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

[Lord Sterling]

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.

Just checked it out, it only lasted 5 years until 1987.

 

The vehicle details for RMU 517Y are:

 

Date of Liability 01 06 1987

Date of First Registration 28 10 1982

Year of Manufacture 1982

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1993CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Export

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour BLUE

[kevin 900]

Just checked it out, it only lasted 5 years until 1987.

He ended up using it as a minicab (don't ask), and sold it in approx '86. Mind you it says 'Export 1987', so maybe it lasted a bit longer...

[Lankytim]

The first cars I remember my parents having was a metallic blue S reg Volvo 265GLE, owned by my dad which was replaced my an Ital estate when we could no longer afford to run it. My mum had a Triumph Acclaim "trimatic" which she learned to drive in. It was too small and was replaced with an Allegro. My parents had taste in them days...

[Tayne]

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[Marshall]

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

LOL. Non taken. I can see what you mean - Think its the arms!

[Lord Sterling]

 

Just checked it out, it only lasted 5 years until 1987.

He ended up using it as a minicab (don't ask), and sold it in approx '86. Mind you it says 'Export 1987', so maybe it lasted a bit longer...

Hmmm, didnt notice that. That'll teach me for not looking properly

[Geep]

Mine was blue Austin 1100, CHO 421C. This was followed by a few more 1100’s including a new one on a J plate from Wadhams. Then a succession of Maxi’s followed culminating in a 1750 HLS until he went all sensible and had a few Mk3 then MK4 Escorts.

 

A return to the fold with a Rover 214 was next up, lovely car in bluey/green, then he went all mainstream with a Skoda Fabia and has had a few of those right up to a new one this year.

 

It might explain my love of old BMC products

[AXrescuer]

My Dad had a black Standard 8 called Betsy!

[Pete-M]

First one I remember properly was a Rover P6 3500. NFF 355K. Probably about 1974.

 

There was a BMW 2500 as well, and a Rover P5B Coupé.

 

My mum had an early Celica 2000GT in the early '80s. I quite liked that.

[Negative Creep]

A Sierra, possibly a blue estate. I remember sitting in the drivers seat when very young thinking how tall you'd have to be to reach the pedals

[RedSparrow]

Blue Talbot Sunbeam. I keep meaning to scan my dads car photo album, there's a picture in there.

[CIH]

A red Citroen Dyanne was my dad's first motor, after several bikes. He then went through a series of Skoda Estelles, then Fabias, a Superb and now a newish Fabia. Ofcourse, the Dyanne and Estelles are awesome now but I took some serious flak in school about it. Especially as he was a train spotter too.

 

He got himself a slide reader for the PC. I looked up some of the reg numbers, from the old pictures he dug up, and they're all long dead

[pompei]

Humber Hawk with bench seat, replaced bt Fiat 500, then 850. Simca 1301, Cortina MkII, Austin 1100, Honda N600, Fiat 124, 127, Cavalier Mk 1, Horizon Citroen GS etc etc. My dad got bored quickly. All this was punctuated by a car-less spell when he bought a Ford Pop special kit car thing that never went.

[MK5 Escort]

A dark blue Morris Marina saloon with contrasting blue draylon interior. Top spec model. I was only a couple of years old at the time, but I clearly remember sitting on the rear armrest as a makeshift child seat.

 

My father, surprisingly, quite liked it and didn’t think it was that bad. Then again, the only car he had prior to that was a basic two door mk1 Escort which had major gearbox issues...

 

There is a picture of it around somewhere. I also remember the registration ended '5S'.

 

This was replaced with a white E reg Toyota Carina hatchback which was a lease car though my father’s work at the time. The first car he ever had with power steering. It was either brand new or nearly new as I remember it smelling new and pressing my nose into the seats! We went to Cromer on holiday in it twice and I clearly remember 60mph on the speedo was at the top of the clock, so the needle pointed straight upwards. I used to think he was speeding when it started going around to the right!

 

My father had a minor mishap in this car. The nearside rear door was left open as he drove into the garage with it one evening...

[Angrydicky]

 

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

Lovely, got any pics?

Somewhere, I'll have a look LS

[seth]

Triumph 200 Estate is the first one I have vague memories of.

[theorganist]

A blue Morris 1800 YWP129M. Dad still maintains it was the best car he ever owned. He sold it in 1983 but I still remember seeing it going round Stourbridge ring road years later.

 

 

The enquiry is complete

The vehicle details for YWP 129M are:

 

Date of Liability 01 02 1990

Date of First Registration 01 04 1974

Year of Manufacture Not Available

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1798CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour BLUE

Vehicle Type Approval

Would love to find it in a barn or somewhere!

[fotorabia]

Australia 1967-73.Dad had a green Morris 1100 replaced by an Austin Tasman until Mum left him and we came back to Scotland.Mum bought a Austin A30 van out of the scrappie in Ft William for £50.Her boss at the hotel where we lived tho had a Boss 302 Mustang...it held the Strontian to Ardgour speed record...i loved that car...

[RichL]

1978 Fiat 128 in yellow. Lasted until 1986 by which time Dad says it was well and truly rotten. Replaced by a nearly new Nissan Cherry 1.3SGL, C566MNN. Dad wanted a Sierra, Mum said they were too big. I was 4 years old and banned from eating sweets and crisps in the new car.

