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Just for fun can you recall all the cars, trucks, or other motorized vehicles you have owned? Over the years my wife and I have had some good laughs about the cars and trucks we owned. Usually she had her daily driver and I had mine but there was always a fun car for the both of us. Really it was more for me than her but she has been a good sport about it for the most part. Here is a list of ours over the years:

1.1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air 4 door sedan, rolled it on a gravel road with a couple of friends. Damn I miss that car, this was my first one and I bought it when I was 14 years old.

2.1967 GTO 2 door hardtop. Be carefull what you wish for you just might get it. Me and my friends were talking a couple of days before we rolled the 57 about how my next car was going to be a 2 door, fast, and have a manual transmission. Two weeks after the accident...poof I got my wish.

3.1980 Ford Pinto (college car) Sold this one to a cousin who needed a car.

4.1966 Ford Mustang. Ruff and tuff old car but burned more oil and transfluid than gas.

5.1984 Chevrolet Cavalier 4 door (her first car)

6.1981 Suzuki GS1000. First motorcycle I ever owned, and almost the last, I ran into a deer with it five days later.

7.1965 Ford Mustang. Bought it for my girlfriend at the time(now my wife) but two weeks after I got it for her I wrecked it. I fixed it with a used fender of a different color but it just wasn't the same for her after that.

8.1966 Chevrolet Malibu 2 door hard top. Bought it wrecked in the front, gave the motor to my brother for his truck and sold the car a year later but didn't do anything else to it.

9.1977 Chevrolet Malibu 2 door. Belonged to a buddy of mine before I bought it. Haven't owned too many cars that road as well as that one.

10.1980 Ford "Sport Pinto" Traded first Mustang in on it for my wife to drive. It was the coolest pinto we have ever seen...It even had louvers on the back window! Traded the 66 Stang in on this one. What was I thinking?

11.1985 Chevrolet Cavalier 2 door type 10. After we sold the SPORT PINTO we bought this one. This is the car that took us on our honeymoon. Sold the GTO just before we were married in May of 1994.

12.1979 Dodge Ram 150 short box reg cab 4x4. Good truck, sucked the gas. Sold the 77 Malibu just after bought this one.

13.1986 Oldsmobile 98 Regency. (Remember that the Dodge sucked gas.) Man that car was nice. We brought home our first child in this one.

14.1969 Chevrolet C-1500 Long Box. Since We sold the GTO before we got married this was the first FUN vehicle we bought with both names on the title. It was a really low milage truck that we bought from the original owner but when we titled it at the court house they wouldn't verify the milage so when they put it in our name the milage showed exempt. Bummer for resale!

15.1978 Ford E350 Cargo Van Factory AWD with a snow plow. Bought it to make a little extra money, but lost my butt a little bit.

16.1993 GMC Jimmy SLT, traded #11 and #13 in for it. This was a very big step up for us, first vehicle we ever took out a loan for. It was about this time I went to work as a salesman for the dealership that I was working as a mechanic up to that point.

17.1996 Pontiac Grand Am GT 4 door. Technically we leased it but our names were on the registration and it was our 1st new car.

18.1970 ElCamino SS tribute. Fun truck but not for me so we sold it to a friend of ours that still has it today. Looks much better now and has a killer Big Block 454 in it. We sold the 69 C-1500 before we got this one.

19.1974 Chevrolet K-1500. One more of my attempts to try and make a little money. I bought it with no engine with the hopes of putting one in it and get it running so I could sell it. Well lets just say the good news is we didn't loose any money this time. But if time was money I lost a little bit more.

20.1984 Pontiac Fiero 2M4. Fun little car that held up well during the hail storm of 1996 but sold it when a friend of ours was in bad need of a car. I don't care what they say about the early Fiero's that car was way ahead of GM's time.

21.1986 GMC K-1500. Nice old regular cab truck that I really didn't have a need to buy I just wanted it because it looked good.

22.1996 Chevrolet Impala SS Dark Cherry. Blast of a car even though it had 4 doors.

23.1989 Suburban Conversion. It was sweet, it was black and silver just like Dale Earnhardt's #3 and had Centerline Hellcat wheels that just looked cool.

24.1982 Yamaha 650 Maxim. This bike sucked compared to my Suzuki so we didn't have it long and luckly I didn't kill any deer with this one.

25.1999 Chevrolet Suburban LT. Indigo Blue over Pewter, best looking color combo that I can recall. This one was also a lease, but for 375 dollars a month we wouldn't have been able to aford to buy anything of its caliber for that. Sold the 1989 Suburban to take advantage of this smokin lease.

26.1996 Pontiac Grand Prix 2door Special Edition. Husker red with chrome wheels made it a nice eye catcher. Got this one to replace the 99 Suruban.

27.1998 Chevy Tahoe. This one was more than likely my wife's favorite, bright white with dark blue interior. I then drove the Grand Prix and the Impala SS was gone before this one came along.

