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

SteveSS said:
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.
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69 Dodge Corenet...440, Hemi 4sp,355 Dana sure grip 93//4. I was young then...I should be dead!
 
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.
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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:
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Always drooled over the 67- 68 Cougar body lines, hidden headlights grill and sequence tail lights, I’ve got a 68 XR7 now.

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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
 
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.

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My 36 Chevy Standard. I drove that car everywhere and loved all the looks I got in 1969 in it. I had a 66 Impala which I loved as a cruiser. I really fell in love with my 71 Challenger as a great overall car. I made 2 cross country trips in it. Here's a 1972 photo with all three cars in it. The 36 is under the tarp in the background on right side of photo.

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Who's Duster?
 
The Duster was my parents (mom's car really)1970 Duster, 318 with 3 speed manual trans. Nice black interior bench seat car and quite quick with the 318. I loved driving that car. It was the first Mopar I drove after owning my Chevrolets. This is the only photo I have of the Duster so not much detail - sorry.
Terry W.

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6PKRTSE said:
Pretty much same for me. My parents have always said when I was a kid I would save my allowance and buy Charger die casts, models and hot wheels cars before I was even really old enough to know what a Charger was or how to tell them from any other car, but I could already. Then seeing the movie Bullitt as a kid and then when the D.O.H. came out. That sealed the deal. I always said as a kid, I was going to own a Charger someday. I bought my first 70 Charger R/T at 15 years old before I had my license and have never been without at least one 68-70 Charger under my ownership since.
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Kind like me my dad brought me home from hospital in his b7 1969 Charger.
He got totaled in 74 and I always said I am going to have a charger again someday. 2005 I found two a 68 for my dad in b5 and a 69 in lemon twist.
It's been 20 years now and we will always be a Charger family unless my boys are starving they will never sell even after I am gone so they promise. The helped me and my dad restore .
 
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