Which Car Do You Remember with Affection from your Youth?

[graham56]

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.

Ah, the Crapi. No, I didn't spell the name wrong.

 

[nickyboy]

My Dad also had one of these beauties



as he was a plumber and it was convenient for all his tools. Every summer we used to go to Cornwall in it, all the way from North Lancs. Overnight so as to miss the worst of the traffic but it still took 10 hours or so. My sister and I were in the back on a mattress so we had a jolly nice sleep and were ready to rock when Mum and Dad got to Newquay after driving all night

 

[Bazzer]

I had one of these, but in dark red.

Sold it with ideas to buy and customise a van, (which never happened) and regretted it from the morning after .

 

[Cycleops]

My Dad also had one of these beauties

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as he was a plumber and it was convenient for all his tools. Every summer we used to go to Cornwall in it, all the way from North Lancs. Overnight so as to miss the worst of the traffic but it still took 10 hours or so. My sister and I were in the back on a mattress so we had a jolly nice sleep and were ready to rock when Mum and Dad got to Newquay after driving all night

Yes, journeys used to take forever in those days. My dad used to make us set off in the early hours from London to North Somerset for our holidays in the family Standard 10. We arrived about late afternoon.

 

[Dirk]

The first car I remember going in as a nipper, was my Dad's 1935 Lanchester 'Woodie'. I think he bought it in 1952 for about £30. He sold it in 1958 and bought an Austin A35 van, into which he put a rear seat and side windows.

 

[NorthernDave]

Yes, journeys used to take forever in those days. My dad used to make us set off in the early hours from London to North Somerset for our holidays in the family Standard 10. We arrived about late afternoon.

You're not wrong. From Leeds to Scarborough or Bridlington is about 65 miles - or about an hour in a modern car traffic permitting. In the 70s I can remember stopping just the other side of York "for a break" - and virtually every lay-by you passed would have a car stopped in it with the bonnet open...

 

[midlife]

You're not wrong. From Leeds to Scarborough or Bridlington is about 65 miles - or about an hour in a modern car traffic permitting. In the 70s I can remember stopping just the other side of York "for a break" - and virtually every lay-by you passed would have a car stopped in it with the bonnet open...

Yep, primus stove for tea, boiled eggs with salt in the lay by

 

[Profpointy]

My own classic cars were my Dad's cast off mk 2 cortina. He'd bought it new in '68 and it had sat idle for a number of years during my childood, so once I'd learnt to drive I got it going again. By this time all the brakes had siezed so had to replace all the seals. Duly got mot, then had to replace the gearbox which is why he'd stoped using it in the first place. Did good service for some 70000 more miles in my posession. Sadly it was the 1300 bog standard rather than the 1600E. In the 80s I bought a Triumph vitesse of the same vintage - essentially a herald but with a 2 litre straight six in it. Was a real banger though and rusting to bits but great fun to drive. Had boring cars after that.

 

[Profpointy]

That was my first car too, it was an orange one and cost me £100. The painwork was pretty good but the underside was rusted to feck.

Growing up my dad had a Riley 2.5 litre.

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Rather appealing cars those old rileys. Never driven one nor had a ride in one, though a mate did have a done up one

 

[NorthernDave]

Yep, primus stove for tea, boiled eggs with salt in the lay by

I'd forgotten the delights of the lay-by luncheon - hard-boiled eggs or soggy cheese sandwiches, washed down with lukewarm tea...

 

[midlife]

I'd forgotten the delights of the lay-by luncheon - hard-boiled eggs or soggy cheese sandwiches, washed down with lukewarm tea...

And oranges....then spend the rest of the journey with your fingers sticking together! Parking the car half a mile from the beach at Fraisthorpe because the walk to the beach will do us all good. Everyone else parked the car by the beach lol

 

[MarkF]

First car I spent my own money on, was about 23/24, I've always liked big cars .I paid £1400 for a 1981 2.0L metallic blue Granada, not like the updated one posted earlier with the Merc rear light lenses which ruined it, but the original flat ones like below, I loved the those rear lights.

It's funny to think that bodging and filling to stop your car disintegrating was a normal part of car ownership then, £1400 would be worth about £3000 now and could get me a 2009 Mondeo that'd probably go on forever.

 

[slowmotion]

I came to motoring pretty late. My first car was a secondhand Fiat Panda, one of the original ones with "deckchair" seats which were surprisingly comfortable. It was great for nipping around town and seemed to be a red rag to a bull for boy racers. I once nipped in front of a champagne bucket exhaust hot hatch, which had the driver's girlfriend in the passenger seat. He went completely ape-sh*t. Happy days.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I came to motoring pretty late. My first car was a secondhand Fiat Panda, one of the original ones with "deckchair" seats which were surprisingly comfortable. It was great for nipping around town and seemed to be a red rag to a bull for boy racers. I once nipped in front of a champagne bucket exhaust hot hatch, which had the driver's girlfriend in the passenger seat. He went completely ape-sh*t. Happy days. View attachment 390392

I hired one of them in 89 while in Ibiza..i really liked it.
Great fuel economy and drove like a little go cart

 

[Dirk]

I had an automatic Austin 1800 in 1979 - was a brilliant roomy workhorse.

Followed by one of these in the late 80s.

Never had any trouble with either.