, red leather seats, and a beautiful mahogany wood dash. I bought it for $400 in 1968 as my work car when my wife started teaching school. I have enjoyed a couple of others but this one was fun, economical, and would carry a lot of our meager belongings when we moved to a different rental home.

 

If we're gonna go the "coolest want to own" route, then I want the 1972 Ford Mustang convertible my dad sold off about 10 years ago. That car was sweet.

If we're doing two choices, then I also want a 5 speed mini cooper. I know they're Hipster cars, but I really like the way they look and drive.

and if we're doing three- then a 1968 chevelle.

 

Me... 1967 Cutlass Supreme with the 442 package, factory custom wheels.
That's what my dad had and sold it before I had a chance to buy it from him.
He sold it to an "kid" who replaced the rear factory custom wheels with huge mag wheels and totaled it a month later!

 

1974 Olds Cutlass, bird**** yellow and everything.

 

Two other of my favorite former cars -- the Corvair from the early 1960s and the Fiat from the mid-1980s. None were built to last, but they sure were fun and fun to drive.


Mine (really my father's favorite cool car) was actually a red one. Rear air cooled engine and really fin to drive.


And my Fiat was fire engine red -- refinished and so much fun to drive or be driven in.

 

My favorite car I drove for a while was my Dad's 68 Camero that I got to drive for a summer after my car died. It was in poor shape, and needed restoration, but loved driving that car. My Dad was the original owner, getting it when he was 18.

My favorite car I actually owned myself is probably my current car. It also happens to be the first car I bought new. 2011 Scion xB. So glad I went with the manual transmission. It is a fun car to drive, and meets all my needs for space with two kids.

Someday I really want to build out a '34 Ford 3 Window, but that will probably end up being after the kids are out of college.

 

Ah to be young again, when one could still purchase a used muscle car at a decent price...

My favorite was a Lime Gold Metallic 1967 Mustang GTA, with a 390ci big block, I ended up procuring a Ford factory 406 TriPower intake and installing it in that beast.

The picture isn't of my car, but the closest I could find, mine had the GT stripes along the rocker panels and a GTA badge on the fenders:


Sadly my love of motorcycles got the better of me and I sold it off.

 

I don't know if you could call it coolest, I really like my Ranger but when my SRT-4 ran, it was a fun car. A 13 second turbo Neon from the factory, on par with LS1 Camaro SS's; it was weird running the 1/4 mile and sticking right with them, unless they had cams.

Not my car, but you get the idea.

 

mmmm....my 1992 VW Corrado SLC. Something about that car was just....sexy. I've never had a car that was as fun to drive and as infuriating to maintain, and for some reason it always got a reaction from people. I got looks and thumbs up, people asking me what it was, if it was a Porsche (it's not), if it was turbo (it isn't)...I had people try to buy it off me at traffic lights, or just pull up to me and tell me stories about the one they had back in the day. The SLC version had a 6 cylinder and got me to 60 in about 6 seconds (it was a tad modified) and on top of that the handling was absolutely stellar, even when my power steering pump blew up. There was always something wrong with it, but every time I got it and started it up it put a smile on my face. Not as !!!!!! as some other cool cars, but in my opinion part of its beauty was its understated-ness. Definitely a quirky, awesome, frustrating, classy (yes classy - all leather inside!), fast, cool car. Someday I'll buy another when my salary is more suitable to maintaining it.