Which Car is your All time Favorite

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AprilT said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuDe7mQeZME

Something about a Jag.

But as far as car commercials to, I love this one for it's visual and sound effects. Not all that impressed with the car, nothing special about the interior as far as I could tell.

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Nice never driven a fast car the fastest was a corvette a friend was driving. The fastest I have done in a car was 90 plus got a bit airborne. PS did get pulled over but no ticket.
 
Never drove, always passenger, usually the boyfriends' owned the fast cars. I'm not really into cars in general, but, if I have to show love for a car it would be a Jag. I've been a passenger in many types of cars, never the driver and any man that knows me will get a tongue lashing if he drives too fast these days. I used to get in lots of disagreements with my last boe, but he didn't even drive a sports car, he drove a Hyundai Sonata. :rofl1: What's not funny is he wrecked his car it twice in a very short time frame . I've always hated getting in his car and I would only agree to set outings for short distances. Yes I know most accidents tend to happen close to home, but, I just couldn't stomach his driving for a ride longer than 15 minute marker.
 
I like my Toyota Corolla. Had it going on 11 years. Never been in the shop. Was 2 years old when I bought it. When I was younger always wanted a Mustang!
 
I fondly remember the red 1970 Mustang that we bought in 1972. Power!!

Now we have a Citroen Xsara Picasso. I'd prefer a smaller car that's easier to park though.
 
I like the Honda Jazz very much,:) I have had about eight of them, buy a new one every year or two; passing the old one down to whichever daughter wants it.
 
It's a toss-up between a Vette and a Cadillac. The Vette for speed, handling and sex appeal, and the Caddy for comfort and safety. If I were still driving I'd have one of each. :eek:
 
Oh, Jeesh, I don't know. Being a gear-head and working on cars all my life, I would have to say any American made car built in the 50's, 60's or 70's. My wife owns a Lexus and I own a GMC Envoy SLT and an '01 Corvette. Unlike AprilT, I love speed. Back in the 60's, I dragged race, not professionally, just a car that a couple friends and myself worked on and took turns driving. I liked the muscle cars of the late 60's and 70's. This weekend is the Model A and T show in Hershey, PA and that is always a fun thing to do, not just to see the cars that started it all, but to speak with the really old-timers that still drive them cross country. Last year they even had a steam car.

A picture of my Corvette.

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I have learned not to debate which car is better, an American or Foreign made car. It's like arguing politics and religion, I'm not going to win. Cars to me are like flying, a real passion. I go to every Carlisle Car Show and a lot of other car shows throughout the year. http://www.carsatcarlisle.com/carlisle-events/default.aspx
 
pchrise said:
Of Any year, I thought I liked a mercury or Mercedes . . Do not like the ones that track every thing, For now I'm done, with an SUV 2011 very much a mother So how many cars have you driven , if you forgot here is a

list https://www.google.com/search?q=All+car+models+list&client=firefox-a&hs=T16&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:eek:fficial&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Tnk4VKrvBMztoASzlYHACg&ved=0CCsQsAQ&biw=1
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I wanted to reply to your post by saying I love Mercurys. My Dad was a Mercury person. He was also a Chevy person. I told him one time that he couldn't be both because one was made by Ford and one was made by GM. I told him that most everybody is either a Ford or a GM person, but not both. He said, "Well, I guess that I'm not like most everybody else." When I was a young boy of 12, I visited my Grandma and Grandpa in a little bitty town in southern Ohio called Byesville. Next door to them was a junkyard owned by my Uncle's friend's family. My uncle and his friend wanted a boat to go frog gigging in a creek in back of their homes some half mile down the road. His dad took the hoods off of two '48 Mercurys and welded the ends together to make them a boat. Now, really, how cool is that?

Man, wouldn't you like to own one like this?
 
I have a picture of a dear old friend who is 80 now beside his Merc almost like that.
my personal favorite was back in late 50s, we had a MG TF, red, I loved driving that on the
Merritt parkway in CT, on beautiful autumn days, top down, in my red leather jacket.
 
I had a friend that had an MG Midget and and Austin Healey Sprite. Both convertibles. We would ride around and the girls would be checking us out. Just a lot of fun. Thanks for bringing back those memories.
 
imagesFWO5OG6A.jpgI owned a black 1970 Cadillac Eldorado with a 502" engine. With front wheel drive , weight up front, and all that power...it could take Harley dressers off the line.

 
I've owned and driven many different cars. Some of the ones I have had: Dodge and Pontiac rag-tops, Pontiac Catalina, Pontiac Le Mans,
Buick Roadmaster, 4 VWs, Chevys. I prefer GM products and have had very little trouble with any of them. I always buy new cars because
I once sold cars (for 6 months) and I know what those bastards can do. I put a Corvette through the drag strip and drove my friend's
Mercedes 300SL with the gull wing doors. Now that I am single I'd love to have a new Corvette. I now have a GMC Envoy and love it.
 
