Any car enthusiasts here?

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I have been a car buff ever since I could remember. Even as a child I would go to car shows and be able to look at any classic or modern car and tell you the year/make/model of that car. My brain was like an encyclopedia when it came to cars. Sadly, I currently don't own anything special as I had to make sacrifices for my family. But this was the last fun car I owned:

This was my favorite car. 2001 Camaro SS. 6 speed manual. 400 hp. Anyways, just wanted to share. What cars do you currently or have owned?

I'm a big car fan. Right now, I only own a Subaru Forester, but I would love to own either a fourth generation Pontiac Firebird or a Pontiac Fiero someday. My first car was a Honda Civic.

My dad and grandfather are the ones who got me into cars. My dad used to have a really cool 1973 Plymouth Duster and a 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury. Unfortunately, the Duster was in a bad accident and got totaled and the Sport Fury was sold when I was little because it was costing us a lot of money in repairs

Yes, I am into vintage 1960s-1970s American musclecars.

I grew up around American V8s but nowadays I find myself attracted to more obscure or oddball musclecars like the Leyland P76, Opel Mantas, Chevy Firenza, nearly everything in the Holden range. Especially the Utes. I enjoyed learning the US Ford Falcon that ended in the mid-1960s was continued in Argentina until 1986

I am big into cars that have the serene magic carpet smooth bump-filtering ride over rough and lumpy roads, like older larger cadillacs and lincolns and buicks. I wish they made them that way still.

Always been into cars, there is something oddly calming about a properly tuned V8 (I don't mind a lumpy cam, but misses tend to annoy me).

does anybody else here like cushy-smooth-riding and quiet cars?

I do not feel comfortable in posting what I currently have, as that would be much too easy to trace to my identity. However, I can tell you a few of the ones that I have sold over the years. All were projects needing restoration work. Most did not have engine/transmissions during the time period I owned them.

1968 Chevrolet Camaro RS/SS convertible (rough & rusty shell, had been in a fire), was a 396 L78, 4-speed when delivered new.
1968 Chevrolet Camaro coupe, was a drag car with 4-speed, likely a factory COPO (427).
1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1, 351 ram air, 4-speed.
1969 Dodge Charger, factory 318/console auto, but had a 440 six pack installed when purchased as a parts car.
1970 Dodge Charger 500 SE, 383, column auto originally. This one was a factory pink car.
1970 Ford Mustang coupe, 351 ram air, 4-speed drag car.

<--- Lived in different ones over the years. Does that count?

@auntblabby 'does anybody else here like cushy-smooth-riding and quiet cars?'

I learned to drive when I was 15 in a '76 LTD wagon that weighed well over 4800 lbs (2132 kg) and was 18.8 feet (5348 m) long. For the next decade my folks preferred the Lincoln Mark series. I once took the Mk V up to 100mph (161 kmph) on the Richmond - San Rafael bridge as it was well known by teens that the CHiP turned around at both sides without going over. I couldn't even feel the expansion joints, much less the uneven paving. In any other car, it would've felt like off-roading. I finally had my "own" car when I got the family's '78 LTD sedan after my sister finished with it. Almost the same length, weight was down to under 4000 lbs but this one came with a 400 ci engine. That was the year I discovered understeer & oversteer.

Then I rebelled. First I bought a cute VW Bug, then a cuter Rabbit and finally a super cute, red MG Midget that I miss to this day*. The Midget would've fit on the front hood (bonnet) of the last of my folk's land yachts, a Lincoln Mark VI 4-door. From time to time I too miss those big, heavy, powerful, smooth-as-silk-ride vehicles.

*except I hated it too, as I was poor and had to learn to fix it on the weekends to be able to drive it during the week to get to school and work. I can proudly say though, that I've rebuilt three transmissions all by my onesie, swapped clutches & can fine tune SU carbs in five minutes. Then again, that was a long, long time & a different life ago.

current car is a Jaguar XJS V12 convertible:

^^^how well does it smother the bumps and road ruts/expansion joints et al?

<--- His first car was a '62 Mercury Comet he bought for $1 from a guy named Jimmy Carter.

<--- Been through a few Ford Taureses (lousy transmissions all), Chrysler Cirrus, Pontiac T-1000, Nissan Sentra, a few other stuff. Current car is a 2001 Kia Optima. Bought it because the back seat looked comfortable and doesn't have anything embedded in the seat that could disturb a good night's sleep. Oh yeah. The car runs well, too.