Your Favorite Car of All Time

[Harvey]

To be honest, I haven't liked any new car since about the year 2000.

Milo what was your favorite car of all time?

I'm not talking asking about the best car you ever imagined owning or driving.

Anybody: What was the car that you look fondly back on because of the role it played in your life? Why do you remember it fondly?

My dad had a 1971 Volvo 144S station wagon, a four speed, 77 HP and probably close to 4000 pounds. He bought it new. If you really laid on the gas on a long flat road it might do 80. The speedometer was like a "bar graph" and when it was really cold, it would make a heinous sound when you went over 40.

I was a year younger than all my buddies, so they did a lot of driving when we were Juniors. When I finally got my license I was all like "dad I OWE these guys for all the driving they did!"

We kept that car for 275,000 miles, and then sold it for $1000. We bought it in 1971 for $3800. One time when it had 140,000 on it, the guy who carpooled with my dad offered him more than he paid for it.

Honorable mention to two other cars:

My best friend's mom had a Buick Skylark maybe late 60s early 70s, a total sleeper, and it FLEW. Some kind of big V8 stuffed into what they called a mid-size back then. Super comfy back seat too.

Last I dated a lawyer. She had a convertible MG, and I had that Volvo, my dad eventually gave it to me. She and I would trade, because she couldn't show up for lawyerin' with messy hair. I drove that thing all summer. It was not exactly reliable, but it was fun to drive with nice handling.

 

[Campgottagopee]

Great idea!! This will be a wicked fun thread.
I'll need my computer so I'll report back Monday

 

[2000yroldskier]

76 chevy c10 short bed 4x4 strait 6 3 speed on tree.

 

[DomB]

Favorite is a tough one . . . .

I have to vote a late 80s Buick Skylark. When they were built bad. Definitely a four-banger at that point and NOT a V-8. Owned by someone in my core friend group of four or five guys. One friend was a nice, stoner type; one was super nerdy and nice; I was kind of nerdy but also three sport athlete, another was kind of nerdy but played some sports, and another was just a really fun kid who drank tons of milk (not a code word, the dude drank a lot of milk; obviously his fair share of high school booze as well).

As to the car, the 'buick' symbol peeled a bit so it read like 'Buici' (Boo-chi); we painted what we as teenagers viewed as a Buici-esque mustache on the hood centered by the symbol. We spent a lot of nights driving around in that thing singing Billy Joel songs and listening to Bohemian Rhapsody (very Long Island). The thing was falling apart. It had to be 10-15 years old in during our late 90's high school cruising age. The felt(?) roof liner was collapsed and held in place by thumb tacks. We had a lot of fun in that thing. It was a fading kind of grey exterior.

While I don't see those awesome guys enough, I manage to see them a few times a year, and one we vacation with his wife and two girls with my wife and two kids. Starting in the first Covid Summer we began doing a week in Cape Cod together. He is actually my best friend growing up but he travelled all over to become a fancy scientist. Couldn't get much outside of academia until Covid became a thing and now his skills are in super demand so he is probably settled in the Boston bio tech belt.

 

[Sick Bird Rider]

I still want one. Sporty yet practical, the ultimate shooting brake:

 

[Sick Bird Rider]

The modern equivilant is also desirable;

 

[Sbob]

1976 , I had a friend who had one, loved hearing him turn the key .

 

[Sick Bird Rider]

Then there is this:

 

[Ripitz]

Anybody: What was the car that you look fondly back on because of the role it played in your life? Why do you remember it fondly?

For me it was, hands down, the ‘Super Fry’, my 1983 Mercedes 300SD turbo diesel. I put a Greasecar kit in it and drove to Montana for the winter on waste vegetable oil with Freebird and my dog Roscoe. That was a trip.

 

[Peter Minde]

I still want one. Sporty yet practical, the ultimate shooting brake:

Nuthin' wrong with late model Volvo C30 either....