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ITT we post cars, interiors, etc. that give us nostalgic feels. The vehicle doesn't have to have been good, just something you had fond memories of. Pic related is like the van that my family took on road trips for years. Was the first vehicle I ever drove, too. What gives you guys /nostalgia feels?
learned to drive in a 2006 malibu v6. handled like a brick and was made out of cheap GM plastic but it still bring back memories.
before coming to america, whole family had ladas
>>13918541
Jesus fucking christ what a shitheap
>inb4 the back of a van
ayy lmao
>>13918496
It's been years since I drove one around for a stint, but I can still feel that wheel and the light touch of the gas pedal bringing a surprisingly zippy V6 to rev.
>I never asked to feel these feels op
>>13918496
It's like you knew my childhood OP
My dad used to have two Vectras when I was little. The latter one, Vectra B, I remember better.
![ford-courier-1976-1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/oLoCr6o.jpg "ford-courier-1976-1[1].jpg")
I'll have my own one day.
I grew up with the 01 f150 took it on a lot of trips to minocqua wi towing the ranger bass boat
My parents still have it I drive it sometimes and my parents do too but it usually sits now it for weeks and needs a need exhaust manifold and transfer case work
>>13918496
I was actually just in one for the first time this weekend, took a road trip with some friends. They're surprisingly comfortable for being shit
Sold at over 300k, was still running
>be lil anon around the millennium
>dad's minivan has fucking airline tables for the rear passengers and cubby holes in the rear floors
>each rear seat could be folded down or taken out individually and then you could reach into the luggage for toys
Road trips were never the same again.
when i was born my dad bought a k5 blazer for a "family car" and still has it to this day.. sadly its rotting away in the field but im hoping to restore it
>>13920010
DAT STEERING WHEEL.
>>13920738
god those seats are comfy.
>be recent high school graduanon
>parents swap cars with me
>go on two-week road trip with a friend through western Europe
>Good guy Rover is a loyal companion for the whole trip and great fun on mountain pass roads in the Pyrenees
I still miss it sometimes since none of our current vehicles quite offers the same the laid-back, relaxed driving experience the Rover did. Just for the record, we had the LHD version though.
Laurel C32, the car my dad drove from before I was born until I was like 11
>>13920862
Way comfy, I want to put k5 seats in my k10 if I can find a nice set
Grandpa's car. Left it to me when he passed. My first car, i was still in high school.
I was the road trip king in college. Until an F-250 t-boned the fuck out of me anyway.
>>13920928
I'm sorry to hear it is kill anon.
>>13918496
Pic related, the first car my parents had that I remember. I cannot remember what year it was, but it looked sorta like this
>a Ford Escort, in that colour
I wouldn't say no to one if it was in good condition
Parents got a 1998 Sebring Coupe for me in highschool in 2002. 32k miles on it and it was affordable at $8k something.
I had it for the next ten years and I miss it for all the good times as I left HS, through college, and after.
Poor car deserved better, but eventually the North East winter's salt and Chrysler transmission issues killed her.
Me standing on our 126p's hood when I was I think 7 or 8.
>>13919108
I know, anon, I know. That van was surprisingly quick.
This was the car I got my drivers license in, a 1988 Toyota Camry.
>>13919052
kek
>>13921781
I cry every time
Same here mine was an 89 auto with red interior, my parents bought the car for 60 bucks with 100,000 miles and when we finally sold her she had 283000 miles
Bitch was indistuctable I miss that car so much
>>13919945
The one thing dodge is good with is vans
Learned how to drive in a beat up SC400.
>power steering broken
>no AC
>was a boat
Was hard as fuck to steer until it got rolling but I enjoyed it. RIP
My mom drove an '01 Outback For 7 years, and it was our roadtrip car because it had room for the dog in back.
Also, yes, she drives stick. When it was icy out she would take us out in the Outback and rip all wheel skids and drifts in empty parking lots.
>>13921913
Forgot pic, fug
>>13921913
Your mom sounds based.