I love my present car, a plum coloured [new last year] Ford Fiesta. Small cars are economical with petrol [gas] and are easy to park. It's a smooth ride too. My favourite car that I have owned [as opposed to merely driven or wanted] was a Montego estate in pale gold, back in the 1980's.
 
I am on my 2nd Fiesta; black, but it is 7 years old now.
my favourite car that I owned was a Ford Puma....and Ford stopped manufacturing it, so I couldn't have another..
 
QuickSilver said:
What could top the 1965 T-Bird!?
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I learned to drive late, like when I was about 26, because I had to due to limited transit options and my very first car, was a T-Bird. Nothing as pretty as the one you have pictured. That's a nice looking ride. :) On the otherhand my old car was a nightmare sunk a lot of money into it before replacing with a brand new car that never gave me a day's problem till I blew it up not having any idea I should have change and put more oil in it. :dunno: I was car dumb for sure.

Oldman as far as the speed thing goes, there was a time, surprisingly, I might have been a little bit of a speed demon and could have been pulled over if the fuzz wanted to, but mostly it was me going with the flow of highway traffic. But, fact of the matter I was once, or twice pulled over just once for speeding, batted my eyelashes and said what needed to be said and was let off with a warning. :D But I really only cared for the speed when I was driving and only for a short time period when I had to drive a major highway to get to work, which was the garden state parkway in NJ. I had to overcome a lot of fears prior to driving that especially my fear of driving over bridges, so once I did, I guess I became, in my own mind a little bit of a bad arse. Didn't last long, once I changed jobs and started back to local driving the fears came back along with the need to drive slower.

Anyway. I would prefer if everywhere I go the speed limit were 30 and under. :playful:
 
AprilT...You brought up an interesting point. I never realized that so many people were nervous about driving over bridges when I am the opposite. I think there is nothing more beautiful than driving over a bridge that goes over a large body of water. We have one in Florida just outside of St. Petersburg called the Sunshine Skyway. It is pretty high, but what a beautiful site. It goes over the section of Tampa Bay that empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The original bridge was run into by a tanker and some cars and I believe a truck went into the water killing some people. Tragic, but true. The new bridge is now higher and allows enough room for any ships coming into the Tampa Harbor to get under.

As for going fast, I guess being a retired pilot has something to do with my need for speed. When you are used to flying at about 425 knots, which is close to 500 m.p.h. you can maybe understand. (That was normally my cruising speed, unless we were late.)

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge:


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BTW, just as another interesting little fact; when the old bridge was demolished from the accident, they made two fishing piers out of it. A north pier and a south pier. Of course, there is a charge to go onto either pier, whether for site seeing or fishing.
 
I have been over that bridge Oldman; it is wonderful; watching the dolphins play in the bay, (I wasn't driving!)

I go over the Dartford bridge quite often; over the Thames; I like that too, and the Forth road bridge, and the bridge over to Anglesey, and..and...
 
I have never been much of a car person, and I like a van or a pickup a whole lot better. They just do so many different things than a car does, I guess, at least the things that I wanted to do.
Probably my most favorite vehicle has been my little Mazda pickup. It was dependable, easy to drive, hauled about anything that I was capable of loading into the back of it, and got great gas mileage besides.
As far as a van, I also dealy loved my VW Westphalia camper van. Thetop raised up so you could walk around inside of it when you were parked, and it had the little beds on top which were perfect for kids, and the nice bed in the back for adults. We drove it all up and down the West Coast, and stopped at some of the seaside attractions as we went. It was also very easy to drive, and got good gas mileage. The main problem that i had with the VW was having to find a special VW mechanic to work on them when they needed something attended to.
 
My first was a 51 Henry J. Real story is that it was previously owned by my spinster first grade school teacher. She bought it new in 51 and drove it 10 years had just over 40K miles. She had taken it out of state one time (trip from UT to CA and back). Picture is the same model and color. It had purple interior including trunk, seats and head liner, purple carpet and floor mats, purple dash, purple steering wheel. To me it looked like a premature Cadillac.

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I was devastated in 1961 when my father came driving it home with a smile on his face and handed me the keys. I had worked the summer for him (hod-carrier) and he owed me $250 back pay so he wanted to surprise me and bought it outright. I didn't drive it for several days because of the embarrassment but finally realized I had to make the most of a bad situation. My friends loved it and yep, the girls would actually ride in it. I sold it for $20 2 years later after using it for a mountain climbling deer hunting party car.
 

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