First shite you ever travelled in.?

[AndyW201]

It will have been when I was ferried home after birth in the Mk2 Mini Dad had at the time. Tartan red with a one piece flip-front! However once I was born, that made 3 kids in the family, so the Mini was chopped in for a HA Viva, which had the flattest red paint I've ever seen. I remember it having the white side flash and blingy wheel trims, so must have been an SL 90. This was followed by YWW 159L, a white Hillman Avenger DL, an absolutely brilliant car. We had that car for four years and nothing ever went wrong with it. That was replaced by BYG 745T, a later Chrysler one that had come from Leeds C.I.D. In autoshite brown with brown vinyl interior. Dad put a brown vinyl roof and red, orange and yellow triple tape stripes on as well. He was an autoshite winner and didnt even know it!

[garycox]

Mine would've been a red Mk2 Capri GL, which was replaced by a silver XR3i, B92 YAR. The Escort's the first one I can remember.

[RedSparrow]

My dad's Talbot Sunbeam, on the way back from the hospital. When I was a kid his nickname for me was Sunbeam. Everyone say Aaahhhh!

[cobblers]

I'd have been brought home from the hospital in an A reg XR3 that my dad bought on finance. Not long after I was born he got banned for drink driving so just left the car outside the house and stopped paying for it

[RobT]

A white Hillman Imp for me. I'll try and dig out the photo I've got of it, complete with a huge Marmet pram tied down in the Paddy Hopkirk roof rack

[hhhugues]

1958 2cv citroen with a questionable 2 two tone blue/ red interior courtesy of my mum's painting skills ! i'll ask her to find a picture, its worth it.

[scruff]

Hillman Hunter or a '71 Mini

[jonny69]

I think it was a Marina van and I'm pretty sure it would have been pretty kenked as well!

[Shep Shepherd]

My grandfather's 1972 Viva HC two door, painted in a slightly darker shade of gold to the one in the photo:

 

 

It was inherited by my father in 1980 and was replaced by a 1977 Chrysler Avenger (ex-Sussex Police) in 1981, due to severe corrosion issues.

[ypsilandra]

Strangely virtually everyone in our family (and town) worked for British Rail when I was born so there was one car in the family, my great Uncle's which he bought in 1965 and kept until the 90s. So, it was most likely that I was driven from Newport Pagnell to Wolverton in this beast:

 

 

And yes, that is me. I've done some research into this car, if you click you'll find out more.

 

When Mum finally got married (it was the early 70's baby ) Dad had a rally prepped Mini, traded in for a "sensible" 128 when little brother came along. This was followed by a green HC Viva (company car), 128 Estate, GS Estate, Viva 2300SL, Allegro and then the car I learnt to drive in, a Solara 1.6LS.

[wuvvum]

Probably the red Renault 6 which my dad owned when I was born. I don't have any first-hand memories of it though, as he chopped it in when I was 2 for a beige S-reg Marina 1.8 SDL estate. I do actually have a memory of that car, but not riding in it - it had a single reversing lamp on the back bumper and I remember standing in a car park aged 3 looking at it and wondering if you had to switch it on like you did with the headlights.

 

That was an unreliable POS though, and after it broke down in the fast lane of the M3 on the way to Devon in 1983, he got rid and took me with him to the Renault dealer to buy a replacement. I remember the salesman trying to flog him a blue ex-demo R11, which I thought was really cool because it had a wrap-around rear screen, but my dad ended up going for a blue T-plate Renault 6 TL (YMC35T) which he loved to bits (despite the rust hole which appeared on the offside C-pillar after about two years and then got steadily worse and worse) and kept until early 1988 when he sold it to our neighbour and bought an A-reg Mk1 Astra estate. I loved that car as well - it took us down to our holiday house in central France every summer without ever missing a beat, and it's what led to me buying my R6, as I was still too young to drive when dad sold it (although I had sat on his lap and steered it) so never got to find out what it was like, unlike the Astra which I did get to drive briefly.

[sporty-shite]

I was brought home from Bolton General Hospital as it was then called, in an MGB GT

 

There was a photo of the occasion somewhere, must see if I can get mum to find it.

 

After that, dad had an Alfa GT Junior, 3.8 E Type, another Sherpa Coupe, V12 E type, Datsun 100a estate, Colt Celeste, Mustang II and an Oldsmobile Starfire before descending into diesel mingebag motoring with two 205s in a row. In his retirement, he now shares an Autoshite racing gold K10 Micra AUTO with mum!

[cyruspower]

A neighbour's Simca 1100 in green when I was about 5. We went to Knowsley safari park and the wipers fell off. Not because of the apes, because of the crap build quality combined with heavy rain. At least 12 of us in the back and no belts. Except for Timmy, when he pee'd himself on the rear seat.

 

Dad's gold Renault 20 TS. Avec fenêtres électrique! Tres bon!

 

Mum's green Maxi 1750 HL. Broken drivers seat back rest. Wooden pole used to prop driver's backrest upright in rear footwell. Mum 7 months pregnant with my sister. Awesome health & safety.

 

Mum's Ford Anglia estate, white with red leather. Loved that car.

 

My E12 BMW 528 (no i), manual, push button start, I was 19 and at college. It was awesome. My dick nearly dropped off from all the action.

 

Replaced with a brown metallic Volvo 345GL CVT auto. This stage of my life is known as 'The Dry Years'.

[wuvvum]

V12 E type, Datsun 100a estate

That must have been a bit of a shock to the system.

[sporty-shite]

V12 E type, Datsun 100a estate

That must have been a bit of a shock to the system.

 

I know! One extreme to the other, or what. He always wanted a V12 E, but when he got it, he was really disappointed. Only kept it a few months, and sold it to a trader for what he paid for it. Went out and bought the Datsun because he'd decided he needed something economical! That was the first car I remember him buying, brand new in 1976. LEK 516P from Firsway Garage in Leigh.. Story goes that when he chopped it in for the Celeste about 18months later, I cried like a baby.

[MK5 Escort]

I've debated this with my father in the past and he's limited it to two possibilities. The car I would have come home from hospital in (i.e – first journey in a car) would have either have been the silver Firenza MXD 689K (previously pictured on both Autoshite and Retro Rides) or an S reg Morris Marina 1.8 in dark blue. The Firenza was my late grandfather's car and my father did used to borrow it on occasions. The Marina was my father's own car.

 

My father reckons it was more than likely the Marina, as he had that for about six months before I was born. My brother (older than me) was definitely brought home in the Firenza as there is a picture floating around somewhere showing my mother getting into it at the hospital with my brother in her arms, but my father vaguely recalls the Marina for me but can't be 100% sure. Either way, it would have been one of those two.

 

The first car I remember travelling in (just about) was the Marina when I must have only been around two years old. I recall the interior was a matching dark blue draylon and I used to sit on the rear armrest as a makeshift 'booster' seat! I also remember the registration ended '5S' but remember little else about it now unfortunately.

 

The first car I remember clearly enough was the car that replaced the Marina, the 'E' reg Toyota Carina hatchback in white with a blue velour interior (it was similar to this). It was my father's first company car and the car prior to the Escort. It would have been pretty much new, I remember the 'new' smell it had very vividly and we went to Cromer in it a few times listening to that band Timmy Mallet had on cassette!

[Wilko220]

Can't compete with a lot of people's first time chod - but for me it was one of these bad boys...

 

 

except it didn't look quite as good - well, anywhere near as good - as this one.

 

When the engine blew up, my parents "upgraded" to...

 

 

Oh yes