[sonick]

Great thread idea!

Story of my dad's car starts in 1990 when we emigrated from Hong Kong. My dad was amazed by the the amount of 'car' you can get for the price, and as such, when we landed he quickly purchased a top of the line 1990 Pontiac Grand Prix STE. 3.1l V6 putting out 140hp.

Fully loaded with leather bucket seats with thigh and lumbar support adjustment, power everything, sunroof, Onboard Computer. It was his pride and joy:



At 5 years old, I was amazed by the dash cluster and the steering wheel that was full of buttons and an OBC. It was like a spaceship:



The onboard computer was amazing in its time:

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It was the car I learned to drive on and learned to wrench on. I still can't believe how my dad trusted a 20 year old kid with nothing but a Chilton manual borrowed from the library to overhaul the brakes on it.

My dad drove it to the ground and scrapped it about 5 years ago.

Ironically at the same time he bought a brand new base model red automatic EF Honda Civic for my mom and sold it a few years later when we upgraded to a minivan. It was garage kept, barely driven. Wish we would've kept the civic instead as it would've been worth way more than the Pontiac.