Lets see if I can remember them all. I got my license in 1964 & NOT counting wife cars, I've had:

1953 Chrysler
1951 Chevy
1936 Chevy Coupe
1941 Harley Davidson
1964 Pontiac convertible
1970 VW Bug
1974 Chevy van
1974 Kawasaki 750
1985 Ford Bronco
19? Triumph Bonneville
196? Jeep CJ7
1995 Ford pickup
2001 Jeep Cherokee
2005 Harley Electraglide
2007 Chevy Silverado pickup
2015 GMC Sierra pickup (current)

Wife currently has a 2019 Grand Cherokee

1987 - Meyers Manx VW with 1100cc engine torn apart in the back. Traded this and a broken 1977 Honda CR-125 for a 1961 Baja Bug with no engine.

Traded the Baja Bug, a wrecked 1975 Yamaha RD-350 and $450.00 for my first running car a 1972 AMC Javelin with a 232 inline six and three on the floor that I totaled in the middle of 1988 by making a left turn and getting hit.

1989 was a 1968 AMC Javelin with the 390 V-8, a two barrel carburetor, and Borg Warner T-10 four speed manual transmission (car would pass anything but a gas station). Friend wrecked this car in late 1990.

1990 - 1977 Datsun 280Z with a McCloud competition clutch - Traded for a Jeep.

1993 - 1970 Jeep CJ-5 - sold in 1995

1994 - 1980 Chevy Blazer K-5 - traded in around 2004


1999 - picked up a 1976 Corvette L-48 4-speed (still have) and it is a project.

2004 picked up a 2000 Z71 Tahoe - Sold in 2017
2004 Mom gave me her old pickup - 1975 Chevy 3/4 ton long bed with 292 inline six. Truck body being held together by the paint as she had it in Oceanside CA for a few years while she lived down there - traded in.

2005 1997 GMC x-cab short bed 4x4 pickup (this is what the 1975 Chevy pickup and 1980 Blazer were traded in on) with a 350 V-8 and 4:10 gears - sold for a loss in 2014 due to lack of use.

2012 - 2005 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (my wife drives this)
2015 - 2002 Diesel VW bug (totaled in 2018by a driver who ran a stop sign - still have for parts.

2018 - 2012 VW Golf TDI
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Interesting thread. I tend to hold on to my cars, so the list isn't too long.

1. 1990 Chevrolet Celebrity Eurosport Wagon. It was a hand me down from my parents, and was also the only vehicle I've ever caused an accident in. I loved that thing. Pretty peppy for a 16 year old, lots of room (seated 8 officially, 14 unofficially.) Even though it was front wheel drive, with about 4 teenagers in the "way back" for weight and judicious parking brake application you could do some pretty solid donuts on the starting line of the high school cross country course (I paid big for that later.) I totaled it driving into the back of a Dodge Durango at about 10 miles an hour. We were stopped on the exit ramp of the interstate. Traffic cleared, the Durango took off. I looked back, there was no traffic, so I took off too. Well, while I looked back the Durango stopped and I ran square into his trailer hitch. It wasn't much damage, but the car wasn't worth shit either so it was totaled.

2. 1986 Jeep Cherokee with the 2.8 V6. This was the first car I bought myself, to replace the Celebrity. It was a true character building vehicle. Something was always broken on it, and on the rare occasion everything was working "well" it was still awful. The 2.8 engine is probably one of the worst ever made. It had the unique combination of no power combined with awful fuel mileage. On a good day it's 0-60 time was probably in the mid 20 second range, and it got damn near single digit gas mileage doing it.

3. 1996 Jeep Cherokee Sport with the 4.0 and 5 speed. I bought it in 2002, and I still have and love it. I will drive it until the day I die barring unfortunate circumstances. I joked in college that I had more landings in that thing than I got learning to fly, but it wasn't a lie. My best friend's parents had a grass strip, and it had a hump at the end of it. At about 80 mph you could catch some pretty good air and I'm probably really lucky to have survived those years. Even given all the abuse I gave it, it was utterly reliable and needed nothing at all until about 200k miles when I started hacking it up and breaking parts 4 wheeling.

