Memories

[Apache]

My dad had one of these.



I was about 4 years old. he'd boxed in the rear inner arches and put a bit of carpet on them for me to sit on

[Apache]

That would be a MK3?

Yep. My dad had one of them too (well, two in succession) in red. A 2.0GT with the white stripe down the side!

[24Seven]

My Dad had a Renault 16



My Mum an NSU

[bowella]

My father had a green 1936 Austin 7 Ruby, Reg number VJ 8135.
I have since seen the registration number on a new style Jaguar, in Norwich of all places.
He sold it in about 1960 for £25.00 to a houskeeper of a well to do businessman and took her car in part exchange which became my first car.
It was a 1929 Austin 7 Box saloon, Red in colour but I can't remember the reg number now.
I kept it for several years, I never drove it on the road!! (I was only about 11 years old at the time).
I sold it to a bloke from Thetford on the understanding he would restore it, which he promised me faithfully he would, for £5.00.
I never ever saw it again, in fact I doubt he even took it home but took it straight to his buyer and sold it for a handsome profit, I never to this day forgave him !!!! I later found out he was a person not to be taken at his word and was well known for wheeling and dealing. Oh the innocence of youth, like a fool I believed him
I wish I had kept it !!!!!

[tintin]

My old man had one of these..........

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/uploads/new/26508.jpg

hand painted in a light blue Valspar paint!
Then a white mk1 tina with bright red vinyl interior (Fugly)

As a dad meself, i count! my first was a hillman Imp Californian..........

http://www.diecasts.biz/images/V/VA04007.jpg

In black and yellow Nicknamed the wasp!!

[Paul1566]

my mum and dad had a ford anglia 105e estate like this...



but thiers was dark blue with a picture of pluto the dog on the bonnet and a full legth roof rack we used to sit on when we went banger racing.....

[Diezel Weazel]

My Dad had 2 of these 1963 & 1969

[POPEYE]

My "customizing" attempt on my old fandanglebox! 16.00 Xflow, certanly went like shoit off a shovel, good old days!

[gwh200]

Did you wear flares as well ian !!!

[POPEYE]

Did you wear flares as well ian !!!

Flares and platforms!! (looked a right ####)

[MudSurfer]

A sky blue Vauxhall Chevette 1.3L

[BigBobE]

And this my friends is my earliest memory, growing up in good old South Africa in this :



needless to say i am living in ireland almost 20 years now

[MudSurfer]

And this my friends is my earliest memory, growing up in good old South Africa in this :



needless to say i am living in ireland almost 20 years now

We've got an orange one of those!!

So you've moved to Dublin - and now driving about in a glorified farm bakkie!

[BigBobE]

So you've moved to Dublin - and now driving about in a glorified farm bakkie!

yeah you may be able to take the boy out of the farm, but you'll never take the farm out of the man.......

i grew up in mud with steel tractors and trailers, i have just progressed onto slightly bigger ones now

[CaptainBeaky]

I have vague memories of a sky-blue Beetle and a puke-yellow K70 (which lasts a coupleof weeks before my Dad took it back for a refund ), then The Van appeared - VW Caravette MVB288D. We went all over the country in that (albeit slowly).
I can still remember the exhaust blowing out when we were camping in the Yorkshire Dales, driving 20 miles each way to the nearest dealer in Skipton, sounding like a tank, then finding out we had been given the wrong exhaust, after taking the old one off. Put old one back on, drive to Skipton and back again, sounding like a low-flying Heinkel.
Happy days - when we first had it, I used to sleep on the shelf above the engine compartment at night...