To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Classic Car Restoration, JDM, and Automotive History May 17, 2025

What was the first vehicle that hooked you on cars? Listen in as SpeedyCop tells all.

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Car

Monolay Rumble Seat Roadster

The Monolay Rumble Seat Roadster is an old-fashioned car that has a special seat in the trunk that opens up. This type of seat was common in vintage cars and lets passengers enjoy the ride outside.

Concept

rumble seat

A rumble seat is a special seat that is found in some old cars. It is located in the trunk and opens up so that people can sit outside the car while it is moving, which was a fun way to ride back in the day.

Car

Mercedes 200D

The Mercedes 200D is a type of car made by Mercedes-Benz that runs on diesel fuel. It's known for being very reliable and can last a long time, even in tough conditions.

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At any rate, he took me for a ride in his Monolay Rumble Seat Roadster when I was like

five years old, and I was hooked on cars at that moment.

Now, my dad wasn't a gearhead of any kind.

He didn't really change his own oil.

So it's not like I grew up around it, but I would visit my uncle from time to time,

and we would do parades and things, and he had all these cool antique cars that

I just loved.

So this Monolay Rumble Seat, that's the car where the trunk opens up backwards,

and it's a seat.

A Rumble Seat.

I've never seen a Rumble Seat.

They call it the mother-in-law seat back then, because you'd put her back there outside

the car, you know?

So that car got me hooked on cars, and he had a really cool collection, and I actually

have a few of his cars now that my Aunt Graciously gave me after we passed.

And amongst them, I've got my post-zombie apocalypse car.

It's a diesel Mercedes 200D.

It's completely gotten to zero to 60 in like two weeks, but it'll run on

petrol or waste more oil after an EMP or anything else.

So that's why you can't kill it kind of car.