What was your dream car when you were 16?

various | 5/6/16 | me

[mdittmar]

What was your dream car when you were 16?

Wanted a 68 Camaro,bronze,black rally stripes,craiger 5 spokes wheels,bronze morroso valve covers.

Kinda looked like this in my mind.

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[G Larry]

Wadda ya mean 16?

It’s STILL a 1970 Hemi-Cuda!

>https://www.mecum.com/lot-detail/SC0515-214457/0/1970-Plymouth-Hemi-Cuda/Automatic/<

$600K-$800K

[Edison]

I'd hear grown up men talk about he El Dorado. One day running thought a parking lot I came across this baby. Red with white leather interior. I loved this car.

[Squantos]

Had that car.....same color !!

[Edison]

I'd hear grown up men talk about he El Dorado. One day running thought a parking lot I came across this baby. Red with white leather interior. I loved this car.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

1969 Mercury cyclone spoiler II.The long nosed mercury,red and white,427 with big shaft toploader and bucket seats and no air.Got all the air you needed with the windows down.What a car.

[Squantos]

79 Malibu is the one I seek today.....

http://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=39040&stc=1&d=1277627394

[Daaave]

I wanted a 1971 Trans Am. I got a '78 for my first car.

[ozzymandus]

I wanted a ‘69 Chevelle SS, the real sharky-looking one. What I had was a ‘64 Ford Custom 500, canary yellow.

[onedoug]

I never dreamed....

Damn the metaphor!

[Ken H]

[Daaave]

In 1969, my sister dated a guy with a '69 Daytona Yellow SS 396. When he was a guest of the state, he left the car with her. She took me and my mom for a ride. The front air dam came loose and she pulled over. Men on both sides of the road stopped to help. It was a nice car. But I should mention that my sister did some modeling in college.

[Stormy_2021]

An ‘84 Volkswagen Jetta...

I know... I didn’t dream too big...

[Stormy_2021]

[az_gila]

My preference was for that other early-60s UK car with dual OH cams and four wheel disk brakes...:^)

A Lotus Elan like Emma Peel used to drive.

4-5 years later I found a 1964 one in S. Mich. with a blown up engine - caused by weak con rods on the Lotus modified Ford Cortina engine.

It was cheap because in 1971 no one in the US knew what it was, and often even thought is was a slow Fiat 850! The insurance company just asked how many cylinders it had and charged less than my Ford Maverick.

Fixed the engine and my teenage car dreams came true, it was even the same color as Emma's, and I even managed to not kill myself in it.

This was a 1972 Polaroid pic I recently found -

It kept up with a lot of the 60’s muscle cars up to 70mph or so and certainly lost them when there was a curve in the road....:^)

It also never rusted like my Fiat 124 Sport Coupe shown in the backbground -

[gigster]

“The Boss”, Ronnie Sox’s and Buddy Martin’s ‘71 Cuda is actually coming up for auction at Dana Mecum’s Spring Classic Auction at the Indiana State fairgrounds May 17-21.

[jpsb]

[ex91B10]

[Liberty Valance]

Mountain - Mississippi Queen

[emotionalcripple]

Amen!

[Popman]

It could have been a rusted-out, 4-door Rambler with a 4-cylinder engine and three-on-the-tree like Grandma drove and I’d been fine with it because it represented independence.

Haha...That was my first car...It wasn't rusty though...

I nicknamed her "Singer" because the car sounded like a singer sewing machine when running...

As for independence...yes far better than walking or hitching