4.2006 Pontiac GTO. I love the car and it's fun to drive, but it has been a huge dog turd in the reliability department. It has been plagued with belt squeal and random intermittent electrical issues since the day I bought it. When I bought it, I planned on keeping it long term as well, but I just don't know. It seems like it's broken down as often as it runs.

Many used and collector cars, but most were not primary vehicle.

'54 Plymouth Belvedere
'63 Volkswagon Bug w/sunroof
'25 Ford Model T Roadster
'27 Ford Model T Coupe
'32 Ford Model B Sedan
'24 Ford Model T C-cab Truck
'65 Chevy Impala
'70 Chevy Nova
'73 Opal GT
'58 MGA Roadster
'57 Chevy Coupe
'76 Monte Carlo
'76 Toyota Landcruiser FJ40
'63 Chevy Impala Coupe
'85 Jeep Grand Wagoneer
'90 Jeep Cherokee
'92 Jeep Grand Wagoneer
'96 Geo Metro
'97 Goe Tracker
'03 Suburu Outback
'76 Triumph TR7
'92 Jeep Wrangler
'97 Suzuki X90
'12 Nissan Juke
'18 Jeep Compass

1987 Dodge Ram pickup. 1992 Jeep Wrangler. 2000 Jeep Cherokee. 2006 Toyota Tacoma. That's it for now.

73 Ford Mustang 2. (I was young and inexperienced.)
88 Honda Civic.
93 Ford Ranger. (Current DD, but two of my kids learned and drove this vehicle. Manual transmission.)

Wife's.
86 Pontiac Grand Prix
97 Saturn SL2 (I drove this one for awhile. Decent car, but I was just not into sedans.)
03 Saturn VUE (I drove this one for awhile. Couldn't keep a transmission in it.)
10 Subaru Forester. (Current DD)

1966 Volkswagen Beetle
1974 Chevy Vega (Burned so much oil, it could have been a diesel.)
1964 Chevy Impala (Two tone, black and rust, but the rust was winning.)
1974 Ford Thunderbird
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Dozens and dozens of used cars when I was in the used car business.
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1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
1980 Fiat Spider
1984 Ford Bronco II
1989 Ford Thunderbird (First new car.)
1993 Mercury Grand Marquis
1995 Mercury Mystique
2005 Nissan Murano
2009 Nissan Rogue
2010 Nissan Titan (First new truck after a move to Texas.)
2014 Nissan Murano
2014 Ford F250 Super Duty
2015 Ford F350 Super Duty
2017 Ford F150 (Hated this after having the Super Duty)
2017 Ford F350 Super Duty

An interesting thread. Makes me think back to the cars I really loved. And the ones not so much.

1961 Morris Mini Cooper.
My very first car. I was a senior in high school and I bought it from a classmate for $300. I put $600 into it, having the engine balanced, blueprinted, dual carbs, Sun Supertach, etc. What a fabulous car! I blew away a 1969 Pontiac GTO in it!

1972 Chevrolet Vega GT. My first new car. I bought it through the PX overseas, getting stateside delivery. Despite the bad reputation the model gained, mine was near-perfect, until I got married and traded it in for a

1978 Chevrolet Malibu Classic. Bought this off the showroom floor when I took my Vega in for service. It was a sea green with tonneau cover and white interior. It was a nice, family car. The sunroof developed a leak, and I would get drenched after a rain.

1986 Nissan SE V6 4x4. My pickup truck phase. I originally wanted a Toyota 4Runner, but Toyota dealers were (and still are, from what I can tell) a pain to deal with. So I went with Nissan. Nice truck, but I really didn't NEED a truck.

1993 Honda Accord EX. The only car I ever leased. My marriage had fallen apart and I was straightening out my life. A leased car seemed to be an easier answer than owning. Right. I told myself that even if I grew to love the car, when the lease was up it was going back. That was a tough move to make, but I really wanted a BMW. Instead, I got a

1995 Mercedes-Benz C280. CPO with about 15K miles. My daughter and her friends loved the fact I drove a Mercedes. So did I. In fact, I liked it so well that I decided to order (build-to-order) my

2000 Mercedes-Benz CLK430. At the time the small block V8 pumped out what now seems an anemic 275 HP. But it was small, light and nimble, and it was fun to drive. I kept that car for 12 years.

