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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....




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'74 HQ Holden Kingswood


 


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'74 HQ Holden Kingswood



When I see the name "Kingswood" I think of the full size grocery getter Chevy station wagon with the woody treatment on the sides.

Although, they could be ordered with a Big Block right off the showroom floor...... :D

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For many years, thanks to a growing family and gigs, my cars of choice were full size GM wagons like this:

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I had Chevy, Buick, Olds versions. Loved them all. Ex-wife wrecked the Caprice but I still got $500 for the carcass because it had the big block V8. Local race car guys loved them engines.
Your plate could've been "BGUGLY"
 
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For many years, thanks to a growing family and gigs, my cars of choice were full size GM wagons like this:

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I had Chevy, Buick, Olds versions. Loved them all. Ex-wife wrecked the Caprice but I still got $500 for the carcass because it had the big block V8. Local race car guys loved them engines.
A true land yacht. Ugh. I was too young to drive when these were ubiquitous, but I hated them.
What I thought especially funny was that they (at least my friend's mom's version) had a gauge that showed how your fuel economy was doing. Which was kind of silly, I thought, with a big block V8 where "good" was about 14 mpg...

When I was really little we had one of these. Probably without the cool wheels, stock wheels and hubcaps were how my folks rolled back then.
I spent a lot of time in the rear-facing fold-up back seat on long trips...
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From any decade? From the 1910-1920 era, it would have to be this one; 1916 Stutz Bearcat. Although, a 1914 Mercer Raceabout, for me, might be a close second. My paternal grandfather had one of these, in fact (Dad's family, before the Depression, was pretty well-to-do). Without the ridiculously expensive ($200!!:eek::eek:) optional wire wheels this one has, though; he preferred the wooden artillery wheels... According to Dad, he finally bowed to the pressure to get rid of it (my German Grandmother could be... very persuasive), and sold it to a guy who assured Gramps he was a good driver, and that he would take very good care of the Stutz. And who, on his way home to New Jersey, promptly proceeded to drive it off the (probably) Betsy Ross Bridge, and into the Delaware River...:bawl: Where it is to this day, covered in mud, muck, and God-knows-what. So, if you really want one of these, I know where there's a free one...:whistle:
 
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