rod
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Jul 10, 2008 21:25:54 GMT
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One or two of mine.......
1962..Being taken to collect parts in my bro's works 100e van .
A ride in a neighbours TR2 with soft top down ..boy I was king of the hill!!!
1962.. my dad buying a brand new A35 van.
Attending the '60's drag fest at The Pod.(VERY influential to me)
1967..My bro's hot rodded y type ,and e93a pop...ah memories......!!!
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Last Edit: Jul 10, 2008 21:31:27 GMT by rod
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Jul 10, 2008 21:28:47 GMT
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a local kid running a stanley knife down my old mans brand new Nissan cherry turbo and him hooning it after him. And rushing to hospital in an early 80's merc taxi after my brother cut his hand open on a corned beef tin  |
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Your car is not 'epic', this thread is not 'epic'....the OCEAN is epic, the UNIVERSE is epic.... please stop misusing this word!! It would appear Hotrods are the new VWs - aint fashion funny! '69 BUICK LESABRE 350 |
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dugong
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One Of Us Will Live To Rue The Day We Met Each Other (Wire : 2008)
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Jul 10, 2008 21:32:12 GMT
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Going somewhere in my dad's brand new Mk2 Cavalier down Cross Street, marvelling at the acid applejack green interior and then seeing a Fuego in the window of a Renault garage that's now an office block  |
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Jul 10, 2008 21:40:07 GMT
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Helping my old man wash his grey and green 2 tone Hillman Minx, going with him to collect his first brand new car - an M reg maroon coloured Marina  My 16 year old cousin taking me for a ride on his dad's bike - a CX500 while he was supposed to be babysitting me and my brother, scared me s4itless but loved it at the same time and started a long (and occasionally painful love affair with motorcycles! |
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Currently driving a Renault Wind Gordini as my daily. Don't ask about previous cars - there have been way too many and I stopped counting at 160!
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Jul 10, 2008 21:40:20 GMT
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sleeping on the rear parcel shelf of my dads bug  |
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 SPLIT RIMS ARE FOR WINNERS |
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Foxy
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Making pink manly in the north!
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Jul 10, 2008 21:46:48 GMT
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1985 Being stuffed in the back of an XR3i with my sister and about 300kg of 'necessary stuff' for the hike to the UK from Herford in Germany to see the relatives over christmas!! Probably answers my hatred of Fords to be honest lol |
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I'm the handsome fella with the cheesy white specs or is that the cheesy fella with the handsome white specs?
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Jul 10, 2008 21:49:45 GMT
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its only very vague but my mother assures me this was the only time at our friends house in Australia..18 months old i was reversed over by a Ford Fairlane..id crawled up behind the back wheel..Jim..who was a doctor..didnt see me..reversed..and squelch..back wheel went right over my back leaving a perfect tyre imprint bruise..i didnt cry and in my fathers words..it was like standing o n a tube of toothpaste..it also cured my chronic constipation..about 20 years ago i described the outside of the house perfectly to my Mum!
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71 Viva HC 2dr..nearly 1st NZ assembled Viva.
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Jul 10, 2008 21:50:42 GMT
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waiting outside a tile store in Leicester in the back of a courtesy-car FD Victor estate is the earliest car memory I have. This was c.1972
Formative memories of cars often involve my grand parents farm in West Yorkshire - my grandfather (bless him) had the habit of buying old tat cars and trackters and vans and stuff and running them until they dropped and then parking said knackers in a field. When we went to the farm I played in busted Anglias etc. Great times. And all the neighbouring farms were also a haven of rusting old jallopies. Oh, and the summers went on for ever, it never rained, you hadn't a care in the world, jumpers for goal posts, etc. I about cried for a week when they sold the farm. (c.1979)
Can you see where I get "it" from?
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Last Edit: Jul 10, 2008 21:52:28 GMT by akku
1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Jul 10, 2008 21:53:19 GMT
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a Standard Vanguard sitting on my dads drive, it sat there for the 1st six years of my life
rushing for the ferry to France in a Cooper S when i was about 4, and popping a piston near Reims, came home from Holiday in a huge part-ex Renault, i much prefered the Mini
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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Jul 10, 2008 21:59:31 GMT
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Being driven around in my granddad's ZAZ-968 and my uncles ZAZ-965. Discovering a mahooosive WW2 German bayonette under grandpa's seat - he claimed it was for cutting down mushrooms in forrest... riight!