28.2000 Chevy S-10 truck. Regular cab with the X-tream package and hey with only one kid in the family who needs more room than that right? We traded the Grand Prix for this little truck.

29.1979 Chevrolet Corvette L79. After we sold the Impala we did'nt have fun car for a while and my wife asked "What about a Corvette?". I have to admit that Corvettes were really never on the top of my list but she seemed excited about owning a "Barbie Vette". I was a little less excited.

30.1997 Chysler Town and Country LXi. What else can I say it was a mini-van. It was her vehicle and more than likely her least favorite. We traded the Tahoe in for this one.

31.1997 Oldsmobile 88 LS. Yes this one could be called my fathers Oldsmobile, even though I bought it for me, my dad should have been the one driving it. At this point we had two kids and #three was on the way so we traded the 2000 S-10 for it. I now needed the room.

32.2001 Dodge Durango RT. This is how I redeemed myself after making my wife drive the Chrysler. Sorry about the Van honey. But I didn't learn my lesson about the gas mileage so we didn't have this one very long even though it had the best cup holders to that point.

33.2004 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP. Also another great lease, I drove this as my daily driver for about a year and put just under 14,000 miles on it. Head up display is sooooo underrated, I think it should be on all cars.

34.1992 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe. Still not sure if a Corvette was the fun car I had in mind I came accross another one that was more to my style and less of a "Barbie Vette". If I could have ordered one out new in 1992 this would have been the way I would have. Mr. Black was the first car ever to recieve a name by the family. He was a black on black beauty with a six speed manual and had a few of just the right bolt ons to make this a wickedly fast Vette. We owned this one just short of four years and only put 3,000 miles on him. Of course I sold that damn barbie vette when we bought this one.

35.1994 Chevrolet Suburban. We bought this one for the wife and went back in time a little because this one was so well cared for we pimped it out a little and put some 20" wheels and a big DVD player in it. That was the best looking 94 Suburban in town. We traded the gas pig Durango in on this one.

36.1999 Buick Regal LSE. Nice car for a Buick and it was a good color but again don't know what I was thinking. I only owned this one for a month. Check out #37.

37.2004 Pontiac GTO. Six speed Manual in a Special Edition Pulse Red. When the folks at GM needed to unload some of the left over 2004 GTO's they came as close to giving these cars away as I have ever seen in the 10 years that I had been selling cars. My lease payment on this 350hp beast was less per month than the insurance. At 107 dollars a month it was mine for two fast years. The only difficult choice over those next two years was which car did I drive on Sunday. The Goat or Mr. Black? That just depended on which one of the family members wanted to go with.

38.2003 Chevrolet Tahoe Z71. When the wife got a little worried about driving the 150,000 mile Suburban, we took the 20's off of it and swapped the DVD player out of it and away we went. This one was my wife's dream Truck.

39.2004 Nissan Quest Sport Van. Even though it was her dream truck she had to wake up to reality so we traded my wife's Tahoe for another van. As cool as the Tahoe was to look at it just didn't fit in to the people hauling buisness that my wife was into. This van I have to say ended up being one of our favorite family vehicles and I am talking about all five of us. This is only the second vehicle we ever named. But even so, Vandora didn't last for ever.

40.2004 Nissan Pathfinder Armada. In the fall of 2007 we bought a little 17' Larsen Ski boat. After tearing up a couple of sets of tires on Vandora we new she wouldn't be able to handle the weight of the newest family toy so we traded our second van in for what looks like a small garbage truck.

41.1963 Chevy II. After four years of owning Mr. Black( 92 Corvette )on a rather dim witted decision I traded him for this one and a enough cash to buy #42. Other than the fact that this car was straight there wasn't a panel on the little car that wasn't rusty. The only good thing was all of the trim pieces were there.

42.1969 Pontiac Firebird. After years of looking and trying to find my 67 GTO unsuccessfully I turned back the clock on the Fun car and bought this car with the cash we had left over from the Vette sale. It is the car you now see in my profile at the top. We have had the banana bird now for about a year and a half and even though it isn't nearly as fast or complete as the Corvette I and most of the family are enjoying this one much more. When your driving down the street and some one looks over and gives you the thumbs up, you just don't get tired of the feeling. And when you are at the gas station filling up, the people you meet and share stories with just don't happen as often while driving a Vette. Only the wife isn't as happy with the Firebird as the rest of us, I think she misses the Corvette.

43.2010 Chevrolet Camaro 2SS/RS LS3. This has been a long post and if you have stuck with it this long thanks for humoring me. I have always been a car guy ever since I can remember and I have been wanting to write an account of all the cars my wife and I have bought and sold. Over a period of 22 years(5 years of my own and 17 together) we have had our share of vehicles and looking back at it now I really can see how blessed I am to have a wife that understands, a family that accepts, and a job that provides me with the opportunity. This will trully be a multipule firsts for us. It will be the first car that my wife and I ordered out the way we wanted. It will be the first car that the whole family had a say about. It will be our first Camaro!!! I can't even belive that one and I truly hope this is the car that we will always own and never trade or sell it. Looking back over this post I realize just how many cars that we owned that if we knew what we do now we just might have kept a few of them.

