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

I was 8 years old in 1971, walking with my Grandma on main street to the sewing store. There, parked at the curb was a new In Violet with white strobe stripe '71 Road Runner like the one below. I will always remember that little Road Runner head in the grill. I told my Grandma that I would own one someday. Needless to say, she was not excited about that and told me so. Since 1979, I have owned 29 Road Runners in various conditions. I will always own #27, a hemi orange '71 Road Runner.

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A friend of the family had a 1956 Desoto 4-door hardtop, in blue and white. I think that was the first car that I thought was special. I would have been 9 years old.
 
1969 Dodge Charger. A couple of years before "The Dukes of Hazzard" appeared on our TV screens, I was at High School and found a book with a racing Charger ...black & white photo - in a school library book. That page got torn out and I have it in a photo album to this day.

A couple of years earlier at Intermediate School (pre–High School) my friend and I were drooling over another book with all sorts of customs bugs and cars etc...and a Little Red Wagon Dodge A100.

Aged 19, I managed to buy a '69 Charger locally, and enjoyed it for about 4 years before selling it on. Then in 2009 I was scouring Auto Trader adverts online with another friend looking at all sorts of Dodge vans and Campers..... and ended up my A100. So dream do come true if you work at them.

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Hard to say! But I think it would have been the 72 Olds Delta 88 with the 455 my Ma had when I was a tike. Never frove it, obviously. But the stuff that came after was a 1980 Ford LTD, a 1983 Chevy Caprice wagon(that was actually a very, VERY nice car for the era) and then an assortment of 80's/90s front wheel drive stuff.

I grew up farming, and got to drive a tractor at age 8. So that set things up differently for me. The 1963 Ford 9 foot box one ton farm truck has a special place because it was the first vehicle I got to drive at age 10(not on the road) followed by the replacement 1979 Ford F250, which I did get to drive on the road.
I was a kid in the 80's. Stuff that was on TV:

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So yeah, sports cars and bad *** trucks caught my eye.
Stuff that was on the car lots:
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Look, I know every era had it's family trucksters, but in the 80s with the front wheel drive revolution and the TRUE malaise/smog era(that is right, 1970's has NOTHING on 1980-1984 when it comes to HP losses) there sure was a lot of forgettable junk on the road. Probably why I started liking the old stuff already in Junior High, the 1979 F250 I had access to would stomp my buddies shiny new front wheel drive blah mobiles they got to drive(parents cars) handily. It was absolutely clear that stuff from 1979 and before had more guts and less BS built in then anything from 1980 and up. It wasn;t until i was graduating HS that things had turned around and some actual power was on the street.

In modern times I moved that line up to the late 90's. Chrysler Magnum V8 and the last 5.0 Fords are cheap, simple, and a blast to drive. It might be "newer" but it is still decades old tech and I still prefer it.
 
Vot kind of love are we talkin?
The first time I got seriously laid, was in the back seat of a 36 Vauxhall. I later graduated to a 33 Ford, which had even more room, plus ankle straps. Modern vehicles do not seem to have any room at all, unless of course it is a camper van.
 
My Dad sold real-estate and every once and awhile he'd ask me to go along when he was listing a property. I was 15 or 16yrs old at the time.

We went to this one place, walked around the property with the owner and there were several out buildings. One old shed had a car covered up inside. He asked Dad if he knew anyone interested in an old car. As he pulled the tarp off the front of it my heart started racing. I've never seen anything like it and I knew I had to have it. I spoke up and Dad said, "You don't want that old car".

I didn't really know what it was until years later when I saw another one. I'll never forget the hide away headlights in the front fenders or the chrome flex pipes coming out each side of the hood. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen and I probably could have picked it up for a song. The owner didn't seem to know much about it, he just wanted it gone.

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When I was 11 years old, a shirt tail relative of mine bought a new turquoise and white 57 Plymouth 2 door hardtop. She was drop dead gorgeous and so was her Plymouth. She gave me a ride to school a couple times in it. It had a factory record player. I though it was the nicest car on the planet. I remember making sure all my classmates knew I got to ride in her car.
 
Was 7 in 58 and the Edsel came out.....went ape over it and the local dealer was giving away friction motor cars and I had to have one. Dad hated Ford products and didn't want to take me to 'get that promo' car but he relented and I got that car.
 
I had an uncle (Mom's brother) who would just stop in for a visit. He had a '59 Cadillac convertible that he would let me drive. Well I was only around 10 yrs old but I would stand on the seat in front of him and turn the steering wheel.
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Fell in love with big fins back then.
 
I was always interested in cars, I could see the good in most of them. But I can’t remember which was first as far as completely falling in love. I think the first crush was a MGTC. Sure, they were a mediocre car but man are they beautiful. But at around the same time there were Jaguar XKE coupes. I remember being smitten by the only ‘69 Pontiac Trans Am that I saw on the street, a Cosworth Vega, and a AMC The Machine.
 
I don’t remember how it started, the mania was always there, but I do remember when I settled on the car I fell in love with. I got a sticker book and it had a C3 Vette and something about it blew my young mind.
Decades later I get a C3 Vette and I wish my mom didn’t buy me that sticker book, that car has been a pain in the butt to work on due to the size and some engineering choices.
 
Later I couldnt decide between 67 GTX, 69 GTX, 70 Challenger R/T, 71 Challenger R/T, 70 HemiCuda, 71 Charger R/T, 71 Road Runner, 340 Formula S. Soooooo.
 
My Sr in high school car. A $200 GTO. 389 4-Speed. I put in a clutch. A rear-end. Upgraded intake and carb. And that car awoke. I terrorized the rich kids late 70s Trans Ams and Cameros. I beat that car into the ground.

I've never owned another. But I do catch myself entertaining the idea. My next cars were first a '68 Sport Fury then a '69 GTX that I treated better. And thou the Plymouths were a better build quality than the GTO, thus never looked back. I wouldn't hesitate on a '66 GTO if the opportunity arose.
 
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