What was your coolest car? Mine: '63 MGB.
In British Racing Green.
Wire wheels, knock-off hubs.
Knock-off hubs: Instead of lug nuts to hold the wheels on, the wire wheels had one flanged, center, screw-on chromed hub nut. The car came with a rubber mallet to 'knock off' the flanges on the hub and knock it back on.
Genius.
I'm 6' 3" and it's the only car I've owned that had more legroom than I needed.
If I put the seat all the way back, I could barely reach the pedals.
My second coolest was a red '65 Karmann Ghia convertible.
Underpowered, but a lot of fun.
What was your coolest car?
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Though mine had different rims.
My college car.
It was a hoot.
most gorgeous car on the road in those dark days.
and it got people's attention!
I drove it to Florida and all points along the east coast for many years.
I thought the car behind was gonna park in my trunk (stop and go through construction) so I darted between the cones. His big car would have put a major butt hurt on that lil spitfire if I didn't cause he stopped just behind where the door would have been. 
Didn't she like the car? Or maybe she couldn't drive a stick shift.
in any universe. I once had a brown Dodge Aries station wagon, like this:
This car accurately represents my personal style, which does not include any element of coolness.
love it!
(we had a family truckster growing up - white 64 ford station wagon)
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Cooler heads prevailed.
Also red. 
It looked very similar to this. It had a 350 cubic inch motor and a 350 turbo transmission if I recall correctly. I blew up the motor in it. I was 16, what can I say?
(not my car)
Fire engine red, and yet, I was rear-ended twice by people "claiming" they couldn't see me! It was basically my car in the early 80s, driving it back and forth to college and university. Great fun to drive, though the 2nd gear synchro was worn out, and you had to double-clutch to downshift from 3rd. Got pretty good at it on some neighborhood curved streets
My first car was also my favorite, because it was tough, versatile, and quite fun to drive (not as fast as the MG, but that couldn't haul a full-size drafting table, either.) That was my 1988 VW Fox Wagon. I'd probably still have it today if I hadn't gotten in a wreck on the freeway (fourth in a pile-up that had just happened on the other side of an overpass, so I didn't know it was there.)
I don't have an available image of my own, but this is it, even the same color:
The first brand new car I bought was an '87 (I think) Fox station wagon that looked exactly like that, except it was dark blue. We put well over 250,000 miles on it and never had any real problem with it, other than that on long drives (800 miles or more), it had a weird problem with static electricity build up which would cause the lights to dim until it blinked and everything was OK again. Weird design flaw which it shared with the European Polo apparently.
We had that car for more than 25 years, spanning some eventful years in our married life, good and bad. I nearly wept when we donated it to charity and the tow truck took it away. It almost felt like giving a beloved family pet to a vivisectionist.
I'm afraid I never had a really cool car, though.
No, it didn't turn heads, but maybe if anyone ever saw me sliding mine sideways (coast in neutral, then throw on the handbrake with a hard right turn) into order to perfectly line up my rear with my parking space, that might have add some coolness to it
Still, I really did fit a full-size drafting table (6' x 4' top) including the dismantled trestle support, into the back of that car. To me, that's cooler than any "supercar" (Top Gear guys actually love hatchbacks, too, so we're in good company.)
Forgot to add, that I laughed out loud at your mention of static charge build-up 
That's my personal, physical body problem, but didn't ever have it with my car. It did have a weird electrical problem that took my shop three days to trace down and fix. Luckily, it was on an extended warranty, so I didn't have to repay the price of the car for mechanic-time. (The wiring in one spot rested on a sharp metal support, and had worn through the insulation, causing an intermittent problem with the lights.)
Blows away all of my V8s from the 1960s and 1970s.
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My first car was my coolest car: 1968 Pontiac Firebird
Mine had honeycomb wheels off a 78 Trans-Am, air shocks to get the fenders up off the 15x10 G60's in the back. 15x8 in the front. Also, I bought mine at a junk yard and the vinyl roof was in bad shape so I stripped it off and sanded it down and repainted the whole car verdoro green. (no small amount of bondo in there too)
I paid 500 bucks total for the body and a running 350 motor from a Buick LaSabre. My stepfather had to build custom engine mounts of aluminum to get it to fit right. Don't go thinking he did it out of any kind of love for me. He just liked building cars and my mom made him make it run.
I got the car at 15 and worked on it until I was 17. A week after I got my license I totaled it. Got one good date out of it though.
I'm 51 now and my next car will be a new black Camaro and I'm gonna find a company that will print the hood stripes in my clan tartan. I thin it will look cool and if it doesn;t I won't give a shit. lol.
...version? My first car was a '68 Camaro.. Turquoise with a white vinyl top. 
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Originally had the 1.7l engine, but I had a burned exhaust valve on #3 cylinder, so I bought a 1.8l long block.
Most fun car *ever* to drive. With the mid-engine, it had a perfect 50/50 weight distribution. Sitting was pretty much almost straight legs, and about 6" above the ground (I used to look out my window at the other cars' door handles at stoplights). You could make a 90 degree turn without any 'diving' at all - it just sort of flowed around the corners, at speed. Small, light, and maneuverable - these cars *still* beat a lot of modern stuff in various types of racing (involving handling).
Standing next to it, the roof was at the level of my sternum.
