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A 1953 Chevy with a nonworking reverse gear. Had to be creative in finding a place to park.
Wanda Sikes, Trinity Valley EC | Terrell
Such a clunker that it was on my mechanic’s lift so much that it had more miles on it vertically than horizontally.
Joe Polino, Tri-County EC | Granbury
A hearse! Specifically, a 1958 Cadillac coach by Miller-Meteor. My father wanted to make sure if I got in an accident, it would be the other guy who got hurt.
Jay Weber, Pedernales EC | Round Rock
A used fluorescent yellow Ford Maverick. Living in a small town, my parents always knew where I was—no tracking/locator services needed!
Peggy Rusterholtz, Grayson-Collin EC | Lucas
A 1960 Ford Falcon that I drove to high school. It was so bad that the kids at the bus stop would cheer when it finally struggled slowly to the top of the hill.
Mark Baker, Heart of Texas EC | Burlington
A 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air two-door post.
Jim Dungan | Via Facebook
A 6-year-old 1957 Ford Fairlane.
Ron B. Roberts | Via Facebook
A 1961 Impala.
Buddy Dechert, Bandera EC | Bandera
A ’vette! Or, more correctly, a Chevette.
Mary Anne Moore | Via Facebook
Doomed for extinction—a Nash.
Betty Lee, Rusk County EC | Kilgore
A 1952 Chevrolet Bel Air, black, standard shift. You used hand signals; still know them to this day.
Susan Martin, San Patricio EC | Three Rivers
A 1937 Chevy coupe purchased for $50 in 1958.
Paul Page, Jasper-Newton EC | Kirbyville
A ’62 VW Beetle. Sluggish 42-horsepower, rear engine; seat belts standard; floatable.
David Krietsch, Pedernales EC | Kyle
A Plymouth that had punch-button gears.
Elaine Townsend, United Cooperative Services | Granbury
A 1968 Pontiac LeMans—two-door with a 350-cubic-inch engine.
James Parker, Sam Houston EC | Livingston
A baby blue ’60 Ford Falcon. No radio, no AC, no seat belts, and three on the tree.
EM Baldwin, Tri-County EC | Fort Worth
A ’41 Plymouth sedan elevated in the rear with new springs. It was the 1950s when the cool cars were lowered in the rear. Mine worked fine for the paper route but not for the girls.
Terry Topham, Bandera EC | Bandera
A Schwinn.
Edward Pena, Pedernales EC | Spring Branch
An Oldsmobile 442. The white accent stripes on a gold metallic body were enchanting. I named her Goldie and loved shifting gears and squealing tires.
Cindy Gill, United Cooperative Services | Granbury
A ’69 Chevy Nova—no AC, but plenty quick.
Denise Miller, MidSouth EC | New Waverly
A 1958 Chevy Impala, red with white roof.
Jerr Vernon, PenTex Energy | Lake Kiowa
A pickup truck, and I didn’t even live in Texas then.
Walter Kamphoefner, Bryan Texas Utilities | Bryan
A1956 Chevrolet convertible: sleek bronze and ivory, glossy white leather, top down (wolf whistles).
Joan Lawrence, Pedernales EC | Georgetown
A ’67 Mercury Cougar XR7. She was fast!
Cathy Ruedinger, Bryan Texas Utilities | Bryan
A 1978 green Chevy Impala—Green Monster.
Kathy O’Nan, GVEC | Seguin
A 1970 Camaro.
John Rueter, Bluebonnet EC | Elgin
A 1943 Lincoln Zephyr V-12 four-door sedan.
Don Wells, Farmers EC | Wylie
A 1973 Ford Maverick.
Rick Hobbs, Wood County EC | Lindale
A John Deere pedal car I won at my grade school carnival when I was in the fifth grade.
Ernie Pauley, Pedernales EC | Georgetown
A Mustang.
Michael McEntire, CoServ | McKinney
A cardboard box with balloon wheels and a trash can lid steering wheel.
