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Mar 12, 2010 22:07:47 GMT
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You do find people tend to go for cars that their parents like especially if they start going down the retro route. I can remember being aged around 6 or 7 sitting on my dads lap steering the farm subaru pickup around the fields where we lived in scotland...... Then being taken to school etc in mums gold Y Reg subaru Gl Estate.... Then when my parents split up and having to do endless trips up and down the M5/6 to Glos with me dad in his B Reg blue 1800 GLf....... So yeh......... .....you could be onto somethin there.......... ;D But the main reason for this post is before all of the above when we moved to scotland from nottingham,mum had a white LWB landrover and dad had a brown hillman avenger estate and its in this i remember squeezing along with all our posessions and eating peanut butter out of a jar on the way to our new life on a farm...... Around the same time my grandad had a hillman hunter that he used to hand paint a different color every year,it was white,powder blue and navy blue consecutively....i only remember that as it had a sticker in the rear window of a bloke atop a coke can with wheels on.....
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Last Edit: Mar 17, 2010 18:02:05 GMT by scoobypete
1984 Subaru GLF Hatch 1983 Skoda 120LE Super estelle 1977 Subaru DL Wagon 1978 Datsun 120Y Coupe 1995 Skoda favorit estate
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Mar 12, 2010 22:25:47 GMT
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My earliest memory of being in the back of the car is in a weird Suzuki thing that my dad imported from Cyprus back in the mid-seventies. It was always breaking down and ended up as my plaything in my gran's garden!! I can remember his Vauxhall Magnum too, just!! I can vaugely remember my uncles bright yellow Viva Estate, and his red Peugeot 305 saloon, both would have been not very old at the time.
I can also remember my mother having a morris minor that failed it's mot so badly that we had to walk home!! I was about 5 at the time. She went to look at a mini with a fur lined interior after that, i thought it was ace but my granddad lifted the carpet to discover that there was not much floor underneath!! So she ended up with a Hillman Avenger after.
I can remember my granddads new company car back in 1982, a blue mk3 Escort 1.3L - OHM948Y. He had that for a few years then had a mk4 Escort 1.6 D GL. A diesel with a rev-counter, that was a bit of a novelty back in 1986!! It wasn't long after then when my step-dad had a fairly young MG Maestro 1600 with a talking dash. It must have installed something in my brain because i owned an identical car about 12 years later!!
Happy days!!!
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Dom
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Mar 12, 2010 22:34:37 GMT
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A few cool early memories. Sitting on the open rear flat of a land rover going round my mate's farm, his dad driving. In a Mk1 Espace just like this. On holiday, my dad driving us round French mountain roads, Sultans Of Swing playing. I'd love one of these now. Chewing gum, playing with electric windows in my uncle's old black 5 series Bimmer My dad had a black Saab 900 when I was very ickle but I don't know if I remember it or whether seeing photos have made me think I was aware.
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Brian Damaged
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Childhood car memoriesBrian Damaged
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Mar 12, 2010 22:48:52 GMT
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Threads like this one crop up every few months....but being as I am slap-bang in the midst of a mid-life crisis of EPIC proportions, I need absolutely no persuasion to get the photo album out. June 1967. That's me aged 2yrs 8 months sitting on the bonnet of Dad's '58 Zephyr Six. Notable not really for the car, but for the utterly MONUMENTAL quiff my ol' man (who was still a couple of months short of his 23rd birthday when that pic was taken) was still sporting, despite the youth of the day being busy wearing flowers in their hair, cramming LSD down their faces and listening to the then newly-released Sgt. Pepper. Fast forward to August 1978, that's me aged almost 14, perched on Mum's Mini. This one was the only stock Mini Mum ever owned, previously she'd owned a gennie '62 997 Cooper (which she swapped for a '66 Anglia with a smiliar-sized engine.....though it ended up with a 1500GT in it) and a '63 van with side windows, rear seats and a very smoky 1098 in it...I remember that one as the burned oil fumes were dragged in through the back doors and were bad enough to make your clothes smell of it. It kept going though despite Mum having to lob a pint in it every couple of days... The white one was sold to a local lad who painted it brown (well it WAS the 1970's) and ran 6" Weller Magnums on it. The last I saw of it was in a front garden in about 1982.....