>>13920030
Fucking tacomas man they are something else
>>13921948
She's pretty awesome. She did more to teach me how to drive than my dad did because he was still traveling for work a lot when I was 16, so she made me learn how to parallel park our Tribeca instead of the car I would actually be using, my dad's Rio. I got to the test and it was the easiest thing ever. Also taught me stick, of course.
>>13918496
My first car <3
It's such a shit car, but it makes me nostalgic. The ride was harsh, the LRA made it jump around on every bump, the interior plastics were hard and creaked over every bump. But it was fairly reliable and was absolutely great in winter with 4x4. The one thing I really miss about it was that the throttle wasn't by wire, so I had a good intuition on what the engine was doing and could control it perfectly for the conditions (e.g. snow/ice).
>>13922299
Forgot pic. Not my pic, but had one just like it.
growing up, my mom drove a 95 Chevy Monte Carlo Z34. Fast, fun and I have so many fond memories of that car.
>>13922318
and before that car, my mom had a 1994 Ford Escort LX wagons she got new. The wagon was totaled in 1999, leading to her getting the Monte Carlo to replace it.
Dad had one of these when I was a kid first car I learned to work on, first car I learned to drive, had 380k miles on it when it went to great scrap yard in the sky.
I don't remember it being this ugly tho
I grew up with E100s. They are a part of me, and I am a part of them. I always felt at home growing up inside of this. I promise I will find another one; LE, manual.
I just want to go back home.
>>13919052
lmao, underrated post
You never said anything about bad memories..
>>13921122
>No black plates
>I was 7 or 8
How old are you? 15?
Used to work summers with my old man doing renovations, we'd go everywhere with his '96 Vandura, same hub caps, same color except windowless, we'd cruise everywhere, joke about shit, eat lunch, I miss those days.
He added extra links to his leaf springs, shit was a beast, he once put 2 full pallets full cinderblocks in there, dead slow up a hill we somehow made it.
She's retired now, on cinderblocks on his front yard full of his belongings.
Any W123 interior. My first car was a W123 (79 300 TD) and I haven't wanted to own anything else since.
>>13918496
I took my driver's test on a 1996 Grand Caravan. The first time I drove it alone I managed to rip a headlight off.
When I was kid, Mum owned an EL Falcon (in manual, not auto) for a whole heap of my childhood. That car went everywhere and I went with it. I was sad as hell when the car got sold off, loved that thing despite it being a big ol' boat and terrible reliability.
>>13925708
Ooops, pic related.
>>13918512
>get rear ended
>die
lmao
>>13925681
That just raises more questions
>>13925968
>get rear ended
>die
>in comfort
I'm still cruising in this thing, just recently got my own socket wrench. I'm trying to keep this going past 200,000 miles. Building up a laundry list of things to do to keep it running
>>13927470
Solid choice, anon. The 3800 is a good engine.
>>13922327
Holy shit, I grew up in one of those, same color and everything.
My most nostalgic truck would be an '82 F100. Straight six, column shift, bench seat with a poncho type seat cover and a perforated vinyl steering wheel cover, one of the ones with the cord wrapping around in, sorta stitched on. My grandfather never drove it, just sat in it occasionally and turned it on. I remember him driving it one time while he had it, and that was just around the block. He let me turn the wheel and press the gas while it was in park. It had that old car smell, you've probably smelled it before. Old plastic interior pieces and cigarette smoke. The door open buzzer, the diamond plate running boards, the rust over the rear wheel wells, the missing front Ford logo that we tried to reattach using Gorilla Glue. I miss that truck.
>>13920738
>be a newborn babby
>3 feet of snow rolls in
>Suddenly babby me has a fever and my folks were snowed in
>dad panicked, my grandfather came to take me to the doctor
>He went out that next week to trade the Thunderbird in for a K5 Blazer for a family vehicle
that feely feel. Sadly the body was starting to rust away to the point where the floor was soft to the touch. He misses it.
