Memories + "Uncool" Cars

Blasphemy!












Blazers have always been cool.

most of the people i know are into older muscle pre 72 and/or g bodies

dragons_lair59 wrote:most of the people i know are into older muscle pre 72 and/or g bodies

Yeah, some people never grow up. JB

one thing i love abot g3's is that most people dont give them a second look so a. ussually cheap. b nobady wants to steal them. c. comfortable to cruise in

Rago wrote:

knightfan26917 wrote:

Rago wrote:Luckily I don't have too many memories of uncool cars. I do remember (I'm ready to take heat for this one) my mom's big ugly banana which was a creamish yellow 76 Caprice four door. That was so embarrassing to be taken to school in. Looking back it wasn't all too bad of a car when compared to the 96 Corsica that she traded it in for.

*gasps*

I don't know you anymore, Rago! LOL!

NO worries ... I know what you mean, though. Those weren't exactly "cool" to kids, but I tell you ... I wouldn't mind having one of those. Heck, I want a '75 CC convertible! As for that Corsica....goodness. She should've sold me that CC! lol

Yeah looking back, it had a 400 small block & would have made a decent cruiser if not for the color. If I remember right, she got less in trade-in than most people nowadays would pay for the engine by itself. It even had the skirts in good shape. I don't believe that I've seen a mid 70's "glasshouse" in about ten years though. I think they just disappeared too.

Yes, they certainly did.......

And, that dealership got a sweet car ... they probably junked it, eh?



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No telling. It was about 15 years ago so I was just a teenager.

To be quite honest, I used to be pretty embarrassed to be seen in the car I own now (77 Malibu) back when my grandparents owned it. I was only 9 but it seemed like the classic old granny mobile. It was a faded forest green and still had it's vinyl top and side chrome strips, the spoked hubcaps... basically all original except that everything was rotting by that point. To me then, that was "uncool".

I think my opinion changed quite dramatically when I saw it after the chrome strips had been taken off the doors, vinyl top removed, new wheels put on, and a fresh coat of paint applied. I was still only adolescent then, but I thought that was the coolest thing ever. There's really nothing like a fixed up G3 at all, nothing comes close to the style. They're true diamonds in the rough and one of a kind with some TLC put into them.

Being a bit younger than most of you, I'll let you in on a more recent uncool car: The original Furd Taurus. Might have been car of the year back when it made its debut and featured then-fantastic technology, but by the time I could drive it was NOT the car you wanted to be found in...

... I owned one for 3 years.

knightfan26917 wrote:

1988 TOYOTA NOVA / Ch#$r%*et COROLLA sedan, FWD, light blue
= Grandparents purchased new
= replaced their 1978 Plymouth Horizon
= Just about every car my grandparents had purchased were ones that my grandfather wanted. This time, Gram got to choose...and she wanted her Nova. I couldn't persuade her to buy a MC....
= I cleaned this car every year. Once, the day after I cleaned it, they were hit in a local grocer store parking lot.
= We took this car to Pine-Apple Orchard in Maple Park IL a few years in a row and to Milwaukee WI one summer.
= My parents bought this and kept it for a few years before it died completely.

LOL even worse, those weren't made by Toyota... Rather they were manufactured by Dae Woo in south Korea, my wife had the "Pontiac Lemans" variant. Never knew they were Korean until I got stationed there for a year with the Army back in '97. Saw those Dae Woo badged POS' everywhere!

My uncool car for my formative years was my first car...



The venerable 73 Buick Electra 225. My friends and I called it the battleship. It's one saving grace was the lack of a pillar between the front & rear windows. It enabled us to really wind up to throw eggs at the cross town rival football teams' school buses.

Biomedtech wrote:My uncool car for my formative years was my first car...



The venerable 73 Buick Electra 225.

*raises eyebrows ever so slightly*

That Buick is uncool??? Say it ain't so! I wouldn't mind owning one of those.....



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Give her a satin black paint job & she's ready to go.

Hehehe, back in '84 growing up in a part of town where tons of big 3 execs lived, this car wasn't too cool. Now its a different story!

I'm guilty...When I was in college, I had a red 81 2 dr chevette. I didn't know I wasn't cool back then. It got great gas mileage, and on the weekends, me and my girl, would lift the back hatch, and watch the submarine races at the lake...lol

Rago wrote:Give her a satin black paint job & she's ready to go.

Heck ... I'd drive it like that. Though, that paint job sure would be sweet.....

Biomedtech wrote:Hehehe, back in '84 growing up in a part of town where tons of big 3 execs lived, this car wasn't too cool. Now its a different story!

LOL! Yeah, I can see that....



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