My dad’s stories are my favourite. His first car was an old Capri also.
His first new car was a 1987 Integra 3dr RS, in red. It had pop-up moonroof and he installed the RH side mirror himself (yep passenger side mirror still optional then). I think he said a few of his classmates and friends had (the now 80s classics) Corolla GTS, Sentra hatchback, etc. My mom still bugs him for that one time he tried to teach her manual on it once; it was basically him sighing and saying, “oh there goes my clutch” the whole time. Because it was his baby haha. I don’t think we have any photos of it; the car was gone before the real baby (me) arrived.
From baby onwards, we had various cars like Camry Wagon (manual), MPV, Toyota Pickup 2WD (manual) and assortment of Land Cruisers; 40 series, 60 series, 70 series. 70 series ended up being my favourite. My mom loved the 70 because of its height and visibility. They only came in manual though, so she had to learn manual for real this time. Even our family’s first new car was a manual Matrix. Eventually the Land Cruisers went but we still have one, albeit sitting for the last 14 years. You’d figure it would’ve been fixed by now since the son of the owner became a mechanic. I’m working on it!
I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree cuz now i’m in an Integra haha
