[Closed] Your familes first car that you remember and colour

Until my mum remarried, we only had one car, and that for not all that long, my dad having died when I was thirteen.
Up until then he had a motorbike, which I used to go everywhere on the back of.
Our first, and sadly only car, was one of these:

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I so wish we could have kept it, but it just wasn't possible. 🙁

Morris Marina in red. Followed by another one.

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Rover P5 mk3 in burgundy

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Sunbeam Rapier. My dad's pride and joy. It had overdrive!

When you wound the back windows down, the metal "post" between the front and back windows went down too. I thought that was cool.

9252 KX light blue moggy 1000 we had that from about'68 - 74 great memories in that car 8 hr journey to cornwall in augusts sitting high on sleeping bags ,blankets etc laid on the back seat. could hear it coming from miles away minors still have that exhaust note. Whilst some great stories come from this thread there are some truly awful bits of 'engineering'up there^^ 😯

As well as that Buick I posted my Dad had one of these, a fan of 50's Americana he owned one of these in black, a Cadillac CdV. It looks way cool now, but in the 70's and early 80's believe me you could pick one up for next to nothing. He restored it, adored it and when we came over here got it sent to Saudi where my Uncle was based.

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Then having moved here and my Mum bought an Ovlov 240GL estate he bought one of these, damn thing had a fire in the engine bay and we didn't see Dad for weeks until he repaired and refurbished it, turned out to be a blowback from the injection system (that they were known for) Hardly used, high days and occasionally taken out if the Ovlov was somewhere else.. cool as my Dad..

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I can remember the Grey 850 mini that was my mum and dads first car. It was a wedding present from my Grandad ( mums - dad ) . C reg , no idea of the reg plate. Dad got a webber carb fitted and someone nicked it .

It blew its gearbox driving down the A1 on a wet, dark sunday night and we got home in a hired Mk3 Cortina 3L auto which was way better.
Then a succession of Austin 1300's, one of which I rode my bike into and the brake lever left a 1m long scrath which I tried to cover up with airfix paint and only made it worse.

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VW variant Estate.

My folks bought it new in South Africa and then brought it over to Scotland when we moved back here in the early 70s.

I recall them driving over the Kalahari Desert with us four kids in the back and dad sleeping on the roof rack when we slept in the car.

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..fantastic car for a 5 year old kid, it had a huge armrest in the back seat.

My parents and my parents both had Citroën CX safaris. Grand parent's was 7 seat, ours 5 but we regularly travelled in the boot. One was was blue, one was gold.
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The first one I remember properly was an MG Montego in Black. There was a Corolla and an UNO before that but I don't have any memory of them.

I vaguely remember my dad having a dark blue Ford Anglia, and later a maroon Triumph 2500 with overdrive.

My mum re-married when I was 12, my new stepdad then had a Morris Marina 1800 in red

There's some cracking cars on this thread 🙂

Cant quite remember the order they came in but the first I remember were a Mk2 Escort in metallic green with a vinyl roof and a red Chevette with vinyl seats that on hot days would remove any exposed skin!

Tricky, as I remember several and they all blur together a bit. My dad was a GP and tended to change cars quite frequently in the early days so :-

Probably a pale ?green Ford Anglia - got a vague memory of peering out the bedroom window and seeing it in the drive.

But about that time a ?Grey Singer Gazelle came and stayed for a very short period. It apparently understeered so badly that every time my Dad turned the wheel he had enough time to wonder if the steering had in fact broken before it changed direction. I think it was with us for less than 3 months.

There was also a series of Ford Cortinas. Possibly a Mark1 before the Singer and a Mark2 after but the one I can picture on the drive was a light metallic green Mk3 Estate.

The first family car I can remember riding in was a bright Yellow Mk1 Ford Escort Mexico.

After that my dad went through a Renault phase, a Saab phase and then a Citroen phase which coincided with the start of my own car ownership which began with a 2CV6, NTB906W.

Dark blue Ford Anglia van was the first. It practically rusted away and for about a year the passenger door was held shut with a sling and karabiner. Then two white Renault 4s the first of which had 6v electrics. R4 drivers used to wave at each other on the road 🙂

Then a canary yellow Viva, which learned to drive on.

Early eighties, Datsun Cherry in yellow, rear axle collapsed IIRC.

Shortly followed by a MkII 1600 Escort Sport.

While Ford Escort mk1. May have been a Mexico, because I remember sitting in the back doing 100 mph across Haldon on the Exeter road. Second car was an Orange Marina coupe. It was the death of him, literally 🙁

Triumph dolomite in pale blue. Used to let me steer it sat on his knee. I was about 6!

Annoyingly, and I only remember actually seeing it once, they also had a VW van with the split windscreen that we went around Europe in when I was a baby. My dad shifted it because it was "shit slow". Probably worth £40k these days.......

Blue Zephyr 6 estate...we drove to Spain in it.

