My father has a history of amazing cars and that’s the only reason the last one sticks out. I was old enough to remember some of these cars but the list goes..

My Grandfather’s cars when he passed away. Most of them hurt in some way, but one stands out the most: Jaguar E-Type Series III V12 Coupe w/ Manual and 8k miles. He maintained everything immaculately, keeping the cars covered and garaged when not in use, but using them regularly enough.

I’ve had a few but this is the one that sticks with me the most:

January 1987. Big honkin’ snowstorm rolls into the New York area just after morning rush hour. I’m working as a reporter in Union City, NJ. I file my story and book it out of there in my Chevette, heading home to South Orange, normally 40 minutes away.

6 years ago, I was stuck in a dead-stop traffic jam on the expressway for 2 hours with my pregnant wife. Pregnant women may be crazy, but even worse in this situation, they pee. They pee really often. Like, more than once in the course of a 2-hour traffic jam. And they don’t like to get out of the car to do a walk of…

Swing and a miss everyone. Get a Volvo 240. I have an Instagram where I post interesting/old/rare cars I spot in NYC. The 240 Volvos are so plentiful that I don’t even take pictures of them anymore (even though the newest example is 25 years old). Sure, it’s a hipster-cliche car and it’s the poorer hipster’s version…

I bought one for a few Gs off of MSRP about a month ago. I’m really enjoying it! It doesn’t have the nice sound or handling of my E90 335i but it’s not slow either.

1971 280SE 3.5 coupe. Actually dad bought it in 1971 and daily drove it until 1983, but then mom daily drove it from 1983 to 1985 when dad upgraded to two SECs.

1967 Mini, a gift from my dad for their anniversary. She still drives it regularly.

My mom had a 1998 chevy malibu, a 2010 chevy malibu hybrid, and then this. Non-car people can be converted it seems

Audi 5000...oh, how I loved hooning in that car. Ripped the fog lights off not once, not twice, but three times jumping bridges over the French Broad River. She traded it, and traded well, for a Subaru Sedan (pre-Legacy) it had a digital dash; used to reset it to kilometers and she would creep around town. Oh, the…

That’s a hard one, because my Mom drove two cars that I think are a dead heat in terms of “cool.” One is her 1982 Volkswagen Rabbit Coupe. This is the closest picture I could find, but I loved the red and white checkered interior on it.

When my mom traded her Jaguar S-Type R for a Mustang GT. Here’s a picture of her at the drag strip. She loved that car for 10 years before trading it in for a C7 Grand Sport.

My mom is a certified car nut. She rode a Yamaha 350 in college.

Mom had an armored SRT8 Grand Cherokee (South American country). It was also the car I learned to drive in.

mom had a red saab 99 gl 3-door with the 4-speed manual (of course) and a pretty heavy left foot

1992 Q45..... i loved this car.... sure it looked goofy but it drove better than the subsequent 300c.

Well, I can’t show you because back when I was a kid cameras took film, and cell phones hadn’t been invented yet. But these were the cars she had when I was a kid:

A unique Nagaro Blue Audi A7.

VW Dasher