First "wow" car you saw in your childhood..

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Hello, I open this thread because I know that alot of GTP members are way older than me, I am thirteen years old. So, the point of this thread is to share stories of when you first saw a really expensive car. Examples might be.. A Ferrari 360? Porsche 911? Lamborghini?

So, once, like 4 years ago, I saw a 360 Modena in a parking lot of a mall. I lived in Puerto Rico, you dont get to see cars like that. I literally drooled when I saw it, it was an awesome yellow. My second sighting was about 2 years ago. I saw a red 360 Spyder going way too fast on the highway. Once again, I drooled. :/
So that is my story, share your stories. :)​
 
I don't know when I was really amazed and drooled over something. It certainly wasn't the first time I saw an expensive car, that's for sure. I remember going to the local auto show when I was a kid, I think around '92. I got to sit in a Viper, and I was totally baffled how low the Esprit was, even for someone my size.

The first time I really drooled over a car, the kind of feeling you get when you are bewildered even after you've walked away, had to be my first North American Elise spot. I had seen them at auto shows and when I went over to Europe 5 years ago, but this was somehow different. In that time I had gained so much knowledge about the cars that when the anticipation of seeing a Canadian Elise came (last spring), I was really amazed. A nice black, sitting at an expensive restaurant, in good company: F430, C6ZO6, M5.

I still haven't seen an Exige yet (surprising, eh?)
 
First "wow" car i'd seen in person on the everday road (not a carshow) was an Aston Martin DB7 a while back.
 
When I was 6 or 7, I saw an immaculate Ferrari F40 up close. That was an awe-inspiring car.
 
A green Corvette ZR-1, a family friend had one and I remember going for a ride in it when I was 5 or so.
 
When I was around 5 years old I saw a 1969 Camaro SS396 that was blue with white racing stripes. That started my love affair with it...

It looked like this, only with white stripes instead of silver.

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when I was a kid an uncle of mine had a 1970 Mustang Mach 1... that was teh secks!

Years later, when I was around 19 or 20, I got me a 1969 Mustang Mach 1, with a 428 CJ engine... all of a sudden I was his favourite nephew.
 
Growing up in Michigan you spend a lot of time around automobiles. Given that my Dad is pretty much into cars as much as I am (same with both of my Grandfathers), there were always nice cars around that were really impressive. Going way, way back, I can't really think of something super-specific... It was probably a Corvette or a Camaro that really impressed me the first time.

But, as I recall, I was really impressed the first time I ever got to see a Late-Model race car up close. My Dad used to be a photographer for a NASCAR magazine here in the Mid-West, so he spent a lot of time going around to different tracks when I was a kid, occasionally getting to know drivers and crew chiefs. Many of the drivers both he and my Mom hung out with are quite popular now... Rusty Wallace, Mark Martin, Jack Sprague, Butch Miller, and most notably Johnny Benson.

It was Benson's ASA Car that I seem to recall most, a late-model Lumina at the time sponsored by Berger Chevrolet. It was so cool being able to see one up-close, being able to sit in it, and then hearing it start up and such. He lived not too far from our house, so I had been over there a time or two... It was pretty cool.

Other than that, I think it has to be somewhat similar to my "First Ferrari" story. Seeing that Testarossa was shockingly cool as a kid, and then getting to sit in that 308 years later was awesome as well.
 
i musta been 4 or 5 in what was then a segregated rhodesia back in the seventies, and we were going to eat dinner at a hotel. fancy outing for us, but it was just holiday inn.

a white round tailight BMW 2002. my dad was first to go up and take a look, i followed him and there the bug struck. and took hold something fierce.

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i've got two of em, one a roundie and one a later square taillight big bumper car. neither in anywhere near the shape i want em to be in.
 
Red ferrari f355, I had a 1:18 diecast model of it a few days later, but being 6 i blew it to pieces
 
I'm not sure actually. It might have been a Viper. Maybe that 355 at the Ferrari dealer in Seattle. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was a C4 Corvette.

Those just seem like the totally awesome cars that you actually saw from teh early nineties. And I'm sure I've seen all of them and drooled over all of them.
 
The first vehicle that made me go "wow" was the one with the ringing bell and funky music playing driving up the road that stopped for everyone.


Yes it was that wonderful thing called the "Ice cream truck"
 
TVR 450SE!

1983/4, I was about 9 or 10 & this was the first real 'WOW' car I can remember.

I've loved the old 'Wedge' ever since. :sly:
 
For me, the first car I came across was a "Wow" car. I've always loved 'em, no matter what. I loved dad's old stick-shift Mk. II Golf. any memories in that little car

However, I must say i've had a few encounters. A '70 Dodge Superbee was for sale for awhile in my hometown, as was a Dodge "Little Red Express Truck," both of which I wanted badly. Of course, I was ten at the time.

