What did your dad drive?

gotta get me an UTFART sign because farts are funny no matter where you are from.

 

TONS of different cars/trucks!

When I was a kid in the early 60's, he had a Model A. And a '47 Packard Clipper. And the truck I learned to drive around the farm on, a '36 Ford 3/4 ton panel truck. A '37 Packard 115 sedan. A '40 Packard 110 sedan.

Then he bought a brand new Checker in 1965. I ended up driving that one to high school in the 70's.

 

1956 Ford lowered with spiner caps. Then Mustang fastbacks and Fairlanes. Some he still has and I love all his stories...Man I miss being a kid sometimes...

 

1940 coupe and 1950 ford coupe is the stories I've heard him talk about


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He drove my Mother to divorce and me up a wall.
My step dad however, gave me his car when I was in H.S....mint, black with red and white tuck and roll interior, 2dr ht 1956 Mercury Monterrey. This was in 1964. He gave it to me because it had a serious knock in the bottom end, and he just bought a brand new $3600.00 '64 Tempest custom. It broke his heart, he LOVED that car. I took it to auto shop and took it apart and found the problem. A broken flywheel plate. Got a new (used) one at the junk yard for like .50 and put it in with my fingers crossed. Problem solved! Showed the old man and I swear I've never seen someone so pissed...I thought for a moment he was going to want to trade me that Pontiac for his Merc back.

 

My Dad's first vehicle was a moped in Hawaii. When he got to the mainland of California in 1964 he bought a '62 Falcon Convertible. Later a '68 Torino Fastback, followed by a 70 Dodge R/T. He kept that car up until he had me. My mom made him give it up for a new 4 door Granada, which was family friendly. He still reminds me on my Birthday every year. I've got to find him another '70 R/T someday.

 

My dad's first cool car in high school was a '37 Ford 2-door slant back sedan with a '46 Mercury engine. His first new car was a '57 Chevy 210 wagon with a 283 4-barrel power pack. His first shop truck was a'49 GMC with a 331 Cadillac engine.

 

my father had a 47 chev when i was born, then got a 55 chev 210, and after i blew up the 55 he bought a 1961 impala 4door 235 stick which i really liked
i bought a 1930 sedan for $18 and a 1930 coupe for $8 and got the coupe driving and sold for $50 and bought a 47 chev and tortured it to a slow death well actually i was kinda fast for the time

 

54 Chevy
64 SS Nova
66 SS Nova
53 MG TD Roadster
4? Willys P/U
30 Ford Roadster
33 Ford P/U
34 Ford P/U
66 Mustang
65 GT350r
67 GT350
67 SS Nova
78 Z28
93 Del Sol
2003 Chevy Extreme Blazer
2006 SSR
2003 Chevy Extreme Regular Cab Stepside

 

Haha true!

 

My Dad drove my Mom nuts ....

Seems we had a different car every month, my favorite was a 65' Impala SS two door ....

I remember the center console - SS badges ...

Kinda like this one



Jim

 

First car I can remember was a 1951 Ford Crestliner, traded for a 1956 Chevrolet 210 delray, on to a 1959 Biscayne, then a 1961 Impala and the last before I left home was a 1965 Ford p/u

 

My father had a Rover 3500 from the 70's.

To this day I still can't decide if it was fugly or just plain ole ugly.

 

My dad working on one of his 40's in 1952 . His roadster on the right 2nd pic. and a couple of his Government issue rides only had to drive them to the end of the runway

 

I came home from the hospital in 57, in Dad's green 55 Chevy(4dr). He moved up in 59 to a 59 Fairlane Galaxie 500 Convertible, White over red--man, what a car! I used to stand up in the back seat when we rode around with the top down. He traded it off in 61 to get Mom a 59 T-Bird, which stayed in the family til 72. Cool cars just aren't my father's thing, as he drove junk thru the 60s--56 Ford 4 dr, 61 BelAir wagon, 62 Caddy 4 dr., 66 Caddy 4 dr, 68 Vista Cruiser---whatever he drove was Mom's hand-me-downs. Today he's rolling in a Cadillac SRX with chrome 22's

 

my dad had a myriad of cars but the ones i remember were a green 57 pontiac 2 door hardtop, a turquoise and white 55 bel air 4 door, a green 65 impala , a yellow and black 70 charger 500, and he had a primered 55 chevy hardtop that supposedly was a hot car that he sold then bought back after the guy he sold it to blew the engine and then he parted it out i remember helping him remove the doghouse from it i was at most 7 at that time

 

My old man started off driving fords but then switched to GM products,along with some pommy cars

 

Dads 1st car, 1934 Ford. His 1st new car, 1949 Buick Sedanette. And the car we had when I was born, 1958 Ford Custom 300.

 

My Dad's first car was a black 1962 Mercury Meteor. He saved some money and dropped in an early K code 289/T10.

 

Dad drove a 1929 Model A Town Sedan . He bought it new in 1929 and drove it until the day he died.

Les Bliss

 

My Dad had a '56 ford sunliner. He then traded it and $300 for
a 1957 corvette 270hp auto. White with red coves. Later on it was
stolen and found burned the next day

 

3 -1950 Oldsmobiles,.....when I was born a 57 chevy w a 348/tripower white with green tinted glass,First car I remember was a 64 cutlas,orange 70 Elcomino BBC with cowl induction, been a Cutlass in the garage ever since along side his 1949 Olds Club Coupe..... Looks like he's gone full circle!!

 

When I was born in 61, my Dad had a 32 three window coupe, black, full fendered with a 283. He let it get away from him a few years later so when I came up with one about 10 years ago, I built it to look like his. He's now got a 33 three window, 34 five window, 36 five window, three window and roadster, 31 model A and chopped 51 Merc.

 

1950 bulletnose Studebaker was his first car, coolest cars after that: 1960 Impala convt., 1972 Firebird 350/4spd, 1975 Olds Delta88 convt.

 

I'd say your Dad has "GREAT TASTE"in Automobiles!

 

I rode home from he hospital in a 70 Monte Carlo SS, dad had a 68 F100. Neither are HAMB friendly, but still cool old rides. That was 1985.

 

Buick's and Pontiac

 

61 Impala ss 409 convertable then in 68 he bought a new chevelle special ordered with a L79 327, muncie 4 spd and a 4.11 12 bolt posi. I remember riding in the passenger seat at 8 or 9 years old and him powershifting the small block to redline, thats what got me hooked on hotrods.

 

My dad has had quite a few cars, Here's my dad and his 50 Ford Coupe, someone had run a light and hit him. Why it has a darker colored front clip. The flathead was tired, so he seen an ad for a Chevy v-8, went to see about it and it was a 348. He put that in it that was 58-59. The other pic is about the same time with Mom & Dad infront of the Channeled model A coupe him and his brother built. He bought an entire coupe for $45, pulled the body and sold the rest for the same amount. My uncle scrounged up a 32 chassis and they mated the two. Eventually sold the car and had heard it was lter chopped and migrated to New York state.