2012 Mercedes-Benz E350 Coupe. When the CLK (C209) was phased out, it was remade as an E class coupe (C207). Technically, it is closer to the C Class, sharing the same wheelbase and axle track lengths. The E sedan (W212) is built in Sindelfingen, Germany, the coupe in Bremen, alongside the W204 C-Class. Despite having two less cylinders, the advances in automotive engineering enabled the 350 V6 to pump out 305HP. I felt this was going to be a long-term love relationship until my friend at the dealer showed me a

2014 Mercedes-Benz E350 Coupe 4Matic. I didn't think I could like a car better than my 2012, but one drive in the 4Matic convinced me otherwise. I will likely keep this car a while because it spends most of its time in my garage. That's because when I moved into my new home in 2017, it came with Electric Vehicle Service Equipment (fancy name for electric car charger). Curious, I bought for cash a

2015 smart fortwo Electric Drive (ED). This was meant to be an experiment, but it has turned out to be the perfect local runabout vehicle for me, considering most of my driving is less than ten miles from home (work, shopping, dining, etc.) With this car, I'm at my destination before my E350 would be warmed up!

I never did get that BMW...

1958 Austin Healey 100-6
1967 Rambler American
1970 Toyota Corona MK. II
1966 Pontiac Bonneville
1974 Toyota Celica GT
1975 Toyota Corolla Liftback SR5
1976 Toyota Corolla SW
1983 VW Rabbit GTI
1978 American Motors Hornet
1989 Isuzu I-Mark RS
1990 Chevrolet Corvette
1997 Mitsubishi Eclipse GST
1998 Mitsubishi Montero Sport LS
1999 Mitsubishi Montero Sport Ltd.
1999 Mitsubishi Montero Sport Ltd.
2000 Mitsubishi Diamante LS
2001 Mitsubishi Diamante LS
2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder GT
2002 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder GT
2002 Mitsubishi Eclipse GTS
2003 Mitsubishi Evolution VIII
2003 Mitsubishi Lancer RalliArt
2004 Mitsubishi Galant GTS
2004 Mitsubishi Galant GTS
2004 Mitsubishi Galant ES
2005 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT
2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder GT
2007 Mitsubishi Galant RalliArt
1965 Yamaha YDS-3C Big Bear Scrambler
1971 Honda 750 Four
1982 Yamaha Seca 750
2009 Pontiac G8 GT
2017 Chevrolet SS

What may appear to be duplicate listings are, in fact, not. There were times where I had two of the same vehicle consecutively.

Current garage residents are the 1990 Z51 Corvette and the 2017 Chevrolet SS - both equipped with 6-spd M/T's.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

History starts for me in 1961:
1958 Fiat 1100: taught me everything I know about fixing cars
1958 VW bug
1965 Volvo 544: honeymooned across US in that one
1970 BMW 2002: first new car, most regretted selling
1968 or so Saab 95: Buck Rogers style station wagon, more room for kids
1973 Saab 99
1976? VW Rabbit
1976? Saab 99
1978 VW Rabbit
1984 Toyota Camry: This is when I stopped having to worry about the car breaking down on the road
1985 Toyota Camry
1986 Acura Integra LS: timing belt broke, trashed valves and cylinder head; Honda actually paid repairs
1991 Acura Legend: was still going strong years later but gave to my son who parked it in Berkeley where it was stolen and wrecked
2001 Honda S2000: leased, turned in
2005 Acura TSX
2005 Honda S2000
2004 Nissan Frontier SE
2018 Honda Accord 2.0 Touring

1989 Chevy S10
1984 Ford Ranger
1972 BMW 2002tii
2007 Mazda3
2018 Mazda3

1989 Buick Century
1993 Pontiac Bonneville
1986 Chevy Scottsdale crew cab
2010 Dodge Caliber
2007 Mazda 3

I honestly miss the Scottsdale and the Century. The Century was just right in the niche for a daily driver and harkened back to the days when my grandparents would take me to church in their LeSabre. The Scottsdale, I made all kinds of memories in from high school through college. Two bench seats, a camper shell and a thick rubber bed liner, just use your imagination. People got out of Queen Mary’s way with me at the helm. Saddle tanks, and AM/FM. Good to go. Before it was mine to command, we got rear-ended at a red light and didn’t realize it until we dragged the idiot halfway into the intersection with the ball hitch wedged halfway into their engine before everyone started honking. That bumper was made for the apocalypse.

