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

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

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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.
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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.

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Interior like this:

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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.

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Citroen Diane in bright green. Like this:
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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.

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Datsun Cherry in 'green'..

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

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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

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One of these had a starter button on the floor

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

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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.

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

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.

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

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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.

Mmmmmnn, maxi. Happy memories of 3 children fighting in the backseat during long journeys. (not actual car)

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The first car I remember is some sort of blue Simca Estate from the 70s - 1100 I think - with plastic seats that burnt our thighs in the summer. The next car was a beige Peugot 504 saloon though my Dad did consider a red Matra Rancho but didn't go for it much to my disappointment.

Green Vauxhall Victor, XLG 265J

Followed by three Cortinas.
GTD 89N
OCB 16R
ATE 858V
and a Fiesta when he retired,
BBA 233Y.

Can't remember the reg no's of any of mine.

My dad has always had company cars/vans of one sort or another. He still works for the same company.

First one I remember was a Commer(?) Bedford(?) flatbed van thing, that had curved windows down at the footwell level of the cab.

EDIT: Leyland!

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Then an Escort van. I remember rattling round the back of it all the way from Glasgow to London and back a few times, in the days before child seats and harnesses and all that health and safety-gone-mad nonsense.

Then an Escort Popular saloon that was the same shade of blue as those invalid cars that used to park behind the goals at football matches.

Then a couple of Cortina estates. then a Cortina saloon.

Then a Sierra.

I remember houndstooth check upholstery being a feature of a few of these.

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Buick Station Waggon, like this, in this trim/colour. It was ace.

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bikebuoy, I have probably commented on this before, but did you grow up in Canada or the USA?

Florida !!

It was ace.

Austin 1100, new, circa 1963. Beige. I remember one of the front wheels falling off when it was just a few months old 😀 Reg ELF 182C. Why do I remember that???

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One of these. Same colour 3 doors and didn't like to start on damp mornings.

Replaced with on these, used to sit in the boot when the car was full. I guess that's illegal nowadays.

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Schweiz -
Mmmmmnn, maxi

Yep, that's the beauty we had. Also 3 boys in the back scrapping, dad smoking his pipe and the 70s mongrel in the footwell. Happy days

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First car our family had was a silver Volvo 240GL. Was a tank and drove all across Europe, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Iraq more times than i care to remember. Many happy memories being driven around in the boot.

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@gobuchul: I flippin' LOVE that Volvo! Lucky kid!

Black Austin 7 - my mothers car in the mid 60's. Leaky roof, indicators that popped out from the b pillars and often didn't return, crank handle, and (horse hair?) upholstery stuffing which we used to pick out from a small tear in the back seat.
Father had loads of different cars, struggle to remember which would have been the earliest.

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A Ford Zodiac in presented in Rusty Grim.

Morris Marina Coupe in blue with black vinyl roof is the first one I can remember, I think the predecessor was a renault 4 but not 100%. We had a beige mini Metro afterwards, horrible bloody thing!

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The first car that I can definitely remember, and not pseudo memories based on old photos is a Mk2 3.0 Capri in orange with a black vinyl roof, like this.....

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I can remember going with my dad to pick it up and being impressed that it had a clock in the center console.

The next car was a beige Marina 😕

Ford Zephyr in green , my step dad bought it when he was working out in Rhodesia . We had great fun sliding about on the huge bench seats .

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one of these, same wheels, but brown with a tan hide 8)

we had it about 9 years as i recall

4.2 straight 6

Funny enough when we came back here we had an orange 240GL Ovlov too..

Mum must have loved estates/station wagons.

Thing with the 240 we had was it was an automatic, took an age to change down, took longer to change up. My mother bought one of the first "variomatic" 340's and the belt drive broke within a few 000' miles, all fixed of course, we used to call it MrRubberBandMan..
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the earliest I can remember was a rusty Reliant Regal van in the mid-70s with us 3 kids rolling around in the back
it wasn't as nice as this one
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My Grandad worked at Longbridge so we had one of these:

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This

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An Opel Kadett estate, like this but in pale blue:

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Shiny black plastic seats, really hot and sticky in the summer.

A red Cortina estate like this that I only just remember

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Much more memories of the VW Santana that came after 😀

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My dad converted petrol Austin Cambridge and Morris Oxfords to diesels probably nicked the engines out of J4 BMC vans they were dull, gutless no turbos or power steering and the battery was another story. 40 mph was fast then whereas a mates dad had a Triumph 2.5 pi like the rozzers had so cool being in that

Id forgot about the shiny hot seats in the summer that would take a layer of epidermis off the back of your thighs, then there was Vauxhalls bench front seat no belts and you slid and hit the driver if driven fast round a roundabout

This is the first one I remember- A purple cortina .

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Vaguely remember my dad's white Dolomite Sprint. He quite liked that car too. But have great memories of his Silver Fiat 132 (I think) that had a big full length slidey sunroof which was great for our annual trips to the Blackpool Illuminations as my brother and I would stand on the rear seats out of the sunroof looking at the illuminations. It was quite sporty too apparently - all alloy engine, twin cam, but a total rust bucket and disintegrated in front of our eyes over the time my dad had it.

Blue Fiat Uno mid 80s

I distinctly remember the excitment when my dad got a Ford Granada about the same time - I think it was maroon.

redmex - Member 
Id forgot about the shiny hot seats in the summer that would take a layer of epidermis off the back of your thighs, then there was Vauxhalls bench front seat no belts and you slid and hit the driver if driven fast round a roundabout

Did your dad go round roundabouts the wrong way round?!!! 😉

Hillman Avenger estate as below (although not our car)...
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Yes i got that one wrong about the roundabouts must have been the flashbacks to my early years ok tight bends it was left handers, did you ever fight to get a window seat and hang out of it ?

White Ford Cortina Estate - 1.6L I believe.

It had 'Smiley' stickers to either side of the headlights 🙂

Edit (that's the actual car in 1977)...

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Earliest memory was my Dads white Cortina Saloon. Gonna say 1.6L and W reg - but could be wrong.

My granddad, similar time, had an old Mk1 Cortina estate with green vinyl bench seat and steering column gear shifter. He had a piece of electrical tape over the fuel light asit was permanently on and annoyed him lol. Those bench seats were fun in the bends.

It was a white Vauxhall Viva estate.

LVN201F ! I have a good memory for names and numbers.

A baby blue Viva HC. Though I don't remember my dad ever driving it- it was a company car and my grandad bought it from the fleet and drove it for years. It was lovely tbh, think it was the 90 horse variant so it was like a scale model muscle car. If I had a garage to put a scabby car in, it'd have a rusty viva shell in it 😆

(and then a fence-green cortina LX which by the end was about 80% isopon, then 2 mk2 cavaliers, then the kings of the company cars- a cavalier mk3 cd which should have had the 2 litre 8v but inexplicably had a redtop in it, then a mk3 cdx with the v6. Loved that car, we were going to buy it but it got written off about a week before the end of the lease 🙁 )