What was the first car you remember falling in love with?

[old guys rule]

I know the exact moment I became a car guy. '62 Thunderbird. I was 6 years old. I was playing in a sandbox, and the neighbor had a toy model of this car. Before that toy cars were just lumps of pot metal or wind up toys with details printed on them. I had a toy Ford with the wind-up retractable top but I didn't love it.

69 Dodge Corenet...440, Hemi 4sp,355 Dana sure grip 93//4. I was young then...I should be dead!

 

[Dipstick]

'53 Studebaker. Would still love to own one.

 

[Photon440]

For me it was the 1963 Riviera. With those sharp lines and crisp creases, when it came out it made all the other cars on the road (mostly still from the 1950s) looked hopelessly rounded and dated.

Then a couple of years later, my grandfather got a 1965 Parisienne which I also liked, for the same reasons. It looked exactly like this:

 

[sam dupont]

1867 R/T

 

[chargervert]

1867 R/T

That's the oldest R/T ever built!

 

[jmk77379]

Always drooled over the 67- 68 Cougar body lines, hidden headlights grill and sequence tail lights, I’ve got a 68 XR7 now.

 

[chargervert]

I always thought the Cougar was a much better car than the Mustang.

 

[Basket case]

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Got mine in High School. Biggest POS I ever owned. But in all fairness to the car....if I hadn't met a big boobed blonde the car woulda got the attention it deserved.

 

[bob32268]

The 1957 Ford Fairlane 500, it was the first year for "tail-fins" and I was in 7th grade (age 11) and that's when I became a dedicated "Motorhead"....
Tks,
Bob32268

 

[Nutso]

When I was a little little kid (3 or
4 years old) my folks took me to see the funny cars and we got to check them out up close. She racing steering wheels and the bodies flipped up with the pipes sticking up hooked me. I loved Jungle Jim…later I fell in love with 63-64 impalas and Plymouth Dusters.

 

[DeltaV]

That's the oldest R/T ever built!

A postbellum model.