Karen Pauley, Pedernales EC | Georgetown
A 1947 Dodge with fluid drive and suicide doors. Not many people know what this means.
Ronny Brown, PenTex Energy | Cooke County
A blue bomb Maverick two-door 1971 model.
Cynda Alexander, Trinity Valley | Kaufman
A 1966 white VW Bug with a red vinyl interior.
Keith Haswell, Pedernales EC | Burnet
A 1963 Buick LeSabre. Wow, what a tank!
Timothy Loth, Central Texas EC | Fredericksburg
Dubbed the “squirrel cage” by my friends. It was a 1961 Corvair with the engine in the back.
Rachel Austin, Pedernales EC | Liberty Hill
A 1949 Pontiac Silver Streak Chieftain convertible.
Bobby Rea, Trinity Valley EC | Elkhart
A 1972 Chevy Nova, plain Jane and pea green.
Elayne Cox, Pedernales EC | Georgetown
A used ’78 Camaro, and I made it a hot rod. By the time I was 18, I had worked or written essays to get 98 tickets dismissed by the court. I’m now a professional driver with no tickets.
Kenneth Scoggins, HILCO EC | Itasca
A red ’63 Pontiac LeMans with white interior. Zero to 60 in a heartbeat. It could fly!
Doyle Cox, Pedernales EC | Georgetown
A 1953 Chevy Bel Air, two-tone green and yellow, standard transmission. My daddy called her Bertie June.
Charlotte Larson, Grayson-Collin EC | Celina
A 1947 blue half-ton Chevrolet pickup.
Jerome Endres, United Cooperative Services | Burleson
A ’78 Honda Accord I pulled out of a bar ditch.
Patrick Mclemore, Pedernales EC | Volente
A 1938 Plymouth pickup, which I still drive.
Don Keener, Central Texas EC | Kerrville
A 1937 Plymouth coupe.
R. Vic Morgan, Nueces EC | Victoria
A Pinto.
Eddie Vaughn, Navarro County EC | Red Oak
A new Ford Pinto and it was selected by my dad.
Louise Brewer, CoServ | Argyle
A cherry red 1966 Mustang convertible with a white top.
Leanne Southerland, Bryan Texas Utilities | Bryan
A ’55 Buick when I was 16.
Jim Woosley, CoServ | Flower Mound
A 1960 Chevy Corvair.
Debra Knapp, Pedernales EC | Cedar Park
Named Ethyl (after ethyl gasoline.) Ethyl had a Posi-Trac rear end, so when I drove slow, she would wag her tail for me.
Joe Brockman, Pedernales EC | Bulverde
A ’64 candy apple red VW convertible Bug—fun, fun, fun when it would run!
Debi Ramsey, Tri-County EC | Granbury
A 1961 Chevy Impala two-door, three on the tree passed down from my parents to my older sister and then later to me.
Bobbie Jean Allen, Navarro County EC | Corsicana
1955 Chevy two-door 210—changing my life from walking to driving to the Dairy Queen in 1970, where my wife, Sandra, and I met in 1970.
Alan McKinney, CoServ | Aubrey
A used 1963 Ford Fairlane GT.
Harry Power, Farmers EC | Forney
A hand-me-down from my grandfather, my parents, my aunt, in succession.
Philip Tinker, Bryan Texas Utilities | Bryan
The kind that you filled up with oil and then checked the gas.
Cindy Milam, Central Texas EC | Fredericksburg
A Chevy Chevette, which my sister and I called the ’vette to make us sound much cooler than we were.
Lori Beggs, United Cooperated Services | Dublin
An Audi Fox. The gas gauge didn’t work, and my chivalrous guy friends would carry a gas can in case they found me on the side of the road.
Lori Walker, Farmers EC | Sulphur Springs
A Stutz Bearcat.
Darrell Hagler, Deep East Texas EC | Shelbyville
An awesome 1920s pickup.
Jane Franklin, CoServ | Flower Mound
A 1970 Chevelle.
