My family was all GM. When I was very young my dad had a 64 Biscayne that started as a straight 6 and three on the tree he then went to a 409 with a four speed. Him and my uncles on my moms side were always working on cars. My grampa on my dads side owned his own garage up in Cleveland and my dad would go up and work on cars with him and his half brother. My first car was a triple black 76 Monte with swivel buckets it was rusty but it was cool but it caught fire before I turned 16. My dad also had a 67 SS Impala fastback with a 327 like this one My sister who is 11 years older than me ended up with it and cracked a head on it then dad dropped a 283 out of the 64 Chevelle wagon we had in it. He also had a 65 3/4 ton Chevy truck road like a rock but I loved that truck. We had alot of Impalas later dad started buying Olds Delta 88 and 98 those cars rode nice and had 455 in them. Cars I have had were 76 Monte fire car 76 Buick Regal wrecked it also shared with my other sister 78 Malibu dog 76 Malibu kept for 10 years looked like crap but had a posi and unknown very powerfull 350 car was abused 75 Blue with white Landau Monte wish I still had it 75 maroon Monte bought for 300 fixed bent frame drove untill a lady ran a red light and hit me in the drivers door tearing the rearend out and totaling the car got 1500 from her insurance for the car and parted it out. During the time I was driving the maroon Monte I went to a junk yard by Columbus Ohio and found my first 71 SS 454 Monte after the 75 got totaled I lost my mind and bought a 2000 Eclipse I could not afford the Trans Am I wanted I also had a 88 Caddy and a 70 Monte driver at the same time. Since then I have had 83 Electra 91 Roadmaster 93 Lumina 96 Lumina 05 Impala 71 Monte sold to a friend to buy current Monte 03 Grand Am 05 Malibu 95 Altima flipped and made good money 91 Silverado dad has it now 90 Silverado 98 Silverado 98 Grand Prix 07 Impala 03 Grand Prix 09 SS Impala and my 71 SS 454 Monte and a bunch of 70-77 Monte parts cars. Sorry to ramble.

Wow, lots of cool stories here. Thanks for submitting them.

I just found out that my great great uncle owned Gisinger Chevrolet /Buick in Wooster, Ohio so I suppose owing Chevy's was in the stars for me.

Growing up my dad owned several early 50's lincoln's, but later on Pontiac and buicks. Pretty much stayed with GM. My grandfather ran a garage outside of fowler,il. and his choice of make was dodge only. Thankfully that never rubbed off on me. Shortly after I turned 16 I visited my brother who lived in L.A. at the time and he owned a 72 Monte.Loved that car the minute I saw it. Thirty six years later I bought a 70. I've pretty much been All GM except for a few ford trucks.

Some great stories from members. My family was on the poor side so they had to buy what the budget would allow. I do believe that there has been an aray of all brands over the years. My dad drove a lot of GM cars (Buick, Cadillac). Mother's family were Ford people. Being in the automotive field, my dad drove what brand that he worked for. When I was really young, my parents had a Crosley station wagon, Kazier/Frazier and the grandparents drove mostly GM. 50 Buick and 57 Chevy 4dr and 50 Dodge pick-up (I learned to drive on that one). We've had Hudsons, Fords, VW as I was growing up. Then my parents bought a 58 Chevy Brookwood S/W. This one went to Alaska.

My first car was a 53 Ford 2dr post 6cyl which I wrecked after four weeks of ownership. Then I walked for 3 years and the next car was a 55 Olds Holiday four dr. First new car was a 1968 GS 350 auto. Since that time I've had a few off brand, but mostly GM. Since I started to drive in 63 I've had 74 different cars and trucks. Crazy I know but I used to use cars I could buy for wholesale and fixer uppers so I could make extra money. I'm all GM now and hope to stay that way. I did see a 2011 Mustant and darn that car looks good. Thanks to all for sharing your stories.

I remember my dads Rambler in the late 60's but what sticks out in my mind was my dad's first new car, a 1968 Impala...it was a four door but with the sloped roof line it was sharp...it had a 327, 4 barrel, turbo 400 and a posi rear....

My father worked on cars to make extra money and cursed at all of them but the GM products.....He's always had a Chevy....even to this day. So it's in my blood....

My parents wouldn't even consider buying a foreign car....My dad always say's "do you know who made the zero's that bombed Pearl Harbor?...Mitsubishi" Americans have a short memory.

Steve

Growing up, my dad was more in love with a beer bottle than anything else, so we usually had what ever a couple hundred bucks could buy...usually some form of Mopar. In 1973, my mom got a 1970 Chrysler New Yorker and boy was that car sweet. I had to parallel park that yacht in order to get my license. Even as a small child, I was a "car kid," and could identify cars bymake and model at 5 years old. When the Monte Carlo came out in the fall of 1969, I said I would some day have one, and in 1977, I bought a 72 Monte. Had it until it was stolen in Sept 1978. After that, I bought MANY new cars, but none were the same as my 72. Finally, 29 years to the day my first one was stolen, I got the one I have now.

