When your car was new...

[knightfan26917]

Simple question:
What were you doing when your car was new?


My current family...

1972:
I was a year away from making my earthly debut.

1976:
I was 3 years old.  I welcomed my parents' first Monte Carlo to the family, a 1976 model that I "claimed" as "mine" in later years.  I was also a year away from my first open heart surgery.

1979:
I welcomed my baby sister to the world.

1981:
I finished first grade in the spring; started second grade in the fall.

1987:
I was in middle school ... and had to say goodbye to my best friend who died of an asthma attack.


Former members...

1988:
I finished middle school and entered the world of High School.  I first started thinking about having one of every single YEAR of the Monte Carlo.  I later re-thought that ... with the goal of one of each generation, which I completed March 2002.

1997:
I started my first full-time job, after graduating from college a year earlier.  I also put my '79 MC Landau (first car) away for the winter and bought a new "daily driver".

2000:
I was one Monte Carlo away from completing the family, having bought the '81 MC SC from my parents December 1999 and the '76 MC Landau a year before that; I've never bought a Monte Carlo brand new.  I was still working at the same company, but had switched jobs in late 1999, about the same time I bought the 2000 vehicle.  Health wise, I was (unbeknownst to me at the time) 3 years away from my 3rd open heart surgery.



Cort | 36.m.IL | 5 Monte Carlos.1 Caprice Classic | pig valve.pacemaker * 07/24/2010=ChitownMeet #3 *
MCs.CC | models.HO.legos.CHD.RadioShows | RoadTrips.us66 = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort
"The thing I find most amazing in amazing grace is the chance to give it out" ... Brandon Heath ... 'I'm Not Who I Was'

[gilescooperuk]

1st car - still owned
Tiger Cat E1 1999 starting to build it from a box of bits

2nd Car - now sold
Porsche 924S 1987 still at school

3rd Car - still owned
BMW 525 1989 - just doing my GSCEs

Believe it or not I have only owned 3 cars after having had a driving license for 19 years - and didn't own a car for 8 years after passing the test.

[knightfan26917]

Believe it or not I have only owned 3 cars after having had a driving license for 19 years - and didn't own a car for 8 years after passing the test.

Wow....  Saving money that way, by not owning many cars in that many years ;).

I hadn't PLANNED to own a car so soon after I got my license, but during my first year of college I found a car that I wanted ... and bought it ... and still have it.  Perhaps I should've passed it up and waited for something better, but it is better now ... and I wouldn't have been able to do some of the trips I did while in college without a car.....particularly to home and other places college-related.....



Cort | 36.m.IL | 5 Monte Carlos.1 Caprice Classic | pig valve.pacemaker * NoreastrTrekRT=Aug2010 *
MCs.CC | models.HO.legos.CHD.RadioShows | RoadTrips.us66 = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort
"Now & then what might have been interferes with what might be" ... Mark Chestnut ... 'I Just Wanted You To Know'

[als15]

Fiat Idea - 2004 - just married.
Fiat Croma - 1996 - going to start my year of service in the army.
Alfa-Romeo Spider - 1990 - just in high school dreaming one day to have one of those... still 6 years to wait before buying it.
Fiat Regata Weekend - 1987 - nothing special, just a boy loving cars...
Fiat Panda - 1982 - second year at school, already loving cars.
Fiat 127 - 1975 - just born (and probably already loving cars).
The rest of the collection is older than me...

[knightfan26917]

The rest of the collection is older than me...

How many more do you have?

The ones you noted...sounds like a good collection already!



Cort | 36.m.IL | 5 Monte Carlos.1 Caprice Classic | pig valve.pacemaker * Rt 66+northwestUS, 2011?
MCs.CC | models.HO.legos.CHD.RadioShows | RoadTrips.us66 = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort
"Where have you gone?" ... Glen Campbell ... 'Still Within The Sound Of My Voice'

[als15]

1949 Fiat 500 C "Topolino" (restoration ongoing...)
1952 Fiat 500 C Belvedere
1953 Fiat 500 C "Topolino" (just a spare-parts source for the first one...)
1961 Fiat 1300 TS Siata
1961 Fiat 1800 B

And with only 2 wheels, a 1951 Innocenti Lambretta 125C.  :)

[knightfan26917]

Holy moly!

Any pics of your cars, by chance ... or have I missed them somewhere along the way?



Cort | 37.m.IL.pigValve.pacemaker | 5 Monte Carlos + 1 Caprice Classic |* Rt 66+northwestUS, 2011?
MCs.CC + CHD.models.HO.legos.RadioShows + RoadTrips.us66 = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort
"What I really need is an open road" ... Montgomery Gentry ... 'Speed'