It finally rusted out too much to bother with, so I gave it to a guy in Portland on a sort of 'pay it forward' forum on a motorcycle message board.
I took this picture the day before he came up with the trailer to take it away. It was in pretty sad shape by then...
was a cool black MGB Roadster and I loved it.
Second car, a cool green MGB Roadster and I loved it even more!
Apart from the fact that they were so easy to break into and that persons unknown would
occasionally steal the convertible top, I look back fondly on those times.
Also had a '67 Camaro 
in red!
Not a great photo--but the only one I have that survived our fire.
My oldest son--the one who now drives autocross here in NC--learned to drive a manual transmission on that car.
I still remember taking him out to the local mall parking lot on Sunday mornings so he could get the feel of the clutch
and learning to shift. Me? I learned to drive a manual transmission on a WWII era Willys Jeep that my dad used
in the orchard when I was in high school.
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Some man had built this retro Sunoco Gas station on a lot for reasons no one ever really knew but he didn't mind if people photographed their cars there - so we did.
this was in England but he hated right-hand drive so he got this car from France
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the bug eyed opel gt ... remember those (the poorman's vette ... lol)
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I guess this one, since a couple more have listed it below as theirs. It sure was fun to drive, really handled well in the curves.
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the '64 Mustang or the '89 Mustang
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the '65 Cadillac Sedan Deville (big as a whale 
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the '89 Lincoln MarkV11 with moonroof
or maybe
the '75 Jeep Cherokee (even though it was pretty ragged out)
A 86' VW Vanagon Synchro 4X4
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She's got a few rust spots, and the interior is always loaded with sand, but she is our favorite ride.
Though when I was single in the 80's I had a Triumph TR-7.
I got it "used" when I was 18, which woulda been, ahhhh, 1973.
Shoulda held onto it, godammit!
in lime-green
As I recall, that was the last year that Germany made the Opel, and why he picked it (not because it was the last year, only that it was still German-made.)
And yes, I did get to drive it, and it was great in the corners. He also got minor hits (rear-ended, passenger door punched in) because the idiot drivers said they couldn't see him. Bright lime-green, long before lime-green was a popular color in this country, and they said they couldn't see him! No, dimwits, it was because you simply weren't looking for any other vehicle from atop your butt in your massive Suburban Assault Vehicle
Or what the hell. Laugh if you want to.
Mine was a 1974 AMC Gremlin, Levi's Edition, with a 304ci V-8.
Man, did that thing move, and great economy too!
(Picture from internet - not the one I owned)
And two US Presidents have owned Gremlins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Gremlin
In fact, my dad got a seat and door from a junked Gremlin for our Hornet. Since some parts were interchangeable. It got me through a couple years at college.
Dad bought this for my 16th b-day in 1956 for $50.
Drove to high school daily.
Had a rumble seat that I once had eight people in it and six more inside for trip to a Friday night football game against the cross town rivals in Burbank.
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so cool
1969 Mercury Cyclone CJ 428
My first car and it was a blast. Cool looking, roomy, and faster than heck
Got into more trouble at a young age than I thought possible because of that car. Still love its looks and go power.
1980 BMW 3.0 CSI
My first real sports car, and I got to drive it totally unrestrained on the autobahn for three years. Not only was it fast, but it was so cool and competent at handling anything from driving in downtown Frankfurt, to blowing away certain Porcsches and Mercedes on the autobahn. It could cruise comfortably at 260 KPH down the A8 autobahn from Frankfurt to Munich easily. Still love that car, and the new BMWs are only a shadow of this one,
No real horsepower... but a sunroof for those glorious summers in the south in the mid 1980's...
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that looked just like this one. (Mine had a sunrrof, too.) It had a whopping 75 horsepower but was so much fun to drive because of its 5-speed manual transmission. I still miss it.
396 cubic inches of pure muscle coupled with a side loader 4 speed trans.
Got one brand new just before I left for the Army.
Here's a stock photo that looks identical to mine, except that I had baby moon hubcaps. That thing could pass anything on the road except for a gas station. I put in an Edelbrock 4bbl carb and replaced the intake manifold, and dualled out the exhaust.
Someone stole it and it was never recovered.
After it was stolen and wrecked, it was replaced with one of these:
Fun, but a bit of culture shock!
looked just like this. I bought it for $235.00 from a senior in about 1971.
... I owned a 66 MGB, in British Racing Green also. It looked almost exactly like your picture.
It was a very fun to drive car. Unfortunately I did not have it very long - it had mechanical issues I found it difficult to resolve so I sold it.
I also enjoyed my muscle cars back in the day, a Chevelle SS 396 and and several GTOs. Street drag racing was a hobby for a lot of us
Age 23 I learned to drive with that car (well, not that one; that's just a Googled photo!)! Wish it hadn't rusted completely away underneath!
Beautiful burgundy color, soft interior, amazing stereo. Never needed repairs, only had to change the wipers.
Loved it too, except for the 10 mpg thing. She was a 1970 which we sold ~4 yrs later.
Some years later we bought this little baby Reatta which I drove for 22 yrs!!! Sold it last year.
Looked just like this. That was my first new car. I was in my early 20's. I'm now driving a black 2010 Charger, my 2nd coolest car.
Hard to believe that a 5.6 liter engine wasn't the largest engine available that model year. The 'Cuda was my car through the end of high school. Sadly, my parents sold it while I was in college.
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