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UN- cool cars your parents owned!

Discussion in 'Hobbies and Interests' started by saskwoodburner, Mar 27, 2016.

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  1. TurboDiesel

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    Excellent thread. My mom swapped out our 1976 Toyota Corolla with this "bad boy":

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    A LADA. :D My friends used to take small illegal trips down the street and back. Even made a small bump in it. She never noticed.
     
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    I think Viking80 has won the competition! :thumbs:
     
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    Oooh, a lada. The rich person's trabant. Lol.
     
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    Unless someone with a trabant steps in.

    My host family in Germany had one. One of these days I'll scan, or simply take a picture of that picture I have of the trabie with me leaning against it. Oh yeah, acid washed Jean jacket and all.
     
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    My awesome colt (sincerely, it was an awesome lil 4x4 wagon) said "Dodge Plymouth Colt, engine by Mitsubishi", and something about Datsun too. Either way I got a lot of miles out of it and it was very comfortable and roomy. I only was stuck once after sledding down our road and the snow plow came through and ended our luging fun. I was then instructed by WWW after I became high centered on the plow line blocking our driveway that my Colt wagon is not a "Monster Truck!" :rofl: :lol::emb::rofl: :lol:
     
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  7. Bert

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    1961 Rambler ours was black.[​IMG]
     
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    Another real UN-COOL car, ours was pastel yellow.[​IMG]
     
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    Wow, that really reminds me of Colorado. Any idea where this pic is from?
     
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    No idea, I did a Google search.
     
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    I tried zooming in, and the quality just goes away. Too pixelated to be able to tell from the license plate.
     
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    That is a super cool car, if you ask me! Mind you, I am a lumbersexual hipster......... ;)
     
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    Dad bought this new in Spring 1978,it was last model of the ''big ones'' before they downsized for the '79 model.

    Same Midnight Blue metallic paint, 4door sedan,with a grey vinyl top,grey cloth interior.With power everything inside,a 460 with Holley 4bbl under da hood & dual exhaust.All the trappings of a Lincoln Continental Town Car for about 25% less
    money,just a couple inches shorter. I should have some old 35mm or polaroid pics around here someplace,this is one off internet.

    Really ran better after Dad dropped the tailpipe & drilled out that burned up catalytic convertor several years later :dex:Big fine from the EPA or car dealer if you actually ''removed'' it & ran either a straight pipe or replaced it with a normal muffler on that side however.But anyone looking underneath couldn't tell the difference since the convertor,while non-functional,remained intact... :whistle:

    Though some may thought it was 'uncool',I thought this was badazz then & still do today.Kids at high school the next Fall gave me respect when I drove that big beast occasionally.:cool: It had loads of power/torque,was like floating on a waterbed in extreme comfort yet still got 18-19 MPG on the highway.

    And the trunk,was big /deep enough to actually hold a bathtub.Yes we actually hauled one in it once,I forget who for or to what destination though....:rofl: :lol:
     

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    My parents never owned cool cars when I was around, though my mother bought a '47 Ford convertible new. My dad had a '29 Pierce Arrow that I vaguely recall seeing once at my grandmother's. Growing up we had a '55 Chevy pickup, a '54 Ford Ranch Wagon my dad bought new (before he was married) and later my grandfather's '55 Buick Special.

    When the tranny in the Buick went they replaced it with a new '66 Chevy Biscane 4 door with a 230 six and three speed. One ugly and uninspiring car. It was replaced with a '70 Mercury Montego with 351 4V, that car would roll (but got 10 mpg).
     
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    This looked just like my first car. I bought it off a lot in Hickory, North Carolina for $600. in 1972. Wish I still had it!
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