Clay_T
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Clay_T

Why you gotta put a Lexus driver on blast?

Long time recreational scuba diving, here.

even that’s a better Coda than this car.

Our family car growing up was a 1930 Ford Model A pickup that Dad bought and restored before any of us were born. At the time, Dad took the bus to work and Mom piled us three kids in the A to run errands. (Yes, the 70s were a different time for kid safety in cars). Later, Mom and Dad were able to afford a used AMC

XK120 works car in 1960

I thought our BMW 2000 was a cool car and along with a Road & Track subscription was my entry into car enthusiasm. Unfortunately I wasn’t along when Dad teat drove a Citroën SM. Oher than that, I got a ride in a Corvair Monza one time, and in 1977 a Honda Accord was new and hot. Later in life a college roommate had a

I once got to ride in a LARC-V amphibious vehicle as a kid. That was pretty cool.

Countach. There was a repair shop just around the corner from my house. We knew the owner, he’d fix our bicycle tires for free a lot of times. Somehow he’d have crazy exotics, and when he did, my sister and I would go visit to have a look. And he’d give us a ride around the block. We were like 8 and 6 years old. Got

I friend of mine had the mid ‘70's 2 door LTD. He also has dwarfism. Absolutely insane to see this little person (is that the PC version?) to get out of this car.

Well...there was the late-1920s Bentley—maybe a Red Label Tourer?—that my father stored and occasionally exercised for his cousin (40 years later, he’s still bitter that said cousin didn’t give him first refusal when he sold it). There was the Rolls-Royce two-seater of similar vintage that a friend of my grandmother’s

My dad had a purple Iroc Camaro when I was a little kid that I don’t remember too much. I was always into cars but never really had the opportunity to ride in some cool stuff until later on in life. So hopefully this Kid at heart experience still counts. 23 years old I believe at the time, we had a lovely cars and

Would have been around 1977. My dad took me to a local stock car track (Westgate Speedway, now Peterborough Speedway) and through some business connections, he knew the track manager and by default some guy who raced a stock car there regularly. We went to say hi to the guys in the pit after the races and the driver

One of our neighbors in the very middle-working class subdivision we lived in during the 80's had a Ferrari 308 that he’d take me for rides in when I was about 8 years old. My older sister and his daughter were best friends so we knew them pretty well but could never figure out how he could afford such a nice car by

Cool car’s I road in as a kid...

Absolutely !!!! I have a Ducati 996, and made sure to get one with a passenger seat just so I could offer a ride to anyone who showed interest. Riding it back to Germany from Rimini, I came across an old woman walking at the side of the mountain road, which had no shoulder. I offered her a ride and she hopped on the

Ferrari 275 GTS a lot, Ferrari Boxer once around town, rode in a BMW Nazca C2 across a golf course, and sat in an XJR-15. First decent cars I got to drive were an NSX and the first Elise that was in the US.

I hope the key takeaway here is if you have a cool car make sure to share it with others, especially kids....

Coolest car? It’s a tie between a Jensen Interceptor and a Bricklin SV1.

My stepfather, one of the blandest, most uncool guys I’ve ever met, had an absolutely rad 70-something C3 Corvette with t-tops and big, chrome sidepipes. It smelled like mouse nests and I loved it. He dropped me off to elementary school with it a few times and I felt awesome melting my shoes getting out of that thing.

My uncle drove a big rig, don’t ask me what sort, this was the late sixties//early seventies, so probably from the late fifties/early sixties as the company he worked for was real cheap so unlikely to be even slightly new, and I was very young, but I remember it was the coolest thing ever. Especially the roar it made