What was the best Christmas present you ever got?

So, it is a little early, but I though it might help me get ideas of what I want to ask Santa for this year. What is the best Christmas present you ever got as an adult or kid? Either car related or not.

I will start, mine was a Lincoln welder but I have had a lot of good presents as well, like a Lay-Z-Boy and car parts.

 

best ever, my baby boy last christmas, acutally 12-28
as a kid, my Lazer fasttimes bicycle when I was 10
car related? probably all the parts I bought with my christmas bonus 6 years ago when I was doing the sbc for the old 51.

 

Barbie camper when I was about 12. I wanted it so bad but the stores were out. My sister and I were told sorry girls, can't get it, what else do you want? In the meantime the folks had called the grandparents out of state, who we would be staying with over the two week Christmas vacation and they were able find them and arranged the surprise. Woke up Christmas morning and two Barbie campers were under our grandparents Christmas tree, one for me, one for my sister. Santa's elves worked extra hard for us that year AND found our super secret Christmas location!

Yep, still have it too!

 

Last christmas my wife bought me a 8500 lb winch for my car trailer! We have been together 28 years so far.....

 

Mine was my first BMX, it wasn't a top line bike just a 'Crossrider' (May be an Australia only bike) But it was more than just a bike. At the time my mom was single and on a pension, she saved her *** off to buy me that bike. That alone makes it special.
Doc.

 

My oldest daughter in 1991, 2 weeks before Christmas Day.

God gives the best gifts!

 

My wife got my seats redone last year loved it

 

In 1964 I was 7 years old and my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He was bedfast for several months and knew he wouldn't last till Christmas. Somehow he managed to get my younger sister and me new bicycles, we came home one evening and the bikes were sitting in our living room next to his hospital bed. We had no money back then so how he swung it I am not sure, I would imagine the Church helped out. He p***ed away on December 6 that year but he made sure his children were taken care of. The present was great but Christmas really ****ed that year.

 

My folks got me a subscription to Hot Rod magazine for Christmas when I was about 12 years old. It was what I wanted more than anything else. I loved hot rods.
My parents were pretty conservative and strict and not really into cars. Hot rods had a rowdy anti-social, and dangerous image back then.
The subscription to Hot Rod meant a lot to me because it was a recognition of me as an individual with my own interests.
50 years later I still love hot rods! It was the best Christmas gift ever.

 

Best Christmas gift "I" got : 1965, my first Stingray...
Best Christmas gift my ex-wife got : when I bought her a '66 Nova hardtop!

 

My Grandson came right before Christmas last year....

 

Knight-Kit Star Roamer shortwave receiver kit under the tree my 12th Christmas in 1963, set me on a path to a career in electical engineering. My 1956 American Flyer train set a close second.

 

That's easy!

 

An Edmunds 2x2 Flathead intake a few years ago.
My Father bought it for me from a very sick friend before he p***ed away.
One of those things you keep forever.

Norton

 

My buddy had lego and it was great, but I loved my

 

X2....
I loved the Technic sets...way better then the specialized kits these days...(yeah, I still look at 'em in the stores).

And these....STOMPERS!!!!

 

Ehhh, I recall my dad buying me a large box of small items ful of star wars stuff, I think he just swept his hand across shelf LOL
I was a lil older and my mom bought me a Stainless RUgger 10/22 w/ laminated stock, it doesn't get any better than that consider that my mom does not like guns either .

 

Mine was a train set and a Schwinn.

I didnt find out until I was an adult that my Gramps had bought the Schwinn used and then painted and polished it back to new condition. I sure wish I still had that darned bike. Still got the train set though.

 

Stompers!!!! Hell yeah!!!

 

My son born December 25 2005 !

 

HAHA I am going to perpetuate a Canadian stereo type here but my favorite gift was a pair of goalie pads(hockey) when I was about 10. I wanted them so bad and didn't think there was a chance I would get them but there they were under the tree. I'm not sure I even opened any other presents before I put my skates and goal pads on and went out back to our rink with my brother to try them out.

 

I've gotten a few great ones. Years back the wife got me a cherry picker, several years later a MIG welder, more recently a plasma cutter. The last two items were taken during a home/garage burglary but have been replaced. These things seem to keep me home & in the garage & out of the bars

 

Well my little girl was born 12-17 and was healthy thats the best,When i was a kid my train set,as a teen my parents bought me a 1957 chevy 2 door post belair no motor or trans in it. But there was out in the shop that I had been building for 2 years with my own money and in the car was the crome dress up kit for my motor. Thats the best as a teen hands Down

 

Christmas 1975 dad got me a 58 Chevy belair for a christmas bonus for working at the gas station i was 14. We worked on that car till i was 17 and won the Asbury park car show 3 days after i got my lic.
The worst Christmas was in 1980 my dad left the shop to get a set of injectors for the race car we were building together and p***ed away on his way back 12/10/1980

ROCKY

 

Christmas is a special time for me. I grew up on a farm in Oklahoma and while we weren't poor by any means we had to watch what we spent.

The one thing my folks plurged on was Christmas. Especialy my dad, Christmas was his thing. I know he saved all year just to spoil us rotten.

Memorable gifts were My first bike, 26" Murry with the tank, horn, baloon WWWs, bright red and black. The Aurora Model Motoring race track, the first edition with the cars that were AC powered with the little reed ******** motor. The David/Bradley Go-Kart, drove the wheels off that thing and actually turned it over once trying to drive it on two wheels like the Joie Chittwood Thrill Show guys.

A couple years ago when we were cleaning the farm up for the sale, after mom p***ed I ran across what was left of my old bike in the machine shed, couldn't toss it in the dumpster, so it is sitting on my back porch. lol

 

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2009

 

Christmas of 2008- my wife bought me a 1957 Buick Special 2dr hardtop out of Ohio to build, what a gal I have!

 

When I was racing my wife got me a 9.90 spec jacket and a practice tree. She's always impressing me with how close she pays attn to what I'm doing. However, lately I've become a Scrooge. I truely hate xmas. Big commercial overlit overpriced rude society greedy *******s miserable clerks and all. Last year I had what's left of my family over for the day. For once everybody was in a good mood and we enjoyed each others company and had a nice lil feast and a few seasonal drinks. I didn't want anything else. I hate getting gifts, even the good stuff that I can really use. Yeah I'm a ****ed up individual, what's yer point?

 

i realize this is very consumerist, but last year my wife got me an ipod touch. This stupid thing is the absolute greatest handheld do anything you need it to gizmo.