Which Car Do You Remember with Affection from your Youth?

[LarryDuff]

The Vauxhall Viva I learned to drive in.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Not so much my youth but I adored my ford puma

Beautiful and a joy to drive

 

[mickle]

My dad and my uncle and my stepdad were all car nuts so my growing up was a stream of interesting motors. Including:

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

DB 5

Yeah you're right, headlights are streamlined in.

There was a DB7 outside a warehouse I used to do business with near Edinburgh a few years ago. It was filthy, in lousy condition and it looked like it hadn't moved from the same spot in ages. Inside it was full of KFC boxes and rubbish. The warehouse went bust so I had no reason to go back but months later I was told that the guy who owned the warehouse was a self-made millionaire in the cash and carry business, something of a legend in the Asian community and he was known to buy Aston Martins, run them into the ground then just walk away from them and buy another one.

It was said he left the keys in them.

 

[Grant Fondo]

My dad and my uncle and my stepdad were all car nuts so my growing up was a stream of interesting motors. Including:

Lotus and Alfa for me please.

Great to see the variety of styling of those old cars compared to #SUVCLONES on today's streets.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

My dad and my uncle and my stepdad were all car nuts so my growing up was a stream of interesting motors. Including:




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We knew someone in the top end of Leeds (Moortown) who had one of those Toyota Crown(?) estates, they were huge!!


I used to see a Citroen Ami 6, at the 'crosses


SAAB 96 (or is that a 92?)
I'd love one now!!
Better still, a Volvo 'Amazon' estate

 

[mikeymustard]

You would think he would at least put it in his garage.

He probably cant get it in his garage for all the bikes.

Oh no, that's mine!

I nearly bought a DB5 in 1981. I found it at Sedgeberrow Garage near Evesham for £2500. It had been hand-painted in tangerine but it was sound underneath.

Because of a bad encounter with the Corgi version as a kid (I bought it with my pocket money then left it in the toilets in Woolworths - my mum refused to buy me another one; I'm still in therapy over it ) I've always loved the DB4 & 5, so I thought, yeah I can just about afford this. Unfortunately, as I was only 21, the best insurance I could get for it was £2600 third party only! Yep, they wouldn't even offer me fire and theft for that!
So in the end I bought a Triumph Vitesse convertible for £400 (I already had a vitesse saloon), a friend helped me add a brake servo and it eventually got turned into a 2.5 litre, by putting in the crank and pistons from a scrapped 2.5 saloon. Handling, especially as 2500, was, erm, interesting. Oversteer was so predictable I could actually drive it sideways! And the japs think they invented drift cars!
I don't think I could've loved the Aston any more than that vitesse, I'd buy another instantly if I could afford it

 

[Archie_tect]

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I first remember my Dad buying one of these. The colour was dark blue. A Ford Anglia, similar to the Popular. He drove us from London to The Highlands of Scotland for a holiday in it.
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My first car was one of these, a123e with a 1200 cc engine.

My dad's first car was an Anglia in Spruce Green with a cream roof - just like that one... CWT 738B [how do we remember early number plates?]

 

[Archie_tect]

My first car was a sky blue 1200 VW Beetle, WDW 824K, which I couldn't afford to run.

 

[booze and cake]

The submarine version was immortalised in the Bond film 'the spy who loved me', and while cycling down the Mall towards Buck Pal recently I saw this:

I knew it was a Lotus Esprit, but had never seen a black and gold one. I looked it up when I got home, the 'T' plate makes it from 1978, and its a special edition to commemorate Lotus winning the F1 world championship in 1978, which they did in the famous black and gold colours of their ciggie sponsor at the time, John Player Special. Less than 300 were made, making it pretty rare, and I have to say for a 40 year old car it still looks pretty damn cool. @Reynard will like this I suspect.

 

[Smokin Joe]

The Esprit is at the top of the list of cars I would love to own. Lotus made some stunning lookers, better than Ferrari IMO.

 

[Cycleops]

The submarine version was immortalised in the Bond film 'the spy who loved me', and while cycling down the Mall towards Buck Pal recently I saw this:
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I knew it was a Lotus Esprit, but had never seen a black and gold one. I looked it up when I got home, the 'T' plate makes it from 1978, and its a special edition to commemorate Lotus winning the F1 world championship in 1978, which they did in the famous black and gold colours of their ciggie sponsor at the time, John Player Special. Less than 300 were made, making it pretty rare, and I have to say for a 40 year old car it still looks pretty damn cool. @Reynard will like this I suspect.

Perhaps you can't afford the car but what about the bike?



I think someone here is selling one.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Hillman hunter and morris thousand traveller

 

[Grant Fondo]

My old man had one of these a Vauxhall Velox. Big bench seat at the front, wafting around Dorset fairly sedately (80 odd hp from a six cylinder?). The gearbox eventually destroyed itself in Brixham on the way to Cornwall, so not the best start to our summer jolies. Relaced by a more reliable Volvo 144, but not the same fun.

 

[mikeymustard]

My old man had one of these a Vauxhall Velox. Big bench seat at the front, wafting around Dorset fairly sedately (80 odd hp from a six cylinder?). The gearbox eventually destroyed itself in Brixham on the way to Cornwall, so not the best start to our summer jolies. Relaced by a more reliable Volvo 144, but not the same fun.
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I never paid these monsters much heed as a kid (they already looked old fashioned in the 60s), but all these years later I think they look amazing! "Wafting" is definitely what they do!