1972 Chevy Impala. I still have a soft spot in my heart for that vehicle, but I don't think there is enough gas to in the world to fuel that thing. Great road trip car, and really makes you appreciate parallel parking a small car.
Mine was a 86 Buick Park Avenue. Boy it was a beauty. Digital dash, power everything that failed miserbly, seats that adjusted 63 different ways, and the sweetest part is how the hood opened..... (Mine was a 4 door non convertible but the hood opened the same)
i bought my first vehicle in 1997 and still drive it today... my 89 chevy truck!
ahhhh - memories from the 90's...
then in 2004 i added the 6" lift, 18" rims, 35" tires.....
and two weeks ago added an updated front grille, head & turn lights.....
...and in the next couple weeks the interior is getting completely re-upholstered
Liked the old grill a lot more. Gives it an old school bad ass vibe and plus that new grill is a dime a dozen on the street, the other one was unique, sorry dawg. New interior is always nice though.
It stalled every time I hit a speed bump. Didn't matter how slow you went over it, as soon as you felt the bump you knew to start turning the key to get it restarted.
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1979 Volkswagen Rabbit. No, I'm not THAT old, it was old when I got it!
It really was a POS and I learned alot about making a car keep going with very little means, but like your first love I have nothing but the best of memories from it.
There was that beer commercial a few years ago that said something along the lines of "You've been on a road trip in a car that had no business going on a road trip". That always makes me think of that car. I lived in Ottawa at the time and we took that car all over the east coast of Canada and the US. Everything went wrong with the car every time but never anything that prevented it from getting us home. If it had failed on any of our adventures we were truly screwed as we had no money to fix it but it got us home every time.
Great memories of that car and what it did for me/us.
1965 Vauxhall Viva with a mid 80's Chevy V6. Project car my Dad abandoned. Was a blast to drive but the brakes were terrible.
Why, in the name of all thats holy, would anyone put a chevy block into a Vauxhall Viva?
In an era of god awfull pieces of crap, that was the worst piece of crap to grace the roads of England.
A car seemingly thrown together by a team of drunken ######ed chimps in order to teach the unsuspecting the joys of a good walk,
and it didn't even have the advantage of being cheap to run either.
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Why, in the name of all thats holy, would anyone put a chevy block into a Vauxhall Viva?
In an era of god awfull pieces of crap, that was the worst piece of crap to grace the roads of England.
A car seemingly thrown together by a team of drunken ######ed chimps in order to teach the unsuspecting the joys of a good walk,
and it didn't even have the advantage of being cheap to run either.
