New season of Top Gear did a segment on this. It's really good.
They say the most memorable car in your life isn't the car you first bought, or the car you learned to drive on. It's your dad's car.
My dad's car was a 1985 VW Jetta GL Wolfsburg ed. It was his first new car he bought in Canada. 5 speed manual and I was always so mesmerized by the shifting and the clutch and how he always knew when to shift.
He took such good care of it. While he'd wash it, I'd sit in the driver's seat and pretend I was driving. I dreamed of the day I get to drive it in real life. He traded it in in 1991 for a minivan. I almost want to go buy a mint condition Jetta now just for the opportunity to drive it (and I'd let him drive it too).
The part that I could never understand was it only had one turn signal indicator on the dashboard, not a separate 'left' and 'right' one. I could never understand how my dad knew the correct signal was on when making a turn
