Vinyl and nylon - 70's suffering at is finest in your car and your clothes - nothing beat getting into a car with vinyl seats with your school nylon trousers and shirt in the summer.
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Vinyl and nylon - 70's suffering at is finest in your car and your clothes - nothing beat getting into a car with vinyl seats with your school nylon trousers and shirt in the summer.
Damn . . . memories. The car absorbing all the heat while you're at Uni or the beach . . . open the door (even with the window slightly open) and *bang*, almost like your eyebrows melted off.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrWilly
Aaaahhhh . . . love Sydney :smile:
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and my mother's car
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Both not pictures of the actual cars.
Did you grow up in East Germany?
I obviously know nothing about cars, but they remind me of all the shots and footage I've seen from behind the Wall. :)
my father liked his cars and changed them often, but budgetary restraints never allowed him to rise above the vauxhall/ford level into jag/rover territory.
the first car i can remember is this vauxhall cresta. i loved the fins and the 3 piece rear window.
https://vauxhallmotors.files.wordpre...-pa-1959-l.jpg
that was followed by the rather stylish ford zodiac, it was the first time he drove at over 100 mph, with us kids in the back egging him on and my mother in the front screaming in fear.
https://historics.azureedge.net/cach...9504080023.jpg
that was sold and in a moment of madness he came home one day with this. an old ford pilot, it was powered by a V8 no less and looked like an american gangsters car. i loved it, but it didnt last long on our driveway.
https://classicandsportscar.ltd.uk/i...ilot_22489.jpg
it was followed by a cortina woody estate. the first british car to have airflow ventilation. fresh air entered the car through controllable round nozzles on the dashboard before being extracted by vents on the c pillars. useful in the days when cars were usually full of cigarette smoke.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/...QVKdeFfnOQ.JPG
that was followed by a sporty cortina gt, with a dash festooned with gauges.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/i...ortina-Mk2.jpg
https://www.fordcortinamk2oc.co.uk/w...ord2019031.jpg
the next car to grace our driveway was this monstrosity, one of the first british cars to sport twin headlamps.
http://badcars.co.uk/ford-consul-classic.jpg
there then followed a series of very ordinary motors.
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That was our first car. Second hand, I guess about 1959, in two-tone blue, although we only had black and white camera back then. I still remember the registration: 440 KPG.Quote:
Originally Posted by taxexile
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same here, i can still remember the registration numbers of the cars we had when i was a kid.Quote:
I still remember the registration
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My mom used to drive something close to this everyday. We took lots of camping trips to the ocean and up into the mountains in this.
Ahh the PV - shaggin wagon, pig-rig, sin-bin, fuck-trucks - bogan car classic.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikenot
If this vans rockin , don't bother knockin'
Don't laugh, it might be your daughter inside...
My dads truck. Couple years old when he got it. 86 Ford F-250. 300 cid inline 6.
https://imgs.search.brave.com/Bv_fOs...nVjay01/LmpwZw
Mooses 6000 and Edmonds beamer are the newest cars posted. Its hard to tell what the oldest one is thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe
My dad always liked Hillmans for some unknown reason. I'm pretty sure we had a Hillman Hunter sometime in the mid 70s but the only pictures I can find were taken before that.
A Hillman Imp maybe? This would have been around 1969 (I think E plates came out in 1966?).
https://teakdoor.com/attachment.php?...0&d=1666848146
That handsome chap second from left in the pic above was a cleanliness freak, even back then.
How I'd love to go back in time and give him some advice... and I doubt it would include moving to Korat!
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And a few years later presumably, after my dad had started using colour film. Another Hillman Imp?
https://teakdoor.com/attachment.php?...1&d=1666848160
I don't know Hillmans
Looks like an Austin 1100 or something
super minx estate.Quote:
A Hillman Imp maybe?
:)
Champion photo Mendip.
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That just reminded me that my uncle had a Hillman Super Minx for a while when I was a toddler.
I loved the tail lights and headlights.
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With its fins it was the coolest car by miles that I had ever been in.
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He let me sit in the front seat which was a bonkers thrill for a 3 or 4 year old.
We were going through the town and we went under the railway bridge and I remonstrated with him for forgetting to toot the horn as I had been taught by example by my dad was obligatory, so my uncle, much to me delight, promptly did a u-turn and went back under the bridge just to toot the horn.
This meant we were now going the wrong way so we had to do another u-turn and he tooted again which meant matters had been properly put to rights.
One of my funniest toddler memories.
I have a friend with the exact same truck, same year, same paint who's still driving his. He put in a new engine about 10 years ago. It's been his daily driver and has traveled from Seattle to Bath Maine to Jacksonville, Fla. in those years. It's now living in Kentucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
Nice beatnik bus Snubbles.Quote:
Originally Posted by bsnub
Was you a sixties hippy lovechild?
british cars of that era tried to emulate the pizzazz and confidence shown by american car design of that era, but british cars were much smaller and of course our designers were hamstrung by the british sense of reticence and our reluctance to appear showy. (aka cheap)Quote:
With its fins it was the coolest car by miles
those lovely evocative hillmans with their slanting proto fins and teardrop rear light clusters were i believe inspired by early 60s chevrolets.
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/fins...-120696346.jpg
https://www.motorious.com/content/im...impala-069.png
.... if only !
^
Best known car in the kingdom of Denmark
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^^ looks horrid
You blokes are making me feel quite old. The first car I had in Thailand was a well used Holden EH ute. Hard to imagine now that there was a time in Thailand without Japanese pickup trucks. Moved up a bit in the company and had (what I think was) an EH sedan. I remember it had a 179 badge on the back, does that sound right? Both of them had retrofitted air conditioners with piston compressors and overheated all the time in Bangkok traffic.Quote:
Originally Posted by TizMe
My father had a thing for German cars and this is the first car we had after being posted fro Thailand to Lebanon. The one in Thailand was also a Merc but with a green roof . . . can't find it at the moment. Ah yes, my brother and me. (I'm the little one)
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Nice thread, Backspin.
Our families second car was a Riley Elf.
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Basically, a souped up Mini. Dad was real proud of it. After the Ford Consul, I hated it. Too cramped in the back. Seven year old me was never slow to remind him I liked the old car better. The (vinyl) upholstery was red, but same exterior colour as above.
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Originally Posted by Joe 90
One of my first cars as well . . . qualitatively a bucket of shit but how good to drive!!!
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Beautiful racing a friend who had a series of Alfas up and down the S's in Sydney's Rose Bay/Vaucluse:
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The first car I ever bought for myself. It was used. I loved it. Same color as in this pic.
https://teakdoor.com/attachment.php?...id=94649&stc=1
Nice . . . very nice.
A classic.Quote:
Originally Posted by misskit