When Did Your Family Go GM?

[2005 Equinox LS]

My Dads family were Chrysler people until he bought a 1963 Impala Super Sport. He ALWAYS bought Gm after that and had pretty good luck with them. He actually hated Chryslers and wasnt very excited about Fords.

[seth_381]

Actully I'm really the only one in my family who likes and or wants a GM Vehicle my family are either Toyota/Lexus, Ford, or Dodge People. I just don't care for Dodge and Fords design wise and Toyota/Lexus is foreign and to me out of the question.

[page2171]

My grandfather started buying GM in the early 50's when he started buying a new Oldsmobile every 2-3 years. My dad was a Pontiac man who always had at least a Pontiac in the driveway beginning shortly after he started driving back in the 60's. I have generally been a GM owner since I started driving. Out of the 13 cars I have owned since I started driving 8 have been GM cars. The other five were 2 Ford trucks, a Mercury, and 2 Dodges.

[denvern]

My grandfather only bought Chevy and surprisingly no one really followed his lead. However my 1st car was a Chevy, 2nd Pontiac then I was influenced by friends and had 3 imports. Now that I know better Im back with Chevy. Hopefully I'll start a tradition.

[Regalguy96]

Well my grandparents on mom's side were exclusively Mopar fans until the 80s when they defected to AMC. Then Grandma switched teams again in '89 and bought a hatchback Chevy Corsica LT, she traded it off for a 2002 Buick LeSabre Limited.

My grandpa on dad's side I never knew well, I knew he had a yellowish '58 Chevy Yeoman and assorted Chevy farm trucks. My dad's mom didn't have a car until a years after she married grandpa which was a '56 Rose and white Crown Vic, which she kept until she got a red '73 Pontiac Grandville convert. then they defected K-cars in the 80s after moving off the farm after a and brief period of a horrid Chevy Citation, finally grandma got her '99 Malibu LS after trading off the '86 Dodge Aries K.

My mom's first car was a '66 Chrysler New York (in line with my materal grandparents' like for Mopars) but she got sick of running out of gas due to a non-working gas gauge. That lead my dad to buy her a '73 Buick Century coupe with Wildcat badges with a locked up motor and dropped a 454 truck engine in it. Then a '73 Caprice, followed by a '78 Nova, a AMC/Renault Encore then she purchased a new '88 Buick Regal Custom with the GS package which she still has.

Dad's car was a 1969 Camaro Z28 yellow with black stripes. He then purchased a '69 Stingray which someone stole. He then had a long period of Chevy Impalas, a brief fling with a Pinto, a new Chevy Luv, followed by S10s, then a Jeep Wrangler Sport and finally a 06 Cobalt LTZ.

My first car was a 1987 AMC Eagle woody wagon, then I defected to GM with my second car a 1988 Pontiac Sunbird.

[Ssom]

My family GM history is a bit more patchy than some here. The first known GM ownership that I know of in my family goes back to my Grandmother who owned 2 Holden Toranas when new (I say 2, because my Dad rolled her first one when he was young) which replaced her BMW 2002, which was too expensive to maintain in NZ at the time, as this was before BMW acheived Corolla like levels of commonality.

Neither my mum or dad went to GM ownership (They usually drove Ford or Honda and subsequently Volkswagen), but after owning a litany of Mitsubishis, Hondas and getting a 7 year stint out of a Peugeot 306 my Grandmother went back to GM. She started off in a 2000 Astra, but flogged it for a 2003 Barina (Aka Corsa) after getting too many speeding tickets in the Astra.

I myself have never owned a GM, but I hope to move to a Holden Cruze eventually and then up to a Commodore.

[jAustin]

When my (step) grandfather married my grandmother in 1960, he had a Corvette and a Cadillac. As my dad grew up my grandmother drove Chevrolet sedans and wagons (my dad had 4 brothers) and my grandfather drove Oldsmobiles (Cutlasses, 88s, 98s). He bought a brand new 1974 Chevy truck with a 454 that he kept on the farm until he replaced it with an '02 GMC 1500. They are on their second Grand Cherokee now, because they are one of the few automatic-trans vehicles you can tow flat behind a motor home, but other than that they've been purely GM. When I was born in 1991, my dad had an avocado green 1972 Sedan DeVille with a 472 ci engine that he got from his uncle. Unfortunately, by the time I came around, the Cadillac barely ran and sat in the back yard. In the 90s, my dad's biological father's mother and her husband had 2 Olds Cutlass Cieras and a 70s Chevrolet truck. My dad's stepfather's parents had an 80s Olds 98. Most of my dad's brothers' first cars were Cutlasses of some type.