[Vin]

The first car I have a memory of was a purpleish Volvo 145 (RKH 334M). I remember the bloke coming to buy it off Papa Vin, as he was getting a company car. When he got that company car - a Chrysler Alpine (RVH 249T) he brought it home at lunch time to show off to Mama Vin and me. I can still remember the plastic covering all the seats...

 

Papa Vin says the chap who bought the Volvo, wanted it for lugging washing machines about. He saw the Volvo a few years later, on Beverley Rd in Hull, covered in grey primer splodges...

[Futuramic]

I feel all middle class now (I am so it's normal)

 

My parents have always had two cars; right from when I was born.

 

The first I remember was a beige Mk2 Escort 4 door; possibly a 1.3. The bottom end gave out spectacularly in about 1992 and it got scrapped. The plate was superb NAR77V. Last I heard it was on a Merc 600 SL as a cherished transfer!

 

That got replaced by a Mk2 Cavalier 1.6. This was quite good. I can't remember why it was ditched - I think terminal rust. We didn't seem to have it for long.

 

After that came a Mk3 Cavalier 1.6. This was a G Reg non-cat so went quite well for a tiny engined big car. It had electric windows which impressed my friends. The interior was vaguely modern with velour instead of tweed so felt plush. I hated that car more than anything in the world; for its ability to break down on the way to anything remotely fun at the weekend.

 

Leyland tin gets criticised but that Cavalier was the worst built shitter I've ever had the misfortune to travel in. It used to snap clutch cables with alarming regularity; that must have happened more than 5 times - over one a year. The wipers smashed themselves to pieces one night on the A1. The rain was overwhelming and the entire Futuramic family nearly wiped out. The mirrors used to fall off by themselves. The engine would expire for no reason. The metallic blue paint, stunning on purchase, eventually faded to white and peeled off. That led to an unstoppable onslaught of rust that finally killed the thing to death.

 

Children these days would find my experiences back then inconceivable - and this was only ten years ago. I got used to sitting in the back on the hard shoulder more than going anywhere. Any journey would be defined by the enduring imagine of rain smudged sodium lights shining through dirty Triplex. Stationery and the only question "where are the AA?"

 

I really don't understand. I have run older cars as daily drivers. I felt confident in my 1988 Volvo's abilitis as a motrway cruiser. So confident, in fact, that I drove from Colchester to Edinburgh and back again. No problem. Maybe that Cavalier was proof that there really are cursed cars; ones that are very badly built.

 

It got replaced by a Mondeo; which was reliable, well made and offered sprightly performance. He's driven Mondeos ever since.

 

My mum had a Mk1 Fiesta, when I was born, on a Y plate. I remeber little about it; except being allowed to pull the choke out on frosty mornings.

 

That was replaced by a Mk3 Fiesta Fanfare - J reg and still going! Must have been a good one. I saw it the other day.

 

That was decreed boring by mother so got chopped in for a Dolphin Grey Mk2 XR2. That was run for years, until the floor rotted and the CVH obscured the emision tester's face with oil smoke. Shame really as it was immaculate inside and would be worth a bit now.

 

The XR2 gave way to a 1.25 Zetec S. This again was found to be lacking in fun.

 

Older and more sedate she exchanged that for a 2 litre petrol Mk1 Focus. From what I gather that was quite quick; but she never exploited that performance. The Mk1 Focus was changed for a Mk2 Focus.

[Father Ted]

My father had a Bedford CF van.

My dad had a 1967 Bedford HA van with a mattress in the back. After I was born he took the mattress out and bolted a seat in the back for me and put windows in.

That was replaced with (what eventually became my car) a 1971 Austin 1300....

[Gompo]

Mother had 1.3 Mk2 Escort Estate in Midnight Blue, in the late 1980s, Dad had fucked off and was carless for quite a while, first one I remember him getting was a Renault 14 in Maroon, with electric front windows.

[lancashireclamper]

My Dad worked for a Rootes group main dealer when I was born (1972) and changed cars quite a lot as any decent p/x's were snapped up by the workshop staff double quick.

I have a photo somewhere of the series 3 Minx I was apparently brought home from hospital in but have vivid memories of an Avenger GT in a kind of turquoise colour, it got swapped for a hunter when my mother learnt what GT meant!

[scooters]

A Citroen Ami 8 would have been about 1973 -

 

we would drive from home - Inverness to my grandfather's - Bournemouth - on a fairly frequent basis

 

dad loved it

[warren t claim]

A Citroen Ami 8 would have been about 1973 -

 

we would drive from home - Inverness to my grandfather's - Bournemouth - on a fairly frequent basis

 

dad loved it

In one go? How long did that take?

[Tayne]

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[meggersdog]

First car I remember my dad owning was a green Mk1 Cortina with bench seats and column change.He also owned a Moris 1000 traveller at the same time which seemed odd as my mother didn't drive.

We lived on the Isle of White back then and when we returned to the mainland my dad left the Cortina at the house we sold.The traveller ended up in the orchard for my mother to practice clutch control and three point turns.At the age of eight I drove it round the orchard too.Dad replaced the moggy with a HB Viva and mum's first car after finally passing her test was a J.reg green Avenger

[CortinaDave]

First I can remember was an H reg Viva HC, Which must have been a very early one - It was red and my memory of it is watching the Hiab lifting it off to the scrappy when I came home from school for my lunch

[whitevanman]

1959 Austin Gypsy, we aquired from my uncle as we moved from Edinburgh to Fort William in 1966, swapped for a 1963 Mini 850 when we moved to Loch Lommond in 1970, that was given to my brother and he never owned another car after that