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

[Outlaw525]

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.

 

[Dave6T4]

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.

 

[khryslerkid]

1956 Continental

 

[kiwigtx]

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.

 

[Detective D]

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:

So yeah, sports cars and bad *** trucks caught my eye.
Stuff that was on the car lots:

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.

 

[Unkle Krusty]

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.

 

[dadsbee]

Ankle straps.. now we're getting somewhere !!!