What Was Your Father's Old Car?

[Ken H.]

My dads was an XL, black w/red interior, 390

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[erocker]

He's had a bunch but more memorable were a 1970 Torino Cobra and a 1973 Mach 1.

 

[Ewags81]

mine on the left. his/mine on the right. still remember painting his baby blue door trim panels duplicolor black when i was 9. truck has a big block i built for one of my trucks when i was 16/17? ironically i painted the engine yellow when i built it. never installed so i told him to throw some miles on it. he went to chevy orange on the engine... then later painted the truck yellow. the truck was named long before the dark horse came about. meant to be???

 

[Starship Enterprise]

‘69 Buick Lesabre

 

[LouG]

I remember when I was 3 or 4 my Dad had a Morris Minor, we did 12 hour plus trips in that POS. And it often needed defibrillation to start.
When he died in 2012 he had a 1985 Toyota Corolla slowback. I don't think he drove in the last 5 or 6 years though. My brother still has that car, it's being slowly disassembled by rust.

 

[Westphal]

My dad and I flew out to Iowa when I was 11 to purchase a '55 Chevy Bel Air hardtop and drive it home. It needed some mechanical work, which he had our local mechanic due as dad didn't work on cars. It was his daily driver for a while. I spent a bunch of money having the floor pans and other metal replaced, then my parents gave it to me as a college graduation present. I took my wife to her senior prom in it, and it was my daily driver for several years until it needed a bunch of body work again. I sold it after I got married as I didn't have the money to fix it up.

 

[Frogdog1]

My Dad and I used to help Billy Hagan build engines and race cars when he was early on in his racing career. My dad worked with Hagan in the oil field service business and got to know him that way. Hagan went on to be the car owner of Terry LaBonte's first Cup championship.

My dad went on to do anything he wanted. I'm now doing the same. Chip off the old block.

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