Which Car Do You Remember with Affection from your Youth?

[Richard A Thackeray]

Loved those as a kid and now. They just look like something off Thunderbirds. I guess I could sort of afford one now but realisticall parking it in the street won't be exactly neighbourly as well as the inevitable no mot phases likely with such a beast5

My father-in-law, was an Instructor on them, when he was in the Army, & based in Germany

What a sound too!!
Turn it up L-O-U-D

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I saw one today!!

I remember the first time I saw one of these, & I would have one today
Now!!, yes, right now!!!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f671uYb2Xds

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There's a few local 'Mogs
Mainly owned by tree surgeons, etc....

Plus, the Utilities have a few
I've even seen a 'rail-roader', when I've been running to work, as I've crossed a local bridge, but not had camera (or phone) with me

 

[colly]

I always had a hankering to build one of these:

I kit car that would accept various donor car engins and stuff.

I had this at the time and thought I would make a great donor car:

Sadly I never did nowt about it. Not nevah.

Edit: I had one of these. Not a pic of my actual car.

 

[Baron von Zach]

Not only do I affectionately remember it, I own it!



Yes, my everyday car is a 51 years old Renault R16.
It's not a pampered classic, it's used like a car should be.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I always had a hankering to build one of these:

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I kit car that would accept various donor car engins and stuff.

I had this at the time and thought I would make a great donor car:

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Sadly I never did nowt about it. Not nevah.

Blimey a 2600, not the V8 model!
I always fancied a V8S, in that green, with the gold alloys

There was one around here!!

Not only do I affectionately remember it, I own it!

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Yes, my everyday car is a 51 years old Renault R16.
It's not a pampered classic, it's used like a car should be.

Differing wheelbase at either side, due to the suspension, I seem to recall?

Car Of The Year, when it was launched too?

 

[classic33]

VW Beetle, light blue, later replaced by a Renault 16TL.

 

[screenman]

Not only do I affectionately remember it, I own it!

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Yes, my everyday car is a 51 years old Renault R16.
It's not a pampered classic, it's used like a car should be.

That is fantastic, I would love to drive one again, I had loads of them through my hands in my car dealing days.

 

[Baron von Zach]

That is fantastic, I would love to drive one again, I had loads of them through my hands in my car dealing days.

Take it for a spin if you like.

 

[screenman]

Take it for a spin if you like.

I might well take you up on that next time I am over your way, I rated those cars very highly.

 

[Levo-Lon]

That is fantastic, I would love to drive one again, I had loads of them through my hands in my car dealing days.

They were great cars

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Not only do I affectionately remember it, I own it!

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Yes, my everyday car is a 51 years old Renault R16.
It's not a pampered classic, it's used like a car should be.

Absent-mindedly I checked the MOT history and was amused to learn that:

This vehicle hasn't had its first MOT.

 

[Baron von Zach]

It got its first (and last) MoT when it still was on foreign plates.

 

[Fnaar]

Morris Oxford and Ford Corsair

 

[screenman]

If youth is 24 a 308 gt4 if 26 a 1956 Silver Ghost, my first legal car when I was 17 was Mk2 Jaguar.