Over the years I have had the opportunity to drive some of the most important and exciting cars of the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's. and 1990's.  These are cars that demonstrated some outstanding feature to me.  It might have been their design, their sounds, their performance or ergonomics;  some quality that made them enthrallingly memorable.

Listed below are impressions and memories of those experiences, most of which I can recall and relive to this day.  The cars are listed alphabetically with the year of the vehicle's manufacture and the date I first drove the car, but often not the last.

Model Year    Make/Model       Year Driven       Sensations/Comments

1965  AC Cobra 289                           1965 Quickest of them all (before 427); not easy to drive

1960  Alfa Romeo  Giulietta Veloce     1961      Brother Jim's car;  exceptional transmission;  what a sports car;  best straight arm driving

1962  Alfa Romeo  2000 Spider          1965 Handsome lines;  great gearbox;  big for an Alfa

1965  Alfa Romeo  2600 Sprint 1965  Giulia Sprint with a 6 cylinder;  not fast enough

1965  Alfa Romeo  Giulia SS 1965  Pretty, but slow;  woman customer raced one SCCA

1966  Alfa Romeo Duetto 1968  Better Giulia;  one of my favorites;  one hand top

1974  Alfa Romeo  2000GTV 1975  One of the best handling production cars;  responsive;  beautiful gearbox

1975  Alfa Romeo  2000 Berlina         1976  Stubby looking;  pure Italian driving fun

1977  Alfa Romeo  Montreal 1977  Tiny car with tiny V8;  couldn't trade it;  not federalized;  fun

1981  Alfa Romeo  GTV6 1981  Aggressive V6;   difficult but rewarding;  sloppy clutch

1991  Alfa Romeo  164S 1991  Handsome coachwork;  good V6; but front wheel drive

1960  Aston Martin  DB4 1964  Nice design;  decent handling;  not very fast

1960  Aston Martin  DB4GT      1965  Fastest car of its time;  traded on on a Porsche 356C;  hairier than a DB5;  brutish

1964  Aston Martin  DB5 1964  Big car with similar feel as XKE but stronger and more solid;  slow to get to speed

1964  Aston Martin  DB5  James Bond    1965  Under all that was a beat-up DB5

1964  Aston Martin  DB5  Shooting Brake    1965  Only the posh would drive one

1966  Aston Martin  DB6 1966 Slightly bigger than DB5;  finally a 5 speed

1976  Aston Martin  V8 1977  Strong V8;  lost the charm of the DB series;  no soul

1955  Austin Healey 100 1963  Faster than my Speedster but not as agile

1953  Bentley Continental R Type      1974  Huge machine with smooth power;  baulky transmission;  handled surprisingly well;  belonged to little old lady

1958  Bentley S Type 1968  Livelier than Silver Cloud but just as big;  Big Bertha

1965  Bentley Continental Park Ward Convertible    1966  Huge with decent performance

To be continued.......