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What was the earliest car that you remember your parents owning when you were growing up
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over a year ago
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A morris marina |
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over a year ago
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Austen Princess |
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Austin or Morris Cambridge. Big heavy boat of a car |
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By *addad99Man
over a year ago
Rotherham /newquay |
I now no it was a Ford zephyr zodiac and a mk cortinas lotus |
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By *addad99Man
over a year ago
Rotherham /newquay |
Should have said mk2 cortinas lotus and my grandad had a mk1 es cort 1300e that's why im a Ford nut |
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe |
Austin A-35 Pickup. |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
My mum and step-dad had a Lancia Delta in a really awful brown colour but inside it was a light cream and felt really posh.
My teenage years were spent being taxi’d about by my mum in a Ford Sierra Ghia - she’d have the Eurythmics Revenge album playing constantly “Thorn in my side” gives me flashbacks!  |
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Was a Ford Cortina, my uncles had Triumph cars which I thought were very glam as a child. |
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By *rlandoMan
over a year ago
Lincolnshire |
we were too poor , my dad had a bike you smug cnut |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Vauxhall Velux. Us kids used to argue about who sat on the armrest in the middle of the backseat. How times have changed x |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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A Volvo.
It had a boot that you could open up and my many siblings could sit in. Like a goldeny kind of colour? I loved it, I remember late night drives during December to see the Christmas lights in London. It was a beast of a car and lasted quite a few years, with a lot of miles being covered. |
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"we were too poor , my dad had a bike you smug cnut"
Hey .. same here.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A green capri |
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A beige ford cortina. We didn’t even have seat belts in the back and us kids used to like sitting in the boot and looking out lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A Hillman Imp |
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By *r.SJMan
over a year ago
Wellingborough |
Mk1 Cortina and an old bright yellow ex bt van |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A silver Vaxhaull viva  |
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"Me a Ford Zephyr.  "
A dinky car they bought me they never drove. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A blue beetle |
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"Me a Ford Zephyr. "
White Vauxhall viva. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Peugeot 505. Great car. Ha |
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By *anSMan
over a year ago
Shrewsbury |
A red Talbot Horizon LE, I even remember the reg all these years later- C412 TPL |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
carrbrook stalybridge |
A maroon singer vogue estate |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1980 jeep J 10 Honcho pick-up. |
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over a year ago
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A mini. |
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Series 2 land-rover long wheelbase |
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Ford granny 2.8 ghia x estate with the massive auto gear lever |
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Remember my dad had a fiesta XR2. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mk3 ford cortina |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ford Orion |
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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago
In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon |
Vauxhall Cavalier. Until my mother sneezed and wrote it off. |
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By *m272Woman
over a year ago
London |
I remember my mum had an Austin Allegro was a decent family car back then lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you look how much good condition versions of most of these cars go for now it’s eye watering |
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Mother - Nissan Prairie
Dad - Mazda MX5 red with pop up headlights. H-reg
Grandma - Renault 5 with an old 'S' reg
Grandad - some kind of Rover |
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MkII cortina 1600 gxl (I think)
White with a black vinyl roof.
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Isn't it interesting how you can estimate the posters age by the car they write.
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By *edeWoman
over a year ago
the abyss |
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By *edeWoman
over a year ago
the abyss |
"[Removed by poster at 06/08/23 20:49:01]"
^ she can't spell!!
Ford Escor t |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A blue lada, with black plastic seats, with grandma's floral house cushions in the back. Windows always wet and steamed up inside in the winter. Of course my grandad kept a special cloth for the windows in the dashboard. No seat belts in the back. I use to lay down across the back seats when they drove me around town I was so worried my school mates would see me in it. 1980s motoring was awesome. I'd love to have another ride in it. I can still smell the inside when I think about it
Mrs C |
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Rover 214 SL and I still remember the registration |
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"Isn't it interesting how you can estimate the posters age by the car they write.
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Nope. Tell me how old I am, based on my Granny's S reg Renault |
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"Isn't it interesting how you can estimate the posters age by the car they write.
Nope. Tell me how old I am, based on my Granny's S reg Renault "
S reg I believe was 1977, but it's trickier working from the grandparents. At a guess around 40?
I'll have a sneaky peek in a minute which won't be the first time I've admired your profile.
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My dad had a red van for work, i remember a trip to wimpy with my siblings, all 3 of us sat in the back. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Volvo 240. POS never seemed to die. Dad loved choking his tank till it was warm...
Pun intended lol |
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By *rC99Man
over a year ago
Liverpool |
I remember my dad having a cortina and my uncle had a starsky and hutch car in the same colours. Remember him taking my sister and i to school in it with all the other kids loving it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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An Austin Maxi.
