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[British heritage cars]

Hallo to you all!

Just intrested what age you started to have intrest and owning classic cars?

I'll start...

The story begins when I was about 8 years old, my father told me about his dream car when he was young, a Land Rover Series III Land Rover he gave me when some journals and maps that he had collected. A few years later when we had an accident with our Volkswagen Multivan he had the choice to buy a new Volkswagen, or His dreamcar, a Land Rover.
Wisely, he took the Land Rover Defender 110, intrested in my Land Rover started to grow over the years. eventually I bought a few years ago (when I was 15 years), a Land Rover Series III, and in October last year, I bought the Austin Devon.
Next month I am 18 so the bug has got me eary!

Unfortunately, here in Belgium almost no peers with the same intrested

Pictures!







YOUND and OLD

And My devon...







Kind regard Jonathan

[Rick]

I acquired my first, non-running, very very rusty project at the age of 17, although I started learning to drive - in a 1967 Mini - at the age of 15. Dad has always serviced his own cars, so I guess that led to my interest in old motors.

RJ
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[Bluesbreaker]

Hi

I have been interested in classic vehicles all my life, but I started out as a fan of motorcycles!
One of the first books I got was called "the legend of Harley-Davidson", and after reading it (well, looking at pictures.. I was so young that I couldn't even read) I was hooked.

I was 13 when I got really hooked to classic cars. It all started when my older brother bought a 1975 Citroën Dyane.

When I was 17, I bought my first car, a 1974 Saab 96 V4. Since then I've acquired 2 more..

Oh, I'm 22 years old at the moment.
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I just love old cars!

Saab 96 V4 1973
Saab 96 V4 1974
Saab 96L V4 Super 1977

[Daniel H]

For as long as I can remember I've had an interest in cars, although I much preferred the older models over the usual 6-figure sum Supercars the other kids lusted after. Since infant school I had been reading classic car publications that my Dad used to give to me after he'd finished with them, I don't think many other 7 year olds in 1999 would know what a Triumph Mayflower was. I took an interest in most post-war makes and models but in recent years I've narrowed it down into bread-and-butter cars from the late 40's to early 80's, mainly in BMC/BL and Rootes products.

My first foray into old vehicle ownership was a 1978 Vanden Plas 1500 (Allegro shape) in 2007 when I was 15, which did a few shows for a couple of years until it was sold recently to find work on the Cambridge.

[Keith D]

My interest in old cars has been life-long, as with many others on this forum. In about 1950, when I was seven years old we would drive from Essex to West London in our wartime ex Western desert Commer utility. When I expressed an interest in older cars on the road around us, my father would reply 'That's prewar!' and so the older vehicles grew in my mind with this 'prewar' mystique!

A superb film was relased about 1954 that led many, many people into the love of old cars, me included, called Genevieve.

I was fifteen years old when I bought my first car for five pounds from the local car wrecker, a 1938 18hp Morris. In the summer of 1959 I drove this many miles around my father's fields. A gallon of petrol cost 4/6 and any friends who donated a gallon, got to share the driving with me for an hour!

I started driving on the Queen's highway late in 1960. I was an apprentice by then and so I had very little money. The old wrecks I owned and drove around then, I would love to own now:- 1946 Austin 10, 1938 Opel Cadet, 1957 Bond Minicar (I wouldn't like to own that one now!) 1957 Standard 10 panel van..... The list goes on!

Old cars have been my main hobby all my life and I wouldn't change a thing!

Keith

[Mog]

I bought my first Morgan 3-wheeler when I was 15.5 yrs. A fellow student drove his MTW to school and was allowed to park it in the school grounds as he lived far away. I was hooked as I was not keen on motor bikes. I saw an ad. in The Exchange and Mart. I did a paper round 7 days a week so I had saved up a few quid. I think I paid 30 quid for it. The problem was it was in Bedford and I was in Stourbridge. I got my older brother to drive it back. We got another mate to drive us there, we went down the the M1, it had just been opened. This beautiful motorway and no traffic on it ! We could not come back on the M1 as my brother only had a learners permit for motor bikes. I restored it as best I could at that time, including hand painting it. It is still on the road but I do not know the location , rego. UA 9363.

[richbrick]

Great pics and story. I was 15 too when I bought my first Golf. I had to keep it at my Grandparents 5 miles away because they had a garage I could keep it in and work on it with my Grandpa!

[FrazzleTC]

I was 18 when i bought my Rover 2000 last year, which is my everyday car, and has covered a lot of miles in the last few months!

[Richard H]

I was 15 when I got my first Austin.

[Richard H]

P.S. us "youngsters" have our own forum, dontcha' know

www.younggunsclassics.forumcircle.com

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