family car talk not going away

[Brisketexan 105161]

4 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Hey, you ever try finding parts for an amc eagle?

Dude...you can turn the Eagle into an off-road BEAST.

And when I was about 10, I tried to convince my parents to buy one, because it's like a practical station wagon, but IT'S AN OFF ROAD BEAST!  My lobbying was unsuccessful.

[Pato del Muerto 52531]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Dude...you can turn the Eagle into an off-road BEAST.

And when I was about 10, I tried to convince my parents to buy one, because it's like a practical station wagon, but IT'S AN OFF ROAD BEAST!  My lobbying was unsuccessful.

Guy in my neighborhood has one as his daily driver. It’s like the perfect Wyoming grocery getter. 

[Mileslong 4728]

 

hunt for

ogres and dwarves

lion-slicer

run...with...death

We had a guy at my high school who has a similar car. It was a Plymouth Valiant that had push buttons for the transmission. It had no trunk, hood or glove compartment door. two of the doors were different colors and the drivers window was always down so I don’t know if it had one or not. We called it “concealed weapon” lulz. /csb

 

 

[markstanco 12585]

I never tried to talk my parents in to buying an eagle because they are ugly AF

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

1 hour ago, markstanco said:

I never tried to talk my parents in to buying an eagle because they are ugly AF

You really ought to be more respectful. They're your parents, after all.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

We somehow ended up with this.  Yes it was yellow and I had to ride in the rear-facing seat.

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

Needs one of these for the roof:

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

6 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

Needs one of these for the roof:

To be far it was a "Catholic Taxi".   5 kids.

[Hate 20122]

Catholic taxi? Well then of course there were seats in the rear.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

That's the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, isn't it?

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

Just to further cement my spot in the Hall of Shame, we also had a Gremlin.

[DigglerontheHoof 21205]

We had a Pinto.  (sorry to bigtime you on shitty childhood autos)

[Wally Fairway 5569]

1 hour ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

We somehow ended up with this.  Yes it was yellow and I had to ride in the rear-facing seat.

had to?
HAD to?

My cousins had a station wagon & everybody wanted to ride in the rear facing seat. Better view, and further away from Uncle Stas, so he couldn't hit you when you were acting up.

You were riding in luxury and you didn't even know it, who cares about safety and things like that {smdh}

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

9 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

had to?
HAD to?

My cousins had a station wagon & everybody wanted to ride in the rear facing seat. Better view, and further away from Uncle Stas, so he couldn't hit you when you were acting up.

You were riding in luxury and you didn't even know it, who cares about safety and things like that {smdh}

Well yeah, it probably was the best seat except for the gassy dachsund that rode back there with us, and the fact that my dad smoked without rolling down the windows.  But we did get to give cars the finger without pops seeing us.

[Buffsoldier 1895]

The 1976 Plymouth Volare' station wagon.  With the Slant 6 engine.  0 to 60 timed with a sundial.  More of a burgundy color than this one.  With the matching color pleather/vinyl seat.  Still have scars on the back of my legs from burns resulting from hopping in the back seat of this beast during the middle of the goddamn summer.

[ernest_t_bass 1196]

These cars no LOL

[Upgrayedd 5815]

3 hours ago, Buffsoldier said:

The 1976 Plymouth Volare' station wagon.  With the Slant 6 engine.  0 to 60 timed with a sundial.  More of a burgundy color than this one.  With the matching color pleather/vinyl seat.  Still have scars on the back of my legs from burns resulting from hopping in the back seat of this beast during the middle of the goddamn summer.

 

[SizzleChest 8284]

 

[CooterBrown 18015]

We somehow ended up with this.  Yes it was yellow and I had to ride in the rear-facing seat.

That’s either a short driveway or the longest production car in history to stretch from the garage door to blocking the sidewalk.

[Buzzrock 14926]

This was our biggest family POS. The horrible Chevy Chevette:

 

 

62 HP at the crank.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

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62 HP at the crank.