Shelia Betzel, United Cooperative Services | Venus
A 1955 Chevrolet. One of my biggest regrets is not keeping it.
Royce Corley, Sam Houston EC | Shepherd
A bright blue Karmann Ghia that I drove way too fast.
Tina Hoffman, Sam Houston EC | Coldspring
A Ford Mustang. My latest (and probably last) car, 45 years later, is a Ford Mustang Mach-E.
John Hille, Pedernales EC | Austin
A beautiful blue 1938 Plymouth roadster with a rumble seat.
Theresa Lewis, Pedernales EC | Georgetown
A 1959 Ford 6-cylinder step-side pickup with equal amounts of white paint and rust.
J Rodney Anderson | Via Facebook
My first love.
Steve Willingham, Big Country EC | Rotan
A 1975 BMW 320 in green.
Nick Nejad, Pedernales EC | Leander
A Gremlin.
Sherry Chaloupka, Wood County EC | Quitman
A blue 1949 Studebaker Champion coupe.
Grace Tracy, Pedernales EC | Driftwood
A sexy English sports car called a TR3.
D. Radke, Wise EC | Forestburg
A 1937 Ford two-door sedan.
Bob Tracy, Pedernales EC | Driftwood
A horse.
Ed Lasater, Southwest Texas EC | Sheffield
A ’65 Ford Mustang.
Patrick T. Fogarty, Pedernales EC | Canyon Lake
A red 1962 Volkswagen Bug.
Nita Wuebker, Heart of Texas EC | Chilton
A used, two-door, dark green 1970 Monte Carlo. It impressed a freshman girl at TCU who is now my wife going on 50 years.
Randy Moresi, Tri-County EC | Keller
An ugly brown 1970 Ford Galaxy 500. It had been hit more times than Joe Lewis.
Benny Calvit, Bowie-Cass EC | De Kalb
A 1953 blue Plymouth with silver doors I shared with my dad.
Merle Raymond, Pedernales EC | Spring Branch
A 1956 Plymouth we called “the bomb.”
Robin Long, Concho Valley EC | San Angelo
A sweet, beautiful, shining sky blue ’74 Dodge Dart Swinger with black vinyl top, chrome trimmings, 225 slant-6 and Holley two-barrel carburetor.
Joe Trevino Jr., Bartlett EC | Killeen
A key that opened my way to independence.
Larry Ogg, Pedernales EC | San Marcos
A 1963 Dodge 440 with push-button transmission and a coat hanger for a radio antenna. It was the ugliest car, and I loved it.
Pamela Muncy Jones, Tri-County EC | Aledo
’47 Ford sedan.
Roy Schuelke | Via Facebook
A 1964 Plymouth four-door coupe that had just been repossessed.
Ed Hearne, United Cooperative Services | Acton
At age 19, a 1956 red MG black-top convertible, and it was hot!
Jane Patterson, Bowie-Cass EC | Texarkana
A 1972 Buick Regal that I was so excited to have—until I washed and waxed it and saw “Just Married” etched into the trunk paint!
Mary Lewis, United Cooperative Services | Cleburne
A red ’vette—a Chevy Chevette with a 4-cylinder engine and four-speed manual-shift transmission.
Mike Midkiff, Wood County EC | Quitman
A 1967 standard turquoise Chevy Corvair, and I had to have white paint vinyl seat covers and an eight-track player to listen to Steppenwolf’s Born To Be Wild.
Debbie Davis | Via Facebook
A Pinto.
Joan Worden, Pedernales EC | Lago Vista
A ’vette—Chevette, more furious than fast.
Veronica Koliba, Victoria EC | Port Lavaca
A black 1958 Chevrolet Biscayne, which I bought from my parents in 1962.
Helen Wilson, Deep East Texas EC | San Augustine
A blue semi-automatic Volkswagen with an engine that purred.
Mary Oyewole, CoServ | Aubrey
A 1948 gray Plymouth without brakes.
