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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The First Car Or Truck You Can Remember Seeing That Stopped You In Your Tracks?


BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The First Car Or Truck You Can Remember Seeing That Stopped You In Your Tracks?

The reason this question came to my mind was because of the yellow Mustang posted above. Not one like it, not a copy, THAT car. I saw it at a cruise night recently and it transported me back to a summer Saturday night at Nick’s Drive-In in Natick, Massachusetts when I first saw it in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I can remember everything about seeing that car for the first time. What it sounded like, what it looked like pulling into Nick’s and what it was like to see something that looked as though it had driven right off the pages of Hot Rod into “our” little cruise spot. It was a moment that I’ll literally never forget and when I see that car today it always makes me smile.

The second thing that completely blew my mind when I saw it in person was Bigfoot (the monster truck, not the mythical woodland creature). Having (again) see it in magazines back when four wheel drive books would have monster trucks in virtually every issue in the 1980s, I was still wholly unprepared for what it would be like to see the big truck working in person. It was another moment in time I will never forget and I know you have yours as well.

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The First Car Or Truck You Can Remember Seeing That Stopped You In Your Tracks?

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19 thoughts on “BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The First Car Or Truck You Can Remember Seeing That Stopped You In Your Tracks?

  1. phitter67

    As an 8 year-old kid in the summer of 1970. My brother’s buddy Tony Jackson had a ’63 Impala SS. Red , white top, jacked up as high as they could on Cragers, It’s still etched in to my pea brain.

  2. Joshua Clinton

    Sean Torres 1967 Nova. 1998? Goodguys Street Machine of the year and local street racer where I lived. Still is my all time favorite car.

  3. Jav343

    The 55 Packard Caribbean…I was maybe 8 years old and thought it was the most beautiful car in the world. Still do.

  4. aussie351

    I must have been around 10 , very early 80’s in Sydney, car pulled alongside us as the lights… True Blue in colour (same as your Grabber Blue), huge chromies on the back (12 slotters), and rocking sill to sill to a nasty beat. I thought his number plate meant it was his third version of the car..but as the years went by I learnt what “PHASE 3” means…

    That, along with Gary Satara’s OVAKIL in Street Machine magazine, ruined me for life
    https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/gary-sataras-blown-351-xa-falcon-coupe

  5. 3nine6

    The “Frantic Ford” 1969-1/2 Mustang bodied AA/FC. Saw it at the grand opening of S&W Race Cars new speed shop in Spring City, PA when I was a kid a very long time ago. They fired it up right there in the parking and lot I was hooked!

  6. 57Phil

    12 yrs old in 1960 at Jake’s Dragstrip, AL. Back then it was a carbon copy of George Ray’s place in AR. First car, Billy Holt’s 1940 Willy’s Coupe, Blown and Hilborn Injected Small block, BB/GS. Same day I smelled Nitro from Clayton Harris elders. It was all over, right there, hooked for life.

  7. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

    An E Type Jaguar FHC on the same week as its launch parked outside some rented flats. I was on my way to junior school and I just gaped at this British Racing Green beauty that was so low I could have pissed over it – not that I’d have wanted to. Seeing this car in such an area showed how Bill Lyons could offer such a great car at such a low price and it still remains the most beautiful production car of all time – but only as a Series One model!

  8. Ron Corts

    My Brothers 63 split window Corvette. He built it from stock to a Custom. He put in a 62 409 duel quad, 4 speed for power and total interior change. Black rolled and pleated with rose wood dash full of Stewart Warner blue face dials.Smoothed the body and painted it Green Metal flake and added 4 American Mags. I had just came home on my first leave from the USAF in 1966 and got to drive it. It was awesome and gobs of Power. That is something I will never forget.

  9. KCR

    I was on vaca. in Mesa Az. Setting at a used car lot .A 1967 Dodge D-100 . Those had been extinct here in the Midwest since 69 ,do to rust.I did a Uy on a 4 lane scared my now X. I owned it for over 15 years .Untill I found a 67 D-200 4 door . That one stopped me in my tracks on Ebay. Hey I know what I like OK.

  10. Tim

    I lot of cars have stopped me in my tracks but the first was when I was 5 years old and the 55 T-Bird just came out. But I dearly loved the 57 T-Bird. I have owned both and wish my ownership wasn’t past tense. Nowadays I have other needs to spend money on and the wants go to the wayside, darn it! Anybody want to trade a fair condition C4 Corvette that I lost interest in for one of those?

  11. C. L. Cake

    In 1957, (I was 8 years old) my dad had a garage in Kenwood, Ca. A young man who worked for him had a Model A 5 window with a Caddy engine. The car fascinated me. He used to let me sit in it for hours on end. I’ve long since forgotten his name, but I will never forget his car.

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