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title: "Which Car From Your Childhood Do You Remember the Most?"
description: "It's time to talk about The One."
date: "2021-02-25"
modified: "2021-02-25"
authors:
  - name: "Jerry Perez"
    job_title: "Deputy Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/jerry-perez"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/39462/which-car-from-your-childhood-do-you-remember-the-most"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
---

# Which Car From Your Childhood Do You Remember the Most?

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If there's one thing I've learned in life it's that whether you're a car person or not, there's always one car that stands out from your childhood. Seriously, some folks could care less about boxes on wheels and they couldn't tell you the difference between a [Pontiac Sunfire](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/38891/2021-mercedes-amg-gls63-a-603-hp-luxury-tank-conquers-a-winter-road-trip>) and a Porsche 911, but by god, they know that one jalopy from when they were kids.

So, I'm curious, which car from your childhood do you remember the most?

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*Young and fashionable me pumping fuel in the 993., *Jerry Perez**

Working from home as Managing Editor of *The Drive* allows me to change into more cars in a given month than I do sweatpants. Ok, maybe not quite—I do care about personal hygiene, I promise!—but pretty close. You'd also think that I favor a lot of these cool borrowed cars over the bare-bones, [Mexican-issued Nissan Tsuru](<https://jalopnik.com/mexicos-nissan-tsuru-goes-out-in-a-blaze-of-perfect-dea-1792316484>) my mom owned when I was little. But nope.

However, despite being present during some important milestones of my childhood, that [unsafe-AF Nissan](<https://jalopnik.com/horrifying-crash-test-against-a-modern-car-shows-why-me-1788423100>) isn't the most memorable car of my childhood. That honor goes to my dad's 1994 Ford Thunderbird dressed in Light Evergreen Metallic. Boy, that was a majestic beast. I could be wrong here, but I believe that was the first time I saw buttons on a car steering wheel (or maybe that was his white Mercury Grand Marquis?) which was just mesmerizing to me at the time.

The Thunderbird only stuck around for a year because my dad apparently grew bored with it, and replaced it with something a bit more family-friendly: a two-door [Chevy Tahoe](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/37693/2021-chevrolet-tahoe-road-trip-review-after-25-years-still-the-king-of-the-road>). *We all make questionable decisions, ok?* Sadly, that Tahoe also didn't last long because it was actually stolen a few months later. So much for happy childhood memories!

Still, there was something about that Thunderbird that made me fall in love with it. The long shape, the glitzy paint, the fact that it looked cool (in the eyes of a seven-year-old), or maybe it's just that it made a big impact on me with its buttons and cool logo.

A few years later dad had a 1997 Porsche Carrera 911 in silver, then a white 2000 BMW 540i, a silver 2001 Mercedes-Benz E430, etc., all admittedly cooler than the T-Bird, yet the Ford mysteriously remains the car from my childhood I remember the most.

What about you?

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## Author
Jerry is responsible for upholding The Drive's ethos as an audience-first, enthusiast-driven car blog that serves up industry-leading news, reviews, culture, and motorsport coverage. Overseeing a staff of writers and editors from his home base in Indianapolis, he helps curate the site's daily rundown, as well as its medium- and long-term content strategies. Jerry joined The Drive in 2018 as a writer and worked as news editor and managing editor before becoming the deputy in 2023. As a lifelong car enthusiast and racing fan, Jerry believes that all cars are cool, but the people behind the machines are even cooler. This belief often gives The Drive a slightly different focus from most other car sites, where we explore the humanity behind the machines. When he's not obsessing over the day's biggest stories or hanging out at a race track, Jerry can be found behind the wheel of a car, most likely sharing a laugh with his teenage son or daughter.

### Author social links  
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