Carolyn Greenwood, Bowie-Cass EC | Texarkana
A 1947 Studebaker my parents bought from the 89-year-old lady next door. Army green, low mileage, in mint condition.
Ross Schumann, Pedernales EC | Dripping Springs
A total death trap—1989 Chevy Beretta.
Ellen Dortenzo, San Bernard EC | Cat Spring
A 1965 Ford Mustang given to me in 1974 by my parents.
Vicki Socia, Deep East Texas EC | Nacogdoches
A 1964½ four-speed manual red Ford Mustang.
Cheryl Hinckley, Heart of Texas EC | Temple
A 1955 Chevy my dad restored for me in 1977, and we just finished the second restoration.
Janet J. Bianchi, Grayson-Collin EC | Allen
A Mercury Montego that I shifted with a can opener and went to the gas station to check the gas and fill it up with oil.
Cathy V. Traxler, Deep East Texas EC | Center
In 1961 at age 14, a 1953 Ford pickup, flathead V-8 with overdrive.
Paul Oberthier, Rusk County EC | Lake Cherokee
The Yellow Goose—a ’57 Chevy given to us shortly after hubby and my wedding 62½ years ago.
Doris Doebbler, Bandera EC | Bandera
Super Oldsmobile 88.
Cheryl Lee, Central Texas EC | Mountain Home
A 1949 Crosley sedan.
Lionel Roach, Central Texas EC | Bluffton
A new 1964½ Ford Mustang.
Vicki George, Bandera EC | Pipe Creek
A 1974 International Harvester Scout II.
Ryan Streeter, Lamar EC | Paris
A 1958 Metropolitan.
Elaine Becker, United Cooperative Services | Meridian
A VW convertible bug.
Wendy McMurtrey, Trinity Valley EC | Eustace
A turquoise 1962 Chevy Bel Air. Daddy gave me $1 a week for gas, and I swear that car would run on fumes.
Mona H. Tucker, Rusk County EC | Carthage
A 1956 Studebaker Champion, 6-cylinder, three-speed with overdrive.
Ron Werchan, Bluebonnet EC | Washington
Named Shenitta. A rebuilt ’66 Mustang—she need a water pump, she need a tire, she need a radiator flush.
Rick Gravens, United Cooperative Services | Granbury
A truck—thankful to be a Texas girl.
GR Gustafson, Wharton County EC | Louise
An American Motors Pacer.
Elizabeth Betsy Hagemeier, Pedernales EC | Georgetown
A green Toyota Corolla sedan bought in the Arizona summer heat with no air conditioning.
Anne Blackburn, Heart of Texas EC | Bell County
A beautiful 1972 Chevrolet Nova SS.
Danny Boote, CoServ | Little Elm
A 1957 Pontiac with a continental kit on the back.
Judy Cooley, Taylor EC | Merkel
A used 1969 Toyota four-door.
Pam Gonzalez, Pedernales EC | Kyle
A 1970 Chevy Malibu, which was a cherished and trustworthy companion for 19 years.
Ken Lawson, Pedernales EC | Austin
Plymouth Duster with push air shocks.
Talhia Rasberry, Bowie-Cass EC | Hooks
Red 1950 Mercury two-door.
Glyn Murphy, Tri-County EC and Bluebonnet EC | Azle and Caldwell
A fuchsia/hot pink convertible Isuzu Amigo that my high school girlfriends would sneak into to have lunch in high school.
Jamie Ovalle, Farmers EC | Kaufman County
A 1951 green Ford, automatic transmission.
Woody Engebretson, Pedernales EC | Cedar Park
A 1955 Chevy Bel Air lovingly restored by my father because I was born in 1955.
Becke Freitas, Pedernales EC | Burnet
A perpetual enrollment in automotive repair.
Ted Sanderlin, Medina EC | Knippa
A beautiful 1962 two-door Chevrolet Impala.
Bev Wilkerson Benn | Via Facebook
A solid black 1957 Chrysler Windsor with push-button transmission—looked just like the Batmobile.
