Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Hip to Be Square: Why Young Buyers Covet 'Grandpa' Cars
WSJ ^ | 05/09/2006 | By JENNIFER SARANOW

Posted on 05/10/2006 4:48:01 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 241-249 next last
To: mtbopfuyn
...Cars today are BORING...

They all look like bars of soap on wheels.

21 posted on 05/10/2006 5:14:16 PM PDT by FReepaholic (I was FReepin' when FReepin' wasn't cool.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

I think the real Impala ss was from 94 to 98


22 posted on 05/10/2006 5:15:10 PM PDT by spanalot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Wow. My 1993 Dodge dynasty is back in. (Great car, BTW...the 1992 and 1993 models are excellent vehicles). Now I wish I still had my 1988 Caprice Classic.


23 posted on 05/10/2006 5:16:26 PM PDT by kaylar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd
Burnout Video, LT1 Buick Roadmaster
24 posted on 05/10/2006 5:17:17 PM PDT by Conservative Firster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

I had a 1969 chevy caprice, vinyl roof, 350 engine. Bought it from the chevrolet agency I worked for while I was working my way through college paid $500.00.

The guy who traded it in couldn't bear to drive it. It was his wife's who had passed away. The thing I didn't get was that he traded it in for a Chevette...

I recently saw the car driving around. Still on the road many years later. Amazing.


25 posted on 05/10/2006 5:19:38 PM PDT by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: krb

I had a 63 Dodge Dart and a girlfriend named Heidi. Was yours (car that is) white with a blue interior?


26 posted on 05/10/2006 5:19:53 PM PDT by joem15 (If less is more, then what is plenty?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd
My best automobile was a 1985 Pontiac Grand Prix, in grey. I called it the Grey Blur. It is now my dad's (his alternate), and he gets compliments whenever he rolls in it. It looks like this (but this isn't it):


27 posted on 05/10/2006 5:20:32 PM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (History is a work in progress)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Dose new love for old include the AMC Pacer? I drove a 68 Lincon Imperial 2dr. It cost me almost 20 dollars to fill.>


28 posted on 05/10/2006 5:21:10 PM PDT by ThomasThomas
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Matadors are cool.

29 posted on 05/10/2006 5:21:34 PM PDT by Jhensy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: WorkingClassFilth

My mom had one of those! The fabulous 'VistaCruiser' clear roof panels!


30 posted on 05/10/2006 5:24:01 PM PDT by wingnut1971 (Oh good...another BS study I get to pay for.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Jhensy

lol, my grandmother had a 61 Cadi, a62 plymouth valiant, and a 71 plymouth duster.

Any of those cars would be hot today.


31 posted on 05/10/2006 5:24:05 PM PDT by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Reminds me of a car I saw a couple of years ago. I think it was an early 80's Buick or some other butt-ugly early 80's two-door car. The driver had jacked up the car about as high as you could go and put the smallest tires posssible on it.
He slowly went around a corner and the tires were screeching like mad and I thought it would flip over when one of the tires came off the ground.
I was thinking "congratulations, your an idiot!".


32 posted on 05/10/2006 5:25:16 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: joem15

Nope...dark blue inside and out...

That would have been weird if I was with your girlfriend in your car. That's just wrong. :-)


33 posted on 05/10/2006 5:26:15 PM PDT by krb (ad hominem arguments are for stupid people)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Cyclopean Squid

I once owned a 1979 Pontiac Grand Prix. It was white with the tan landeau (sp?) roof and tan leather interior. Electric everything. Man, I was stylin'! Those were nice looking cars.


34 posted on 05/10/2006 5:26:30 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Jhensy
So was my Gremlin


35 posted on 05/10/2006 5:27:38 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A Moose Once Bit my Sister. Yeah. She Turned Moose-lim.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd
My 25 year old son wants my 1964 Shelby AC Cobra.

Though he helped me build it, he'll have to wait 'til I'm dead before he gets it. LOL

36 posted on 05/10/2006 5:28:40 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kaylar

I owned an 77 Caprice Classic and kept it on the road until I bought a 82 Toyata Supra.

The Caprice was huge, all white with a metal panel that came halfway down over the tires. Plus white walls. I loved that car back then! You could stretch out and sleep on the front seats. Complete with an 8 track player.


37 posted on 05/10/2006 5:28:55 PM PDT by TheLion
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Diana in Wisconsin

My grandmother had a 1976 Malibu Classic, landau roof, swivel bucket seats. Man, I'd kill for that car today.


38 posted on 05/10/2006 5:29:10 PM PDT by Heyworth
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: kaylar

My wife's car when we got married was a green 1976 Plymouth Volare Premier sedan with a vinyl top. People used to laugh at her at stop lights. When she put her foot into the 4 barrel 318, the laughing stopped. I called it "Granny's Green Grocery Getter".


39 posted on 05/10/2006 5:29:30 PM PDT by EricT. (CA conservatives only serve to inflate the number of electoral votes won by the Dems.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd
Toyota's new FJ Cruiser -- based on the old FJ series

Granpa FJ40


40 posted on 05/10/2006 5:29:45 PM PDT by sagar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 241-249 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson