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[Rick]

Do you remember what the first motor vehicle you ever travelled in was?

I think mine was a 100E Pop, returning home from hospital after I was born. It was soon to be replaced with an MG1100 then the pale blue Volvo 121.

RJ
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[Inglewood]

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Dad used 3 cars in the early 50's

Ford V8 Pilot

Humber Super Snipe Pullman

Humber Hawk

I do not know which was the first I travelled in.

[Ironhead]

as a young boy in the '60's,before my dad had a car,i used to go work with him on school holidays in his Atkinson lorry .we used to walk down the quarry rail line near our house in the dead of night to get to the yard.the first car i can remember was my grandad's mate Cyril's lovely Ford Anglia 105e that we used to go to the football in.

[Ellis]

The first vehicle I consciously remember was a black Morris Minor Estate which belonged to my parents when I was about two years of age - about 1956 - but I remember more about the beige or cream Morris Oxford MO which followed it with it's red leather seats. It is strange how certain images stay with you and it is still in my memory how I thought the car was always smiling with the big grille which was a feature of the MO.

The car I remember most from my early years and one in which I travelled a lot was a black Austin A40 Cambridge, GBV 715.
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[RotaryBri]

It was in 1947 and the car was a 1939 Austin 12 Ascot, black registration FK 9295 and was originally owned by Dad's boss Gilbert Smith the MD of Norton Motors. He was lucky to get a new Austin 16 allocated to him. Younger members may not know that at that time new cars were mainly for export due to steel rationing after the War thus reducing supply locally.

EWG,

Funny that you remember your dad's Morris Oxford MO as that was the car that followed the Austin Ascot. That was also Beige with red leather and the registration was a PHU number.
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1976 NSU Ro80

[stuchamp]

1949 Plymouth Convertible

[P3steve]

A white with a redish/pink roof Vauxhall Victor FB estate. must dig out the old family cini films becaus I seem to recall it featured a lot in those. My dad brought both the car and the cini camera new at the same time as my birth, I do recall that within six years the floor had rotted through.
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[Mog]

Is this the first car that you remember being in or the one that you were told about ? I think it should be the first one you can remember.
When I lived in South Molton, Devon, the old man was the manager of the Co-op . So the first car/ van that I remember travelling in was a 30 cwt. van that belonged to the Co-op. Don't remember the make, it would be about 1949. It was used to deliver groceries to out lying farms. This included parrafin, for lighting, it was carried in a rack of jerry cans.Parrafin and fresh bread smelt good! The old man would not let the van go to some farms as the road was too rough and was worried that a spring could get broken and would take a long time to get a replacement. This was overcome by placing garbage bins at the front gate and the groceries were left there. I used to be in the back and one day I pressed too much on the back doors and I fell out. They did not miss me but found me running up the farm road after the van. My mother passed her driving test in this van, the tester had to sit on an orange box as there was no seat. It had a crash gear box, mum only drives her scooter these days, she is 93. I would be 5 in 1949.

[Richard H]

I came home from the hospital in a gold Austin Maestro 1.3L (B reg)
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[roverdriver]

I was born at home, so can't qualify regarding a ride home. My folks did not own a car in England, but the first vehicle that I can remember riding in was a London taxi. I was most intrigued with the fold-out seats. Other than that I remember riding on the top deck of a trolley bus on Guy Fawkes night, somewhere in London. This was all before we moved to Australia, (1949) so I was only four years old.

An amusing incident that I can relate is a non-ride early in my life in Oz. I was setting off on the four mile walk home from school (I was then 5 years old), when a local motorist offered me a lift. I refused, saying that I didn't want to ride in such an old car. The vehicle in question was a 1928 Packard, that had been made into a farm truck. Many years later I worked for that same man, and by then had become deeply interested in historic vehicles, we laughed together many times over my refusal to ride "in that old car".
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[Kelsham]

My fathers first car was a Willys coupe, we lived in Durban at the time, he then bought a Hudson terraplane, followed by a commodore.

We eventually ended up with a Kaiser Frazer, not sure of the spelling.

We then returned to England and bought a 1939 1.1/2 litre SS Jaguar.

MY first car was a 1948 Standard drophead coupe. It was stolen from a car park in the winter of 1963, the coldest winter I remember.

I then bought a 1936 SS1. Which I sold to get married, happy days.

Regards Kels.

[bob2]

For me its very easy, my first ride in a car was in the green mini I still have, the only car my father ever had, it was bought brand new exactly a year before I was born.

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[Bengt Axel]

I was actually born in a car!.

About 7:30 on the morning of Friday 20th January 1967, we didn't quite make it to hospital in our Austin A30.

The first car I can remember travelling in, as a toddler, was our trusty Triumph Herald 1200 Estate. VLG 787E, where are you now?

[Jim.Walker]

Being born into a family with probably about 20 vehicles (then) I have no idea of my first car ride. Nor can I recall my earliest memory of a car ride.
Even when very young I considered car transport to be the norm. I suppose that I was about 8 or 9 years old before I even realised not many families had a car.
Among the cars were a couple of hearses! I do remember my first ride in a hearse though! As a front seat passenger of course
Jim.
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