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Mar 17, 2010 22:18:41 GMT
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i don't remember this but cool pic ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/hairnet600/picofme.jpg) mid 70's but 1st car memory was in the back of dads victor (white) on holiday in ireland late 70's was about 5-6 coming down the lane from staying at grans (single track boreen) he let mum have a go got about 1/2 mile and theres a bad bit where a cottage sticks out into the lane and the lane is gravel overjudged and we end up in the ditch...............car at 45 deg in the ditch oops ;D she didnt drive a car for a good 15 years after that wonder why lol
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Mar 17, 2010 22:34:05 GMT
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My first memory is of my mothers near new sunbeam stiletto, the smell of the rubber mats, the fantastic chariot style wheel wheel trims and the swivel sunbeam badge which I was allowed to swivel open at petrol stations......because the fuel cap is under the bonnet, and the fuel attendant (yes, that long ago :-) ) would not know how to do it. Also the warning lights on the dash have "eyelids" which slid down to dim them. Still have the car 40 years on. Nice. :-)
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![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3633/3367286513_d30490474e.jpg) 1969 Ford Taunus 20M estate, 6 seater, been everywhere in it, exactly the same one as this, including the colour, french reg was 2436 AV 94. Remember the beige vinyl seats, similar to the vdubs.it was a V6. My father sold it and bought a 74 2.0/4 Ford Consul estate(basic version of the Granada), learn to drive with it. I asked my dad to retrieve his cars pictures, eventually he may find some of mine, i'll do a thread on this.
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Last Edit: Mar 18, 2010 6:43:16 GMT by MokeMan
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Mar 18, 2010 12:59:37 GMT
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I have lots of memories of cars from my childhood. The first would be of the Red Humber Sceptre that was parked up in the garden. This was because it had my mum and dads name in a sunstrip on the front window and my name in one on the back! You've got to love the 70's.
Then there are lots of other memories, Hilman Hunter, mk2 Cortina Estate that my mum locked the keys in, my Uncles numberous coke bottle Tinas and the other uncles 2 Rover 3.5 P3500's that he had in his back garden. My dad went through a long line of Volvos too with the first being a Navy Blue 145 Estate, reg ONK 366P.
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Mar 18, 2010 13:15:31 GMT
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My Dad owned various Morris Minors before I was born but the first I remember was a red Minor van in about 1972. He fitted a seat in the back for us kids. The post office used them too and, although ours wasn't an ex-post van, the posties would always wave at us ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) I was about 5 when I remember doing the 'sitting on Dad's lap and steering' thing in that van. After that he had a white over red Victor 101 estate (and my uncle had a two-tone blue saloon at the same time). Cool car, even then. If I ever see a mint one for sale I'll buy it for him. I remember loads of trips in that car and especially going to a VW dealer when he traded it in for a bay-window bus to convert into a camper.
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Mar 18, 2010 15:52:44 GMT
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I also have very fond memories of my dad's old Minis. He had two orange ones in succession, an automatic and a manual, both of which slowly rusted away. Including that fun time when the rear bumper and entire valance fell off one of them without my dad noticing, and he had to go collect it from the parish council offices after the maintenance guy picked it up out of the road in his pick-up ;D I remember coming back from the weekly supermarket shop with the boot full and shopping packed around the rear footwells, back seat, just about everywhere; and my dad taking us and the kids in our street out in it, with about 7 of us crammed in ;D He bought the second one off a bloke around the corner; it came with alloys and some sporty very small steering wheel, which was the single coolest thing in the world when I was 7 years old ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) . But my dad didn't like them and swapped them back for standard with the owner ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) I still have a burnt exhaust valve from one of them sitting on my book shelf at home. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) (I also remember learning at a very young age, in our childminder's Renault 5, that even a small child can easily shatter toughened glass. Didn't I, brother, if you're reading this?... ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) ;D )
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1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary.
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Mar 18, 2010 18:13:42 GMT
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Earliest memories are of dads `71 vauxhall viscount in metallic brown.from what i can remember,it seemed like he was working on it every weekend to keep it going!!and he still cant give me a good reason why he bought a manual one rather than powerglide auto version.after that he stayed in the vauxhall family with a green victor fe 2300s,and the 1st one he had with a cassette player,lots of fun listening to last weeks charts we`d taped off the radio
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Mar 18, 2010 18:56:08 GMT
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![](http://www.aston-v8.co.uk/gallery/albums/album01/dodge1.jpg) Wasn't I cute...? And my father's other wheels... ![](http://www.aston-v8.co.uk/gallery/albums/album01/jag1.jpg)
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1974 Aston Martin V8 (in bits) 1974 VDP 1300 (in bits) 1997 Ford Escort Cabrio (should be in bits)
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Mar 18, 2010 20:54:36 GMT
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I remember a red Bedford Chevanne my mum and dad rolled in, that had a wee plastic garden seat screwed down in the back for me to sit in. Seatbelts? nah.
The first family car I remember was a volvo 343GL in metallic green with the rubber-band CVT transmission. I mainly remember this car for giving me epic travel sickness. For some reason every journey of more than about 20 minutes involved be sicking into small bin bags - mum kept a roll in the glovebox for just this purpose.
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1986 Panda 4x4. 1990 Metro Sport. 1999 Ford Escort estate.
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Mar 18, 2010 23:19:15 GMT
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Triumph Dolomite engined 1854L SAAB 99L fuel injected REY 747L wow what a car, remember going to cumbria when I was a lot younger and driving down a duel carriage way, possibly the A74 the rate of knot's the old SAAB was moving at will always stay with me, my reason for having a very very soft spot for the good old 99. I went on a few years later to get a 99 LE which I understand was the automatic version of the EMS. Andy. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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1980 3dr 3.5 V8 Range Rover. Rover 75 CDTi Auto.
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Mar 31, 2010 13:32:39 GMT
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Top man a phase 1A ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png) Have one of these a 1950 model still on the road and has been since new never sorned, never failed an mot, currently in my fathers possesion came to him from my great uncle john who bought it at 1 year old in 1951, I'm next in line for my custodial stint of this epic little car ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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