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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Where did you grow up? You must have still ridden in some cars as a kid. Do you remember what any of them were ?

    We got 50's , 60's and 70's iron but not much of 80's. I thought you'd have an 80's contribution
    Quote Originally Posted by TizMe View Post
    The first I remember Dad having was a Holden EH Station Wagon.

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    The only car I remember travelling in as a kid was the same as Tizzy, my Uncle's Holden EH Station Wagon.

    Poo brown, no blinds.

    I remember it because, one time, when we were driving to the Farm, a huge storm dropped, lighting hit a power line, line severed and came down across the road, Uncle braked ... HARD.
    Thus, unbuckled in the back seat David48 was propelled forward into the back of the front bench seat ... so hard I apparently I bent it.


    As a family, growing up, we were (for western standards) dirt poor, but we got by.

    No complaints, we got by.
    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    As a family, growing up, we were (for western standards) dirt poor, but we got by.

    No complaints, we got by.
    character building

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    This is a well-timed thread. I am just catching up on 3 seasons of Top Gear that I somehow missed. They just did the 'dads car' retro episode.

    Quote Originally Posted by Reg Dingle View Post
    We weren't posh like Eddy and his 2 car family
    There's a lot of 2 car families on teh DOOR eh. I am humbly impressed.

    I did not realise I was in such esteemed company.

    We were a 1 car family all the way

    1st a classic Mk1 Escort in official ford orangey-red although ours did not have nobbly tyres and only had an 1100cc engine and no radio. Surprised nobody else has posted this one up.

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    Like Chris Harris commented, it is the small interior details that bring back memories. Escort's dashboard with big circular air ducts. Spartan.

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    Later we had the ground-breaking family-size hatchback Renault 16

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    Weird dashboard with square speedo. I was fascinated by the all-mod cons cigarette lighter which I spent hours pushing in and pulling out while the car was in the driveway. Nobody smoked.

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    ^Those seats in the escort were not leather by the way. They were shiny vinyl and you had to peel yourself off them in shorts in summer (no air con of course) which made a strange schoooop noise

    Our Renault 16 follow up act came with much welcomed fabric velour seats which were a comparative luxury in sweaty summer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    ^Those seats in the escort were not leather by the way. They were shiny vinyl and you had to peel yourself off them in shorts in summer (no air con of course) which made a strange schoooop noise

    Our Renault 16 follow up act came with much welcomed fabric velour seats which were a comparative luxury in sweaty summer

    And you fucking knew it if you ever accidentally sat on the metal buckle in 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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    And you fucking knew it if you ever accidentally sat on the metal buckle in 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.

    Aaaahhhh . . . love Sydney

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    and my mother's car



    Both not pictures of the actual cars.

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    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.

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    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.



    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.



    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.



    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.



    that was followed by a sporty cortina gt, with a dash festooned with gauges.








    the next car to grace our driveway was this monstrosity, one of the first british cars to sport twin headlamps.



    there then followed a series of very ordinary motors.






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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    the first car i can remember is this vauxhall cresta.
    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.

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    I still remember the registration
    same here, i can still remember the registration numbers of the cars we had when i was a kid.

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    Post the family car when you were a kid.-1970-volkswagen-type-2-westfalia-top

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikenot View Post


    followed by :
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    Ahh the PV - shaggin wagon, pig-rig, sin-bin, fuck-trucks - bogan car classic.
    If this vans rockin , don't bother knockin'
    Don't laugh, it might be your daughter inside...

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    My dads truck. Couple years old when he got it. 86 Ford F-250. 300 cid inline 6.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe View Post
    In the same class as the car I remember my parents had. Early 80's , Pontiac 6000. Automatic, big boat style. The car lasted a long time, as it was handed down to me as my second car. My first car was a Chevette Scooter (hatchback), standard.








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    Mooses 6000 and Edmonds beamer are the newest cars posted. Its hard to tell what the oldest one is though

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    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?).



    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!



    And a few years later presumably, after my dad had started using colour film. Another Hillman Imp?


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    I don't know Hillmans

    Looks like an Austin 1100 or something

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    A Hillman Imp maybe?
    super minx estate.




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    Champion photo Mendip.



    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    My dads truck. Couple years old when he got it. 86 Ford F-250. 300 cid inline 6.
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
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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.
    Nice beatnik bus Snubbles.

    Was you a sixties hippy lovechild?

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    With its fins it was the coolest car by miles
    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)

    those lovely evocative hillmans with their slanting proto fins and teardrop rear light clusters were i believe inspired by early 60s chevrolets.






    .... if only !

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    Best known car in the kingdom of Denmark

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    ^^ looks horrid

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