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Mar 12, 2010 23:24:21 GMT
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one of these: My grandad used to buy them in the early 90s, just cuz they were cheap I guess, we had a orange one, o blue one like the one pictured, and a white one, each using the previous one for spare parts to get it road worthy. I can remember sitting in the back struggling to slide back the side windows when I was about 3 or 4, and watching the road go past through the holes in the floor pan ;D
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Last Edit: Mar 12, 2010 23:59:34 GMT by yantorsen
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Mar 12, 2010 23:41:31 GMT
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^^ where's the story?? there *needs* to be a story! My aunt (dad's little sis) had a 1275GT clubby. I remember that well too! she got it brand new in '73 (when I was 2) she almost PX'd it on a mk2 fiesta wheen I was 15.. I told her not to. She sold privatley instead for more than it had cost her new Other memorables (seeing as no-one else stuck to one car..) my two uncles were buiding a lotus 6 (never finished, but I did get driven up and down the drive in it) and my Grandad's Vanden Plas Princess (3 litre, cambridge shape, 666 FAJ) was the ultimate in luxury, particularly when you usually travel in an austin 1100! The only car I remember my gran having was a daf 33. lemon yellow, filler cap under the number plate. I was promised the car "when she gave up driving" but it actualy got scrapped cos I was only 14 at the time. One of the uncles (with the lotus) made up for it by a/ giving me driving experience pre test in a 3.0 Monza and b/ giving me a 2.0 cortina when I passed ;D
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Mar 12, 2010 23:59:48 GMT
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story added
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First car I remember as regular family transport was a dark blue HA Viva, it would have been early 70's, dad bought an Austin 1300GT after that then a succession of mk3/4 and 5 Cortinas as my brothers and sister arrived and he needed bigger cars.
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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That's better, lol. I remember seeing the road go past through the floor too. My dad's mate had a HB viva that had more hole than floor. Dad stopped us going out in it when one of my sisters lost a shoe....
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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stealthstylz
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My dad had a '77 Celica GT until I was 5. Can remember doing a big end in it on the way down to Lime Regis. A stone punctured the rad, temp went through the roof and it rattled a lot. We stopped at a farm and the farmer gave us a 50 gallon drum of water. We drove to Lime Regis and back stopping to fill it up every half an hour.
Matt
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LOL, classic. Weirdly I also remember the "really BL" air vents on the dash board, and I remember thinking how naff they looked.
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Last Edit: Mar 13, 2010 0:19:19 GMT by yantorsen
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This probably doesn't count... but I have to tell anyway. My dad told me this recently.
I was 2 years old, just started to walk/talk and I was at the doctor's getting a vaccination. To disract me from crying (after the needle) the doctor pointed at a picture of a car on the wall and said "look! what's that?" my dad says I looked at the picture, looked at the doctor and said "it's a 1909 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost" then carried on crying.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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This probably doesn't count... but I have to tell anyway. My dad told me this recently. I was 2 years old, just started to walk/talk and I was at the doctor's getting a vaccination. To disract me from crying (after the needle) the doctor pointed at a picture of a car on the wall and said "look! what's that?" my dad says I looked at the picture, looked at the doctor and said "it's a 1909 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost" then carried on crying. Thats an absolute classic. Thanks for sharing that. The only one I did was sitting in the back of a DAF 44 and dads been pulled by the cops for going a little too fast. I pipe up from the back " leave daddy alone mister you cant expect an old man to see everything" I think I would have been 3 or 4 at the time. Before that apparently I was shouting "coor daddy were really daffing now" And I cant believe I just shared that in public
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heh
I remember when I was probably 4 maybe 5 and my uncle was looking at buying a new 5 series but he didn't know what to get etc. So I went through all the different models and told him the spec differences etc of them all because I used to read the Top Gear magazine even back then and What Car? and all those.