Yeah, but you're driving a 'vette!!

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

1 hour ago, Buzzrock said:

This was our biggest family POS. The horrible Chevy Chevette:

 

 

62 HP at the crank.

My mother had one of those. Accelerating onto the interstate was taking your life in your hands.

[Llano Estacado 1257]

That's the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, isn't it?

You think you hate it now, wait till you drive it.

(No CB or optional rally fun pack)

[Hate 20122]

62 HP at the crank.

Yeah, but you're driving a 'vette!!


I had a hand me down one for a year or two and told my friends I was driving a vette.

[Kyrie Eleison 9312]

19 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

We had a Pinto.  (sorry to bigtime you on shitty childhood autos)

my old man bought the wood paneled Bobcat complete with 8 foot whip antenna for his CB...

Edited February 7, 2019 by Kyrie Eleison

[miguelito 11266]

[Underdog 28742]

3 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

This was our biggest family POS. The horrible Chevy Chevette:

 

 

62 HP at the crank.

Wife’s first car.  We called it shitty chevette.  She loved it though. 

[Underdog 28742]

1 hour ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

my old man bought the wood paneled Bobcat complete with 8 foot whip antenna for his CB...

Learned to drive with our family Bobcat. 

[El Diablo 4232]

We had a Belvedere (? think that's what it was). Had the pushbuttons on the dash for the transmission and seems like a couple of levers there too, don't really remember. Drove it to high school until I could buy my own car. I upgraded myself to a '72 Maverick.

 

[LonghornJones 837]

2 hours ago, miguelito said:

The Germans sure don't make cars like they used to!

[Incredulity 11678]

 

 

Bright Yellow Sportvan.

Used to have WWF matches in the back, with the last row of seats removed, while dad drove down the freeway.

[Dennis Taylor 18840]

Corinthian leather, bitches! Dad brought a used one of these home and 9 year old me proceeded to fuck up the reclining passenger seat within the first five minutes. that did not go well

 

 

 

[Incredulity 11678]

"The Small Chrysler"

 

LOL.

[baboso 6056]

My Dad's truck that he bought new in '63.  I rode thousands of miles in the bed of that truck.

Mom's cruising vessel, except in white.

 

 

[llanoflash 151]

my mom was proud of this baby. had leather(vinyl), bad ass stereo (8 track) and was automatic!

[Brisketexan 105161]

My first ride -- except it wasn't the Grand, it was the regular, no-frills:

1979 Mercury Marquis.  Except mine was in full fucking aggy maroon.  Vinyl bench seats, front and back.  Dad helped me install a Panasonic AM/FM radio with tape deck (because dad only went for the AM radio option when he bought it - then he handed it down to me).  Could take 11 people to the beach (5 in front, 6 in back), and a jillion cases of beer in the trunk.  Name was The Mean Machine.  The fact that I had plenty of dates in high school, driving that POS, tells you that motherfucker, I had GAME.

Edited February 7, 2019 by Brisketexan

[Buzzrock 14926]

10 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

My mother had one of those. Accelerating onto the interstate was taking your life in your hands.

My dad used to say that you had to disengage the blade before you pulled out onto the road.

[Buzzrock 14926]

This is my favorite thread derail ever. So many memories.

Dad had one of these motherfuckers. As a kid, if it was parked on any sort of side incline that meant you had to compete with gravity to get the door open well...you were not getting out of the car. I used to sit on the hood with my friend and shoot doves.

[AUS-97HORN 11809]

we ended up getting this monster in 1983.  I loved the rear facing seats, i would fight with my 2 younger brothers to be able to sit back there and wave at all the other cars driving towards us

parents started calling it the battlestar gallactica after a while.

 

damn thing kinda fell apart after 5 years and my parents traded it in for a caravan.

 

[NYTransplant 145]

My mom had a Chrysler Reliant wagon (in green), and followed that up with a Chrysler New Yorker (in gold). I can't imagine that there are that many people in the world that owned one Chrysler K car, and thought, "This is great, I think I'll buy another!"

