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sitting on my dad's knee whilst steering his montego automatic round a carpark in wales. my dad having a ex BT van he swapped for some tyres, our Alpine floor rusting thru
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miaspa
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Early memories that stand out.
Going to a secondhandl car dealer with my Dad to pick up his new four year old XJ6,(KAG884N) and being disappointed it wasn't the DB6 or DBS sitting on the forecourt.
Being able to sleep in the rear footwell of the 1303S Beetle (M something) with my feet on the heater blowers.
Dad spinning the Jag on the way back from London one winter and not actually hitting anything, not sure if it was prior to this but I can remember him and a colleugue at work practising car control in 6 inches of snow on Norwich Cattle market in the company Avenger estates(KEV146V). ( Iwas in the back seat).
Seeing the bonnet of a 911 smash into the windsrceen, when my mum didn't close it properly on the weekly shop .(FUW2C).
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Last Edit: Jul 11, 2008 6:34:01 GMT by miaspa
Found my flashing Pao again.
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Going on what seemed to be the longest journeys in the world in my mum's Chrysler Sunbeam, AFM441S. In retrospect it was to Formby, which is only a few hours, and a drive I've since made numerous times. For some reason we had an odd game of spotting other Sunbeams, but only the ones with dented bumpers... I think we'd come up with the idea that they were all like that.
Around the same time, my grandparents gold Cortina 80 which he bought new in 1982, since he thought the Sierra was ugly. VAL788Y. Remember loading it up for caravan holidays, helping him check tyre pressures and put the huge wingmirror on the front.
I do have a vague memory of their previous Cortina, a Mk3 on an M plate. It was dark green but the registration escapes me. My gran tells me that it turned up next door to her not long ago, owned by a decorator working on the house, and it was brush-painted red!
when my mum traded in the Sunbeam for a new Polo breadvan (C583NAL), I remember terrorising the dealership, sitting in all the cars, playing with the remote mirrors on a Mk2 Golf and getting as many brochures as possible.
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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Mine is being taken to the local duck pond with some bread crusts in my nan's mini 1000, it was that lovely shade of BL poop-brown with brown vinyl interior and the ashtray on the floor in the back, probably around '85. Aparently she reversed it into a tree and wrote it off!
Other early memories are going to classic car shows all over the place with my dad's Isetta, I loved classic car shows and was mesmerised by the stationary engines!
Both my dad and grandad were in the car trade so we had loads of old tat coming home for a couple of weeks, being done-up and then being replaced with more tat. Some of my dad's more inspired moments were a white Chrysler Avenger that he painted a neon yellow strip up with a 'hearbeat' like on a heart-rate monitor on the rear quater/D-pillar, the other was a brown mini he painted black and then sprayed the 'dark side of the moon' prism album cover down each side - white light along the wing, prism on the door, rainbow up the rear quater!!
Those were the days!
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mercmad
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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! tube of toothpaste?? glad your folks could laugh.... ;D ;D ;D
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Many years ago I changed my driving style to cope with rising fuel prices; I have now reached the stage where I am contemplating keeping my eyes shut in order to lower wind resistance.
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dalla
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I remember my parents Orange Toyota Corolla KE 20. It must have been from around 1977-78. I wish i had that car today. Also remebering going to races with my dad, and watching his colleague racing his monster Volvo 240. And remeber my dads 1969 MG C roadster sitting in the garage, Funnily enough in the exact same place and condition as today.
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I'm not sure about the first one but I have a vauge memory of screaming my head off in the back of a white Princess as I was being taken to hospital after cracking my head open as a very wee nipper. Good job my Mum had a friend around as we didn't have a car at the time (noooo!).
First definite is standing up in the back of a family friend's Cortina 80 company car, trying not to knock over the bin that fitted over the transmission tunnel in the rear. The car was not moving - I was belted up from a very young age when on the move. Then it's bouncing around in the rear of my Aunt's Morris Minor - a car that I caught up with last year now it's been totally restored by the new owner!
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1986 Citroen 2CV Dolly Other things. Check out my Blog for the latest! www.hubnut.org
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mercmad
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I was about 2 and i used to hang out with the kids across the street. One day one of them ( an old guy probably 5 or 6) found a spanner so we all toddled off up the road to where there were some old Essex's and Dodges and model T fords. We started undoing 'things' and the other kids thought it was damn funny to hand me all sorts of oily things. I would take these home and hand them to my mother who would have a fit when i handed her a distributor or a carby covered in old oil. I still remember the old boy who owned them coming down one day and chatting to us and the other kids told him who took the various things ...he thought it was funny too and took me to see my mum so he could have his parts back. ;D. We moved after that to Wellington (NZ) and our neighbours were pretty well off .I was seriously impressed with their brand new 1958 Dodge with it's big fins.
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Many years ago I changed my driving style to cope with rising fuel prices; I have now reached the stage where I am contemplating keeping my eyes shut in order to lower wind resistance.
