Cars You Have Owned That Are So Unique That If You See One Just Like Yours Out On The Road You Wave To The Other Driver

I realize that I'm misusing the word unique here, but you get the idea. I've had three of these kinds of cars:

• 1973 Mazda RX-3 Station Wagon: Bought this in Illinois and drove it out to California a month later.
• 1977 Honda Accord: The nearest dealer was 65 miles away, in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Back then only three colors were available. We had the tan one.
• 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon: Always a bit odd, this one, but we're still driving it in 2008.

Did you ever have a wave-at-the-other-driver type car? What cars on the market today would be in this category?

Comments

[Woody]

I have a '92 Chevy Lumina with 350,000 miles on it and with the original engine, original transmission, original timing chain, etc. and it still runs just fine. I was in a grocery store parking lot about a year ago when someone came up and asked enthusiastically about my car. It turned out that he had one just like it and with mileage well past the 200,000 mile mark. I've had people make offers to me for it. Chevy must be kicking themselves for making such a durable car that didn't have to be replaced earlier.

My daughter has a 1972 VW Super Beetle (really a spare car.) It's fun to drive and people with the same car like to look at it.

[mike]

In the 80s I had a '69 Karmann Ghia. That was a wave-swapping car for sure. As for today, Smartcars probably fall into that category. The new Mini Cooper wagon-thing, Clubman, I guess it's called.