History What is your Decade?

It seems that every true car fanatic has a decade, as in they always seem to gravitate toward cars from a certain decade for a particular reason. I am a mid to late 60's guy because all my cars are daily drivers and mid to late 60's cars still look and feel older while having many modern features that make them better drivers. I am curious as to what you guys think, What is your decade and why?

 

Can I have more than one?20/30/40/50.

 

I only need 5 years. '65 to '70. The fastest American street cars were just a dealership away.

 

early to midish 30s, no if's, and's or but's...

look at what I got to yard drive today.....it's NOT mine, I am just the mechanic. I never had a chance to work on an "almost classic" car till now. it's a 34 LaS


just got it to run at noon or so. even the clock still works


During the worst part of the Depression, some people could afford fancy cars.

 

I'll have to split it up.....1955-1965....Customs, Hot Rods, Car Clubs, The California Dream, Factory Muscle....all the best stuff I saw unfold before my own eyes. Not neccessarily my Favorite Decade for cars from the Factory, but certainly my favorite decade for Customizing and Rodding.....Centurion9

 

My Grandad and I are 40 years apart. If I could be 20 years old in the year he was born 1949, that would be the life I would live.


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I don't have a single decade that trips my trigger,,I love hot rods built in all eras but my favorite custom's were and still are the 50's style cars. HRP

 

1960-1969

That means I can keep my F-100, Starliner, Imperial, & Cadillac, and also would allow a few of my other first loves:

'61-'63 Olds 88
'63-'64 Buick Riviera
'61-'67 Lincoln
'66-'67 Olds 442

I'm simple, and big...no brainer for this guy

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Two periods for me:

49-53

58-64

 

Fifty six to sixty six.

 

Cars are a lot like music ... total changes at mid-decade ... Id go for 55-65 but, damn, I also loved my 34 Ford pick-up and everything else from the thirties.

 

I can't choose late 50's down to late 20's. But 50's customs are my favorite.

 

Like how they where customizing/hotrodding them or the stock cars coming out the era? I like my customs early 50s styling hot rods mid to late 50s but my favorite era for stock cars is probably.... From about 1925 to 1968.. To hard to pick.


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'49 to '52.

But love all years up to mid '60's.

 

Born in the 70s but dig the 50s and 60s

 

30s to 60s, there is so many too choose. Right now I'm stuck in the 50s.

 

Styling wise, I most LIKE the cars from the early '30s thru the early '70s......but I LOVE the cars from the late '30s thru the early '50s.......narrowed further......'40 & '41 had the greatest concentration of pleasing style, for my taste. A period during which not only GM, Ford, MOPAR prosperd, but a greater number of smaller manufacturers still existed......and all of them seemed to hit a particularly "sweet spot" in styling........

 

The 60's. cars were changing so fast then, from fuddy transportaion to exciting forms of personal identity. And...you could go to the junk yard and buy an "old" car for very little money, or look in the paper and pick up a '55 Chevy for a couple hundred.

 

My personal goal is to have one car from every decade starting from the 1930's to date in the garage before I die. Three down, a lot more to go.
'47 Plymouth
'55 Ford
'65 Ford

Looking at a late 30's Buick for my next project

 

'57 to 67......old enough to drive, first car('49 Pontiac fast back) had a little money and found I could fix stuff. Oh, and realized girls liked guys with cars!

 

Early 30's and early 60's

 

all of em to 1972... not much after

 

Ask your Grandpa-At 20 in 1949, you would have been a kid, trying to understand the Great Depression and WWII-both of which you'd been through. You'd be hard pressed to find a job, because of all the returning veterans. You'd still be recovering from rationing during the war and maybe you'd enjoy it, but remember-no tv, one phone in a house-on the wall, no fast food, only a few places sold pizza, girls usually had a curfew (no bikinis!), no HAMB!

I'm sure your grandfather fondly remembers those days,but ask him if he'd trade!

 

I just can't nail it down, I love them all but if I could only choose one I would have to say the 60's because that's when some really extreme creativity started to really shine.

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1928-1940
I know its a little more than a decade but it is my window.
chuck

 

Mid- to late-'30's for me. I love fat fender cars, especially coupes.

 

I can't pick just one, but the world has been spinning downhill since 1965, and it is unfair to judge decades by what we have today.From an automotive standpoint 1925-1935, best cars in the world were produced then. Bob

 

I like cars built with a late 40's to late 50's flare...

 

Must be gravity....the 55-59 era does it for me. I was born in 61.

As for building style, I can't really nail down one specific era.

 

Very debatable, but wasn't this about cars and not post war America.