Ha, ha! Nice. I wish I did drive Mad Max's Interceptor! (I like the 2nd movie best).

I'm not a fan of most modern cars. I know they're generally very aerodynamic but there's a serious lack of imagination (almost every car looks the same).
My absolute favourite car is probably the:

1937 Chevrolet Coupe:

But I also love the 1929 Dusenberg Model J (put down the roof and change the colour):

And the 1972 Corvette Stingray (yellow):

That said, in the way of modern cars I like the Chrysler P.T. Cruiser.
(some say it's ugly but it's probably the closest you'll get to a 1930s car-look with modern safety features):

And love the 1997 Plymouth Prowler (retro grill and mystique but more sporty):

I know what you mean about car restoration being expensive. My uncle is in a seemingly never ending project of restoring his first car, a Chevelle. He took it down to the frame and is reconstructing it using powder coating and with as much detail as possible.

I've also seen one of the Smokey and the Bandit trans ams. Cool paint job.

As for the Mustangs... There was a body style a couple of years ago that I thought was horrible. It looked like they cut the front off one generation and the back off another. I was sooooooo glad to see the body style change to what it currently is. The main reason I'll probably never consider buying one though is the gas mileage. Mustangs are still gas guzzlers.

I love the current style of the F-150 and F-250. It has a much more classic feel to it while still coming off as a good, solid feel to it.

Mustangs are probably my second favorite, I agree with Shadowlander the late 60's models are probably the best looking. I like the most recent models as well.

My favorite car however is the Corvette, especially the more recent models.

My cousin has one of these- except its orange- They're my favorite model... the Corvette Z06

Although I'll admit I like the older style of the Stingray...

this is a '69 convertable

And as many of you already know I do like NASCAR...

Go Burton! Go!

My dad has an obsession with vintage cars. We have somewhere around thirty vehicles sitting around our yard. (!!) Most of them are junky old parts cars but we do have some very nice ones.

He loves 59 Chevys. We have a ridiculous amount of them! 3 of them are fixed up very nicely though - one is a Chevy Nomad, which I find very cool. I rather like them as well. I'm not as crazy about them as he is, but I think they have a lot of character and are very unique.

We also have, let's see... a 63 Impala, several El Caminos, a 68 Barracuda (which is a still work in progress), a 68 Coronet, an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, and a 66 Mustang. (But I happen to think Mustangs are overrated... *hides from all the Mustang fans*)

My favourite car of ours, however, is our 50 Ford (and I a Chevy girl! ):

^It has a Corvette engine. And although I'm not a fan of Corvettes either, it sounds awesome.

Some of my favourite movie cars are the incredibly awesome 60's Batmobile and the 90's animated Batmobile. The Tumbler is not a Batmobile, in my opinion. I also love the Mach 5 from Speed Racer, and the Autobots, of course.

I'll have to track down some pictures of our other cars!

My dads likes the '55 chevys alot. (I prefer the '57's due to the awesome fins )

Let's see... awesome fictional cars...

... can you be the General Lee?...

..well maybe...

I saw this in a magazine a few years ago...

enter the Moller Skycar... and yes it can fly.

The corvette has certainly evolved over the years hasn't it.

1953 Corvette Convertible (C1 Generation)

Corvette ZHZ (C6 Generation)

But I happen to think Mustangs are overrated... *hides from all the Mustang fans*

Wha....*clutches chest and falls to the floor hyperventilating*...over rated?? *flails about the room dramatically before assuming a fetal position in the corner*

Ok, so it's not for everyone. But still...

Look at the beautiful lines the Mustang has! It looks fast and sporty just sitting still . When I was reading Lee Iaccoca's biography several years ago I was surprised to discover that the Mustang was not named after the horse of the same name but rather the WW2 fighter plane. The car really revolutionized the auto industry and most of the other big car manufacturers scrambled to come up with competitive models. It was designed to be sporty and sleek and yet affordable, which is one of the reasons there was so much "Mustang Mania" back in the mid 60's. Of course by the time the Mustang hit 1970 it had transformed from a sporty mid-size coupe to a mammoth street racer. I could spend a whole nother' page just describing the influences that famed racecar designer Carol Shelby had on the car but I'm worried I might be the only one interested in it.

Wolf, I loved the General Lee! My dad got some goofy electronic horn back in the mid 80's and it could play about 100 tunes just by dialing in a 3 digit code on a little console. One of them was Dixie and whenever we went anywhere I'd type in 014 (Dixie) at every opportunity, which really set my Maternal Unit's teeth on edge . Of course the effect isn't really the same if you're driving around in a 1983 Ford Escort station wagon, but still...

I, like wolfloversk, am a corvette fan!

They are such cool cars with a unique style - wile they have evolved over the years - which makes them unmistakably corvette!

Well let me see, what other favorite cars do I have? Hmmm.... ah yes! Playing Need for Speed has probably ruined me, but I'm a sucker for the really expensive cars, especially Porsche and Lamborghini!

A Porsche 911 Carrera RS:

and a Lamborghini Gallardo:

Recently, I have found myself very fond of the Mazda 3 look. It is sporty, but the review of the 2010 version says it gets 25 - 30 mpg in the city which is pretty efficient for a non-hybrid car. I drive a Mazda protoge and I usually run about 26-31 mpg on the city freeways. I have almost 178,000 miles on my car to boot. My family has had 3 Mazdas (including mine) that I know of and all three have been stellar cars.

Of course mine has a bit of a problem as I broke off the oil dipstick today inside the car while checking the oil. Dad's going to have to figure out how to get it out. Though dropping the oil pan is probably what's going to happen. Going to make life interesting for a bit.

Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way...
-Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild, 1968

It's fun reading these posts and seeing pictures of cars over the years.

The earliest family car I remember was a white-and-light-pastel green Nash Rambler my parents had about 50 years ago. And speaking of Nash Ramblers, remember this classic tune?

Beep, Beep by the Playmates, released in 1958. (Cars certainly seem to be important to pop music).

My older brother had one of those 70s-era Corvettes. However he hit a deer with it and that was pretty much it.

My own car is pretty nondescript, but it's old enough to vote. It's a 1992 Honda Accord with 240,000 miles on it. I've had very little trouble with it beyond the usual maintainence things. There's some rust but it's still a good car.

Dad and my uncle got the dipstick out of my car. I shall return to driving it sometime this weekend. Now to find that pesky oil leak, get power steering fluid, and get the transmission rebuilt.

Random car questions:

What do you consider a high mileage car?
Manual/Standard or Automatic and why?
Do cars out number the trucks and SUVs where you are or the other way around?

*will come back and answer her own questions later*

1. Don't know
2. I prefer Automatic because I can concentrate on just driving. Manual's more interesting though.
3. Where I live there are many more cars than trucks. We don't have SUV's but 4WD (4 wheel drives) are pretty common.

1 Anything under 35 mpg
2 Automatic, because it's easier to drive
3 Um... I think either cars or SUV's but really all three are quite common.

The merging of two of my favorite shows the original Knight Rider and Mythbusters. They're trying to see if its possible to drive a car up a ramp and into a trailer without wrecking.

I knew this thread was her somewhere. Anyway, I recently bought one of these:

'Tis a '91 Corsica. They sure are a cute little car. Its engine is just the little four banger, so the car is a true put put. All the same, I still am enjoying it!