Change in Car taste

[C8OZ]

It must come with age. Or maturity, heh. Those Chargers look good to me now. And pre-1964 Fords/Mercs are beautiful. I don't know why I couldn't see that when I was younger.

Just out of high school, I had a 66 Fairlane with a 390 and C6, and my cousin had a 66 GTO with a 400 (after the 389 was gone) and a 3-speed of all things. Seems like we raced a thousand times as we built those cars up, and it hooked me on the old Pontiacs, too.

[ToddK]

Just quietly, I’m also a closet Mopar fan. I first saw an engineering line cut away drawing of a ‘63 Dodge max wedge car in an early ‘80s Car Craft magazine, and it blew my mind. I never knew such cars existed, let alone come that way from the factory. Years later, I now own this:



I’ve also had a soft spot for Pontiacs for a long time. I’ve owned a ‘65 Bonneville and a ‘66 GP, but always wanted either a ‘62 Catalina or a ‘65 GTO.

[BattlestarGalactic]

Friend bought a very stock, original '61? tempest.  4 banger/automatic.  Oh lord was that thing sssslllooowwwwww.  Near a death trap in traffic.  Had the little shift handle on the dash with D N R.  It was neat, but no where near enough power.  That 4 cylinder was a funny thing, being just a 1/2 a V8 literally.  If you only looked at the passenger side of the engine compartment, it would almost pass for a 326  .....til you realized the whole drivers side of the engine was missing.

[machoneman]

Friend bought a very stock, original '61? tempest.  4 banger/automatic.  Oh lord was that thing sssslllooowwwwww.  Near a death trap in traffic.  Had the little shift handle on the dash with D N R.  It was neat, but no where near enough power.  That 4 cylinder was a funny thing, being just a 1/2 a V8 literally.  If you only looked at the passenger side of the engine compartment, it would almost pass for a 326  .....til you realized the whole drivers side of the engine was missing.

Too bad he didn't yank it and plop in a SD421!

[plovett]

I like the '66-'67  Chargers.  And you can sleep in them if you aren't crazy tall!  They have a very long cargo area with the rear seats folded down. The original SUV?

paulie

[badcatt]

I would love to have a 69 Dart GTS. A teacher at my high school had one and she would race it on weekends. A 66 or 67 Charger is a interesting car. I have driven a couple in the past.(only a few miles each) The biggest fast back car I have owned was a 68 Fairlane. But it was not a muscle car with that little 302 2V.
But one of the odder cars I had was a 864 Galixie XL 4 door hard top. One evening I was the driver for the group I was running with, I went over to a buddies house to pick up several people, one of the less then brightest opened the passengers side front door, folded the bucket seat down and proceeded to climb in to the back seat then complained how hard the back seat was to get in to. I gave him he look and told him that next time he should use the back door. I kind of wish I still had that cruiser.

[Thumperbird]

My dad was a loan guy way back in the day, that meant he was also a part time repo man, anything from tv's to furniture, to you guessed it cars.

We had a 69 Grand Prix type S I think it was, mean car, never forget him taking the whole family (6) up to the lake in the grand prix doing 110 down the 2 lane highway.

Flip a 69 gto image vertical and yes it literally is shaped like a rocket.

[Stangman]

As Im getting older Im liking the bigger cars wether its a mopar, ford, mercury. But My dad had a 64 GTO that he bought brand new and I had a 64 Lemans as my daily driver for 14 years so needless to say I have a soft spot for them. 

[shady]

I had a white '73 Grand-Am 400 auto. My sister was looking for a car and we went for a test drive in it.  I mashed it from a dead stop spinning the tires for what seemed forever and then it banged 2nd chirping the tires and that was it. I told her you're not buying this car.
I bought it. While not really fast (15.9s) it was a great handling & driving car. All my buddies called it the egg, as it kind of looked like one.

[Heo]

I like the '66-'67  Chargers.  And you can sleep in them if you aren't crazy tall!  They have a very long cargo area with the rear seats folded down. The original SUV?

paulie

I always liked the interior in them with those four bucket seats

[Heo]

It is somewhat strange, In this onehorse town i live in. About 15000
in the whole county about 5000 in the central comunity. There have been
a lot of somewhat rare cars. Several Crown Victoria skyliners atleast five, thats
about 10 percent of the whole production.
Several Shelby Mustangs both 350 and 500s,  atleast two 59 Ford retractabels,
Hemi Cuda,  Hemi Charger,  a couple of 50s Chrysler 300s, Jensen interceptor FF
Lotus Cortinas,  Studebaker Golden Hawks,  this 66 Charger,  a 68 Baracuda Convertibel
68 Baracuda 340 s Coupe, 62 Chevy bubbeltop 409....... what i remember now

[WConley]

I do have a soft spot for the Studebaker Golden Hawk.  My dad was involved with Studebaker Packard in the 1950's.  He also helped set up the infrastructure for importing Mercedes Benz cars into the U.S. through Studebaker Packard.  So you could say he was involved with 300 SL's too.  (I'd have to rub a few too many pennies together to afford one of those, and it would be hard to say I've "grown" into liking them!!)

[Heo]

I have always liked the Golden Hawk, the first Pony/muscle car 10 years to early. One with packard engine would be nice. Or why not a 53
Champion Coupe with a FE . They would benefit from getting the winshield, just the windshield chopped a couple of inches since im not that fellow in a brown hat with a pipe that was in the car ads from 1929 to the late 60s .The 300 SL is also one of my favourites, but even if i rub my pennies till they caught fire i can afford one I saw pictures of a dragster late 50s early 60s with a 300 SL engine

[chilly460]

Any of the early 60s full-size Pontiacs are great looking cars, and I like the mid 60s as big long range cruisers.  61 Catalina is such a great car, up there with a 61 Starliner

[TomP]

Well since we are all prancing out of the closet.... I did used to own a 70 Coronet... a $500 daily driver... had the choice of it or a $500 black 65 dual quad Riviera... I think I made a mistake but at the time driving 20 miles each way to work the Riv would have drank too much of that expensive 60 cents a gallon gas.