bigstraight6 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 1986, me trying to look like Morrisey overlooking my beloved Plympton..(sorry pic is wrong way about!) AndyW201, sdkrc, Vantman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 AndyW201 and bigstraight6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vantman Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Me in 1975ish when i had plenty of hair! Six-cylinder, HMC, Dick Longbridge and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Me (driving) mid 1980s when I had hair Minimad5, AndyW201, danthecapriman and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter C Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 My first car, me on the left. AndyW201, Yoss, danthecapriman and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Me,early nineties.The Cortinas both belonged to my girlfriend at the time 😎 bigstraight6, Dyslexic Viking, bunglebus and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Young Ramrod, 18, in late 1977 with my first and so far only Vauxhall PA, this one being a 1961 Velox automatic. Colours were maroon and grey, almost exactly the opposite of the maroon and silver Vanguards offering. I still have the back number plate (969 NMB), it's on my yard wall display. HMC, danthecapriman, Amishtat and 20 others 22 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstraight6 Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 Yes yes yes! Loving slightly embarrassing pics of the brethren of years gone by! eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 1998; more hair, and a £10 cortina ghia on death row on wasteland in leeds. rob88h, Peter C, Bamboocarman and 21 others 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1997, and a dire filler-laden tub of a Cortina that cost me £80. More hair, less gut than today, it's true. But I'm still running end-of-life heaps with corrosion issues so, y'know... it's nice to have some continuity. LightBulbFun, Bamboocarman, Dick Longbridge and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Me, very excited to have found a MARK ONE Renault 12. The date is August 1990 and the location was Dalkeith, Scotland. Austat, AndyW201, 108 and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 I was cooler than all'ya with my curtains and muscle top. MK1 Fiesta looks OK but had led a very eventful life before I paid £125 for it in 1998 or so Dick Longbridge, danthecapriman, bigstraight6 and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezzabsa Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 I APOLOGISE FOR ANY LOST LUNCHES, BLURRED VISION, AND GENERAL FEELING OF SICKNESS WHEN WITNESSING THE HORROR OF THE MULLET & DYED HAIR BELOW few of me....1 when I passed my test..and a few old chod pics of mine.. pic with flat cap & pint was 1988, with blonde 1986/7.. and 1989 when I passed car test ... Kadett was 1991, cavvy 1993, Corsa 2010, metro 1990, allegro 2006/7, Bandit 2005, Mondeo 2014 sdkrc, Dick Longbridge, RayMK and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan302 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Me in 1998 at a house party looking like a right knob Datsuncog, Dyslexic Viking and St.Jude 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1982 I’m 2nd from left , the others are my brothers. My first Executive , my long lost hair. Six-cylinder, Amishtat, danthecapriman and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 41 minutes ago, bezzabsa said: I APOLOGISE FOR ANY LOST LUNCHES, BLURRED VISION, AND GENERAL FEELING OF SICKNESS WHEN WITNESSING THE HORROR OF THE MULLET & DYED HAIR BELOW few of me....1 when I passed my test..and a few old chod pics of mine.. pic with flat cap & pint was 1988, with blonde 1986/7.. and 1989 when I passed car test ... Kadett was 1991, cavvy 1993, Corsa 2010, metro 1990, allegro 2006/7, Bandit 2005, Mondeo 2014 You are Paul le Roy of Phoenix Nights fame with that mullet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyW201 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Absolutely god-awful pic (even worse than the subject matter), but this is me, September 1991, aged 17, two weeks after my test attempting a wheel spin outside my mate Dave's house in my miniMetro 1.0, TRM 894X, with MG stripes, MG interior and scrappy-sourced TD rims and tyres. Like most of us on here, there was about 8 stone less of me in those days, and I'm still trying to rock my early 90's hairstyle with whatever's left... EDIT. Only other photo I can find with me actually in a photo with one of my cars. This was 2008 (I think) on the 190 owners forum stand at the Santa Pod Retro show. My brown 190 in the foreground, I'm the tall fat bloke in the middle. (Not sure why I look so angry in the pic, I was having a good time...) Split_Pin, Datsuncog, danthecapriman and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezzabsa Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Just now, sierraman said: You are Paul le Roy of Phoenix Nights fame with that mullet. it was the Early 90's...I apologise......but it worked better with a mo bike helmet LOL sierraman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1976 my first car. 8 years old and kept breaking to the point that my father would lend me his Citroen GS 1220 Club rather than face the possibility of having to come out late at night and rescue me. Shite Ron, LightBulbFun, Dyslexic Viking and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Me on a Matchless with sidecar. Actually half an old wardrobe nailed to a sidecar chassis. 1981ish in Arran.Sent from my SM-A127F using Tapatalk AndyW201, chodweaver, Austat and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 17 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: 1976 my first car. 8 years old and kept breaking to the point that my father would lend me his rather than face the possibility of having to come out late at night and rescue me. Stiletto? Cracking photo. My mother owned one in an identical hue. Lovely little thing - still remember standing on the driveway fiddling with the engine cover handles which didn't have locks on them from what I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: Stiletto? Cracking photo. My mother owned one in an identical hue. Lovely little thing - still remember standing on the driveway fiddling with the engine cover handles which didn't have locks on them from what I remember. I was 17 and the insurance would have been unmanageable on the monster Stiletto! This was the single carb 875cc Imp Californian Coupe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 30 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: I was 17 and the insurance would have been unmanageable on the monster Stiletto! This was the single carb 875cc Imp Californian Coupe. All the looks without much of the go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 11 hours ago, Six-cylinder said: 1976 my first car. 8 years old and kept breaking to the point that my father would lend me his rather than face the possibility of having to come out late at night and rescue me. A Stilletto - very nice. Like you I remember Imps were unreliable when a few years old - mostly not the poor old Imps fault - but previous owners who unattended clogged rads and long leaky heater pipe runs oftentimes led to chronic overheating and engine problems, underuse of antifreeze and lack of regular oil changes too - the rubber Rotoflex drive couplings failed regularly with age as well. But I don't remember them as being particularly rusty. Nice to drive - but Rootes finance problems led them to be chronically underdeveloped. Pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 It's always been me taking the photo so I am pretty sure this is the only photo of me with one of my cars. 1979 and I am brazing up the holes in my 1500 beetle, recently bought from a friend for £275. I havn't seen it since about 1984 but it is still taxed! The hair is long gone but I still have the stick-welder however brazing carbons aren't available at Halfords these days. *The milk bottles were for pouring oil into the Beetle's engine; saves a lot of mess. And that's a VW headlight bulb. Shite Ron, Dick Longbridge, Split_Pin and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said: All the looks without much of the go! EDY 667E was my first car, a Californian. It went well, in more than one way! Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Me outside Central FM In Falkirk around 2001. I bloody loved that car. eddyramrod, danthecapriman, wesacosa and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 4 hours ago, Asimo said: It's always been me taking the photo so I am pretty sure this is the only photo of me with one of my cars. ... That's still one more than me. There are no photos in existence of me with any of the cars I've had. Oh wait...hang on...there is one. But only one, of me in the 635CSi going round Silverstone. I don't have access to that photo at the moment. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Everybody needs to have owned or driven a Transit at some point in their lives. Bucket list item: check GingerNuttz, Shite Ron, Dick Longbridge and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_70s Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Me and my second decrepit car in 2013. Austat, Shite Ron, Dan302 and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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