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Nov 23, 2007 11:47:38 GMT
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Post your earliest experiences in a car thats photographed; Me age 1 in my Grandads 1935 Crossley Regis Tourer (only 2 ever made)   we recently managed to track down the car & its current owner. It now lives in Jersey. |
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71 Alfa GT 1300 Junior
89 Alfa 75 3.0 V6 Veloce
89 Alfa 75 3.0 V6 America
2015 C220 estate Daily shunter
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Davenger
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It's only metal
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Nov 23, 2007 15:42:58 GMT
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I suppose my earliest experience would have to be when I was bought home from the hospital in my dads Singer Vogue when I was born. I will own a 60's Singer Vogue in grey primer one day.  |
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Last Edit: Nov 23, 2007 15:45:12 GMT by Davenger
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Ry.
Part of things
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Nov 23, 2007 15:55:54 GMT
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Well I've always liked cars, but I'd say the moment I started to be propppperrrly car mad was when I was in my Dads modified Sierra Saph Cosworth when I was only afew years old, feeling of speed got to me.  |
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Nov 23, 2007 15:56:28 GMT
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I was brought home from the hospital as a newborn baby in a Daimler Majestic with a preselector gearbox... into which my dad had put a Ferguson diesel tractor engine cos the Daimler lump was knackered.
Sadly no photos.
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Last Edit: Nov 23, 2007 15:56:53 GMT by herald948
"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor |
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harris66
Part of things
drive it, break it, fix it and make it quicker!
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Nov 23, 2007 16:14:31 GMT
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no photos but i helped my dad restore a jowett javelin back in the 70s, ok i thort i was helping but at the age of 5 i was probably a pain in the wotsit but he never let on!!
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1.2 corsa daily, 1.8t a4 avante, 6.3ltr austin a40....
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Nov 23, 2007 16:24:54 GMT
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My earliest memory car-wise is going on holiday to Porthcawl in 1967 in Dad's Mk2 Zephyr, pulling a gigantic caravan he borrowed off a mate, and getting completely stuck in the mud on the campsite. Funny how vivid that memory is, even though I wasn't quite 3 yrs old! I've got pics somewhere, will have to scan em.
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Anglia68
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Nov 23, 2007 16:47:02 GMT
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Earliest car related memory for me was stood on my uncles lap steering his P4 down the road when I was about 5 or 6 with both my parents and my sister sat in the back.   ;D  |
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Last Edit: Nov 23, 2007 16:47:44 GMT by Anglia68
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rysz
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Nov 23, 2007 16:57:42 GMT
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Hundereds of great ones, from the Fiat 500 that I was almost born in, the ovlov estates that my dad continually killed, numerous allegro's, marinas and my fave of all the Mk1 escy estate in beige - how I wish he would have kept that one!
Also, 505 GRD Estate FTW! 300k on the clock and more pickup than car underneath by the end of its life!
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Nov 23, 2007 17:12:33 GMT
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i got brought home from hospital in an imp( funny that) got regular rides to school in an assortment of cars including minxes,a vogue ,A35,zeph mk3,simca rallye1 ,wolseley farina (which was also the first car i drove age 7) and best of all a zodi mk4,which was cool cos all my mates mums had silly little cars and i roll up in something with a bonnet the size of hms ark royal.second car i ever drove was an army landie ,courstesy of hm gov aged 8.in fact the zeph could be seen driving round south london at all hours day and night with my dad at the helm and little me in the back ,as a ploy to get me off to sleep,nothing else worked.
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Nov 23, 2007 17:41:54 GMT
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since its not technically our first memory of cars, just our first association with them about a week before i was born, my mum was driving one of these around a field tedding hay (making it into rows for bales) I'm sure thats why i like engine noise, especially clattering tappets ;D  the first car memory that i can be certain of (ie not based on pics just memory) would be my mums 1500 lada estate (old shape with round headlights) my dad had fitted a webber carb and 'sport' cam (he had a dealership so they were optional extras ) it was white with a full length roofrack. had it for ages until it was using more oil than petrol.  i still want one, and one day i will ;D |
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Nov 23, 2007 18:06:53 GMT
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have a pic of me about 1 stood on drivers seat of i think is a viva circa '74
will post once i find it ;D
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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HI
the regis with you in it aged 1 is back in the UK with me and in use on the road, where in the UK are you
Richard
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I was bought home from hospital, in 1957, in an Austin Devon van with rear seat and window conversion.
My son was collected in our S reg Skoda 105S in 1984 and daughter in A reg Capri 1.6LS in 1996.
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mikec
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You can just about see me, aged 3 months, in my father's 1937 Austin Seven Opal (my head is next to the steering wheel):  I don't remember the Austin, but I have many memories of the 1936 Lagonda Rapier which replaced it (I'm one of the oiks in the back of this picture):  |
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1914 Saxon A; 1931 Austin 7; 1938 Talbot Ten; 1953 Lancia Appia; 1967 Singer Chamois
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miaspa
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Not my earliest memory but one of the earliest ones I have a picture of, I'm in the passenger seat of the white one. Nearly 30 years on and still owned by my father.  |
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Found my flashing Pao again.
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Mid-winter picnic-ing in the North-York-Moors with my brother and sister in our family's first car - a Renault 4 - circa 1978  |
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these are the only ones I can find at the minute
my Dad, me and my kid brother ( RIP Dad & Alex )
me trying to steer my grandads Mercedes
me and my kid brother on holiday in Wuppertal , grandad took us to his work might be why I like commercials , vans |
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introducing my grandson Joe to the world of Beach Buggies  and bikes  |
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Bolf
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 Saab 99 ! v4 I think |
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steptoeshaw
Yorkshire and The Humber
4 Rover SD1 V8's and an MG Midget. The rest of my cars aren't retro yet
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  Well this is me around 83/84 ish with my dads (then) sd1 and this was given to me in the late 90s. Ive carried out a full restoration but never finnished it. Just needs putting together. The cars older than me and has always been at my side like an old family pet. Here it is currently  |
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