What Was the First Car You Remember Your Parents Having?

[CO Liberal]

I can remember back to 1956. My mother had a Studebaker four-door sedan. My father had a Nash Rambler convertible.


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[ewagner]

1. '53 Olds 88 n/t

[notadmblnd]

2. an AMC Rambler

nt

[Hawkeye-X]

3. A pontiac station wagon and a '67 Ford Mustang.

[Worst Username Ever]

4. 2 VW beetles, one red, one yellow

[Rambis]

5. Ours was white

[Mallifica]

70. My mom had a datsun

a tiny, white datsun with burgundy interior (I think).
I loved it.

[terrya]

6. 1961 Chevrolet Bel-Air station wagon. eom

[nickinSTL]

7. 2 cars

A Volkswagen station wagon and an early '70s Camaro.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

8. 1965 red Alfa Romeo two-seater convertible

n/t

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. A green Vega.

:o

[bearfan454]

10. A rambler.

I also remember a 67 impala.

[thestatusquo]

11. It was a VW Bus

And it was red. It was awesome, I wish my parents would have kept it so I could tool around in it now. It would be a sight on campus next to all the other kids' Beemers, hummers and land rovers (my school is stinkingly rich).

[bullimiami]

20. awwww thank you.

i love my old busses. my kids will have the same memories.


my first memory is a early 60s ford f100. with a bench seat, all four of us sitting across it on the way to naples or the everglades. it overheating and stopping to scoop some water from a canal to put in the radiator. good times. life an adventure.

[flamingyouth]

12. 1966 Chrysler Newport & 1962 Ford Ranchero

Next, we had a 1971 Ford Galaxie 500 and a 1973 Chrysler New Yorker.

[NV Whino]

13. 1936 Packard Convertable

Fire Engine Red... with a rumble seat.

Then there was the 1952 Hudson Hornet, two-toned Maroon and Grey. I remember that one better.

[Itchinjim]

14. In 1962: '55 Chevy Bel Air, Two toned aqua on white

[tsakshaug]

15. Rambler wagon

White late 50's
They put a play pen in the back and that is where I rode.

[salinen]

16. A 1960

Pontiac Bonneville station wagon.

[Caoimhe]

26. 1969 or so Peugeot

When I was about 4, my mom was driving and some lady hit us head on, that was the end of the Peugeot! Luckily we were both okay (I bit off half my tongue, as I was probably yapping my mouth off and bounced off the dash), and neither of us were wearing seatbelts (no one did back then)

[djeseru]

17. My parents divorced...

...so my mom needed something small and cheap in 1970 - VW Beetle, red with a white interior. I can remember standing (yep, standing) in the front seat while she would tool around.

My dad had a Jeep, red, but it got totaled in 1972 when he was cut off by another driver on the highway. He drove a huge Impala after that.

My favorite was my grandmother's car...wish I could remember what it was now! It was white and she had a smiley face sticker on the back window.

[49jim]

18. 1942 Chevy Coupe /eom

[Tom_Foolery]

19. 1955 Black Desoto...

I slammed my thumb in the door two times. I hated that car, but I'd love to have it now.

[trotsky]

21. Came home from the hospital in a 1965 Plymouth Fury III

My dad had it for years after that too.

[Lavender Brown]

22. Chevy Malibu Station Wagon

Man, that thing was a BOAT.

[Hobarticus]

23. '70 Monte Carlo...my sister later owned it, later I bought it from her.

It HAULED.

[freetobegay]

24. This one.

[blackcat77]

25. A pink and white '56 Buick Special

What a boat...

[Richardo]

27. 1956 Chevy Nomad Wagon...moved from PA to CA in it...

This color scheme, too! (Aztec gold and cream)



I STILL miss that car, and we sold it in about 1968. :cry:

[JVS]

28. I was almost born in one of these

Mom drove a 1970 beetle


Grampa died and we got one of these (ours was brown)


A co-worker of dad's moved back to Turkey and couldn't find unleaded gasoline there, so he sold us a lightly used one of these.