As a resident old fart (75 years old and married since 1970) I'll to list the family cars/trucks.
I'll probably miss a few:

1941 Pontiac Streamliner Torpedo Eight Sedan Coupe 249 cu in Silver-Streak I8
Power Wagon (1946 model) straight 6 230 cubic inches
1948 Plymouth Coupe flat head 6 218 cubic inch
1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Coupe 265 cubic inch V8
1956 Studebaker president 2d 283ci V8
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Coupe 283 cu in V8
1963 Studebaker avanti 289-cubic-inch V8
1965 Sunbeam Tiger 260 cu in ‎V8‎ by Ford
1966 Corvette 427 Coupe
1968 Dodge charger r/t 426 hemi
1969 Cougar Eliminator Cobra Jet 428
1970 Cadillac Eldorado 500 cubic inches V8
1971 Hemi Cuda 426 cid /425 bhp
1971 Mustang 429 cobra jet
1974 Trans Am super duty 455
1980 Cadillac Fleetwood brougham coupe ‎425 cu in V8
1981 Chevrolet K5 blazer 350 cubic inch V8
1982 Olds 98 regency brougham 403 cubic inch V8
1990 Suburban 3/4 Ton 454 cubic inch V8
1996 GMC Sonoma 4.3L V8
1997 Chevrolet cavalier 2.2-liter I4
2001 GMC Sonoma extended cab 4.3L V8
2008 Chevrolet cobalt 2.4 l 4-cylinder
2009 Tundra rock warrior 5.7L V8
2010 Ranger 4.0 L V6
2011 Cadillac cts v 6.2-liter V-8s
2014 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor 6.2 L V8

1) 1966 Ford Fairlane with a 200. My first car that cost $200 and I could stand in the engine compartment with my feet on the GROUND to work on it.

2)1969 Olds 88 with a 455. Wow, I had a car that could accelerate, but with the "economical" 2 barrel card, would get 19 mpg on the highway.

3) 1977 Chevy Monte Carlo. My first luxury car with power everything including a moon roof

4) 1987 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe. My first new car that some dumbass hit and me and totaled it 2 months after I finished the 3-yr note.

5) 1985 Chevy Corvette. Bought used from an Air Force pilot. Wife hated the car and was hit 4x in it. Don't ever get a low slung black car as no one sees you on the road.

5) 1990 Chevy Corvette. Beautiful "dark red metallic" that I had to sell after we had our child.

6) 1998 BMW M3. This was my 4-dr replacement to my prior Corvette. Very impressive and I was hooked.

7) 2002 BMW 330i convertible. My first convertible.

8) 2008 BMW 335i convertible. Boy technology really raises the bar. Fastetst car I had owned thus far and I could drive "topless" LOL.

9) 2011 BMW m3 convertible. What a blast.

Not including any of my spouses cars in the above.

1965 Plymouth Sattelite 383 4 Speed
1968 Dodge Coronet RT 375 HP 440
1969 Chevy C10
1955 Chevy Belair 283 4 Speed
1972 Pontiac Grand Prix
VW glass body dune buggy
1972 GMC 3/4 Ton
1976 Chevy K5 Blazer 4x4
1975 Chevy Caprice Classic Convertible
1977 Corvette L82
1977 Chevy Scottsdale 3/4 Ton
1980 Chevy Monte Carlo
1980 Ford Bronco 4X4
1980 Jeep CJ7
1980 Jeep CJ7 Laredo
1984 Camero
1985 Ford Mustang LX Convertible 5.0 5 Speed
1988 Chevy K5 Blazer 4X4
1990, 1994 and 2000 Jeep Cherokees
2002 Ford F150 XLT
2002 Ford Explorer Limited
2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4X4.
Inherited a 1955 Buick Special, 1976 Chrysler Cordova, 1984 Buick Regal and a 1977 Chevy 1 Ton Dually.
Also through the years I've owned about 35 motorcycles.