Going from Riga to Liepaja in my dad's VAZ-2101.... aah, those were the days! Volga was the pinnacle of automotive engineering (that was before I discovered the existence of the whole Western car world).
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Jul 10, 2008 22:07:26 GMT
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Earliest motor-related memory is summer 1967, and my mum on the maps getting us lost in some really tight Welsh lanes in my dad's '58 Zephyr (WOB 246, I have a photo somewhere) with a caravan on the back, and my Dad exclaiming loudly "F***ing Jesus Mary!!"
2 minutes later me aged almost 3 leaping up and down on the back seat shouting "F**king Jesus Mary, F**king Jesus Mary", my mum going ape5hit and my Dad killing himself laughing.
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gtxtra
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Jul 10, 2008 22:17:17 GMT
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dad picking me, brother and sister up from school in brand new , dec 1971, viva hc gold riband KLX 999K would be the stand out 'first event', i was 7.
can just about recall late 60's trips to dulwich park in his anglia 100e and then white viva hb dl.
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91 Scala, 87 GTX 16V, 87 GTX BRM 152, 85 GTL, 81 GTi  |
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rod
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Jul 10, 2008 22:21:27 GMT
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Briandamaged ...lol! Idid the same sort of thing when my dad called a guy an 'ar***ole' after some motoring misdemeanour! got told to stop it pretty quick!!!
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Jul 10, 2008 22:25:17 GMT
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my granda was "top hand" at a garage in Hendon , he used to bring home a different car every day while he was road testing vehicles bought for the singer sewing machine company.
I think directors got zephyrs, area managers got consul capris or classics, reps got anglias , prefects or pops and the engineers got the little van based on the pop , think it was a thames
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Light travels quicker than sound.That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.  |
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sooty
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Jul 10, 2008 22:34:24 GMT
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1975 - My dad letting me steer our silver Simca 1100 Special
1977 - Going 100mph for the 1st time in my mate's dad's Capri, the day before he was trading it in for a new Capri.
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2016 Dodge Charger Scat Pack
2008 Jeep Liberty Limited
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Davenger
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It's only metal
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Jul 10, 2008 23:40:30 GMT
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Mine is either fallin what seemed a very long way oput of my dad's series 2 land rover or burning my finger on the cigarette lighter in his BMW 2500.
I must have been about 5 years old, so it'd be 1984
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not sure which is first, I remember the back end of my parents Fairlane, which they sold when I was about 6, also the car that they left me on the boot of and drove off in!
around the same age sitting on the centre console of an old white van with a smashed windscreen as my uncle showed us around his new farm, and a year or 2 later same said uncle sitting in the passenger seat of a VH Holden COmmodore Vacationer wagon doing about 130kph on gravel. lol
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Remade In Australia
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Vaguely remember bouncing aroud in the back of my neighbours Viva van...no rear seats, no seatbelts, no probs!! We had a junior school trip to a farm and they´d booked a double decker to get us all in. Unfortunately the track leading to the farm was smaller the the bus and we ended up in the ditch...it all happened in slow motion and we were all right but our head mistress got a black eye from doing a somersault down the stairs......well we thought it was funny!!! ;D Going on from the "modifying" thread i can remember when i helped our neighbour customize his MKI Granada, jacked up the back end (as we did back in the early seventies  ) and colourcoding all the engine (yellow) and axles (red)........ ...those were the days! |
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Lawsy
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Being about 5 sitting in the back of my grandads white 82 Ford Granada 2.8 shouting to him to go faster amd to catch the porsche (which he did)... Grandad was cool in those days, he also had an a lancia for weekend fun.. Everywhere at warp speed
Sadly tho he retired from work in 84 and bought a 1.0l micra, which then suddenly made him drive everywhere at half the speed limit
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 My dad's 1957 Studebaker Silver Hawk was exactly like this. My first automotive memory was seeing him come home in this puppy. |
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) and colourcoding all the engine (yellow) and axles (red)........
