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