It's Mother's Day

"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake) 05/11/2014 at 08:08 • Filed to: Moms

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Let's have a little oppo game. What's the best car your mother has owned since she's been a mother?

My mom currently drives a 2013 A5, which is so much cooler than the minivans she had when I was a small child.

Cajun Ginger > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:11

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Do I get to pick my favorite car since having kids?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:12

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The only one that never broke...

Crocket Bernet > Cajun Ginger 05/11/2014 at 08:12

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Yes

Brian Silvestro > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:13

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328d xDrive, she got it yesterday

Crocket Bernet > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:15

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My mom had a 350z.

puddler > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:15

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i'd say it was the '92 lincoln mark vii lsc. my grandpa ran a body shop, so it was black laquer, the 5.0 was cammed, and the people who bought it live down the street. my friends would most likely say it was her '98 z/28.

Cajun Ginger > Crocket Bernet 05/11/2014 at 08:17

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and yes I'm well aware there's not room in here for kids. 3 are grown and I do have a practical CUV to drive the 10 yr old around in.

Tom McParland > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:17

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I don't know about "coolest" but my mom had an '88 Jetta GLI 5-speed. That was her favorite.

Conan > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:18

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1978 Toyota Celica GT

StoneCold > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:19

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81 RX-7. She still misses that car

Agrajag > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:21

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Not hers pictured but identical. My grandfather bought this new shortly before he passed, then my mom had it until 1991-2(somewhere around there). She had to stop driving shortly after that due to medical issues.

Favorite memory.

5 year old me:"Look a turtle."

crunch splat

Mom: What?

KnowsAboutCars > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:22

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My mom hasn't owned anything that interesting but she has driven some great cars including Lancia Delta HF turbo (one of her favorite cars) and some 80's Bentley.

PG; the scalpel wielder > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:23

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now its a civic, but this was my fave as a kid because of the memories (dad also had a white one)

yamahog > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:29

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I've been told my mother had a sweet Celica before I was born :/ when I was in middle school, she got a Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder (4cyl, not the gts pictured) which was almost cool at the time because of FF2. My youngest sister is driving it now.

Right now my mom has a white Lincoln MKX she inherited from my grandmother. She is casually in the market for a new Camaro SS because her youngest sister, the Daddy's girl of the bunch, went through 2 or 3 back in the 80s before my grandpa stopped buying her new ones.

sellphones2493 > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:33

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Since motherhood, my mom has owned:

1991 Honda Accord
1996 Volvo 850 T5
2003 BMW 325xi
2009 Audi A5 3.2

I'd say the Volvo.

Klaus Schmoll > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:36

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Manual Diesel Wagon!

Black E39 530d with tan interiour. She still drives and loves it. But currently the new 4 series Gran Coupe thingy seems to tickle her fancy.

Agrajag > Cajun Ginger 05/11/2014 at 08:36

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Happy Mother's Day!

Klaus Schmoll > PG; the scalpel wielder 05/11/2014 at 08:38

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What is that? An Escort for the Asian market?

Cajun Ginger > Agrajag 05/11/2014 at 08:43

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Thank you. :)

shop-teacher > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:43

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My Mom's favorite car was her midnight blue '84 Oldsmobile Delta 88 coupe. She refused to drive "an ugly ass four door" until I was in high school, when she got into real estate.

I'd love to have another of those giant coupes. I almost bought one to fix up from my neighbor years ago. He had one sitting without plates in our apartment building parking lot. We agreed to a price of $150, but when I went to pick up the keys and title, his girlfriend flipped out at me and chased me away. The city towed it for having no plates a week later.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:45

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Since im young, my mom has only owned two cars since I was born.. this was the cooler: 96 Cherokee Sport (looked identical to the pic below)

The other choice was a Honda Pilot

jkm7680 > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 08:48

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I grew up around a slow old Volvo wagon thing. Now she's got a Mercedes E-Class. Similar to the one pictured. Before she was a mother........ Different story.

I tried to convert her to Audiism without sucess...

Tony Montana > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 09:13

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My grandma had an AMC Javelin.

My mom... she hasn't had anything nearly so cool. Unfortunately.

signintoburnerlol > Crocket Bernet 05/11/2014 at 09:19

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Oh my, that must of been awkward.

fhrblig > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 09:21

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I'm speculating here, but I'm pretty sure I have the right one. A 1986 Honda Civic was the first new car she ever bought on her own. Hers was blue, and even more basic than this one (it didn't even come with the black rub strip along the side of the body). She bought it from Vidmar Honda in Pueblo. She had only wanted one option, a rear wiper. She didn't get it, because it meant she'd have had to go up to the DX which was $700 more. Doesn't sound like much, but the one she bought was only just over $6k so that would have been adding over 10% to the price. I did kind of wish she had gotten the DX, because it would have had A/C. Vinyl seats in summer are not a good time.

It was the barest of barebones cars. It didn't even come with a radio, so she had to have one put in. The interior smelled weird; the best way I could describe it was rancid Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup. That was its new-car smell! The catalytic converter always smelled faintly of rotten eggs. That's not the most pleasant combo on a hot day.

She loved it. It never broke down, always got ridiculous gas mileage, and was even fun to drive if not terribly fast. 6 years after she bought it, I learned to drive stick on its 4-speed manual. I think it's the car where her love of simple, base cars rubbed off on me. She didn't let me drive it all that much (I had my own car, after all), but I remember how light it was and it even cornered pretty well.

When I was a senior in high school, my stepdad pestered her into trading it in for a 1985 Cadillac Fleetwood. It was the worst decision ever. That Cadillac was a piece of shit that constantly broke down. She's still a little bitter about that.

Nibby > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 09:49

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My mom has mostly driven crossovers the last 10 years, but she had a '90 Civic Wagon when I was a babby.

theburnerformerlyknowasthestigfarmer > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 09:57

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Yeeeaaaaah buddy

This is comfier than anything else. Best car ever.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 10:03

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Her current car is her coolest

SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O) > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 10:13

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Not this exact one, but it was exactly the same. The 2002 gene is a real thing. I swear. My dad and uncle had them too.

handsoff > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 11:55

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This. Brought both my brother and me home from the hospital as newborns. Was the 'family car' for another 5 years too, before they sold it for an '84 Lincoln Mk7

Spaceball-Two > Jayhawk Jake 05/11/2014 at 11:56

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My mom's retirement present to herself

PG; the scalpel wielder > Klaus Schmoll 05/12/2014 at 06:03

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pretty much. just a rebadged mazda 323, called the Laser