Green mk3 Cortina XL. I still remember the agony of beige vinyl interior...after long hot journeys on summer holidays in the early 1970s the memory of the pain of skin on the backs of my legs being peeled away from the seat will remain with me till the grave. 40 plus years on and I'm still traumatised by that.

Now my dads next car, an orange mk3 cortina GXL that followed it was pure class 1975 style ( all traces of vinyl relegated to the exterior roof and the seats were covered in fabric ...luxury!) 8)

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Mini van, as the tax was less or something and then dad cut some windows in the back, it was grey, but dad knew someone who worked in a council garage, so the van got painted utility yellow with a brush, and then the metal garage door went the same colour! MMF 322C.

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One of these as well, but no windows in the black and it stayed grey. Kent to Co Durham for summer holidays, setting off at 4 to beat the traffic, goodness only knows why! EYK990C.

First family car I remember was an Alfasud in red (KPR 447P). Would've have been about 1976, I would have been six. I do remember my dad replacing the front wings and respraying a couple of years later. Haven't seen one for a LONG time. All long rusted away presumably. He loved it though.

My Dad had an old grey mini van as well! Had one of those horns that went Aroogah and used to beep it every time he came home.
We had a cushion each amongst the tools in the back, and used to fight to sit next to the back doors. And if Mum wasn't there we were allowed to open the doors once in a while and sit with our feet hanging out the back 🙂

Humber Sceptre, Mk3, in black. Dad says we had a mk1 Cortina before that, but memories of it are non existent.

Not ours...
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Not as much Saab ownership as I'd have thought.

Disappointed.

Suzuki GT750 in blue like this one

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And a Cortina 1600e like this one
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First family car I remember was a early 1960s mini 850 in some sort of beige colour. When brother number 3 came along it was upgraded to a MK1 Ford Escort Estate.

KGS967G blue Mini1000. No heater, in Scotland.
Followed by TFG460K, an orange Austin 1100. Smelled of sheep, as had previously been used to transport sheep in the back, collie on the front seat.

Suzuki GT750 in blue like this one

Ahhh, the kettle. My cousin had one for about a year, bonkers fast above 6000rpm he said.

Ours was an Alfa Romeo Alfasud like this one

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It was dark blue with awful sponge seats which were orange.
My lasting memory of that car is accidently draining the battery by leaving the courtesy light on after I'd been playing with the switch in the back seat, my Dad hadn't noticed it was left on and next morning the battery was flat as a pancake.

Towards the end of it's life it was more rust than car.

It got replaced with a 1981 VW Jetta which was a hand-me-down from my Grandparents. Must have been about 3-4 years old when we got it.

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Pillar box red, it had a 4-speed gearbox and a woefully underpowered 1.3L engine whcih required a week's written notice for any sort of mid-range acceleration.

my parents never learnt to drive so my brother was the designated family driver for many years.
however my dad wasnt too pleased with his choice of car...it was in 1985 and he bought a green 1977 Toyota Celica...he put a huge firebird sticker on the bonnet which pissed my dad off even more. he only hd it for a few months though before someone stole it and wrote it off...still have the pics somewhere at home
so he then went and bought a red 1977 toyota celica. he drove that to swansea to see some relative and thought it wouldbe clever to see how fast he could go through swansea centre and smashed into the back of another car...who later turned out to be said cousins next door neighbour! this one was sort of repairable so he kept it for a while before he shifted it and bought a black 1984 B plate mitsubishi colt sapporo turbo...
i still remember the number plates for the red celica OBG 448S and the sapporo B431 TRH
i think the original alloy wheels for the celica are still in my other brothers cellar

Amazing thread!!!

the celicas were this model
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and the sapporo with this model
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First cars I remember were in the early to mid 90s. Mum had one of these, C reg, in dark blue:
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Dad had one of these, D reg in white and then a G reg in pale blue. It had some fancy suspension, so sat right down when turned off, but jacked itseslf up when turned on. Bet it was dreadful to drive:
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Both were pretty crap and I remember several trips on the back of the AA truck after breaking down.
Late 90s Mum got this after the Volvo died. Wish we'd kept it, was a brilliant car. G reg, auto, but not turbo unfortunately. Had 4 gears and did about 10mpg. Very quiet though, and smooooth.
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The first car I remember was a 1930's Lanchester. One was on it's last legs so my dad bough a second for spares, it had been owned by Mrs Lyle of sugar fame. It turned out to be far too good a spares car so he just ran it as it was. My mum learned unsuccessfully to drive in it.

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I next remember a Bedford CA van which I caught and crushed my fingers in the sliding door of.

It was replaced with a two tone Rover P5 (GTV 764D)

Which in turn was replaced by a Daimler Majestic Major. A limousine V8 hemi dragster, one of the first production cars with all round disc brakes

Mowgli
at some point in time I have purchaced / owned / borrowed all 3 of those impressive vehicles ( and another 30 odd different ones )