[On the Road]

29. I Believe it Was a 1952 Ford

Like this, only light green:



My grandfather, who owned a small business, had a Hudson or a Lincoln town car with electric windows (a luxury at the time) and a fold-down arm rest in the back seat which I used to sit on.

[Syncronaut Seven]

30. 1964 Dodge Dart, followed by a new 1971 Volkswagen camper van

But I don't think they had sex in it or anything.

[Patiod]

32. Another Dart - My mom's white convertible!!!

[kick-ass-bob]

43. Plymouth Valiant (is that the name?) and a Dodge Dart.

[Cat Atomic]

31. A yellow Maverick. :D

[Mallifica]

69. We had a green Maverick!

in the early 1990s!!! I was so embarrassed to be dropped off at school in that thing.

[ET Awful]

33. An early 60's International Bus :)

That my dad made into a mobile home (not your typical hippie bus, it had a full kitchen and bathroom).

We also had a '69 Triumph 250 motorcycle.

After we moved to Arizona, we had a '68 Beetle, and a '57 and '58 Chevy Pick-up :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. In the early 1950s, my parents had a maroon

Dodge from the late 1940s.

It looked like this picture (scroll way down), except that it had a sun visor on the front, like a baseball cap.

http://www.brushcut.com/antiques/cars/default.htm

[drdtroit]

35. 1948 Packard n/t

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

58. 1949 Packard n/t

[getoffmytrain]

36. Ferrari Testarosa.

Shrug.

[DemBones DemBones]

37. A brown Nash Ambassador -- think Gregor Samsa after

his "Metamorphosis"! We had it in 1952-53.

[Z_I_Peevey]

38. A brown/tan Willis Jeep

that we, of course, named Willie. Later we had Bessie, a 55 Chevy.

[SarahB]

39. A 1971 bright yellow Chevy Vega

[gollygee]

40. A light-blue vw bug.

[skygazer]

41. A 1962 Ford Fairlane

Wish I could post a picture of it. It was powder blue, the coupe not the wagon (I had a '66 wagon in the 90's - it was one of the best cars I ever had). Nice car. I have a picture of me at age 3 with it. You can see the Goldwater bumper stickers in the pic!

[CO Liberal]

44. Something Like This - Right?

Source: http://www.lovefords.com/

[skygazer]

45. Thanks!

That's it, right down to the color and the distinctive little side piece on the headlights (not there in later models). Beautiful car.

[Hand]

50. That was the SECOND car my parents owned! nt

[gulfcoastliberal]

42. 240Z

I was born in 76. And it was orange, no backseat at all. A real coupe.



Once I was born, this was the new car:

[Eugene]

46. 1962 Mercury Comet

White with red interior.

:dem:

[pagerbear]

47. Mine had one, too, but not sure of the year. Baby blue.

And they had another baby blue Mercury. The first new car I remember is a 68 Impala, in a sort of pearly green.

[Clinton Crusader]

48. Black Ford Fairlane,

Im looking them over and it wasnt a 62. More like this but black




:kick:

[Hand]

53. My parents had one of those

It was white and yellow, like the second one in the pictures; probably was a 1959 model. They had it only a couple of years before trading it in on a Buick Special V8 that was dubbed the Green Hornet (not a bad car for a crapola piece of Detroit iron).

My dumbass brother drove the Green Hornet into the ground during his hippie period; I think he was too stoned to remember to change the oil.

:hi:

[MissMillie]

49. a blue station wagon

I think it was a Chevy

[maveric]

51. 1949 Chevey

Big, black and bulbous. It was a boat. My dad sold it my grandfather in 1961 and bought a brand new VW Beetle for $700.00 out the door.

[Hand]

52. 1952 Plymouth Cranbrook!

My dad drove that car for 11 years--big, roomy, unglamorous, ran like a top.

It looked like this, but was a two-door and didn't have those weird windshield shades.



Great car! Three-speed column shift. Our dog puked on the back seat several times...

