Your all time favorite vehicle???

[FRED SMAILES]

I thought I may have replied to this thread so I browsed through it and yes I had, 9 or so years ago.
I'm just posting to say that nothing has changed and this week we're celebrating owning Sassy for 50 years. Pic taken last week.

[jgilliam1955]

Originally Posted by Dan Meyer

I'm another AMC fan. My first car was a 10 year old completely worn out '69 Rambler 2 door sedan. My favorite car was my '80 Eagle, closely followed by my '77 Pacer!

-- Dan Meyer

My first was a 1966 American Rambler. Paid $900 for it in 1972. My wife and I still think about that car 52 years later.

[Jon in AZ]

Update from earlier post...
2006 Honda CR-V SE with AWD and leather. We bought it in 2008, and it's going strong at 275K miles on the original drivetrain, suspension, starter, alternator, and A/C. It was my wife's, then passed in succession through both our teen daughters. Finally mine, at least while they're away at school. Photo taken this summer.

[L. B.]

I was a test driver for Ford Motor Co for thirty years. 67 to 97, I got to drive all the greatest cars made. My all time favorite was the 1969 Mustang Mach I, but I loved them all.

[Bill in Pittsburgh]

Had the good fortune to own lots of interesting cars in my life. I started with muscle cars in 1965 at age 14 when I bought a 1959 Catalina convertible, 389 with trips. At age 16 I took my drivers test in this Catalina. Moved on to an assortment of muscle cars before leaving Pennsylvania to attend college in New Haven, Connecticut. While in college I discovered the joy of sports cars which followed with a lifetime of Fiat Abarths, Alpha Romeos, and a spattering of Porsches ending with the Japanese made MR2s and Miatas.
INTERETING SAYING:
The British gave cars charm. The Germans gave them technology. The Japanese made them reliable. The Americans made them disposable. But, It was the Italians that taught them how to dance.
I do feel bad for the boys and girls of today that have never changed a flat tire let alone changed an engine in their car just to get a few more horse power or tweaked their suspension to improve cornering. Most have never experienced the rush of driving around corners in a four wheel drift. Cars are now too complicated for the average person to work on and with few exceptions are only capable of providing a driving experience once reserved for the aged (now me almost).

Now for my all time favorite (like mine but not mine):

https://images.app.goo.gl/91dXvFeNk9W6yqFY9

[Bill in Pittsburgh]

Originally Posted by tractors1

Restored this sweetheart. 5 speed with a blueprinted engine. 1963 Alfa Romeo Guilietta Spider with twin 40 mm Weber carbs.

Beautiful! Yes, I am a sucker for older Italian cars. Your Guilietta puts me in mind of a 1960 Fiat OSCA I campaigned for two seasons in my early twenties.

[Bill in Pittsburgh]

Originally Posted by Barb and Alan

Mine would be my 1970 Datsun 2000 Roadster. It had that wonderful quality of an easy, predictable 4wheel drift, a great sound, and in addition to the soft top I had a removeable hard top. The picture isn't mine but same color and all.

Cool car! Always wanted one just like it. But everytime one crossed my path I had a full garage.

[jerrybob]

Do vehicles have to have motors to qualify here? I restore old horse drawn vehicles.....we have 64 on display....most from the 19th century. Here's one of my favorites.....a 1890 Springfield Chuckwagon.....it fully operational...could cook you a real nice breakfast.....black stong coffee....couple of cackleberries with a side of sow belly and a sourdough biscuit....maybe even sing ya a song!

[David Tilston]

1982 Honda MB5.

You always remember your first love. I was twenty something.

It was 50cc, (7 hp) had five gears and front disk breaks. On flat ground, with no wind, it could do 80 km/hr, (50 mile/hr). This was even with two people. There was only one set of pegs though, had to share.

While it was only 50cc, you had to have an actual motorcycle license. Something about having a wet clutch vs. a centrifugal clutch. I did not have the required licence. At least three times I used the line, "What do you mean officer? It's only 50cc. Look, it says right there". I never got a ticket.

Just behind the steering head was a small cargo compartment, for the tool kit. It was a perfect cup holder for my Slurpee.

Not much towing capacity though.

[TBrown]

My mom owned a powder blue Plymouth Valiant Fastback I'm guessing a '66 based on pics on Google. I loved road trips in that car because you could fold down the rear seat an lie down on our backs and look at the stars through the giant fastback window. This was the late 60's or early 70's when safety and seatbelts were... meh safety shmaftey.

[TBrown]

Originally Posted by L. B.

I was a test driver for Ford Motor Co for thirty years. 67 to 97, I got to drive all the greatest cars made. My all time favorite was the 1969 Mustang Mach I, but I loved them all.

Which Mustang was McQueen driving in Bullitt? A few years ago I was watching that movie with my son born in '87. At some point I turned to him and said, "it's great that they brought back all these classic cars for this film", eyeroll from him, then when McQueen uses a payphone I turned to him "what the hell is that?"

[John in Santa Cruz]

My 1994 Mercedes 300CE Cabriolet (convertible). one of only 770 imported into the USA. sweet cruiser.








sadly, rodent damage to engine wiring and water ingress to the interior killed it. It got to the point where it would have cost me at least $10K to make it 'nice' again, whereupon it would have been an $8000 car, as it had 260K miles.