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my dads red 4dr 1600 L mk3 cortina was a year old when he got it in 73 I was 7. he traded it in in 81 for a mk5 1.6 L 4dr in dove grey (the only new car he ever bought) it had just over 60 k on clock when he died in 03 I still have it stored in the garade with my 75 bakkie & 81 crayford. have most of the gen ford parts to restore it to its former glory. I remember comeing home from school in june 81 & he'd just fetched it & it had 51 miles on the clock. we travelled reg to chapel-st-leonards (near skegness) to our caravan from 75 to 03 in them as well is my many mk3/4/5's.
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theres more to life than mpg & to much power is just enough.
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Continuing the funny stories, I can even remember the dealer we were at (now a charity shop) when my mum had got sick of the skoda jokes by the teenagers she taught, and we were looking at a new car. I must have been about 4 or 5, and I say, looking dead straight at the badge, "Daddy, are we buying a Jord?" I hadn't learned joined up writing by then LOL. It was one of these: and he can recount a story to you where, 5-up, we were baling down some motorway to a car show, when a car and caravan pulled across the motorway and stopped dead in front of him, and my dad drifted the Sierra like a Legend round the back of it. My mum was reading a book and looked up after and said "Slow down dear" or something like that... If we're allowed to have more than one, my next oldest memory is lying on my back at about 7 holding up a chrome bumper for an Olds Cutlass Sedan while my dad and another guy bolted it on. I also remember barely being able to see in the garage after it was closed off and a Mini van was rolled on its side and welded then repainted. We had awesome cars.
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On holiday, my dad driving us round French mountain roads, Sultans Of Swing playing. For me it's Brothers in Arms on the European trip we took in the Vitesse (UK-France-Italy-Greek Mainland-Corfu-Greek Mainland-Italy-Switzerland-Austria-Germany-France-UK). Walk of Life* always reminds me of one particular road in the alps. I doubt I'll ever find it, but it was long, with sweeping corners with mountians on one side and a sharp drop on the other - a really evocative road. In fact, your post prompted me to listen to Brothers In Arms* again. "it's a 1909 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost" That is truely awesome, and somehow doesn't surprise me. My own pre-war knowledge is, unfortuantly, lacking (except when it comes to Austin 7s and Alvis Firebirds - which my Godfather owns). EDIT: *B-I-A was always on my Walkman on that trip. When the car stereo was on back at home, Money for Nothing was the favoured cassette.
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Last Edit: Mar 13, 2010 2:39:02 GMT by jrevillug
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(which she swapped for a '66 Anglia with a smiliar-sized engine.....though it ended up with a 1500GT in it) I still have that very same 1500GT engine, just about to go in the 5th car in it's life
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My Dad had a penchant for small engines, and also used to buy right sheds, run them 12 months, then scrap them. First I can remember was a Reliant Rebel estate. It threw a rod one morning when me and my mum were going up town - and I can remember being put in my pushchair for the rest of the way so it must have been '76/'77 Then after that: Bedford HA van '76 2CV in Orange '71 Ami8 '72 Ami8 '71 Renault 6 '74 Daf 44 estate? '74 Ami8 Estate GLG630N '82 Visa VRF77X '79 Renault 4 (I learned to drive in this, mum had it for years) RHF270T '82 Renault 4 (Big Bro learned to drive in this, rolled it 6 days later) CGB591X '86 Cherry C963YUM (Definite pun there)
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'83 GTM Coupe. 4A-GE Powered '00 GTM Libra Auto. Ick. '71 Detomaso Pantera. Current Resto '89 GMC Safari Tow/Kip bus '05 SAAB 9-3 Daily '71 Siva Moonbug. Not even contemplating resto yet.
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