of all the cars you've owned, which one would you like back in your "spare" garage right now?
Not for money or profit, but just the one that made you feel the best and was the most fun to drive.
A runner up for me was a Peugeot 403 sedan, cream colored, four speed on column (how cool was that?), sunroof, long before the American cars,
and the piece de resistance, a fully reclinable front seat arrangement where both seats made a bed.
Now that was discovered one night in high school to my utter delight.
Alas, the girl was wild but I was not...smart enough to know without "protection" this was super dangerous.
Sure fogged up the windows though.
ah the memories we made when we were young in cars.
For a pretty long time I owned a Lesabre Limited, being in insurance I was a Buick guy, very stereotyped..., which was medium dark metallic green, with a green velour interior that was not horrible or tacky, but really nice and low key, soft to sit in, just a big living room couch.
Of course one drove sedately on a couch, but that was the whole idea. 4 guys were on a list for that one (small town, not many car dealerships nearby), traded it in on, and almost hard to admit this now, but hey, we were all young...a Grand Prix with a huge nose, a hood ten feet long, scarlet glittery red with eye opening velour bucket seat interior. Now that would make me cringe today...
But I sure would like to take Toppop for a ride in it, we'd have a good laugh.
Pressing those big chrome metal buttons on the radio.
I think the Buick was the first year they put a digital speedometer in the center of the dash.
I bet those digital speedometers have saved a lot of speeding tickets since.
You look at those old speedometers and it takes a full second or two to focus on "where is it?" meanwhile you aren't watching the road which
clearly is more important.
Our cars really are safer now.
Just wish you could get a cloth interior in the nicer models.
but maybe not velours...
Toyota's most expensive car, which we can't get here in the US, has wool cloth seats. Now we're talking...
Not very kid or dog proof I bet.
