Cars I've Owned

  • I Googled all the cars I have owned and saved these photos
  • They are not the actual cars I had (except where noted), just the same models and years (and most times even the same color)
  • They are listed in the order I owned them, from my first car in 1968 up to my current car
  • Until 1986 all cars had stick shifts (except where noted)
  • Until the late-70s all cars had front vent-windows

Vent-windows
Cars I bought used ...


1953 Buick Special
(given to me by a friend in 1968—I just had to buy a battery—had automatic transmission)


1958 Morris Minor
(purchased in 1968—mine actually had same paint job)


1957 Volvo 444
(purchased in 1969, car I owned when I refused draft induction into Army)


1962 Buick Electra
(purchased in 1970, my first car with power windows—had automatic transmission;
I drove this car on a cross-country round trip in 1971)





1965 Pontiac Tempest
(purchased in 1972, driven from Seattle when I moved to Boston in 1973;
when this model came out in 1960 it was a 4-cylinder economy car,
but mine had a V8 and stick-shift like the GTO;
eventually impounded for unpaid parking tickets)


All cars above were owned in Seattle.


All cars below were owned in Boston. 


1973 Toyota Corolla
(purchased in 1978 after several carless years—I started living with my girlfriend Patti in Weymouth and commuted by car to Boston; Patti and I were married in 1979)


From this point on all cars were bought new...


1978 VW Rabbit
(Patti bought this originally, I still drove the Toyota)


1979 Volvo 745 DL
(I bought this with Patti, sold the Toyota, and started driving the Rabbit - Patti drove this Volvo)


1981 BMW 320i
(my first expensive luxury car that cost over $10,000)
All cars above had stick shifts (except where noted)—all cars below have automatic transmissions...


1986 BMW 528e
(I was still hung up on BMWs)


1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee
(the first of several all-wheel-drive SUVs I've owned -- ACTUAL PHOTO in our driveway)


2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee
(I gave this car to son Alex in Brooklyn when I bought my next car)


2014 VW Tiguan
(these are photos of my actual car - and a funny story)