:hi:

[CO Liberal]

54. A Friend of Mine in High School Had One of Those

Not much to look at, but it ran, and ran, and ran......

[HEyHEY]

55. "The big red truck" and a 70s toyota corolla

[dr.strangelove]

56. I remember buying a 74 Valient

We had a blue Dodge sedan before that, but I don't remember the type.

[ceile]

57. '77 Thunderbird

White with maroon top and interior. It was so big and heavy that I couldn't shut the door by myself 'til I was about 7.

[CanuckAmok]

76. Did it have vinyl straps and buckles on the trunk lid?

Because that was some trick pimp stylin'!

[LeftyMom]

59. A Pinto Wagon

with no a/c and the charming tendency to stall out on the freeway. It's amazing I survived

[TrogL]

60. A Valiant

Apparently they had a black Buick before that but I hated it and threw stones at it.

[baldguy]

61. Light blue 1967 Ford LTD wagon

No, there were no seat belts for the "Kids' Seat" in the back.

[CO Liberal]

62. Of Course Not!!

That's a '66 Ford Country Squire. Seat belts weren't mandatory until the '67 model year.

My father decided seat belts were a good idea, ao he bought six sets and installed them in our '59 Plymouth in 1961. So I got used to being belted in ata an early age. Until I learned to drive - my first three cars ('58 Hillman, '61 Peugeot, '62 VW Beetle) had no seat belts.

[Qanisqineq]

63. an early to mid-70's Pontiac Grand Prix

and they still have a Pontiac Grand Prix (though obviously not the same one)

[Kadie]

64. Grand Prix

196? This picture looks alot like it.

[CO Liberal]

65. That's a '65

Here's the '67:


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The big change in '67 was disappearing headlights for the Grand Prix - other Pontiac models didn't have them.

[Kadie]

66. Ours look more like the 65. Thanks for pointing out the

difference in the headlights. I didn't notice that when I was looking through some of the pictures. Cool car, very big. We would be bouncing all around the back, surprised we didn't get hurt considering we didn't wear seat belts then.

[GOPisEvil]

67. 1966 Chevy Impala SS.

My dad sold it when I was 4 - I've been a muscle car guy all along.

[Dukkha]

68. 1973 Grand Torino

And a WV "Sunbug" beelte

[Parrcrow]

71. '57 Cadillac

[CO Liberal]

72. A Family Down The Street From Us Had a '58 Cadillac

Source: http://www.1motormart.com/

Like the one in the picture, only a convertible. The first car I ever saw with power windows.

[NamVetsWeeLass]

73. I was brought home from the Hospital in my Dad's

1968 GTX. It was B5 blue Metallic with white leather interior. Under the hood slept a 440. I can still remember the rumble in the morning of Dad Firing that beast up. Awesome car. Probably fueled my love of Mopars.

[Cornjob]

74. Just before my dad died in 1990 we found...

a small metal ring inside one of his old Greenlee punches.

I recognized it immediately as a piece of the green body of our familiy's 1951 Chevy DeLuxe sedan. Dad had punched a hole in the body to install a radio antenna.

That little green ring was in perfect condition and brought back a lot of fond memories for both of us.

[CanuckAmok]

75. we lived in England, so one of these, but in white:

and one of these, also in white:




(I fell out of the latter one when my mom was turning a corner. Here's an equasion:

Toddler + centrigigal force - seatbelts - doors = pediatric emergency!

[achtung_circus]

77. 1949 Mercury

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I got to ride in the trunk with the dogs when we went beagling.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

78. 64 1/2 Thunderbird, sky blue, torquoise interior.

My dad always had one. Mom still has it and it's rotting in our driveway. Dammit, someone should be driving that car.
Duckie

[RiffRandell]

79. The Ford "Country Squire" station wagon

You know, the one with the "wood" paneling?

[The Flaming Red Head]

80. 1955 t- bird

My father bought it brand new. Me and my friend rode on the back parade style around the LSU campus back in the 1960s when were little girls with our mothers in the seats and we thought all the men were honking and waving at us.