Which Car Do You Remember with Affection from your Youth?

[colly]

My very first car. Austin A40 Farina.

I think it cost me 90 quid and was a
about

8 years old. Nothing today but back then 8 years old for a motor was really pushing it.
One useful feature was that the back seat folded down.

 

[Mo1959]

Loved my British Racing Green MG Midget.

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[swee'pea99]

Growing up in the 70's and 80's, my dad had a selection of the British motor industries finest products - several Maxis, a Princess, a couple of Chevettes and then a Maestro.

So naturally when I bought my first car I kept right away from that sort of rubbish and headed straight to the blue oval and got a Mark II Escort Ghia 1.6 in harvest gold with a brown vinyl roof for £150.
That car rocked - and even more so when I added a Britax pop-out sunroof, two-up two-down driving lights and a stereo with some of the biggest Kenwood speakers you've ever seen on the rear shelf. It also remains the only car I've ever made a profit on when selling it. Mind you, it would be worth £10k+ today...

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That was my second car! Great fun. Light as anything, which was the main reason it was so quick off the lights. Best gearbox ever. Lasted me almost a year before the engine completely seized up - as luck would have it, in the middle of a three point turn on quite a main road.

 

[ozboz]

One of these , late 60's Hillman Minx , had some fun in that !
Paid £20 for it ,

 

[screenman]

My first car at 17 was a mk2 Jaguar, followed a couple of months later by a S Type. A few months later that was sold and I got married at 18 and was back to walking and buses.

At 23 I had my first and only Roller a 1956 Cloud.

Now I have very little interest in cars.

 

[gbb]

My first car, bought the day before I took my test at 17 and 3 months. I was a bit naughty really I lied on the finance form and put my mum down as guarantor... It was a 1976 so 7 years old when I bought it, it really was Police bait in SE London in the early eighties. Before I was 17 and 6 months I had been banned for 3 months, for speeding on the M1, admittedly I was going rather fast at 3am but I had just stuck some Weber's, straight through exhaust and Revolution wheels it. Sounded lovely until I slowed down and they turned on the blue lights

KDR 131P that how often I had to repeat it.
I had 4 more of them..

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I had the 4 door Ascona SR, 2 ltr IIRC. Same wheels, went really well but had a back axle whine like nothing I'd ever heard before

My favourites I've owned...minis were what we all had, i had a C reg Countryman estate which the former owner had done up, 12 inch wheels, 1100cc engine, primrose yellow (a nice soft yellow) and ahead of time, hed painted all the chrome and wood sides matt black. It looked really different and went really well. 10 years later, chrome had disappearwd from all the cars to be replaced with black plastic trim.

My Allegro 1750HL went really well to, twin carbs I think, really pokey. A dog in most peoples eyes bit I liked it.

Car I didn't own but would have liked to...
Rover SD1, preferably the 3.5 l8r.
Triumph 2000 PI.
Triumph Dolomite Sprint...in yellow of course.

 

[raleighnut]

My Uncle sold Dad his old Vandem Plas Princess 4 litre R when he bought a big Mercedes.



Lovely car but by god it didn't half drink the petrol.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

May Dad went through 3 Hillman Avengers. They were beige, dark green and finally blue.
Then he got a Hillman Hunter. Passing 56mph was like they heady days of trying to break the sound barrier, with lots of rattling and shaking.

I learned to drive in his Talbot Alpine and Solara. I inherited his Peugeot 405 when he died at 55.

 

[Smokin Joe]

One of these little beauties -

 

[Cycleops]

At 23 I had my first and only Roller a 1956 Cloud.

Now I have very little interest in cars.

That’s jogged my memory, when I was was about nineteen a friend of mine who lived in Totteridge Lane North London and his father who was often away on business and used to foolishly leave the keys to his S1 Bentley in the hall. We used to take this thing down to Southend after going to a party. Always remember being stopped by a motorcycle cop in Archway in the early hours, we were all drunk but he just waved us on our way after inspecting my friends provisional license.

 

[Profpointy]

My first car was a Morris 1000 pick up. Great fun on crossply remoulds and wet roads. I learned a lot about oversteering in this. Never took a wet roadabout anything other than sideways! I'd love to know what happened to GJW 238 C.
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I later had 3 Morris Travellers of my own and a Morris 1000 van at work.

Very few pickups left now I imagine. Small pick ups were never popular in the uk to start with and given they were only bought by builders and the like they led even harder lives than the vans.

Never driven a moggie but had rides in various ones over the years. A mate had a nice ex police dog van. Might be tempted by a van or woody estate one day - or the slightly earlier A35.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I had one of these

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Sadly I wrote it off on a sheep! It was good while it lasted. So was the sheep I suppose.

As i said in another thread..first car i drove on the road at 14.
It was a British racing green gt ..god i loved the look of them

 

[Cycleops]

My Allegro 1750HL went really well to, twin carbs I think, really pokey. A dog in most peoples eyes bit I liked it.

My uncle bought one of those new for a bargain price. He had I think four replacement gearboxes before he got fed up and sold it.

 

[pplpilot]

Great thread, some wonderful cars.

Not quite youth but my dad's 1970 Lotus Cortina he bought new the day I was born. He kept it till '76.

Not his but same colour.

 

[hopless500]

Poppa had one of these. Every holiday at the grandparents meant trips to the pub in this