First car you remember

[captain_70s]

Dad went through a selection of Mk3 Astra estates as company cars when I was very young. A white one and a red on preceded the blue example that I remember. After these he bought a 1991 Rover 214 5 door which I remember much better but was getting rather crusty when it was traded in circa 2004. I've got no pictures of either so here are some internet pics...

 

 

[Mr A Lawrence]

My earliest memory was riding up and down the street outside our house on my little bike whilst my dad brush painted a commer van in red then somebody trying to turn around in their car scraping up the side of it!!

 

It'll have been summer '72 if I remember correctly.

[mossymossy]

I should remember this anglebox, but I don't. Thats me on the left by the way. The anglia was my dads. He had just started reping and was clocking up colossal mileages in shite like this. Great, because it meant we had a new car in the driveway every year. The lad on the right is my best mate from next door. I do remember his dads car the one in the background. It always had the bonnet up, or we were bump starting it down the road. Anybody Know what it is?

[sierraman]

A metallic brown Talbot Alpine owned by my dad. 1979 V plate I think, either that or X reg one or the other.

[Captain Mainwaring]

The car in the background looks like a sit-up-and-beg Ford Popular to me.

[Lee1]

How can I add pictures? First time poster long time reader, sorry.

[daveb47]

How can I add pictures? First time poster long time reader, sorry.

http://autoshite.com/topic/16530-autoshite-helpinformationposting-hints-etc/

[Lee1]

This is the first car I remember. My grandads Regal.

 

 

 

And the second.

 

[Pillock]

Chrysler Sunbeam, 1.6, Bronze. AFM441S.

 

I remember it being hugely unreliable, and my mum occasionally having to scribble the word "brake" on a piece of paper that either myself or my sister would be tasked with holding up at the back window on command when the lighting had given up again. I also remembering sitting in the Little Chef just east of RAF Cranwell waiting for the AA when there was a more serious leak of electricity and we were going on holiday.

 

The patrolman had a Sunbeam too and got it going. I asked him if it had a dent in the bumper, since I was convinced all Sunbeams had a dented bumper. It had. I was happy.

 

Got chopped in for a Polo in 1985.