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[clan chieftain]

My earliest recollection would be in the early 50s of my uncle from Houghton-le-Spring coming to visit us in his Vauxhall Wyvern and I remember the man next door had an A30. That must have been about 1954. Time flies eh.
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[47Jag]

In our council estate street there were only two cars. A 1934 Standard 10 and a sit-up and beg Prefect. The drivers somehow managed to have a head on collision at the street entry. A couple of years later my £35 1948 Jaguar became the street's 3rd. car. Oh the decadence

Art

[Roger-hatchy]

My earliest memories (late 1940's) are not a car but my uncles motorbikes and sidecars

He never had a car licence, just a bike, and a steam engine, licence.

He had a 500 Norton with a box side car, used for work - Plumber and interior decorator.
His Family transport was an Aerial square four with volante side car, still in the family with his son-in-law in Bristol, I believe.

I can remember, just, six of us out on runs, Uncle and Father on the bike, Aunt and Mother, and two younguns in the sidecar.

My fathers first car, still late 1940's, was a mk1 Standard Vanguard, then a Rover P3 and his last car was a Hillman Minx in 1959, when I left home for Queen and country.

[Jason]

my earliest memory of cars in our family was in the early 80's (I'm only 36), my dad had a rover p6 and was regarded as being posh as there were only 4 cars on our street at the time....2 austin allegro's and an austin princess, so the rover seemed to stand out a bit

I also remember my brother (9years older than me) passing his test in the mid 80's and coming home with a talbot horizon in beige
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[baconsdozen]

When I was a kid,living in Norwich a bloke down the road used a Model T pick up for his business.It was pretty rough and worth little,old enough to be noticeable amongst the prefects and austin sevens but of no real value.
Eventually he traded it in against a newer ford,it was given to the apprentices at a garage (cant remember which one) and they restored it.As far as I know it eventually went back to Ford.
I can vaguely remember my dads pre war Rover but the clearest recollection was of a 1948 Austin 16 complete with blinds on the back windows and a jacking system worked from the drivers seat.
I expect JVF 541 was long ago melted down,I'd love one now.
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[Penman]

Hi
There was my uncle's Ford Y type in which he and my aunt would occasionally turn up, unannounced after a 100+ mile trip from Bristol to Guildford; then there was the Humber Pullman which an Aunt in Yorkshire used to hire, with a driver, to have days out around the Penistone-Holmfirth area.
The first car my father had was the '34 Austin 10 which he bought in order to teach me to drive.
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Any 2 from:-
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V8 V10

[emmerson]

Earliest family transport was a Ford 10cwt van with the back body cut off and a pick-up body put on! The back of the cab had been extended about two feet, and we kids used to travel under this canopy.We lived in Cumbria at that time, and if the truck failed to negotiate a hill, it was my older brother's job to leap off and put a brick behind the wheel to stop it running back. Many happy miles we travelled in that truck, in all weathers, then Dad changed it for the same model van. Not the same sense of adventure then!
Btw, although only eight or nine years old, I was beginning to get interested in old vehicles even then, and distictly remember that both these old Fords had central throttle pedals.
There were a few other Fords later, then in 1953, he had a brand new Volkswagen company car. The firm bought three of them, and we were led to believe that they were among the earliest officially imported VWs in the country, probably in early Spring 1953. HNL 394, where are you now?

[peter scott]

The first car I remember my father having was an A40 woody
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/forum/phpbb/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=17815&sid=692c8d4722b1e99325db1980cef9ace4
that was supplied by his employer but after he wrote that one off we didn't get private use and Emmerson's Cumbria recollections bring me in mind of us borrowing a Rover 14 to go to the Lake District on holiday. Needless to say it rained a lot and the Rover also leaked a lot.

Driving up Honister Pass I remember quite a few small cars struggling with the gradient, some going up in reverse to get a lower ratio.

Peter
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[Rick]

Although I was brought home from hospital at a few days old in a 100E, I can't say that I remember it, but I do have vague recollections of its replacement - an MG1100, the grille of which resides in the garage.

R
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[baconsdozen]

This topic reminded me that walking to school a couple of times I saw a three wheeler with a box like body and what looked like motorcycle foks (girder type) sticking out of the front.
I've never seen one since,was it some home brewed contraption or a make of vehicle?.
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[Penman]

Hi
Do you mean one of these?

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/photos-smallwood/reliant_3_wheel_van_3.htm
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Bristols should always come in pairs.

Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10

[Rick]

[baconsdozen]

Yes that picture from Penman is the one,even the colours the same.
Happy memories.
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[stuchamp]

Not really sure this was the first but its the one I remember most.
My Great Grandfathers 1937 Chevy.
The reason it stands out is that I had the door slammed shut on my fingers when I was 2 or 3 years old.
Result was my first broken bones, 2 fingers!
Little did I know they were the first of many more too come!

[baconsdozen]

Whilst on my trip down memory lane I recalled seeing a shiny new car with the first A plate I'd ever seen (an A on the end of the number).
I can't recall the year but I'm sure the car was an 1100.
Would that be correct ?.
I do remember telling my mates and no one believed me,the same as when I saw the first eight wheeled lorry they reckoned it couldn't get round corners.A few years later one ran over my bike stood on the kerb so maybe they were right.
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