Walter York, Navarro County EC | Streetman
A 1974 green Volkswagen Beetle that I received from my parents on Christmas decorated with a giant red bow.
Deb Sovereign, Rio Grande EC | Lajitas
A dilapidated 1973 Subaru station wagon. It had four on the floor. An hour after I got my license, I succeeded in stalling it in front of a group of girls I was trying to impress while “peeling out.” Most embarrassing moment of my life.
Rich Walter, Pedernales EC | Camp Wood
A used four-door faded blue 1963 Plymouth Valiant with three-speed on the column.
Stevey Hinojosa, Trinity Valley EC | Terrell
A 1961 Buick Electra.
Judy Tubbs, Rusk County EC | Kilgore
A ’65 Ford Fairlane with an Earl Scheib paint job. Every time I washed the car, a little more paint flaked off.
Juanita Waley, Heart of Texas EC | Westphalia
A Schwinn bike with a playing card flicking loudly on the spokes. No, wait: That was my first jet airplane. But then again, it may have been both.
Bob Law, Tri-County EC | Fort Worth
A 1957 pale blue Morris Minor with a khaki convertible top.
Becky Cornell, United Cooperative Services | Glen Rose
A ’64 VW Beetle that my dad traded a vinyl couch for. Dad always said that fellow got the best of him on that deal.
Lias J. Steen, GVEC | Westhoff
When I was in high school, a 1949 Chevrolet.
Kay Daigle, Central Texas EC | Fredericksburg
Yellow with 36 seats.
B.R. Sebesta, Bryan Texas Utilities | Snook
A 1953 turquoise Chevy with a hole in the floorboard. It was like a tank.
Lynda Kellogg, Pedernales EC | San Marcos
An orange Volkswagen Beetle.
Kathleen Gordon, United Cooperative Services | Cleburne
A 1938 Ford coupe that my mom and dad drove to Monterrey, Mexico, on their honeymoon.
Ann Marie Etheridge Hopkins, Sam Houston EC | Conroe
Pitiful freedom and joy.
Tammie Manchester, Jackson EC | Sargent
A 1968 Fairlane 500, formal roof, candy apple red with black interior.
John Bosley, Farmers EC | Wylie
A 1960 Ford Ranch Wagon, mint green, standard shift and an eight-track tape deck.
Linda Mock, MidSouth EC | Montgomery
A 1950 Ford.
Ron Nelson, CECA | Early
A 1971 two-door green Dodge Dart Swinger.
Jeffrey Hardin, Pedernales EC | Boerne
A 1972 AMC Gremlin.
Tabitha Whitaker, Rusk County EC | Henderson
My ticket to the world.
John Stoll, Bandera EC | Mico
A little red wagon with a tall bushel basket attached to the front and a shaded cover to make it look like a Model T.
Nancci Phillips-Burgess, Bluebonnet EC | Lexington
A 1972 brown Ford Pinto.
Brad Goen, Pedernales EC | Lampasas
A yellow Corvair Monza.
Rosie Garana, Nueces EC | Corpus Christi
A ’68 Cadillac, powder blue, two-door, with a white top and white leather seats.
Paula Clark, HILCO EC | Blum
A Dodge Dart.
Debra Massingill, Nueces EC | Brackettville
A 1937 Ford, which I obtained in 1956.
Paul Tezel, Bandera EC | Medina Lake
A 1964 Chevy C10 SWB step-side pickup.
Doug Manuel, Pedernales EC | Canyon Lake
A yellow 1965 Ford Mustang.
Susan Youngblood, GVEC | Schertz
A Chevrolet mistake. It was a 1960 Corvair. It had the engine in the back. They don’t make them anymore.
Mike “Stick” Appelt, San Bernard EC | Hallettsville
A learning experience. So many things broke that I became a knowledgeable mechanic of my ’51 Ford.
William Arbaugh, GVEC | Yorktown