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1984 - I kind of remember our old Oldsmobile station wagon when we lived in North Carolina, but I was only 4 years old at the time. back in the UK now... 1985 - a lorry driving into the side of my dads late 70s Ford Cortina 1.6L (he pulled out of a give way on a motorway without looking). 1988 - My dad buying a 2 year old Ford Orion 1.6L automatic, and me having to say goodbye to the Cortina
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1993 Fiat Panda Selecta 2003 Vauxhall Combo 1.7DI van 2006 Mercedes Kompressor Evolution-S AMG SportCoupé
"You think you hate it now, wait til you drive it"
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Sitting in an almond green Mk1 Mini round the back of my Grandads house that he had left there for years when I was about 4 or 5 At that time he was running around in a Wolsley Hornet
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Stu_B
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Investing in rust!
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Jul 11, 2008 10:03:05 GMT
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I wasn't 'into' cars till I passed my test but my family is very keen on motorsport as my Uncle used to work for March, leyton house & then Benneton F1. I remember my dad going around a light blue mk3 Escort Estate touching in chips, I wanted to help so was on the other side of the car making chips ;D oops!! I remember watching tractor pulling & Grasstrack & Banger Racing. I remember watching Mike Smith & Derick Warwick at BTCC, Nigel Mansell at Silverstone when we went to watch British qualifying, Mark Knoffler in a single seater at Castle Combe. I have Ivan Capellis autographed helmet Screen from a podium finish. I had a honda 90 powered Go-Cart that was stickered up like a Leyton House F1 car with Ivan Cappelli stickers & an F1 dry cell battery I remember being pushed back in the seat in my Uncles company car J import Scooby when they first came out... .... but the car bug never bit me till the day I passed my driving test
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Jul 11, 2008 10:13:46 GMT
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Tartan baby seat hooked over the bench seat in my dad's brown Bedford van, black tuck n roll in the back of his Pontiac Tempest, the way the rear quarter windows rolled down with the point showing at the top, Santa Pod nearly every weekend for years, missing Sammy Miller's pass in the rocket car because it was too fast
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Jul 11, 2008 10:19:02 GMT
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1971 babygrow with a castrol sticker stuck on the front, driving up to scotland in an a40 farina
1973 got fingers slammed in the door of a mercury cougar
1974 slid off the back seat of a pinto when my dad tried out the brakes during a test drive, he went on to buy a corrolla
1975 washing our 62 beetle, learning to ride a bike without stabilisers and running the full length of dads vw notchback 1500s, scratching it with my brake lever nose to tail, living next to goodwood when graham hill was killed, 66 hillman minx backseat view of the road, hateful trips to bognor in an austin 1100
1976 sitting on dads knee and steering his then new, citroen dyane6 around whilst he operated the pedals, holidays in the south of france with my uncles peugeot 404, saw demis roussoss driving apparently, monaco grand prix
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Ed
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Jul 11, 2008 10:26:21 GMT
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i remember watching drag racing on the isle of white (i think) in very early 70s and sitting on my dads lap whilst steering our 72 squareback into the garage for the first time again in the early 70s. choice. oh and my grandad had a austin 1800 crayford estate ;D www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?ado17indexf.htm
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Jul 11, 2008 10:54:45 GMT
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I think it was my dad pulling up outside my nan's house in Croydon in his Hillman Minx(?) estate thing, must have been about 1965 ish and I'd have only just been walking. Failing that I still remember the day he got his Austin maxi company car, one of the first a 1500 with rod change box or whatever they were.
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Corsa Apology Champion 2014.
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ThePollitt
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Fix up, look... at that car on eBay!
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Jul 11, 2008 11:00:11 GMT
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Helping my Dad change the wheel on his Capri 2.0 Lazer circa 1986, oh, and going to his mates house where he had a 57 Chevy in the garage.
Good times!
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gearoil
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Jul 11, 2008 11:03:50 GMT
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Going Saturday shopping in an Austin Landcrab in the late 70's. Sitting in-between the front seats on the centre console of a Mk3 Cortina Ghia auto - child seats...? Getting a ride in my uncles new Rover 2600. Going with my mum & dad to collect a nearly new Triumph Acclaim from the local Nissan dealer in the early '80s Watching a school friend spear off the pavement on a purple Raleigh Budgie and under a parked Toyota 1000. I must have been 6 or 7. Being driven to the hospital as moral support at great speed in an Avenger GT to have said friend stitched up. All those matchbox, corgi & hotwheels cars I still have burried in my parents loft. Pottering around the estate on my bike just looking at cars. Or to watch trucks going past on the main road - didnt we all do that? ;D Motorsport: Seeing Stock Car, Hotrod & Banger racing for the first time at Armadale Stadium. Watching racing & rallying World of Sport, Grandstand etc.
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Last Edit: Jul 11, 2008 12:04:11 GMT by gearoil
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tenman
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Jul 11, 2008 11:26:40 GMT
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My Dad driving like a hooligan to Bentham from Lancaster in either an Avenger or a Fiat 131 Mirafiora, can't remember which... pretty sure it was the Avenger though... got me addicted to going sideways at a very early age
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RWD Fanatic...
2003 BMW 320d Wagon (getting old and boring) 1996 Mini Kensington (SWMBO's)
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Graham
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Jul 11, 2008 11:31:54 GMT
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1965 my dad's MK5 jaguar ;D ;D
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Zapp Brannigan
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She's built like a steakhouse but she handles like a bistro!
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Jul 11, 2008 11:35:29 GMT
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1982 - I was 3 years old and was allowed to sit in the front of my Mum's 1970 Woody Mini estate - I wasn't impressed that she made me wear a seatbelt when no one else did!
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