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Feb 26, 2017 14:46:52 GMT
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dad was a truck driver which wasnt well paid and as such he had many cars all of which were old bangers, don't think he had anything for more than a couple of years, many old austins, rover p6, granada/consul, a few minis, hillman imps, he had a car at our first house that had a starter handle and if the neighbour ever helped to start it dad would give the horn a blast to give neighbour a shock and us all a laugh.
when his cars were not able to go any more, it would be parked on the drive and was my playground, you learn a lot sat there pretending to drive! eventually though the scrap man would take them .
for me though, as a kid toy cars were my thing, matchbox, corgi, dinky, I was into lego and the cars I could make with it, it was superb when technic came along, I was also into plastic model kits 1.24/1.25 scale, yanks etc, and I would rod them up, also loved truck models.
I relied on bicycle power until I passed my test in 88, then it was mini's, like my dad I could only afford old bangers, but hey they were the best, you learn even more!
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Feb 26, 2017 16:06:17 GMT
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Glad this thread has been resurrected I too prefer to run older cars hence my 20 year old merc daily, I just can't see the point in buying a modern car on finance or even the ridiculous pay a balloon payment at the end or give It back!! Anyway I digress , great memories from many
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Feb 26, 2017 19:14:40 GMT
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Great thread :-) my earliest car memory is vague i wasnt too sure i hdnt dreamt it, driving a fiesta (mk3, J reg in red, auto obviously!) around a field at a fair aged about 6 or 7 (helps to be lanky!) My Grandad sat in the back to my left, looking proud. When i was moving i asked how tk turn the hazard lights off, now Grandad had worked for Ford for years, he owned fords and i had played in them all. Before the istryctor sitting next to me could answer grandad looked at me and said "now boy, you know where the button is" i then thought, remebered and turned them off. Grandad was very proud :-) taught me a lesson about thinking things through too.
When i was about visiting my grandparents i ran this story by my grandad, who confirmed i hadnt dreamt it! :-D
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Mar 17, 2018 12:51:26 GMT
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Thread resurrection, anymore memories??
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Fraud owners club member 2003 W211 Mercedes E class 1989 Sierra sapphire 1998 ex bt fiesta van
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Mar 17, 2018 13:03:55 GMT
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First real memory was a Bedford CF van.
Dad was a civil engineer, and worked for a company that gave him a car (marina coupe tc, cortina mk4 at around this time) but occasionally got a van to use at weekends if we needed it. So would bring home a CF, that stank of stale cigarettes and diesel and was filthy.... but I’ve always found vans cool!! (Possibly why I’m self employed and have had more vans than cars)
When my sister was born the midwife had a Jeans Beetle... that started my love for VW I think...
First vehicle I tried to buy was a ‘64 low top splitter, which would have ticked both boxes!
Dad had a few cool company cars, ‘84 escort turbo (for a couple of weeks) Audi 100 avant, a cortina crusader, a cortina ghia x with net headrest recaros
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Mar 17, 2018 13:10:40 GMT
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Remember his company cortina Mk4 1600 saloon and he had a choice of metallic paint or a radio (not even cassette player)
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qwerty
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Mar 17, 2018 13:31:32 GMT
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I have always been obsessed. My first word was Car-car and I supposedly knew my parents friends by their cars not by their names! Its always been a bit of a mystery where it came from because my dad is completely unbothered by cars, they are literally just transport to him!
One of my cousins is into his cars and I credit him with developing my obsession further. He used to give me Fast Ford Mags when I was a kid.
Although I don't have any kids and don't plan on having any, I am actively encouraging my 3 Year old Nephews love of cars. Who know's what we'll be able to build together in 14 or so years time!
Tom
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Darkspeed
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Mar 17, 2018 14:11:04 GMT
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dad was a truck driver which wasnt well paid and as such.... Ditto - Mine was a skip driver in North london for a company called Deards for many years. Most school holidays were spent sat in the passenger seat or top of the engine cover whilst driven all around North London and the home counties. Car spotting and counting Cortina's, Marina's, Mini's etc. He always looked after his cars well and did all his own servicing but not a one mark man - Vauxhalls - earliest one I recall was a Grey with red stripe FB VX4/90 - a 101 Deluxe - Avenger GT auto - Triumph 2000 - Auto Maxi 1750 Auto - SD1 Auto - I think after swapping gears at work all day he wanted a break from it after. Cannot say that my passion for cars came from him though as he had little interest in them. I do have an interesting cousin though who was one of the few women top fuel UK drag racers and a trip up to the Pod in her then boyfriends custom Mustang Mach 1 427 Cobra Jet with some very nice mural work called G force - off the clock up the M1 was pivotal - Later one she would occassional collect me from school in an orange '71 big block Stingray or a Chevy Blazer - I recall the dragster was called Maiden Warrior. I think it was going fast that was the itch that had to be scratched rather than cars as I started with bikes and as soon as I was 16 I was on a Honda SS50 and then a steady stream of Kawasaki 2 stroke triples. As for what really drives the passion. I think it's genetic as what I have always done and continue to do up to this day is take things apart to see how they work - Mechanical, electrical whatever I have an unerring curosity to know how something does what it does. Put that with a need to go as fast as possible and you get me. So I guess this was kind of all started by watching the needle go off the clock in a Mach 1. - So blame Tina.
