I heard how someone reckoned their eldest child may have been conceived in a old Datsun in the early 80s. It got me wondering about the cars I and my sisters may have been conceived in.
For me, in 1979, if I was conceived in a car it would have been a chrome-bumpered MGB-GT in British Racing Green, although the eldest of my two sisters might trump me by being conceived in a Lancia Beta Coupe The younger of the two though would have been born in a Volkswagen Sirocco, just not classy enough.
So, anyone else who could have been conceived in a classier motor?
I could have been conceived in a classic. When I was born, my Dad had a 64 Pontiac GTO. They sold it shortly after I was born (thinking it wasn’t big enough - Hah!) and shortly after that, they saw it totalled on the side of the road where the kid who bought it had been racing it.
I think that broke my Dad’s heart - he’s been restoring GTOs ever since. He made me buy a 65 Tempest as my first car, and I think he’s had about four GTOs and a convertible LeMans since then.
My mom bought a blue 1977 Toyota Corolla hatchback in late 1976. I was born in March, 1978. The timeline would work. However, my parents took such good care of that little car that they still had it throughout the '80s and most of the '90s. I learned how to drive on it, and it became MY car in high school! That was a little weird, especially considering I put the back seats down and slept back there a few times.
Are you sure the Malibu model was around in '59? I know the Kingswood Estate wagon is, as my dad had one much like the one in the linked picture when I was born. I think he already had it when I was conceived (November '58), having recently prepared for the anticipated arrival of his first child (and, as he was a good Catholic, what turned out to be three additional offspring over the next six years) by trading in a '57 Bel Air of a color (but by no means condition) reminiscent of that in the “Chevy Shangri-La” poster. Yeah, he often reminisces about that car, and kicks himself for not holding on to it…
Having been conceived in India, and neither of my parents having cars at that point, I am forced to conclude the only “vehicle” I had a chance of being conceived in…
A 49 Buick Roadmaster station wagon. I have pictures of it. My mom loved the car but my dad traded it for a horse trailer.
I like your dad. I currently have a 66 GTO and in the past have owned 2 Tempests, 2 Lemans, and another GTO. I have also owned a couple Pontiac Catalinas and a 65 Grand Prix. Wish I still had them all.
A 66 Grand Prix was what he traded the GTO in for. Man, was that a boat! You could fit a whole Hyundai in that car - two kids and a dog was no problem. But then, we would have fit in the GTO too.
After my dad died, someone posted a photo to CBC’s memorial website for him, showing my mom and dad sitting in the back of a fabulous old brown station wagon with a canoe on top. The guy left a message saying, “Here’s dad and mom _mcl vacationing on my property in Nova Scotia. I think this is where their oldest son matt_mcl was conceived.”
Mom took a look at the photo and said, “Nope.” A kind of funny incident, at any rate.
my father never learned to drive, and didn’t own a car. (he passed away in 1954)
my youngest daughter was most likely conceived on a 36 foot cris craft cabin cruiser on the intercoastal waterway off fort lauderdale florida in may of 1982
For me it could have been several cars. A brown pinto station wagon or a tan jag or a blue jag. My thinking is probably not, though, as the tan jag is tiny and a stick shift.
My parents had a Triumph before I was born – they traded it in (for either a butt-ugly orange Oldsmobile or an even butt-uglier Caprice Classic that used to be a drivers’ ed car) when they had me. Looking at the picture, I have to say that at best it’s extremely unlikely.
The younger of the two though would have been born in a Volkswagen Sirocco, just not classy enough.