I think my first major spot was a Viper GTS coupe on the interstate. They sell 'em in Roanoke, about 15 minutes from home, but I still don't see many of them.
 
I was given a ride in my brother's friend Hot Pink VW bug. I know, silly...but it was in the 80's, low rider VW's were very popular and hot pink was cool. I remember how it was like the gravitron when he hit the accelerator. Next on the list was a '70 Chevy Malibu. Much like this one:
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That car, in that colour, with that wing. I can still remember when I saw my first Diablo; it was on an Alpine sound system stand at a show; I think I was about 11 or 12. It had quite an effect.
 
My dad was a truck driver and we saw quite a few nice cars. The first real expensive car I saw was on the other highway going to opposite direction. My dad yelled out "Look there goes a Lamborghini" Just like the one pictured above this post. But it was white. That was when I was about 9 years old.
 
i'm gonna have to say, it was Richard Petty's STP liveried stock-car in 1987. My parents took me to a race when i was a wee one, and I've been addicted ever since. I can't remember what car he was running that year, but the sound of that thing was captivating.
 
Ummmm....Umm....This is quite hard...

I suppose my first wow car was this...(My photo by the way)

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Thats a Noble M12. Boy it was a cool car. It was on a racing track experience thingy in the middle of no-where called Everyman Driving Day Experiences. I nagged my parents to take me there as I could hear the sound of Ferrari's and other cars bombing it around a racing track. They took me in just for shear intrest, even though there were Testarossa's and 355's there the only car I was really intrested in was the Noble, it was just so weird and I had never seen one before. That was my first "Wow".
 
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I was given a ride in my brother's friend Hot Pink VW bug. I know, silly...but it was in the 80's, low rider VW's were very popular and hot pink was cool. I remember how it was like the gravitron when he hit the accelerator. Next on the list was a '70 Chevy Malibu. Much like this one:
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That is teh sex. You should be banned for posting porn! :drool:
 
The first ever was most probably the Lamborghini Countach 5000QV, in white with the red leather interior. I saw one at Castle Combe and lagged behind on purpose to get a longer look. The verbal equivalent to the word Countach really does say it all.

Next it was the successor to the Countach, a red Diablo VT, also at Castle Combe. The noise was awesome, just what a HotWheels fanatic was hoping for! I was allowed to sit in the drivers seat while Dad took pictures, possibly making me the happiest kid in the world that day. Beaming smiles all round.

Next, a car that still has me caught up in it, The Impreza 22B. After having one bolt it past on a scenic route while on holiday in Scotland I became a lover of the Boxer exhaust note. I'm now a fully-commited Subaru fanatic and love that sound even more than I did back then.
 
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I have always been into the MR2 ever since I was 8, it looked so cool, and still does. This car is older than I am, and it's still my favorite. It's look just stood out from the other cars, and from there on, I wanted to learn more about cars. It's interior seems even bigger than the sucessor SW20. I have this car myself with around 135k miles on it. It just has 5 spoke rims instead, and a few engine/exterior mods from the previous owner.
 
My first 'wow' car strongly resembled this:

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It was actually (at the time) the only registered 1967 Chevrolet Corvette 427 Coupe in my area. The bonus was the shade of Marine Blue: Lynndale Blue, while it sounds nicer, is actually more of a dull grey-cobalt, and I was instantly disappointed to see it (it is better in GT1), but this car had a nice blue finish with a white 'stinger' stripe. I saw it walking home from school with my brothers almost 8 years ago, and, playing GT1 even then, I was pleasantly surprised to see the same car I regularly raced and raced against.

Today, I am a fanatic...
 
it was when i was really young, maybe 4 or 5 years old, my dad had a 1969 Super Bee, black, red stripe on the back. when i finally realised what it was, i was amazed.
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Just make the body black and the stripe red, and i can't remember what engine it had, it might have been a 383. He had to sell it to pay for our house.:(
 
First car I saw in person that made me "wow" was a forest green Dodge Viper RT/10 some local club owner had.
I thought it was a spaceship or something.
 
Until I was five, we had a white 1961 Lincoln continental convertible. Man, that thing was cool. I was infatuated with the roof. Every time the roof went up of down, I enjoyed it. THe joys of being 5, huh?

The second car that made me go "OMFGWTFH4X:drool:" was a 1993 GMC Syclone. It belonged to my friend's dad, and one day we were following the truck in their other car, a Saturn SL2. There was a sports car at the light, and they raced to the next light. The truck disappeared. Man, that thing was cool. being all black with red pinstripes helped.
 

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