Earliest car I remember is a white 58 or 9 Plymouth Fury 4 door. It was my Mom's car when the parents got married. Mom had a yellow Studebaker Lowey coupe while they were "courting" and her Mother took it upon herself to trade it in on the Plymouth. Mom never forgave her mother for that. Before thier marriage Dad had a 54 Chevy, referred to as the "Green Hornet," but it was gone before I was around. Apparently the Fury lost a freeze plug on a summer trip to the beach. I don't remember that, but I do remember getting a baby sitter one night while the parents went car shopping and they came home with a baby blue 63 Falcon. That weekend Dad drove the Fury and Mom drove the Falcon, and we went out Chef Menteur highway (junkyard row in New Orleans) trying to get rid of the Fury. No one would take it. Dad swears he had to pay a junkyard to take it.(?) The Falcon was replaced with a demonstrator 68 Coronet 440 4-dr, slant 6, in early 69. As a kid I was not into cars at all, but when I got into muscle cars and saw the Super Bee logo the memories came rushing back to me from the Dodge dealer in early 69. (Actually, the 4 dr slant 6 Coronet 440 is a mighty rare, but not necessarily desireable :grin: car--less than 2000 built) The parents kept the Coronet as a future kid's car when they bought a 78 Volare. When my older siblings got old enough to drive I helped Dad tune up the Coronet and get it running. My first car work. We had one of those spark plug wrenches with the plastic T-handle... Ah, the memories...
Family Cars My list starts with....1954 Buick Special 4-Dr....1958 Plymouth stationwagon (and it was pink P.O.S.) then 1957 Buick Special 2-dr. hardtop. 1960 LeSabre Stationwagon...1966 Buick LeSabre convertible ( Mom's pride and joy ) Astro Blue with a white convertible top...Dad's beautiful 1967 Buick Sportwagon, fully loaded.Great car! ...John
Too many growing up too remember them all but here are some stand outs... list starts at about 1980 more or less 69 225 4dr w/70 Riv 455 (always the car dad looked back on as his fave) 68 lasaber 69 skylark 2dr 71 impala 2dr 454 74ish ford ltd (we all hated that damb thing) 76ish skylark (looked like a nova) 77 boniville (dambed lemon) 83 suburu 88 suburu 92 suburu loyal 4x4 wagon (the car I tortured when I got my license) 94 chevy asto AWD/EXT convesion van (if it was on the option list it had it) Plus many other buicks that I cant put a finger on owned by my dad and older brothers
'60 Chevy wagon '68 Volkswagon Bug '70 Chevy Kingswood wagon '55 Chevy 4-door (known as "The Bomb") '78 Chevy wagon '72 Olds Cutlass '71 Buick GSX :Brow: There was a Plymouth Valiant with pushbutton shifting in there for a while...
The family rides: 59 Dodge cornet 65 Buick Special(310 wildcat) 63 VW Bug 72 Skylark (vette KILLER) 68 VW Bug 83 Regal T-type These were the family cars. Mom has had a few newer Buick LeSabre and older bother had all kinds of rare cars. Ones I remeber are 67 Pontiac 2+2 428,57 nomad, and a 69 Stage1.