1989 Toyota Supra Turbo.
First car and first love. I will have another one when the time is right.

1993 Eclipse GSX.
Got in all sorts of trouble. Spun it across I-95 at 110mph, fit 7.5 people, Attempting a 4 wheel burn out did not impress the women in the Porsche 944, and only resulted in smoked ego and clutch.

1997 Acura Integra GS-R.
First new car, bought it myself at 18. Went from Miami to Yuba City and back 3 times. Was stolen and stripped, flooded in a mall parking lot from a no name tropical system, Made sweet love to who was to become my ex wife in the hatch with the back seat folded, on the side of the road on the the worlds smallest mountain range (sutter buttes). A 1996 Chevy Caprice running a red light finally killed the Integra with 140k miles on it.

1991 Nissan NX2000.
Fun unique car, had it for 4 freakin weeks. Put a clutch in it the first week. 4th week leaving the neighborhood, i was at stop sign and on the phone , left the stop sign, didn't see the rapidly approaching Jaguar. Jag 1- Nissan-0.

1990 Nissan Maxima SE.
Not a great time $$ wise and i was luck to get the Maxima. This was a real beater! 3 of the 4 windows didn't work. The rear wing was coming off of each end, no radio, and the exhaust broke one night the way home from work. Yup! dragged that son if a bitch 20miles north on I-95 spewing sparks like a mofo! Brakes went out while pulling in to work one morning, used first gear , E-brake and the parking stone to stop. At this point i wanted a new car, and wanted a miata real bad. So i placed a toy miata on my desk at work and used that toy to motivate me and sell anything and everything the company offered. 3 months later i walked in to a dealership and handed over cash for my first miata. I got $200 trade in for the maxima, i thanked them greatly and ran!


1994 Mazda Miata.
I did it!! I worked may ass off to buy this car! This lil bugger got deep in my blood! Took a trip to Deals Gap/Tail of the Dragon, and made many more trips with all the miatas. After modding it a bit to my liking (wheels, suspension, rollbar,I/H/E.) I stopped by my mechanic/dealer one day and low and behold he had a turbo charged miata ion the lot. I took a test drive....HOLY SHIT!!!! Yes it stalled twice in the middle of a very very bad neighborhood( i should have taken this as a sign), but it had 250 whp!! This thing was fucking fast!!!! I came back and fully drunken on boost, we talked some numbers and i stupidly traded my first miata for 1996 turbo.


1996 Mazda Miata Turbo.

This miata was fast and not built all that great as i found out over time, and turned into a nightmare. Wiring issues with the computer and the cooling system made you watch all the gauges constantly. Learning how to read and use the Compulink management system was a hassle also. Certainly not as easy as we have it today. Had this puppy with the top down at 150mph on I-27 with an air temp at 50 degrees, i swear it got to 10 degrees inside the car! The engine blew on me. I decided to rebuild the car the way i wanted. I ordered an engine ( custom built 2.0L) from a "reputable" Mazda engine builder in TX, along with a new computer management system. I got a new rear diff, bigger turbo, heavier axles, new clutch and flywheel and a bunch of other parts. I was aiming for 500 hp. This wasn't meant to be. Over the course of 3 months i got back and forth from the engine builder, i finally got sick of it and ended up doing a $7500.00 charge back on my card. Found another engine builder, got the engine shipped to house, the turbo miata has been sitting at my dealer for 5 months at this point. I show up with a flat bed tow truck with my new engine on the back. While they are planning to move the engine off the truck, i look over my turbo miata and notice the injectors and wiring is missing as well as some other parts. The owner of the lot is giving me some bullshit story. So.... I just said fuck it, told the tow truck driver to haul my car on the bed and drop everything off at my house. Sold off the parts and car on Ebay.

