Cars we were brought home in

[mnde]

What car were you brought home from hospital in when you were a baby?

 

Here's mine:

 

 

In this colour and all, from memory of old photo albums! At the time my parents also had a blue 1301 estate. Dad tells me that he ended up with two Simcas after his Opel Manta went because it wouldn't take a carrycot!

 

My sister got:

 

 

in... ah, this blue I think but with the green one's wheels:

 

 

Here's me strapped into the back of it

 

 

It obviously made an impression on me because once I got hold of the Haynes manual (which I still have, complete with "This book belongs to Mark Evans" scrawled in the front inside page in purple felt tip pen, and various scribbles in pencil on the technical drawings for the suspension system) the obsession began! I used to take it to bed with me to read...

 

My brother got:

 

 

but with black and white check seats.

[Mash]

 

It was 7 years old at the time and a bit ropey apparently so my parents got shot of it not long after. Didn't have a car from then until I was 13, dad commuting on a scooter then later bigger bikes.

[MrRegieRitmo]

I used to take it to bed with me to read...

That IS serious!

[hennabm]

No pics but it was an Austin A35 that was about 18mths old at the time.

[Station]

Ahem, my folks were fairly penniless in the early years, so probably got the bus or taxi, however, my earliest memory was on of these, I will have to ask:

 

In blue:

The horn was circular and pulled out.

[pandamonium]

One of these, apparently. My dad sold it soon after and bought an Escort MK2

 

[Pete-M]

I was brought home in an Austin A30, my brother in an A35.Considering my dad had much better cars at the time, I'm sure he was taking the piss somewhat.

[seth]

I have no idea! The first car I can remember was a Triumph 2000 estate but that would have been when I was 3 or 4.

 

My daughter did OK though

 

[Volksy]

My old man had one of these...

 

Wrote it off soon after.

 

[FredTransit]

No idea, mum and dad couldn't drive so would have been a taxi. I was very young at the time!

[Heep]

This isn't a picture of the very car, but it was just like this one but gold instead of grey. My Dad bought it new in 1983, I was born and brought home in it in 1984.

 

 

This actually is the very car, but unfortunately this is the best picture I've found of it.

 

 

One of my earliest memories from when I was 3 involves that car. Understandably I have a big soft spot for them now and would love to get a good one. I've not even seen one of that generation in years, though...

 

My sister, born in 1981, was brought home in this very Buick Regal Turbo that Dad had bought new in '79 as a left-over '78.

 

 

The turbo kept failing on it so GM eventually bought it back and Dad got the Mazda. Hasn't had an American car since...

[seth]

D'oh! I was so busy trying to remember what car we might have had when I was born that I forgot that I was born at home

[r.welfare]

A 1970 Mk2 Ford Cortina automatic estate. Column shift and a starter ring gear made of chocolate, according to my dad. It went west soon after I was brought home, to be replaced by the first of the company cars - a Marina 1.3, I think.

[ashmicro]

I got

 

 

My sister got a South African spec one of these

 

[Guest Tony Hayers]

2 year old one of these -

 

[dollywobbler]

One of these for me, but in dark blue. And rustier.

 

I think it was one of those anyway. My Dad owned one when I was born, but I was too young to remember myself, and it had a habit of not working.

 

It got scrapped when I was a nipper - I once remember the road workers bouncing it onto the kerb as it was broken again when they came to put fresh tarmac down!

 

Then we were carless for quite a few years, but it was worth it when in about 1985, my Dad got a metallic bronze Hillman Hunter! Ten years old and quite rusty with permanently squeaky wipers, but it had overdrive and was almost brown, so therefore very, very cool.

[brammy777]

A lighter blue coloured non Sapphire Sierra.

identical to the one below apart from colour

was 2 years old at the time, had a red pinstripe running all round it

[Vin]

I was brought home in a K reg Triumph Toledo.Sister came home in a M reg Volvo 145 Estate.Next Sister in a T reg Chrysler Alpine.

[brammy777]

My little brother was brought back in the same sierra, but less than 3 months later it was traded in for a year newer Subaru Legacy.

[Father Ted]

1967 Bedford HA van. Carycot slung in the back.

[MrRegieRitmo]

I was brought home in a K reg Triumph Toledo.Sister came home in a M reg Volvo 145 Estate.Next Sister in a T reg Chrysler Alpine.

Your youngest sibling was the spoilt one then!

[MrRegieRitmo]

My mum & my real dad had one of these at the time so chances are I came home in it...

 

 

same colour, same year, except hers was K reg!

[mnde]

I used to take it to bed with me to read...

That IS serious!

Oh yes! I was fascinated by the GS Haynes manual, but I have no memory of the car itself.I've reuploaded the baby picture to my original post because it was from a members only GS Yahoogroup. It was taken in December 1979, around Christmas. The car disappeared some time between August '80 and December '82 when my brother was born. I'm told it disgraced itself by suffering a driveshaft failure on a family holiday after which it "had to go." This obviously tarnished the GS's image in my mother's mind because she recalled the incident while trying to dissuade me from buying my GSA in 2001 I'd registered on the GS yahoogroup looking for a car to buy, and the first reply to my post was from a chap near Oswestry with a GSA Break for sale and he sent me pictures. It just had to be! The first car I'd ever bought and for a long while it was my only car.

[s2driver]

[j-j]

For me it was one of these in this very colour:

 

 

Had this up until I was about 6. many memories of it - some good

[bigstraight6]

 

One of these for me! one of a succession of Cortina rep mobiles old fatha had in my early years....

[s2driver]

can't......insert......pictureit was a billious green ford anglia estate (the colour that was very popular (no pun intended) on 100Es. Pre-suffix - so '61 or '62 I think.

[Albert Ross]

A humble, black 2 door Morris 1000. I still have the scar on my right cheek from the broken driver's seat dropping down on me when I was a year old. My mother never forgave my Dad for that. I never forgot to thank him for all the lovely shite he brought home. Orange Avenger, Red Volvo P1800, White Alfa 2600 Sprint (!), Mercedes 200, and a huge stack of company cars over the years. I got it all from him!

[pogweasel]

Style, perfomance & luxury...

 

 

.... none of these were on offer to my folks back in 1978.

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