It's was was white. The seats were brown, it felt huge.
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"An Austin Maxi.
It's was was white. The seats were brown, it felt huge.
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The bizarre thing about a maxi was you could take the back seats up to reveal a large storage area. My old man always said it would be a great place to hide a body |
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(Another) Morris Minor Traveller here |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
Triumph Toledo.Then a bright red Talbot Alpine,they had an indent about 8 inch deep running the length of the body panels,ours was painted white with a matching stripe across the boot,very Starsky & Hutch,turned heads everywhere.Embarassing to think of it,but as a kid it was great. |
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We never had a car, mum and dad had a motorcycle each. Dad had a Vincent and mum had a Honda. |
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We didn't have a car but this reminds me of a song, does anyone remember? .
"Do you remember all those nights in my zodiac
Playing with your dress
Underneath your pac a mac" |
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Wolsley 16/80 with two tone paint. Once on our way back from Banbury, we dared our mum to see how fast we could go down a hill and we cheered when we got to 60mph! We’d never been that fast before. |
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By *929Man
over a year ago
newcastle |
My dad had a Sierra p100 pickup, it had only two seats so I often had to ride in the bed on short local trips if there was my mam in too |
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By *mizhereMan
over a year ago
Thame Area |
Triumph herald and then a Vauxhall viva |
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A Mk1 Ford E scort estate. The structural integrity of the floor was questionable.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A maroon Morris Oxford followed by a grey Austin Cambridge |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
"A maroon Morris Oxford followed by a grey Austin Cambridge "
I thought you were going to say a horse and cart   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mum never drove first car I remember Dad having was an Austin 1300 in Maroon. Fav car I remember him having when we were kids was a Ford Corsair 2000 e |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A maroon Morris Oxford followed by a grey Austin Cambridge
I thought you were going to say a horse and cart "
How very rude! You used to be such a polite girl or was that only when you were given bourbon biscuits? |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
"A maroon Morris Oxford followed by a grey Austin Cambridge
I thought you were going to say a horse and cart
How very rude! You used to be such a polite girl or was that only when you were given bourbon biscuits?"
Bourbon biscuits bring out the best in me |
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Mrs - Nissan Sunny
Mr - Nissan Blue Bird |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A red Vauxhall Chevette we got when I was kid.
I even remember its reg: PCP 777 P |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A maroon Morris Oxford followed by a grey Austin Cambridge
I thought you were going to say a horse and cart
How very rude! You used to be such a polite girl or was that only when you were given bourbon biscuits?
Bourbon biscuits bring out the best in me "
Knew I should have gone all in and bought M&S ones  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yellow Vauxhall Chevette, great car so my Dad says. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A red Vauxhall Chevette we got when I was kid.
I even remember its reg: PCP 777 P "
It's currently on a 1976 yellow Ford Esc ort so maybe your memory is failing you. |
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By *obwhateverMan
over a year ago
Stirling/ London/ Yorkshire |
Green Ford Cortina. Must have been a late 70s model. |
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Mk 2 Cavalier from my memory might have been newer than that |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A black Pugeot 205 that I named Kitt. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1947 Alvis TA14 drophead. |
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Motorwagen, still going strong |
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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago
Kettering |
Austin A40 I know he had something before but can't remember |
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Green triumph but no idea what model |
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By *addyyBoyyCouple (MM)
over a year ago
stoke on trent |
"A morris marina"
My dad taught me to drive in one of those ha ha |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Morris Traveller.
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By *ragaCouple
over a year ago
Salisbury |
Ford Thames van that we used to take camping, followed by a Zephyr...happy days |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think the earliest was a mk1 Ford Esqort. There was a Morris Marina in there somewhere and a few VW campers and vans. |
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Hillman hunter I think was earliest one |
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My dad's second Ford Cortina Mk1 |
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Mine never had one people didn't back in the day! Unless rich! Neither ever learnt to drive in later life! Just like me! 66 and never needed to! Have my bycicle and can use the train/buss especially now I have a buss pass! Only used it twice so far! Still prefer to cycle x |
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By *rLordMan
over a year ago
Swadlincote |
Car ? Parents had bikes dads was a Panther 650 shopper, mums a Douglas Dragonfly . Dad learnt me to ride when I was six |
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1960s, Vauxhall I think. Don't know model but reminded me of the Batmobile.
