What's the first car you remember your family owning?

[warren t claim]

Nostalga alert!!!!

 

Coming from a Ford family mine was a 2 door Mk3 Cortina 1300 base in dark blue. XUN902K iirc. I remember it well. We still have a couple of photos of it in the family album! I would of been two years old when we got it and we replaced it when I was five. This means that my three year old will remember my Pug and E-Class when he grows up. Probably helped by there being several photos of him with them around the house.

 

So what's your earliest car memory?

[scoobypete]

Brown hillman avenger estate,can remember the seemingly neverending drive when we emigrated from derby to sw scotland.....

 

cant tell you anything else about it tho unfortunately other than the fact my mum made my dad get rid of it soon after as she found out he had bought it on the never never without telling her

[eddyramrod]

The furthest-back I can go unaided is the Hillman Minx we had when I was about 3. I remembered it as pale blue, but my mother always said it was grey. She also said that when my father traded in his black A30 for it, I wouldn't leave the Austin, so someone had to follow him home with the Hillman and take the Austin away once I was in the house! How sneaky! I was born in 1959, so I'm pleased to be able to remember so far back. Now where have I put my glasses...?

[Rusty Pelican]

Ford Anglia in blue , 1200cc of pure powar , AHT 804B , not even known to the DOOVLA now , went on my very first holiday abroad in it , Well Scotland actually but Pops told me they spoke a different language , staying in Glasgow overnight on the way up prooved he was right , I never understood a word of the B@B owners

[Anglevan]

Growing up I lived in a typical 70's wimpy style estate. I think everyone had skinted themselves buying the house and forgot about car buying. My neighbour owned a Morris 1300 however my parents first venture into car ownership was a 1966 Austin Mini Countryman (with the wood) LWY166D in Tarten red. Great car and loved it especially the sliding windows and helping my dad in the summer varnishing the wood !!!!!!! I'd have been about 5 or 6 ...

That was traded in for a 1975 Ford Escort MK2 Estate in 1977 ?? reg was KUG144N

 

No pics i'm afraid as parents never took any of the cars until later on

[Marshall]

Blue Escort 1.3 Popular (always thought it was a 1.1 but the badge says otherwise).

 

Heres me in it!

 

[Station]

Hillman Avenger in blue (the one with the L shape rear lights). It had a nice circular horn that could pull out. It was parked in a lock up, the smell of which is the same as the lock up I have now (oil/rubbery), and takes me back everytime I smell it.

[Rusty Pelican]

Marshall , In that second pic you look like a puppet from one of Gerry andersons creations

Escorts are go

Sorry no offence meant , just what i thought

[boobydoo]

One of these, exact same colour.

 

Then we traded in for....

in pale blue, reg no DFX29C

 

This was our first brand new car bought in 1971, JYD 964K.

 

Pretty boring fare really...my parents wouldn't have dreamt of buying anything different like a Citroen Ami or Moskvich!!

[retrogeezer]

the first car I can remember going in was a white 1974 Skoda 110 saloon.....

 

[Torsten2001]

A lovely Ford Corsair, HHM662D. I was in awe of its 110mph speedo! That was in 1970!

[trigger]

I've posted this before but meh, This is me in 1983 next to my dad VX 2300.

 

 

I can just about remember this car, He sold it for a Gold Cortina 2.0 S i think it was, That was the start of his run of Ford's he's had ever since.

 

After the Gold Cortina he bought the Blue Y plate Cortina 1.6 Crusader, He had that for years, I can remember that well, It had really soft grey interior with wooden door capping's, Classy stuff back in the day.

[Albert Ross]

Black Split Moggy thou' and White '65ish ADO16 for two, they were my Mum's cars, and about the same time we had a '61 Volvo P1800, and an '66 Alfa 2600 sprint!! My Dad had style.

[Mr Lobster]

First car I remember Fatha_Lobsta having was a T plate Allegro in Green. He replaced this with a Mk1 Cavalier in Orange and another Cavalier (Mk2 1'6 y'know) after that.

[Angrydicky]

MK1 Rover 800 E854 LPU (or something like that) in silver. The engine (Rover 2 litre) blew up on the way back from Brighton on day, which resulted in a long journey in the back of an AA transporter cab, which I still remember.

 

That was changed for an Austin Ambassador in red, HWC 295Y. This thing was pretty tired when we got it in '98, and lasted pretty impressively to 2004 IIRC.

