Your familes first car that you remember and colour

I’m guessing the list will be from the 1960s 70s and 80s mostly.

Don’t want to hear what your uncles brother had or neighbors!

First car I remember was a

1972 Morris marina ( he bought new) in white was a saloon – my dad still reckons it was the best car he ever owned ! Now he’s 83 and drives the standard STW skoda !

Baby blue Ford Anglia, looked good, ran like shite!

Very vague early memories of a brown Wolseley
Actual memories of a red Vauxhall Cavalier, circa 1977/78

This…..with a selection of “Top of the Pops” eight track cassettes. Circa 1976

and this…..which I don’t actually remember my Dad owning, but he sold it to a guy round the corner so I saw it most days when I was a little kid and knew it used to be his.

I know my mum had Morris Minor Traveller (black with the wood work), not sure if I actually remember it though – but I do remember her lime green Ford Anglia (which she cried at departing with when trading in for an MGB GT!)

My dad had company cars, first I remember is the tan Maxi. What a beast.

Ford Cortina mk 1 also in baby blue. Must have been a popular colour in the 70s.

Interior like this:

No seatbelts, 4 kids under 8 and a dog. Emergency stops were great fun – I always made sure my brother was between me and the front seats for crash protection.

Mk1 Fiesta 1.1L Poplar. Grey with a blue interior. We went all over in that thing. Remember a camping trip to Cromer with an old steel framed tent that took up the entire boot and me spending the journey from Yorkshire > Norfolk sat on the floor it the back.

GWX 155Y was the number plate…. last time I checked I think it hadn’t been taxed for a good few years so assume its now dead.

Austin Morris 1100 in Navy Blue.

We spent one summer holiday driving round Cornwall with a dodgy fuel pump. Dad rigged it up to the battery and gave our mum two leads. She had to click them together every time we passed a lamp post. Except when going up hill, then it was ClickClickClickClick.

they just don’t make them like that any more 🙂

A datsun cherry. In blue. Still brings back happy memories of long summers hiking and the like.

Morris Traveller. I remember helping my dad varnish the wood.

Citroen Diane in bright green. Like this:

Great in the summer with the roof rolled back. But it barely managed the hills of South Wales valleys when we visited grandparents. I think it would do about 60 flat out with a tailwind.

Just checked – tax owed in 1996 🙁

Vauxhall Viva saloon, white with a black vinyl roof, I only vaguely remember this one. It was replaced with a brand new Viva estate in metallic blue which we had for years, lovely.

Hillman imp

Brown Mk3 Cortina 1.6L with bum-scortching, leg flesh tearing black vinyl seats. And in classic 70’s fashion bits of it were already rusted through (not just rusty but you could stick your finger through), even though it was only 3 or 4 years old.

I think it was a Triumph Dolomite in Purple, knowing my Dad it was probably a ringer. One of my first memories was driving to West Wales on Holiday in it and the gearbox breaking about half way, we had to come home, and try again a few days later and made it that time.

We had a Silver Capri after that, it was a 1.6 but had a (probably stolen) 2.0 engine.

Wedgewood Blue Triumph 2000 MK1. Dragged all over Europe in one as a small kid. The AA used to rent spares kits and plastic windscreens as there was no chance of getting such thing on The Continent. They also did itineraries giving you the road numbers you needed to take to e.g. get to Trieste from Calais.

Datsun Cherry in ‘green’..

I remember my Dad having one of these in the mid seventies….

The mighty Triumph Toledo. For people who couldn’t afford the Dolomite Sprint.

Volvo 122s in a kind of pastel green. Had vinyl seats that were hot as hell in the summer when you were in shorts! 😯

Ford Consul , only remember as we got T boned in it I was about 3 yrs old then the mutts nuts Red Vauxhall Viva Reg No JTJ 630K, remember all my Dads Registration numbers and none of mine. 🙂

Silver Ford Escort Mk II, R reg IIRC

Hillman Imp (black)
followed by a black Vauxhall Victor, maroon Austin Maxi, diarrhoea brown (aka mustard) Austin Maxi*, white Morris 2200* (same as a Wolsely something, bar some styling), gold Volvo 245 DL* estate, a lemon yellow Mk1 Escort (fake Mexico), china blue Vauxhall Cavalier estate,…
(* = URK729M, EKN656K, GYU615N)

Black mk1 Golf Gti.

Must have had some sort of inculcating effect, because on the way home last night we drove past one of my previously owned black golf gti’s (much to the kids delight and the drivers perplexity).

We were in a black golf… yep, you guessed.

I wonder what the kids’ll buy when they grow up?

NHY 777R

One of these had a starter button on the floor

not my photo, but one of these in green. it was my 1st car, nobody drove when I was a kid.

Ford Thames 12-seater van in cream. 3 gears.
My parents took us camping over Scotland in that beast.

A 1935 BMW 315 Special 😀

My dad used to race it in VSCC meetings before he met my mum, it was sat in the garage after I arrived so I used to play in it all the time. Was red with a black leather tonneau cover. I think the daily driver was a green Fiat Strads at the time but I don’t remember that car at all!

Early sixties Humber Hawk in two tone blue.

Not actual car

moris oxford in blue , I think my dad believed it was a “shooting brake” now called an estate.

I think on a street of 25 houses it was one of 5 cars owned.

Some youth is going to post a pic of a mk1 sierra shortly. That was the first strikingly modern car I remember when bought by my neighbours and I was massively in awe of it. At the time, my parents just replaced the aging dyane, with another dyane, but this time with the bigger 600cc engine. That ‘might’ have got to 70mph once.

Austin Cambridge, photo about 1967. Yes, that’s me.

I’m guessing the list will be from the 1960s 70s and 80s mostly.

Alright grandad 😉

The first car I remember was my mum’s chocolate brown Maestro. We used to sing “come on chocolate Maestro” to help it up hills!

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.

Early 70s Simca. Even my dad said it was a terrible car

Ford Cortina, ours was blue though

For my dad, it must have been the classic Ford Cortina in a lovely gold colour. I was very young, so did not appreciate it much, but the next one (a red Rover 2000) made more of an impression.

I remember my mum having a faded blue mini clubman for a while, but this was replaced by another blue car, a Morris Marina this time. It was horribly shit.