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Mar 17, 2018 14:59:35 GMT
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First car memories for me was going to my dads mates scrap yard in Swindon (Frank Wallworks) in his Morris traveller and my dad and Frank sitting around talking while I climbed all over the old cars and Frank would ask me to take parts from the cars and give me some money. Would be around 1978; great times.(wish I had a time machine)
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Last Edit: Mar 17, 2018 15:00:58 GMT by stefan1971
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Mar 17, 2018 16:05:51 GMT
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'Helping' my dad spray a car on our drive when I was about 5 years old. When I was a bit older I used to help my elder brother with his mk1 escort then his mini. I bought my 1st car at 14 to work on. It was a fiat 127. Fitted a timing chain with my brother.
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Mar 17, 2018 16:30:41 GMT
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Going with my dad to a bloke who used to paint Whitewalls on tyres, in his 88 Hilux, Simply Red on the radio being really bored. Coincidentally live next door to the place atm
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Mar 17, 2018 18:18:20 GMT
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Both my parents were Marshalls at Prescott back in the 60s so my early years were spent in the paddock with the noise & smells of Bugatti's, ERAS and all the other stuff. Even now the smell of Castrol R is one of my favourite odours. My earliest memories of being in cars are going to school in a Metallic purple deseamed Cooper S and then squeezing into the back of an Ogle SX1000. Coming from a family of petrolheads meant that from 3 or 4 years old I was helping out and watching all that was going on in the garage at home.
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Ignosce mihi cacare necesse est
2012 Fiat Qubo Sadly currently living a retroless life
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Mar 17, 2018 21:58:20 GMT
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always been into cars....obviously...but probably my first car memory was riding with my granddad in his s1 xj6 when I was 5 or 6. terrible photo but one very dear to me as its of the very few I have of him.
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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gte86
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Mar 17, 2018 22:50:30 GMT
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Always loved watching dad fix the family cars, Mk1 1300es and then e24 BMW 628csi. Remember being told by dad the difference in spark colour between welding and grinding, and how I wasn't allowed to watch welding. The first clear car memory I have is when I was about 4. I had been to the local bmx track with my dad and his work mates to watch them race their Tamiya's (dad had a ball raced 14t boomerang) when it came to home time dad's old apprentice said he would drop me and my brother home in his Chevette HS. In my 4 year old head we drove home at 120mph and went sideways at every roundabout. In reality it was probably just noisy and made an impression. 27 years later I used the same chevette as my wedding car and the year later I had my twin boys in it for a ride. I am hoping to make the same impression on them, and thanks to still being in touch with dad's friends I'm lucky enough to use the chevette until my nova is back on the road. That's a project for when my boys are old enough to help.
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Last Edit: Mar 17, 2018 22:54:29 GMT by gte86
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gte86
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Mar 17, 2018 22:53:13 GMT
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This car
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I can’t remember which was first, but they were both around the same sort of time.
I was about 3 years old (1986). My mom had a red Mk1 Fiesta and my dad had a Ford P100. I would spend hours pretending to drive them outside our house. I used to love hiding in the bed of the pickup to jump out at my neighbours Paul & Diane (he had a green/white superbike), and I just used had the best time driving the Fiesta presenting to go to the shops.
I did knacker a battery in the Fiesta by leaving the lights on all night and had a very angry mom the following day 😬
Something else I just thought of, around the same time I went to play school. I used to walk around taking all the toy cars off the other kids. I’d play with a few of them but use to hoard the rest in my pockets and by rolling my t-shirt/jumper/top up over them! I just didn’t like the thought of the other kids wrecking them 😋
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Mar 18, 2018 10:56:50 GMT
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My first memory car related;
I am 6 maybe 7. I am sitting in the front seat and dad is driving. I am looking in amazement at dad's massive feet on the tiny pedals of our MK1 Cortina. He hides his Stimorol's and small change in the center thingy of the steering wheel. That 2 door Cortina was the very best car in the world. Heaps big enough to drive with the whole family of 6 from Holland to Spain in a few days. Tent an other gear on the roof. Packet to the rafters. That 1200cc engine was a power house!! Best car ever!
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Mar 18, 2018 12:18:27 GMT
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Stimorol's, wow yeh, I’d forgotten about those, brilliant
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Mar 18, 2018 17:08:14 GMT
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Throwing up in my dads Rover 218 or the strong smell of petrol and dish sponge wet seats in my mums MK1 golf cabby. Its amazing i became a car guy. Photo has no relevance, i guess people are more likely to read my early family memories. One from my granddads archives, he probably wanted to compose a dog painting. Mans best friend wouldn't sit still long enough to get a decent sketch. unless foods around...
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Just to update this I asked my boy who is now 15 What his first memories are Despite me owning approximately 40 cars in his lifetime He said mums mk6 Escort si , he loved that car and now has a big thing for mk6 escorts hence having an estate and a van.....and apparently a 3 door will be here soon! Just shows how times move on late escorts are getting harder to find and have a bit of a following now
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Last Edit: Jul 5, 2018 20:35:41 GMT by Mercdan68
Fraud owners club member 2003 W211 Mercedes E class 1989 Sierra sapphire 1998 ex bt fiesta van
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