My mom's side is far less pedigreed, but they have owned their share of GMs. My grandfather on that side drove Oldsmobiles too, and in the 80s they had several Chevettes.

[mikmak]

Looking through some old pics I found the only images I have of my previous Commodore. Accordingly, let this thread hold images of your fallen warriors (whether they were destroyed or just departed).....

2001 VXII Commodore Executive, with the trusty 38004A combination.







1993 VP II Commodore Executive Wagon, with the trusty 38004A combination (I seriously loved this car)



Bring out your dead...

[cdp326]

Pre-Maxima: 1994 SC2:




Pre-Aura: '05 VUE FWD-4 automatic:

[nota]

1971 Holden HG Kingswood with the 253 cid V8 and Trimatic (traumatic) auto, a tidy example in need of a wash.
Keen eyes might note those now-rare wheels, ex-Monaro GTS 327 .. and the befitting original rego plate GOA 253.



Owned this RHD '65 Buick for 9 years & 150,000 miles. Koni adjustables, removed four of the six mufflers, a top car! My 3rd Buick.



Aussies will know how great these things were, its a 'homologation' special, the 1985 Holden HDT Commodore SS Group A.
My only bought-new car (so may as well be a good one!). With $2,500 of extras its cash price was $21,900 driveaway.
I optioned it with long-range tank, blueprinted carb and dizzy, the 3-inch Lukey-HDT exhaust which sounded fantastic.
I saw about 6,250 rpm in top gear in this thing. Stolen after 11 months, #45 of 500 (let me know if you see it around).



Hope not too many pics of my el-cheapo T-Bucket. Model A front axle, HK Monaro discs, Datto 180B steering with Subaru column.



Toyota Crown 3-speed with Impala straight-line shifter, Fiat 2300 diff & rear discs, coil rear. Deutz headlights.



Much modded Holden 179 with solid lifters, race cam, Yella Terra head, extractors, twin Strommies, etc. 1,500 rpm idle.
Very light & fast! I once dragged off a yuppie in his fancy Porsche Careera, even his peroxide g/f seemed impressed.
Great for lunchtime drive-bys at the Catholic Girls High School ... dump the clutch at 7,000 rpm and the front would lift up 18".



The inline motor allowed a decent rake to the wheel, unlike the more 'classic' V8 Buckets with their vertical column.
Not the most comfy thing I've owned but very reliable and I did plenty of interstate miles, 2500 km trips were no problem.
Had a neat tonneau .. but no bonnet, doors, roof, windows, heater or spare wheel.



Lots of other I could post. Mik the Bucket has some GM-H in it, but otherwise she's a 'bitzer' .. is your thread reserved for GM only?

[BrickTamland]

What happened to the 2001 Commodore mikmak?

[chaseabryant]

Pretty cool T-bucket nota

1999 Pontiac Grand Prix GT
-Sadly, no pictures, but nothing special.

2003 Honda S2000



1997 BMW 328iS <- Miss that one the most!

[mikmak]

Originally Posted by BrickTamland

What happened to the 2001 Commodore mikmak?

She didn't die, I jut sold her after we got Wagon. In fact the VZ got the wheels as a transplant.

Originally Posted by nota

Lots of other I could post. Mik the Bucket has some GM-H in it, but otherwise she's a 'bitzer' .. is your thread reserved for GM only?

Come one come all mate. Nice donk in your bucket too. Obviously you knew what you were doing

Chase! Don't know what else to see except OUCH! Was it self inflicted?

[King Riffle]

My previous Taurus, an '01






My Fiero, an '87



My old Safari, a '92. She was a faithful beast.






I'll have to scan my pics of the Sunbird.

+ YouTube Video

[F14CRAZY]

was that the Commodore wagon that wore out the rear tires quick when it had a load?