Do ou feel your car "fits" like you want it to?

cool thread... got me thinking about how there are cars that suit me from just about any era. A few I can think of: my boss' '35 Packard, my old '67 Cougar, my old Lincoln Mark VIII. All of them are black and look like badguy-in-a-movie cars. Not that I'm a bad guy... although behind the wheel of a car I can be. Ha.

 

my first car was the 1958 fairlane i am still working on, got it back when i was 15! im 21 now. drove it everyday for a good 2 years before starting the work on it. back in high school i was known as the kid with the car, i swear that car and me are like the same person, every inch of it suits me perfectly.

i inherited my sisters 2001 hyundai once the '58 began its long road of work... POS ****ed, i hated it, yes it was good on gas and it was a 'newer car' but the damn thing gave me so much problems. i spent more money on THAT than the '58 at the time. then the motor blew up in it of course, ugh....

THEN, my dad's 63 ranchero. sat for years and i fixed it up once them hyundai gave out. drove it for a good year before selling it. i considered the 63 ranchero like a brother to the '58 haha.. sounds wierd, it was tellin me 'im helpin you out until you can get you a better reliable car jason, your 58 misses you, im just here in the mean time', LOVED the ranchero. gave me no problems really until a few weeks before i sold it... then i got my 95 silverado to get me around daily and to haul stuff.... that truck suits me pretty well, but not like the '58.

i go to some parties and i'll run into high school people and the FIRST THING THEY ASK,.... "jason dude, whats up? how's that car with the spikes man?" makes me smile every time.... that '58 and me will be inseperable

 

I think "evolved" is the key word. My '64 suited me with stock dog dish and 14 inch pinner white walls in '87-88. When I got it back in '96 I made it suit me with chromies + baby moons and black walls. For a brief time in the late 1990s chrome modular rims suited me and then vintage Cragar 30s spokes REALLY suited me but now I'm leaning toward '65 Galaxie 15 inch steelies with '59 dog dishes and black walls.

The Pioneer c***ette player I put in the dash in '88 suited me at the time but I was very happy with the stock AM radio an elderly fellow had rebuilt and stuck in the dash when he owned it in 1990. When that died the $5, garage sale Blaupunkt CD player I put under the dash in '05 suited me for a lot of years but now I want something MP3/iPod friendly though running that kind of high tech tune-age on a generator system seems as wrong as an NFL linebacker drinking a Zima at a Chippendales review while waving a fist full of singles and yelling "TAKE IT OFF!!!".

Personality wise, yeah, the stock bench seat remembers when I was 30lbs heavier (divorce is a great weight loss system), I know that the gear selector has to be in "Park" but pulled to the right for the car to start and I know every inch of her under-carriage just like you would expect a man to know the body of woman he has been with for almost two decades but has never grown tired of her.

I think it fits me great and when I don't I change it until it does.

 

so true, there are many little things not many people would know if they drove my car, im gonna put disc brakes on my '58, but before i did the motor swap, the brakes ****ed, but i knew when to start braking otherwise i'd end up wedged behind someones car. there was nothing to show what gear i was in too, i just knew to go straight down, then go up two notches and i was in drive. plus driving with no power steering is fun, doubt any of my friends would know what to do if they had to make a u-turn in that thing haha. its the little things that i know about her that others dont, that make it suit me

 

I think so. When I was first looking for a car to build I really wanted a 32 Ford 5-window coupe. Problem was with two sons it wouldn't have worked , so for the short term I decided on my 48 sedan coupe. My boys are no longer interested and so I started looking at 32's again. I sat in a few , drove a 34 and man are they small. My car fits nicely, it has plenty of leg room , plenty of hip and shoulder room. And it rides great.
Yeah, it fits me. Think I'll keep it a while longer.

 

i've drove my 64 chevy truck for 25 years.my truck is me.the heats never worked.windows have always rattled.blinkers???i get told once a week you know your tail lights are out.it dont try to impress anyone and neither do i.we both work everyday and if someone needs help we'll jump in there and help.i cant count how many times weve helped stranded drivers.my whole family begs me to fix it up i try to explain it wouldnt be my truck.i actually invested in a stereo several years ago since it never had one.about a week later someone needed it worst than i did.guarentee if i last 25 more years i will still be driving my truck

 

I know exactly what you mean. I had a 72 GMC longbed. It was white, but the inside was ochre the p***enger door was black, and the drivers door was blue. The truck was a rust bucket, but it always started and got me where I wanted to go. I loved it and so did my wife and my 2 year old baby girl. She called it daddy's dooba dooba, because that was the noise it made going down the road. I sold it for $1100 a little over a year ago. Didnt need the money just got the itch for somethin new. Since then I havent found a vehicle that fit me and my family like that one. Ill never make that mistake again. If you love it dont let it go!

 

My 55 Chevy Wagon both fits me and "fits" me. Low and surfy, with enough bark to be heard, it's boss.

 

I traded a '59 F100 recently that I never felt comfortable in for a '41 pickup. Drove it home about 180 miles with one hand on the wheel and one arm on the windowsill. Something I could never do in the Ford, which was white knuckle death grip driving 100%. My girl and I had a blast.

She later told me how impressed she was with the '41s demeanor on the trip and proclaimed it a keeper.

I agree.

dka

 

Great thread. I feel like I've been driving my Falcon forever - even though it's only been mine for a couple years. It was meant for me. I love my Camaro, but it doesn't feel as natural.

Don't get me started on how I feel in my father in law's HHR. Fish out of water...

-Dave

 

i was 7 (1976)when my dad bought my 53 ,he told me the day we drug it home that one day it would be mine..we went on vacations,fishing trips and rode in it to school.he parked it a few years later in my grandmas back yard...it set there until 6 years ago...it was only natural that i build it....even though ive only been working on it a few years it feels like a home...everytime i drive it i think about setting in the p***enger seat looking at the V8 emblem as dad banged gears...or the time the brakes went out and mom blasted through a intersection..i would set in the car and pretend to drive for all those years..now i take my daughter for rides in it.... even though its a ford and im a chevy guy,,it fits,its home and its a part of our family.....

 

all the cars I built (after I figured out what I was doing) were fitted to me. Luckily my wife and I have similar driving positions so it works for us both. She wouldn't drive cars I traded for because "they don't fit right". I have tweaked a lot of seats, steering columns, brake peds and shifters to get it right but they gotta fit.
On the other side of this, I would love another 39-40 Ford coupe cause I felt like I fit it.