44.2000 Saturn wagon. Oldest daughter turned 15 and she is now driving to school.

45.2009 Mazda CX-9. Traded the 2004 Nissan in on the Mazda. Loved the Nissan, didn't love the mileage but that isn't why we bought it.

46.1988 Pontiac Fiero. I was looking for an 88 Formula for a while now. Just happened to find one around home and in the color I was looking for. Now I just need to figure out what I am going to do with it.

47.2010 GMC Acadia, decent on mileage and can pull the boat and a small car trailer so I found. Traded the wife's CX-9 for it.

48.2013 Jeep Wrangler unlimited. Great fun, Great looking, not practical at all. Did I say it was fun?

49.2007 Pontiac G5. Now the oldest is off to college mom thought she would need a car that the local mechanics wouldn't mind working on. I though things were supposed to be rough in college.

50.2013 GMC Acadia. Round two with the Acadia's. We loved the first one and it pulls the boat a ton better than the Jeep. Can't take the top off but it doesn't put us in the poor house when it comes to gas mileage.

51.2009 Chevrolet Cobalt. Daughter totaled her G5 while at college(not her fault thank goodness) so this was the replacement vehicle.

52.2015 GMC Acadia. Round 3 and again we must like them because this is the first vehicle we have ever owned more than two!

53.1972 Chevrolet Elcamino. Really this belongs to my son so this will be first on his list once he makes his own but I am on the title with him so it counts for now.

54.1953 MG TD. Why not, always wanted a Mazda MX-5, so we will see how this one goes. The owner of the Dealership that I work for sold it to me for a song so I couldn't pass it up. WAY outside my comfort zone I must admit.

55.1979 GMC Short box two wheel drive. Praise the lowered as they say because this one came just the way I always wanted. Lowered, a bit rough on the edges but ran and sounded so tough.

56.2010 GMC Canyon Crew Cab 4x4 with a V8. This was my attempt to have my wife drive a truck to pull the boat. We got a bigger boat last summer so the Acadia had to tap out. Lets just say the Canyon didn't last long in the garage. Longer than I thought it would but not as long as I wanted. Really would have liked to have that truck to the end, hard to find them with a v8.

57.1997 Chevrolet Blazer LT 4x4. School car for my son.

58.2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer SS. Okay so you say the Canyon won't do it for you? That's fine but I couldn't afford to buy a newer Yukon so we needed something with a V8 to pull the boat and it had to have a sunroof. Good thing she didn't tell me it had to be newer than the Canyon!

59.2006 Monte Carlo SS. Everyone of my kids got to have a "fun" car as their daily drive in hopes that when they were done with it they would have some value left. Sure the 5.3 V8 wasn't the most fuel efficiant but it was a very nice car for my daughters true first car. It was about this time the 1997 Blazer had to go.

60. 2008 Pontiac G6 GT coupe. My son needed a car for daily use being his El Camino was always going in the garage for work on this or that. The 97 Blazer wasn't cutting the mustard so we thought this would do the trick. Nice car but he hated the FWD so not quite a year later he sold it.

61.1990 GMC Sierra SLX. 2WD Reg Cab short box pick up. I have been after this one for a while and it's ours now. Six cylinder 5-speed in great shape and will get an LS transplant soon.

62.1999 Camaro. This is a police car used by the Nebraska highway patrol and I bought it for the engine and transmission that I want to put into the truck. Only issue is that is one of 7 built that year and I am struggling with tearing it apart. It runs and drives and appears to be all original so I am having a hard time with the fact that it is such a low production vehicle and the fact its a police vehicle.

63.2008 GMC Envoy Denali. This vehicle replaced the #59 06 Monte Carlo SS. A childhood friend of my daughters ran into the back of the Monte and totaled it out. So this was a little more practical vehicle for her in the long run so we will find something else for here down the road.

64.2018 Buick Regal Tour X. All these years my wife kept a secret. Buick came out with a new Regal and Regal wagon in 2018. I really like wagons and have always kept and eye out for one, whether it an old one or newer one I have always liked the wagon design. So when we got our first Tour X at the dealership I brought her in to take a look and try and convince her she needed one. To my surprise she LOVED it. Another one of those be careful for what you wish for things because I really liked her Trailblazer SS and always wanted to keep it in the fold but once she saw this Buick it was over. She then confessed to me that she loved the Subaru Outback wagons. We have been married almost 25 years at the time and I never knew that. She said simply that we didn't sell Subaru's so she never mentioned it. I never thought I would own a Buick unless it was a mid sixties Riviera or 66 Buick Skylark but here we are and we both love it.

65. 2002 Camaro SS. My son did not car for the FWD Pontiac G6 so we sold it and bought this Camaro instead. Well taken car of car with only the exhaust having been modified and some aftermarket wheels installed it has been much better received than the Pontiac.