Frank |
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"Me a Ford Zephyr. "
we lived on the edge of London, so my parents never bothered with a car till I'd left home. They my mum had a Nissan micra |
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A Hillman Husky was my dad's first car then a Morris Oxford and Vauxhall Victor estate. Weirdly I can still remember some of the reg numbers. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Several Rovers, then a Marina, Chrysler Alpine, more Rovers, Austin Montego, Renault Fuego amongst others |
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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago
west midlands |
Triumph Dolomite |
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The old big red one, but on the odd time the blue ponty bus. |
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A cortina, red awful car totally unreliable. |
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My parent never owned a car.
This isn't even uncommon. According to the ONS, something like 17% of UK adults don't have access to a car or van. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They never had one.  |
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A white Sunbeam Rapier with tombstone seats and whip back aerial. We had a leopard skin settee, shag pile carpet in the house and pampas grass in the garden too. Guess my parents were swinging through the 1970s |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A brown Triumph Dolomite |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Orange Vauxhall Cavalier |
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Austin cambridge
I drive a 1930’s xar |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in Co. Down |
A green Datsun 120y . |
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My dad collected old cars so the earliest car/oldest was a 1924 Rolls Royce
Still have that and his A35 van |
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A ROVER SD1
Fucking horrible lol |
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By *ritladMan
over a year ago
Taunton |
Beige Ford cortina estate and a green Vauxhall viva or 2! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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ford fiesta mk1, 950cc metallic blue, AEN321V.
used to rattle like hell |
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Ford Cortina, still remember the number plate, and the cars after too |
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By *sunamiMan
over a year ago
Darlington area |
My parents didn't have a car when I was growing up, but I bought a 1947 Austin 10 for £25 when I was 18 |
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Now I always laugh at threads like this where period items get mentioned because, when I see some of the cars listed, especially by guys, then I look at your profiles and see the age that you are claiming to be, it leads me to come to the conclusion that your parents were either driving you round in classic collectors items, or you are lying about your ages! I believe that it's what the psychologists call a Freudian slip. I wouldn't mind having a 1977 Daimler Sovereign / XJ6 coupe in my collection like my dad used to have, but finding a nice one isn't so easy, as so few were made, and they are prone to rust. |
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It won't let me say it was a ford MK1 but the model is apparently a banned word here because it relates to a profession we can't discuss |
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By *apxxxWoman
over a year ago
North Shropshire not Wales!!!ffs & Manchester |
A yellow mini |
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Brown ford cortina and a mini van |
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"It won't let me say it was a ford MK1 but the model is apparently a banned word here because it relates to a profession we can't discuss "
Got it, a ford MK1 sex worker |
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Ford( can't post name as site won't allow word) estate sure it was mk1 as had round headlights |
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"Off white VW Beetle "
Snap! My mum had one, the engine sound was so loud and so specific we kids would recognise it as soon as she turned the block corner and would run to the garden to greet her. She had it from the 70s and then passed it on to my sis when she started driving in the 90s! Was a rough but very sweet and reliable car. |
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A 1920’s open Lagonda , was the family daily for many years |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1964 vw split screen camper |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Early 70s Vauxhall Viva |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Peugeot 205 GTI /ford sierra |
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A zephyr 6 , brilliant car , column change gears and a full bench front seat |
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Morris 8 van which came in brown 'primer' paint colour.
Later, my dad took it to a coach work company and had some side windows put in. He didn't think to get wood put on the outside to make it into a shooting brake! |
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A Vauxhall victor with a bench seat in the front. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mustard triumph dolomite with a dark brown velour seats |
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"A zephyr 6 , brilliant car , column change gears and a full bench front seat "
A Ford Classic, also with column change and bench seat and the same sloping back window as a Ford Anglia |
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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago
west midlands |
"Mustard triumph dolomite with a dark brown velour seats"
Ours was cream with dark brown velor seats! |
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"Mustard triumph dolomite with a dark brown velour seats"
My mum had a triumph 1300 was a complete pile of shit.
Spent more time off road than on it constantly breaking down. |
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By *eeman1Man
over a year ago
Liverpool |
A mk1 Ford Esc ort in blue. Just about remember it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A Ford Anglia in pale blue, I even remember the registration number |
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"It won't let me say it was a ford MK1 but the model is apparently a banned word here because it relates to a profession we can't discuss "
Oh wow, have they blocked the word for a full-service sex worker that was also a model of Ford? That's amazing news. It'll cut right down on the number of wannabe comedians repeatedly making the world's tiredest, shittest pun whenever either subject comes up for discussion. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mk3 Cortina 2000e. What a machine! |
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"It won't let me say it was a ford MK1 but the model is apparently a banned word here because it relates to a profession we can't discuss "
It took me a bit of time to work out what Ford model could possibly be a banned word on here. I was more think along the lines of the Ford Probe whose name was considered controversial at the time of launch because to some societies they might as well have called it the Ford Dick. |
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