[Beau Vine 54292]

My dad bought a Mercedes.  (It was only a 240 Diesel.)  Friends gave him crap about buying a Mercedes, but he said it was going to last 200K+ miles.  He was driving 150+ miles a day for his job and he ended up making the loan payments using nothing but mileage reimbursements.  He finally got rid of it when it had 400K miles.  My dad was smart as hell about spending large amounts of money.  

[Buzzrock 14926]

My first car in 1998 was a 1969 Mercedes 220D. My folks paid $2,000 for it. No a/c, zero to sixty in about an hour and a half, great first kid car. Glow plug. Vapor locked if you ran it out of diesel (did that twice). Hard to get into too much trouble (though I did, bottomed it out on thrill hill an peeled the plug out of the oil pan, almost locked up the motor). I put in a sweet Kenwood stereo with a portable CD player holder that skipped like hell.

[Whatever 700]

1989 Buick Park Avenue.  I was 6 or 7 when my Mom got this.  The ultimate '80s mom-mobile.  She freaking loved that thing, and even got another one a few years later.  We sold the 2nd one to my cousin in the late '90s and he shit a shit ton of coke & other drugs in that thing. 

 

imgur

[BlueGreySky 1020]

1988-1992 this motherfucker is what we drove around in.  Probably my favorite suburban my dad ever owned.  Only model of vehicle he drove my entire life.

 

[midtown 3346]

15 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

we ended up getting this monster in 1983.  I loved the rear facing seats, i would fight with my 2 younger brothers to be able to sit back there and wave at all the other cars driving towards us

parents started calling it the battlestar gallactica after a while.

 

damn thing kinda fell apart after 5 years and my parents traded it in for a caravan.

 

We had the exact same one...took that sucker all over the US.  

 

Before this one we had the same model but 10 year earlier model.  Green with the brown paneling.  

Edited February 8, 2019 by midtown

[TwiceHorn 31510]

15 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

This is my favorite thread derail ever. So many memories.

Dad had one of these motherfuckers. As a kid, if it was parked on any sort of side incline that meant you had to compete with gravity to get the door open well...you were not getting out of the car. I used to sit on the hood with my friend and shoot doves.

Did it have the drivers seat that rotated 90 degrees left to assist ingress and egress?

[Underdog 28742]

First vehicle I bought was a Chevy Van similar to this one but in a different color, had all kinds of plans to customize it and got as far ar carpeting the interior, installing a Capt. chair and foldable sofa in back before selling it.  Have always been a fan of custom/tricked out vans going back to the 70s. 

Bought a Ford conversion later on for our family trips in late 90s, loved that thing and wished we still had it, gas guzzler and all. 

Edited February 8, 2019 by Underdog

[Zepol87 9188]

18 minutes ago, BlueGreySky said:

1988-1992 this motherfucker is what we drove around in.  Probably my favorite suburban my dad ever owned.  Only model of vehicle he drove my entire life.

 

I still remember these bad boys. Rode from Dallas to Monterrey in one. AC went out around San Antonio and it was hell 

[CHIEF 5094]

I remember when we bought this off the showroom floor in 1977, same color exterior and interior, same rims, etc...

CHIEF

Edited February 8, 2019 by CHIEF

[Pato del Muerto 52531]

1 hour ago, BlueGreySky said:

1988-1992 this motherfucker is what we drove around in.  Probably my favorite suburban my dad ever owned.  Only model of vehicle he drove my entire life.

 

Grandparents had a Good Times conversion package of this era suburban. 

Same time, my other grandparents had this 

with a ridiculous plush interior.  My usual riding spot was laying above the back seat.

the dash was a wall of wood or fake wood, and the trunk open button was inside the glove box where the driver couldn’t reach.

so I too know the feeling of not being able to open a door against gravity.

 

Edited February 8, 2019 by Pato del Muerto