OT: cars you miss

[donevwil]

Never forgot my first and wish I'd kept it.

Sold my mint '69 Plymouth Barracuda Fastback in '93 (looked like this, but with stock wheels) to raise the funds for a '68 Formula S resto. The "resto" is still taking place as the '68 languishes in my garage.

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[zmudshark]

Not mine, but just like mine(I have no pictures of mine)

[fiataccompli]

Originally Posted by MarkC

Mid-80s Fiat SuperBrava was a hoot. Family friends loaned it to me for the summer to go back and forth to work. Since it was on the business and I worked for them it was a freebie.

I briefly co-owned this awesome Fiat 131/Brava wagon. Fit with a 5 speed, big carb, header/custom exhaust and a few other upgrades, it was a blast! Bought it as a running car for $175 or something, transferred a perfect interior from a perfect parts car & painted it in a back yard under a canopy....came out quite nice. It was not rusty. After a few months, it was sold to another Fiat enthusiast in the northeast and sadly endured a massive front end collision.


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[maximus]

95 m3. Sold it when we found out my son was on the way. I kept the e30 but often wonder if I made the right choice. The perfect driver's car. I think my wife misses it more than me.

[ojingoh]

This. I have an E30 now, just not the M3. It's a bit slower than modern sports sedans, but the entire package was ... sublime.

[velomonkey]

My car now - '02 530 along with my bikes (the merckx is gone and replaced with a C59 and the firefly is still around).

My wife dented the bumper. I thought about getting rid of her, but didn't do it. That's not my house, that's the house we rented for Worlds.

[veggieburger]

I miss my ole Mazda 323. Fearless in the snow, excellent on gas, and with seats down, I could stack two bikes in the back.

[OtayBW]

1976 Karmen Ghia convertible (yellow) with wooden dash. CHICK MAGNET!!! (but unfortunately too small to do anything about that.....)

[paredown]

Originally Posted by pjm

Still my fave. I'd love to have it back.

That was going to be my second choice--my 1984 GLi--same car but with a trunk.

[Ozz]

Not mine...but identical down to the peeling silver paint...finicky manual, lots of fun off road....bitchin' stereo ;-)

[cdn_bacon]

but my '69 Beetle brought me a ton of memories. from getting my leg caught in the seatbelts that didn't retract, the wiper arm that fell off mid rainstorm (which I managed to catch and wipe my window manually) to the dying horn when the Blue Jays won the World Series. Heater channels you could fix with aluminum siding.... the list goes on.

[SBash]

1985 Audi 4000s Quattro...5 speed manual with the 5 cylinder engine. Still one of the best handling cars out there. So fun to drive!

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[mgm777]

My 1LT car, after college...

[audiisaac]

Originally Posted by SBash

1985 Audi 4000s Quattro...5 speed manual with the 5 cylinder engine. Still one of the best handling cars out there. So fun to drive!

This is one of my all time favorite cars. I had 5 of them over a 4 year time span. Most I had at one time was 3 plus a full storage shed of about two cars worth of parts. One of them was a 10v turbo conversion. Nothing sounds as cool as a 5 cylinder Audi. That was one of the benefits of working at an independent Audi shop.