Growing up in Michigan since 1953 I recall a 56 Ford four door two tone blue and white. My brother said it had a 312 4 BBL T-Bird engine. Same brother went off the road and totaled it. Dad then got a 62 Pontiac Catalina 389 2 BBL four door. Oldest brother got a new 1960 Impala 283 2 BBL two door white with red interior. He got drafted, sold it on return got a 66 Ford Galx 500 XL convertible with a 352 2 BBL. My only sister got a new 66 Ford Fairlane 500 Dark Green 289 2 BBL. Dad then sold the Pont and got a used 66 Olds 98 four door 425 4 BBL. This is the first car I drove when 16 and my first wreck when, on my first date with a girl in a car, a guy ran a stop sign and T boned us. Nobody got hurt and the car was repaired. Second oldest brother got a used 1963 Triumph TR-3B in 1967, he already bought Grandpa's 1937 Dodge pick up in 1964. (He still has both as of today!) Sister started dating a Chevy / GM engineer around 1967. He had a Corvair but soon after started driving new Chevy company cars. That's when it got fun. The best one I remember was a black 1969 Camaro with the all aluminum 427. Wish I could have driven that one! We have a picture of it someplace. He is the one that introduced me to the 1971 Monte Carlo, I was hooked. Except for the Monte, all my other cars were boring basic transportation sedans.
Bruce

man you all have some cool family car stories..sorry I dont but its great to real all of yours...

well heres mine...I grew up living mostly with my grandmother who had lots of cars adn i blame her for the fact that im a chevy man..well her and the corvette...never had any cool cars tho...but come to think of it..they were all gm except for one or two...I remember we had an old blue chevy vega 2 doorwhen I was like 6 or 7 and i vividly remember loosing the rear axle gettin on the freeway(lol)..we had a couple buick centuries..early 80's modles..I remember we had a mopar..lol..a ugly green station wagon with wood on the side..I learned to drive in that thing...it was real wheel drive with a v8 in it..I also learned how to do one wheeled burn out in it! Then we had an 86-87 cutlass..then I bought my 1st car..a 74 nova stright 6....that was fun...then I had a 72 nova 350/350 and an 86 rx7...then a 73 camaro 350/350....then 2 72 firebirds a 400, 3spd and 350/350, a 2001 chevy s-10..then i found my monte carlo. i now own a 2002 Chevy Tahoe, 72 monte carlo, 2006 pontiac g6...thats pretty much it!

Well, I have a few stories that Dad told me from when he was growing up, he had a bunch of cool cars when he was young. He had quite a few really cool cars when I was younger, not all necessarily were GM, though. I remember a few specifically. The Monte Carlo, of course, he bought the '70 when I was about 4 years old. He had a Datsun 280Z when I was really young, dark brown in color, I believe I called it "the Race Car" since I could only ride in it with Dad, Mom didn't like driving it, my older sister was too young to drive (and it was a 2-seater), so it was always just me and Dad. He bought me a Mustang as my first car, it was a project '73 Notchback with a 351C, and unfortunately, I never got it fixed up enough to really enjoy it, so I had to sell it, but that was a pretty cool piece of my childhood. He bought my Mom a 3rd gen Camaro Berlinetta, he had friends that always had cool cars, and he was always telling me about his old cars from before I was born.

He's told me about cruising Woodward in his CJ7, the story of how his Judge GTO was stolen, the custom center console (with built in cooler) he put in the back of his Olds 442, the pair of Indy Pace Car Mustangs he had over the years, even stories about his Dad's Chevy Biscayne from when he was a kid. I loved talking cars with him, he taught me everything I know about the automotive hobby, and the memories from the times I spent with him growing up will always be some of my fondest memories of my childhood.

I'm a die hard Chevy guy, but I can respect other makes, mostly older cars though, and I can't say I'll never own a certain make of vehicle, but I will always have a tendency to buy GM. Or Jeep, pre-Chrysler, of course, but that's just because they are completely unique, and nothing anyone else makes can compare.

I guess I never really thought about that much(family cars), lets see what I remember, when I was born was the only time my Dad didn't own a GM product. He had a 64 1/2 mustang, before that I know he had a 61 Olds Delta88 after the stang, it was a 66 Catalina to a 68 Catalina, then a 72 Delta 88, oh wait forgot the van at this point 77 Dodge then a 83 Grand Prix and a 92 Buick Century. But it was my neighbors car(which was actually my second 72 Monte I owned) is what sold me on a FG...