FAHQ2

My father also owned that exact same car back in the 70's its the first care i can remember ever driving in.
Same color as yours too. Thanks for the memories.

FAHQ2

Mokers

Murilee Martin

prndl

I still remember having to push an H-body Pontiac Sunbird out of our snowy driveway back when I was in high school. I can still recall the whirring whistle sound of Sears radials on hard-packed snow.

Anyways, thanks for that great and moving story.

SundaySunday

Now, about those ice racing pictures?

makfu

Texas_technoman

jnostalgics

Also, I appreciate the story, too. Good stuff. I, too, have fond memories of a '76 Skkyhawk - my cousin's. Which I repeated pwned at drag racing in my 1971 Pinto Runabout. Those were heady days. I bought that Pinto because it was $250. I still don't know why he bought that Skyhawk.

lascauxcaveman

EvilTriumph57

yellofury * * * * *

Number_Six

One of my students, Tank, went to Madison in '89 or '90. When I came back to the States a couple years later and went to Madison myself, he called me up and said, "Guess what kind of car I got!"

"Hmmmm, knowing you, I'm going to guess Trans-Am or Camaro."

"WOW! I got a Camaro! How did you know?!?"

Kitt

mr.chöppèrs

@charles_barrett: Writing, so I consider this practice. I started off in engineering but realized the hard way that I couldn't hack it with numbers and physics and stuff (even though I'm Asian), so I transferred into Arts and Sciences for Writing and eventually Photography.

And no, I will never laud a Prius.

@lascauxcaveman: At least I didn't say, "yeah, she totally is." What? What?!

@rkwadd: I'll ask tomorrow if I can remember. And I'll have to edit out "DOTS Skyhawk" out as well, but I'll probably forget anyway.

bzr the paranoid android

Kitt

Oh the memories...

JLP at AllFinancialMatters

hootjigga

What?

What?!

lascauxcaveman

charles_barrett

slantsick

icntdrv

jonrudd

junkman

O, the depths of the wonder that is Jalopnik!

Novaload

Gino Camaro

rkwadd

Tocsin

deskman

I think your thought of the Skyhawk being, "a pastiche of ironic '70s Malaise" is spot on. So much GM malaiseness went into the H- bodies that it's hard to fathom so many years later. Today everyone wanks endlessly about the supposed irrelevance of GM but it's cars like the Skyhawk that brought us to this point. Thanks for the perspective.

Uncle_Bo is El Commentamino

graverobber- Same great taste, new low price!

Corvette_Thunder

AllenK

Stories of fondness and personal attachment to cars often make for excellent reading, especially when delivered with the aplomb of this one.

And when the subject matter is a car of irretrievable awefulness, where the survival of the car is nothing compared to the suffering borne by the owner, the story is ever more effective.

I would post of my Rover 800 days (Sterling...) but frankly this story pisses all over my little saga....

Thanks, BZR. You're promoted.

Rust-MyEnemy

voodoojoo

You'd be doing the English-speaking world a huge service if you at least minor in journalism or literature...

And of course I am sure your parents are very, very proud of you!

charles_barrett

sliderule

FLB

BSAKat

graverobber- Same great taste, new low price!

I remember my dad's company '84(ish) Skyhawk...well, fondly is certainly not the right adverb. Let's just say I remember it.

PeteJayhawk