What Did Your Dad Drive?

[ScottyB]

my parents had been raised on domestics (dad had a 307 elcamino, mom drove a 57 chevy) and when i was growing up we had a buick century t-type and a 2-door S-10. they were both awful pieces of shit. i could tell some stories about how piss poor they were. our last domestic was a caravan when i was a teen, and although it ran it was falling apart as it went down the road. my dad made the choice to move on to more reliable Japanese cars, and although i digested entire issues of car&driver in a sitting and liked every car i saw for different reasons, i had pretty much reasoned out through my parents' experiences that domestics were worthless and imports were all that mattered. then my dad got his first audi - it drove much nicer than any japanese car i had been in up to that time and was technologically impressive, so i got really into them, but still pretty much worshipped Japanese cars.

nowadays i don't find allegiance with any particular brand and like cars from anywhere. but deep down, i would have a really hard time putting down cash for an American car just because it was so ingrained in me throughout my early driving years that they were junk. we own 2 Japanese cars now, both of which are brands my family has owned.

my dad recently got his first "sporty" car which has been funny since i've always been the car guy in the house. i think i rubbed off on him.