Split screen VW microbus in red and white, DUJ 576C if I remember correctly, rear bench seats faced each other & used to get filled with camping gear before us 5 kids* got laid down across the top to sleep before trundling off up to Skye from southern England.
* Most argumentative ended up shifted to the front with parents and dog
My dads first car was a baby blue triumph herald. he never learnt to drive until I was 7 which was 1976!!
Renault R4 in diarrhea brown.
Circa 1977.
Earliest I definitely remember was a greenish Moggy Traveller. Would have been around 1974 or so.
Not my photo.
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Then...
Datsun 180b. ODO 602M (the only number plate I can remember, even from my own recent cars).
Baby blue mk1 Escort estate.
Navy blue Capri 2.0l Ghia.
Silver Allegro LE.
Beige Marina coupe with a chocolate coloured vinyl roof.
Dark blue Polo (the old 'looks like an estate but not really one).
Before I got my own first car - a nasty maroon 1.5 Allegro...
The first car I remember was one of these in white Reg No AXE 490B
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followed by
Blue P6 Rover 2000TC WHX 451G
Red P6 Rover 3500 UXD 354L
Blue Cortina Mk5 ANM 454X
We didn't have a car, poor or what.... 😀
My uncle had a gold coloured Ford Cortina 1600E. I've had a soft spot for those cars to this day.
Standard Pennant blue and white reg LGS 600 about 1962 only reg I have ever been able to remember.
First one I remember was an A reg Escort Estate - 3 door for cost saving benefits I assume, it also only came with a drivers side mirror from the factory and a single speaker under the radio.
Like this one but red
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Replaced with a 1990 5 door Escort GL - Oooooooooh, which became my first car in 2000 when I was 18.
Green Austin Maxi, followed by a beige (beige!) Austin Allegro.
Gosh, you're all very young aren't you?
The first car we had when I was very very little (early 60s) was an old Ford Pop. I still remember my dad replacing the floor in the boot with plywood. It was one of only two cars on our road - the other was also a Ford Pop.
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Lime green Capri Ghia with a black vinyl roof... it had some kind of plastic "spoiler" or "grill" over the back window.
My Hulk kite somehow got left in the boot when my parents part-exed it for the first of their green cortina estates.... 🙁 .... oh, and my dad reckons he sold it for more than he bought it due to the rampant inflation of the mid 70s
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In 1976, the summer before I came along my folks drove their LHD, ex-Belgian Boulanger 2CV van to Yugoslavia for their Honeymoon. They had to turn round and reverse up some of the cols in the Alps as first gear wasn't short enough. Me being born ruined van ownership and they quickly changed it for a yellow 2CV4 called Custard.
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A bedford c1 dormobile without even a raising roof. Drove from Mumbai to London in it in 1966
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Not ours but very similar and with a Mirror dinghy on top instead as we drove down to the Med for summer hols.
Peugeot 404 Familiale.
Audi 100 in gold, then a yellow one with black vinyl roof. mid to early 70's
Hillman Imp van, dark green & used from early 60's to about 1972, when replaced with a brand new LWB petrol landrover.
The Imp must have been very crowded in the back on family camping trips, what with three kids, all the gear and an engine all crowded in there!
A dark green Singer Chamois (Hillman Imp) which was rubbish, replaced by a white Mk2 Cortina 1600E, which was a great car.
I have seen photos of a Dormobile, but the first one I remember was this - same colour, same reg, but not this exact car. This would be 1983ish.
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It was replaced by this actual car, which is still running around town even tho my folks sold it in 1992:
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(it too was replaced by another ancient Volvo 😀 )
A brown Jag MkIV 1 1/2 litre which overheated when looked at.
Replaced by a grey sit up and beg Ford Pop. WWE953 I think. Nicknamed wee-wee.
Then the usual string of Anglias, Cortinas, Avengers. Beautiful Singer Vogue at one time, memories of a brilliant trip to the 1967 British GP in that.
Er Jamie's South Park pic on page 2... anyone?
A custard-yellow Ford Escort MK2 estate. A bit like this. But with foil over the radiator grille in winter. Not an inconspicuous vehicle. [img] 
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White colour VW Beetle 1966 model 1.3 bought in early 80s from my aunt.
The only car my father ever bought and we still have it.
White Austin 1100, around 1975/76.
Ro5ey - Memberoh, and my dad reckons he sold it for more than he bought it due to the rampant inflation of the mid 70s
Does he know how much it'd be worth now 😯
White Hillman Avenger.
I remember being taken quickly out of my child seat as it filled with smoke from under the dash 😯
White Hillman Avenger.
I remember being taken quickly out of my child seat
Clearly a similar age to me - but I certainly never saw a child seat as a child. We used to ride in the boot of our Cortina - even on long journeys to the seaside.
Brown Capri followed by a purple Datsun, and for some reason we a had a private number plate 'THE 77' and I vividly remember a Porsche whizzing past us beeping uncontrollably who had the number plate 'THE 99'
Vauxhall Victor like this
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Followed by a Granada 3.0 Ghia in red
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Followed by a Toyota Cressida in yellow (DFR616S)
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Then a Volvo 244 DL in chocolate brown (UWH81T)
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Then a Capri 3.0 Ghia in purple
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Beige Citreon Diane. Bloody awful.
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Followed by a red Citreon 2CV. Worse.
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Nah, 2cv's are way cool.
Not when you're 12, in the mid 80's, and your mum insists on dropping you off at school right outside the gates. >[i]shudder[/i]<
Yellow DAF 33
Would have loved it to have been a Y reg Austin Ambassador, but this from late 60's up until about 1975, when we got a Toyota Hiace:
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Morris Oxford Traveller
A bright red Messerschmitt KR 200.
Followed by a Standard Vanguard in black and rust
Followed by a humber Hawk In rust and blue
Followed by my favorite, a Rover 3litre saloon. In three tone - light grey, dark grey and rust
There is a theme emerging.....
Ford Anglia,spruce green and ermin white,registration LWB 911D,first bank loan £150,second car DWA 50 H Ford Cortina 1600E,good times
Purpley Jowett Javelin from early 1950's is my earliest memory. Dad had an Austin 8 before that but I am not sure I recall that really, just from photo's.
A hacker's gold mine Shirly?
Hindustan Ambassador in white. Yes we did live in Utta Pradesh.
A grey or blue Ford Anglia of which I remember the reg No. We had a couple before trading up to Ford Prefect.
TR2 long door in BRG. Until shortly after my sister was born and a Hillman Super Minx appeared on the driveway.
Peugeot 504 Estate. In red. Then Dad replaced it with a blue one.
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Not the actual car.
Look at the size of it though!
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I still remember the noise it made as it turned over and over and over but never quite fired on cold mornings. Big red vinyl seats with white piping. We went all over in it but it was bloody awful.
Citroen Light 15 in green. A late 40s one.
Two tone grey Rover P4.
Green Ford Corsair V4.
