Which Car Do You Remember with Affection from your Youth?

[raleighnut]

Dad had 3 of them..yes they tended to get a bit hot.
Shame as they were a roomy practical small car.

The mini vans he had were fun..as was the traveller.
Best Dad car memory was a Rover v8 p5 in midnight blue..fabulous car.
Peterborough to Pontefract in an hour..100 miles!!! In the early 70s. No seat belts worn !!!!!

The engine goes well in a sidecar 'oufit'

 

[Levo-Lon]

I bought a Renault 16 TL in 1985 for £200 and ran it for a couple of years. Bench front seat, column change and torsion bar suspension. Lovely comfy ride. Very underrated and practical car. Mine was the same colour as this.
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Renualt 6 was another car Dad had ..2 of them.
A bloke paid him for a job with one . It was a cheap job

 

[screenman]

Seeing as I was a busy car dealer from about 76 until 88 I can remember buysing and selling to many of those cars, great looking back. The 16 was a favourite, but the $ was my go to banger for shifting gear. A Morris Traveller we used as a rubbish bin, when it was full it did a run to the skip.

My wife's favourite she has just told me was one of these, not any where near as big as it looks here.

 

[Dirk]

One of the most memorable car from my youth was my brothers BMW. He's five years older than me. I did hundreds of miles in one of these when I was about 12.

 

[Levo-Lon]

The engine goes well in a sidecar 'oufit'

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It was ok when cooled properly

 

[Levo-Lon]

Seeing as I was a busy car dealer from about 76 until 88 I can remember buysing and selling to many of those cars, great looking back. The 16 was a favourite, but the $ was my go to banger for shifting gear. A Morris Traveller we used as a rubbish bin, when it was full it did a run to the skip.

My wife's favourite she has just told me was one of these, not any where near as big as it looks here.

Was that the Colt ? same as the james bond car that he used in the golden gun for the river jump.. Just checked..it was a AMC Hornet

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Seeing as I was a busy car dealer from about 76 until 88 I can remember buysing and selling to many of those cars, great looking back. The 16 was a favourite, but the $ was my go to banger for shifting gear. A Morris Traveller we used as a rubbish bin, when it was full it did a run to the skip.

My wife's favourite she has just told me was one of these, not any where near as big as it looks here.

Standard parking for that type of car too!

 

[Dirk]

The very first car that actually made a memorable impression on me was one of these. I can recall being fascinated by the three headlights.
A neighbour had one around 1957/8.
Austin Atlantic.

 

[Levo-Lon]

The very first car that actually made a memorable impression on me was one of these. I can recall being fascinated by the three headlights.
A neighbour had one around 1957/8.
Austin Atlantic.
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I think Vauxhall used that design when they made the Astra GTE lol. looked like a Tub of ice cream in the white

 

[Drago]

A bloody fast tub of ice cream! I had one with the optional close ratio box from the competition pack, and it went like greased weasel s***.

 

[pplpilot]

Not quite my youth, but my early 30s. I drove the length of Africa in an 18 year old HJ60 Toyota Landcruiser. It was magnificent:

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Fan.bloody.tastic!

 

[Mo1959]

Rover P6 V8. The British Citroen DS. Futuristic styling, though brawny rather than elegant. Futuristic, comfortable, fast, good handling. And then came the B and the V8. Problem keeping up with bank robbers in Jags, Sir? Then the P6B V8 is just what you need. If you were hard as nails, yet sophisticated and on the side of the good guys, you drove a P6 V8. It was the Lewis Collins of motoring.

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I adored them, and in '97 I finally acquired a 1971 P6B V8 in almond, just like the one in the pic. Such comfort, such style, 14 to the gallon. Sadly sold in 2002 to pay my divorce solicitors bill, and sadly missed. I may yet have another.

I still find that beautiful even although I like modern cars. Always fancied a Triumph Stag too although I know they had engine problems and a lot of people fitted the Rover engine to them.

 

[raleighnut]

One of the cars that made a lasting impression on me was one of the last Special Edition SAAB 96s (they'd even got a little gold plaque on the dashboard with the number it was out of the 150 made in RHD) that was sold to Mrs Neuberg in 1978, she still drives it now.

 

[raleighnut]

Oh and BTW the picture is a link,

One of the cars that made a lasting impression on me was one of the last Special Edition SAAB 96s (they'd even got a little gold plaque on the dashboard with the number it was out of the 150 made in RHD) that was sold to Mrs Neuberg in 1978, she still drives it now.

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and that is No 150 out of 150 up for auction with just over 3,000 miles on the clock.

 

[screenman]

Was that the Colt ? same as the james bond car that he used in the golden gun for the river jump.. Just checked..it was a AMC Hornet

Colt Celeste