1994 Mazda Miata.
I bought this one a few months after buying the turbo, I figured a reliable unmodded ( light mods only lol) for daily driving and the turbo miata for fun. The only real highlight was i this car caught a tractor trailer tire kicked up from a mustang on the turnpike. Bent the from fender and passenger side A pillar, and cracked the windshield. This miata was sold off along with the 96 turbo.


2006 Nissan 350Z
With all the proceeds from the miatas and parts, i got my 2nd new car. Still needing to mod things, i got the Z to 275WHP. Fast, loud and fun. Topped out at 161mph according to the speedo. Went tot Deals Gap/ Tail of the dragon with the z , met a tractor trailer on the Gap! I lost badly... The story end sadly with this car and i won't get in to it here.

1990 Mazda Miata.
Beater miata, smurf blue with hand painted racing stripes. Drive shaft decided to leave the car on the way home from work one night 5 miles form home on I-95. Ended up getting stolen from my job's parking lot one night after i picked up the 94 from my mechanics shop below.

1994 Mazda Miata.
It is now 2010, Found a 94 black and tan just like my first one. This one came from TX on a truck with 30k miles. First day i had it, i went to dinner with some friends and someone tagged the rear bumper! I did all the mods at once, for 2 months this car was in the shop getting everything installed. No turbo, just about everything else though. Had the car fir 4 years before a lot of issues started to pop up. Unfortunately the repairs got to the point that it wasn't viable to keep dumping $$ in to it. I sold it... Found a deal on a car my brother wasn't using.


2011 Toyota Camry.

This is sucking the soul and happiness from me little by little everyday. As i said i got a good deal on the price, my brother wasn't using it.
My first automatic since my Supra. It is truly an appliance on 4 wheel. Nothing exciting or fun.


Well, i broke out my toy miata again! As soon as i find gainful employment, i will put the toy miata in the desk and work my ass off!

I want to get a 2020 miata and pay cash!!

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1966 Buick LeSabre-First car.
1973 Olds Cutlass S.
1968 Olds 442.
1975 Trans Am.
1971 RoadRunner-Completed full resto in 2002, still have.
1991 Eagle Talon TSI-Lasted 80k before sucking an exhaust valve at about 80mph. Bought new.
1995 Ford Explorer, bought new.
2004 Dodge Ram 2500 CTD-Daily driver still, just turned 241k. Bought new.
2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat. Bought last June w/650 original miles. Parked in garage next to RR.

1987 SS Monte Carlo
1987 Mustang GT- 11.80's at 116 mph
1991 Mustang GT
1993 Mustang Cobra-10.80@128mph 1/4 mile car
1978 Corvette Silver Anniversary
1980 Corvette L82
1995 Corvette
1996 Corvette Collectors Edition
2000 Ford Expedition
2003 Ford Expedition
2005 Ford Expedition
2008 Ford Expedition
2018 Ford Expedition.



GRIZZLYBEAR- You are a muscle car era, car lovers dream. Man would I have loved to be in your shoes with all of those 1960's muscle cars. You have good taste!

1987 Chevy Z24
1989 Mazda B2200
1989 Formula WS6
1984 Civic SI
1984 CRX
1985 CRX SI (Donner car)
1986 CRX SI
2012 Fusion SE
2019 Fusion Sport

Drove all 80's cars until I hit my 30's and could afford a new car. Turning wrenches yourself and driving old school cars saved me tons of money.

1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme $300
1982 Chevy S10 $50 engine blew up 5 days after I got it
1996 Hyundai Sonata $600
1989 GMC jimmy $300
1986 F250 4x4 with ripsnorting 500hp 460 and 39” ground hawgs
1996 Mustang
1980’s Chrysler Turbo something (transmission blew a week after purchase)
1989 Buick shitbox $50 (friends and I all bought shitbox cars, had an off-road rally race and demolition derby)
1997 Saturn something
2004 Corolla
2005 Tacoma
2005 Accord
2010 Acura TSX
2006 GMC Sierra 1500 4x4
2009 Chrysler Town Country
2017 Chrysler Pacifica
2019 Honda CRV