[eddyramrod]

That's the Minx! I don't remember it being two-tone, but since there seems to have been a discrepancy about the colour anyway it's possible it was. I do remember it was traded for a brand new Anglia van in Goodwood Green, XWM 234; which was followed by his hated Corsair 1500, GTE 324B, a two-door also in Goodwood. Then my favourite, DWM 95C, the lovely Mk3 Zephyr in dark blue (Ambassador Blue?).

 

Sorry, I could ramble on like this for hours, I remember them all...

[Quintus]

Dad replaced the Beetle soon after I was born, so I don't remember that very well.

 

The Marina he replaced it with lingers long in the mind. The vinyl seats were a sort of mustard/vomit colour and used to reach nuclear temperature in the summer, which wasn't much fun when I was wearing shorts!

[r.welfare]

Morris Ital 1.3L. FAN 52V, Pageant Blue. My dad's first new car. Although I have stronger memories of it's replacement, DTF 944V, a white Princess 2 1700L. What a car!

[sporty-shite]

First car I remember was a V12 E-type, Series 3 2+2. Olive Green with green leather and green tinted windows.

 

My mate's dad thought I was romancing when I told him we were getting it. Seeing as I was only about 4 at the time, you can see his point!

 

Lasted six months before Fatha Sporty got sick of having to rag it up the M6 once a week to de-coke it

 

He was really disappointed in it, in a true never meet your heroes type of way.

 

Sold it six months later for the same as he paid for it, just before E-type production ceased. Kicked himself for not laying it up. Ended up buying a 100A estate after it , although that didn't last long, and was replaced with a Celeste

 

Last time I checked Doovla, E-type was still taxed, although the 100A and Celeste are long gone!

[Guest]

Ford anglia 105e that cost him £10 as it needed a new battery. Thats about 1974

[Cavcraft]

A white 1969 Maxi 1500. We thought it was ace because of the hatchback and the room inside the car.

 

Can't really remember too much else about it sorry but my dad's next car was an Austin 3-litre and I absolutely loved it.

[brammy777]

Blue F reg Ford Sierra 1.8 GL which was ultimately sold because it got stuck going up an icy hill. Plus it was apparently a bit cumbersome at times. Replaced by a white G reg Subaru Legacy with the turbocharged engine. This was in April 1994.

[Guest]

On his return from the Falklands, my dad bought a completely knackered MK1 Escort 1.1 2-door in blue which blew up on the motorway about a year later. It was then given to the recovery driver in lieu of payment and we had to sleep in a taxi office until next morning to catch a train instead. Nice work dad!

[gearoil]

An Austin 1800. I remember all the family sitting in the car on a Saturday morning, heavy snow on the ground and my Dad cursing as the thing refused to start on a dying battery...

[myglaren]

 

Standard Eight.

[mattblack]

This Triumph...

 

 

The thing I can remember about it was the way the roof overhung the back window, and the little chrome extractor vents in the overhang... I would have been 4 or 5 at the time I recon.

 

Memories, eh!

[Lord Sterling]

Renault 14TL CAW995T in Gold. sold in the mid 80s for a Blue mk1 Sierra. The 14TL Lasted until 1989.

 

MK1 Rover 800 E854 LPU (or something like that) in silver

Lovely, got any pics?

[Richard]

1964 Austin 1100- RYJ992, which we got in 1972. I can't remember a huge amount about, except that it was dark green. I remember its replacement better, a MkII Austin 1100 automatic- JSP661F in the same colour, which we had from 1974-78. IIRC you could only select the gears manually because it didn't have second gear.

[Espacetic]

A 300e Thames van with Disney characters painted all over it. Chopped in for a '66 Morris 1100 which he reckoned was the worse thing he ever did. I remember him sending it for scrap in 1971.

 

Fast forward 20 years and my girlfriend was telling me about the first car she remembers her dad having, a small Ford van with Disney characters painted on it.

[kevin 900]

Mine was Dads 1975 Commer PB (Home converted) Camper. One memory of it involves getting the van stuck in some mud on holiday - some old farmer boy appeared & offered to tow him out...

He replaced it eventually in 1982 with his only ever brand new car - a Ford Sierra (RMU517Y). At the age of five, this was the most fantastical car I'd ever seen.