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1968 red Karmann Ghia, new. Big decision to spend the extra 500 bucks to get the Ghia instead of a Beetle. ($2495 vs. $1995.)
About three years ago, I spotted an older woman (like me) in a yellow Ghia that sure looked a lot like mine. She had bought hers in 1969 and hung onto it all these years. It was in stellar shape. She said she only drove it spring and summer, but she sure had an emotional attachment to it.
OMG, if I could have afforded to keep mine instead of trading it in 6 years later, I'd be SO happy now! It was a wonderful car for me back then. I'd have a tad more trouble getting into it these days, but it would be fun to drive a stick again.
(Does anybody else remember: "The Volkswagen stick shift -- it makes you feel wanted. . .")
1973 Chevy Vega GT "Millionth Vega" edition. Bright orange with white stripes over the hood and hatch. Sleeved block. It suited me as a teenager and was easy to find in parking lots. :-)
'62 Austin Healy. Dragged it home for $100. Pieced it out when it died for several times that amount. Who knew you could sell the taillights or the transmission or the exhaust pipe?
Wish I had a '62 bugeye, or whatever year they stopped making them. Classic, unlike my roller skate with an engine.
People really go for the parts on those things now. My brother had a light blue colored, bug-eye Sprite. I remember he was always under the hood fixing it. It once got stuck on the tiniest little patch of ice, while all the other pavement around was dry. Funny what we remember.
1969 Pontiac GTO "The Judge". Bought new in '68 with an Army reenlistment bonus. I was young, dumb, and completely full of myself.
But God, what a car! Ugliest orange paint job in the history of the automotive industry; black leather interior; with every performance option available at the time, including: 400 cubic inch HO engine with a four barrel carburetor; Hurst four speed transmission; low ratio rear end, etc, et al. Got about 5 or 6 MPG. Gas cost about 35 or 40 cents a gallon back then, so who cared? Nothing street legal could catch that car unless I decided to let them. Had to sell it when I got sent overseas in '72 and couldn't afford the insurance in Germany. No speed limits on the autobahn, you know. It would have been fun though.
Would I want it back now? Heck yeah. But nothing short a lottery win would allow me to afford a fully restored one.
A 56 Ford Fairlane, It was my Dads "Station Car" and was later passed down to me. It also has the distinction of being the first car (and last) that I hot wired and drove without a license when Mom and Dad went out for the night.
Had so many good memory's that I purchased and restored another one 20 years ago and still have it.
Wow! I didn't realize VWs were in the US at that point. Or did you buy it in Germany?
I learned to drive in my dad's '56 VW. Back in the days of no gas gauge but the "reserve tank" switch down by the pedals. His was too new to have the flipper directional signals and the mounted bud vase . . . did you have those features?
My mom drove a big ol' American station wagon. But in the winter when it was snowing and we had to get to church on Sunday, the whole family would pile into the VW and off we'd go. Two adults and five kids age 15-2. What a car!
1968 VW Beetle, the first year with bigger bumpers. Lasted five years when things started going bad. After the wiring caught fire, I got a stick shift Chevy Vega, the worst car I've ever had, and the only American car I ever bought. I would not want either of them again.
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