What car turned you on as a kid?

[BBQ Bandit]

Chalk it up to my Dad... he brought home a 1966 Olds Toronado when I was still learning to ride on two wheels as a youngster. That car was hot in so many levels... 425 CID Rocket, Rochester Quadrajet, and more balls to play with. Neighborhood kids always talked about the Corvettes... and told them to mentally stretch a Stingray 'Vette out like Silly putty... and you'll see a Toronado

Spent over 200,000 miles in the back seat of that car growing up... and countless hours crawling over the undersides replacing the 4 wheel drum brakes (because Mom and Dad loved the HP), front end teardowns with the water and fuel pumps, and it ate CV joints every year because it was the weakest point in the new FWD arrangement.

Had a flashback in 2006 when Jay Leno took on the '66 Toro as a GM pet project in the tv show "RIDES".

Lost my Dad to Alzheimer's... he would have loved the Genesis. (like the 66 Toronado being the first year production car, both cars took the world by surprise in innovation and technology for its time).

 

[tompass]

Great personal story. It was the 1953 Corvette for me!

 

[Stoofpilot]

It was a 58 Vette for me.

 

[homeofstone]

007's Aston Martin

1965 Ford Mustang 289 V8

1963 Lincoln Continental Convt

1964 Pontiac GTO

 

[Ruissimo]

Lived in Brazil from '75 until '82 - so this was the car I loved at the time:

While living in Portugal, my father had a Fiat Uno POS (not a real model number, but it should have been) - at the time, everyone drove a Renault 5 (which most of you here on this side of the Atlantic know as "Le Car"):

Anywho... while everyone was driving those things, my father drove home one of these beauties:

That's right - the Super 5! We were the envy of the neighborhood for a few months

Been thinking a lot about that SP2 lately... sure would be awesome to have one in my garage.......

 

[tonygxp]

my brothers and i went to the local chevy dealer in sept 84'. i was 11 years old and starting to appreciate automobiles for what they really were, not matchbox cars but huge metal machines that in some cases attracted more attention than the hottest chick in a short skirt lol. I didn't know anything about a Monte Carlo SS but i found out that night. we test drove the only one they had, it was parked in the back and for some reason under a cover? An '85 White SS with maroon interior, bench seat, no cassette, power windows but no power locks. all 6 of us in the car and my father was beating the piss out of that car up and down the local hwy. We picked it up the next afternoon and i was hooked on cars from that moment forward. subscribed to three car magazines and bought probably three or four more a month. at 11 years old i knew more about the new cars coming out than both my older brothers, my father, his friends, and everyone i knew lol..

 

[Kevinc5a]

Truimph TR3

 

[JMintzer]

'56 T-Bird (I was restoring one while in college in the late 70's, bu I sold it when I started Med School)...

Mid '60s GTOs.

Late '60s Camaro & Chevelle SSs

Late '50s & early '60s Corvettes...


Jamie

 

[Matt Z]

Always loved the Porsche 928S in Risky Business and eventually owned and drove one every day for 10+ years

 

[MichaelOne]

1964 GTO - "wind 'er up to sixty now in four point six" - Jan & Dean, "My Mighty GTO"

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[RLREILLY81]

I'm going to show my age here but I have always loved and still want a 1998 Toyota Supra Twin Turbo. I remember reading a tuner mag that had one in it with 900hp and was an automatic. Let me express how much I would want it to look like a sleeper not some crazy bodykit thing. The body styling on that car just struck me as sexy and sleek.

That or my fathers Forest Green 1968 Camaro RS.

 

[Slider]

Well, being 38 years old, I gravitated to a few:

The Trans Am from Smokey and the Bandit, LOL...

James Bond's Aston Martin...

And of course a DeLorean.

Surprisingly though, I wasn't a car nut as a kid. Had an absolute boatload of Hot Wheels (which I saved and my boys played with!) but wasn't really into cars much until college.

 

[jpc647]

I had a 1988 Ford Thunderbird before my current Genesis Coupe, and for a short time had a 1987 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe while I swapped motors in the 1988.

My Turbo Coupe:

My Dream Thunderbird(diffferent color)

Always loved the 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W-30. I have a 1972, but it's not the same. My 72:

When I was 16, the 2006 Monte Carlo SS was released, I always loved the blue color scheme. But at 16 with only about $6,000 saved up from the grocery story I worked at, I couldn't afford a 30k car. Before I bought my GC, I looked at a 2006 Black SS, but the guy wouldn't budge from 15,800. Car only have 17,xxx miles on it. He ended up selling it for like 14,xxx a couple months after.

 

[Advocate225]

I went crazy for the 1959 Cadillac. No other car was so iconic.

 

[sladaams]

Always loved the Porsche 928S in Risky Business and eventually owned and drove one every day for 10+ years

Same here, didn't even know what Risky Business was at the time, but the 928 was definitely on the top of my list. Every car mag that reviewed a new/different model was treated like Superman 1 Even had posters (next to the blacklight and Farrah posters of course!

 

[Gambler]

1967 Mustang Shelby GT 500

 

[stars9texashockey]

DeTomaso Pantera.

 

[robthoke]

My Dad's 1958 Mercedes Benz 220S, 66 GTO Tri-power and a 1963 Olds Starfire - talk about luxury and power.

 

[waveman]

Supercar, from the TV series of the same name. There are times when I'm stuck in traffic when I wish my Genesis could do what this car did. Maybe in the '13 model year...

Later, I was partial to the turbine-powered car driven by Commander Straker in the ~1970 TV series, UFO.

 

[TheTherapist]

Nissan 240sx S15

I wish it was legal in America