Best car you have Owned

[Cardirt0]

Cardirt0, in this case things turned out pretty well. LOL! I've been happily married to the same fine lady for 25 years and I don't even know where the woman is that talked me into getting rid of the Nova.

Here's the real kicker of the whole deal. My Wife's father bought a bright red C4 LT-4 Corvette new back in 1996. For the past 20 years her Dad has assured her that when he was done with the Vette' it would be hers. Well, this past February while we were visiting the Wife's parents in Florida during Speedweeks he gave her the signed title and handed her the keys and said "it's time, have fun!". Now, I really did love that old Nova but I'm thinkin' that due to marrying well I came out on the winnin' side of the whole thing.

A nice car is great ,, but ant nothing better then the love of a Woman.....

[Cardirt0]

I doubt the one I had would fetch that much, Cardirt0. It had the 350 with a single Rochester Quadrajet which was only rated at 200 HP and 300 ft lbs. of torque. It was a Turbo 350 automatic and just a 10 bolt rear end. However, it did have posi-traction. The 350 4 barrel was the highest horsepower engine available in the Nova SS in 1972. It had the rally suspension, the in dash factory tachometer and the gauges in the console but no air conditioning, no sun roof and most important, it wasn't a 4 speed car and I didn't have the original rally wheels that came on the car new. It had Keystone Kustom Mags on it when I bought it. I traded those out for a set of American Mags fully polished. 10" on the back with 7" on the front. Had to run Gabriel Hi-Jackers to keep the rear fender openings off the tires, thus the harsh ride my sweetie didn't like! LOL!

What this car had going for it was it was purchased new and driven up until the time I bought it by a young lady who drove the car very conservatively and she didn't put many miles on it. Thus, it was in very, very good condition. No rust and never had been crashed. I still get just a bit misty eyed when I look at pictures of it after I put the American mags on it. It really had a lot of potential given the abundant and reasonably priced after market performance equipment available for that engine combination.

If its SS it Gold the one that sold was only a 350 no 4 speed but all the Number matched Good paint was real Clean...Dont need too be a Hot rod just not a lot of them made.. Yours was not a lot of them made...
Yea the Nova did not have a lot of room for tires on of the bad thing on the car...

[Krooser]

Jig-a-Low chassied '69 Mustang...

[CIRF]

If its SS it Gold the one that sold was only a 350 no 4 speed but all the Number matched Good paint was real Clean...Dont need too be a Hot rod just not a lot of them made.. Yours was not a lot of them made...
Yea the Nova did not have a lot of room for tires on of the bad thing on the car...

The one I had satisfied all the criteria you list. The drivertrain was 100% numbers matching, none of it had ever been apart and the paint was relatively good. The only flaw was that the original paint on the hood was starting to chalk a bit when I got rid of it. It had those fake louvers on the hood that looked like valve covers. Never quite understood what statement Chevy was trying to make by putting those things on the hood.

[Bubstr]

1949 Ford Business coupe. My first car I bought for a hundred bucks and it went threw a bunch of engine changes.Mercury crank Offy heads Two carbs, Isky Cam, Lightened Flywheel. It never was fast, by today's standards, but it sure was fun. Speedway motors and Honest Charley's was my friend lol. Had older, newer faster and slower but this was the first and the highs where higher and the lows was more disappointing. You can never replace the first.

[Cardirt0]

1949 Ford Business coupe. My first car I bought for a hundred bucks and it went threw a bunch of engine changes.Mercury crank Offy heads Two carbs, Isky Cam, Lightened Flywheel. It never was fast, by today's standards, but it sure was fun. Speedway motors and Honest Charley's was my friend lol. Had older, newer faster and slower but this was the first and the highs where higher and the lows was more disappointing. You can never replace the first.

Man o man I had a 1949 Anglia 327 Tunnel ram, Ford floater shorten.. Man You Hurt you Balls driving it cause it scare you death... Was fun too drive .. Do burn outs in fount of high school.. Then go like He!! befor the cops would come.. LOL
Had too add this ... I run too shop hand my shop teacher 5 bucks..Cops would come In, and he swear I been there all day LOL

[nuff said]

My favorite car out of all of them,probably the 66 GTO. The best car was probably a 87 Subaru Justy AWD 3cyl that I used to commute 107 miles each way every day for 3 plus years to Asheville and back. 40mpg,AWD and could put a 4.3 in the back of it to deliver on the way home if necessary,and it was more than once.

[Barbecueboy]

I'm kinda partial to the vehichle I'm in now and may end up being my favorite before it's over......

2012 Toyota Tundra crew cab 5.7...rides like a Cadillac ......not real great out of the hole, but smash the gass doing 60 and you better hang on.

Tows pretty good to when I need it to.........

[b1eagle]

1995 Grt with a 430 Custom Race engine.
It won its 1st race out t Bulls Gap then started 9th in the World 100.

[dirtdobber45]

Had a 76 SS Nova it would haul the mail lol but my favorite was as 85 s10 v6 4x4 that thing could climb a tree lol miss both of em lol

[jlacey]

I miss my 03 Tahoe and it killed me to have to get rid of it but i definitely got my moneys worth out of it. Now I have an Altima and out of all the cars/trucks/vans ive had over the years those are my top 2. Cant really pick 1 over the other

[Snake X3]

A 1969 Olds F-85 with the W-31 package. I got hit head on by a drunk driving surgeon at 9am on my way to college and it was destroyed. I kept it for a couple of years after hoping to one day rebuild it, but never had the money.

[Barbecueboy]

A drunk driving surgeon is bad , 9:am is just wow.

[a25rjr]

How bout a truck? 1979 Toyota 4x4. One of the first factory 4x4's in my town. After thousands of dollars on 14" of lift, 17/40 Groundhawgs, dual shocks front and back, chrome everywhere, killer stereo. Man, that truck got me a ton of women back in the day!

[Snake X3]

A drunk driving surgeon is bad , 9:am is just wow.

The real trip was he was getting off duty, so he must have been drunk at work.