the first car you remember being in...

[JC]

my dad had one of these (did they do a V8 version as I seem to remember a V8 badge on the back).. unfortunately the colour was a putrid puke green the same as this emoticon 

3500S = 3.5 V8

Ours lasted until 1986, when a coach driver smashed into it, shoving it backwards into a hedge very hard.  I was the front seat passenger, it was bloody scary!

i am pretty sure that it said 'vitesse' on it too... but that could have been the princess 

no that would have been the rover, sweeeeeeeeet car in their day

[Evoss]

My dad Jaguar XJS probably.

[Guy]

my dad had one of these (did they do a V8 version as I seem to remember a V8 badge on the back).. unfortunately the colour was a putrid puke green the same as this emoticon 

3500S = 3.5 V8

Ours lasted until 1986, when a coach driver smashed into it, shoving it backwards into a hedge very hard.  I was the front seat passenger, it was bloody scary!

i am pretty sure that it said 'vitesse' on it too... but that could have been the princess 

no that would have been the rover, sweeeeeeeeet car in their day

here we go...

[bodga]

There's a Rally Landcrab in Gaydon.

This is the first car I remember my Dad having:



Nick

LOL reminds me, i pissed all over my mate in his 2.0 sierra in one of these, on the M54. It was a 1983 A 1.6 LS. manual choke, electronic ign. better colour than this one thou, metallic blue


 My grandad gave it to me when he brought a new car I remember it was 1990 because he brought a brand new Hreg rover 414 (i was 18  )

I think back to when i was a kid  , i can just about remember my dad having a mk2 cortina estate

[MrBounce]

I can remember my Dad's Mk 1 Escort 1300GT (similar to above). It had the twin-choke Weber carb and the ZF gearbox. One night we were coming back from the West Country when I was a baby (I don't remember this) and my Dad was fed up of the A4. The M4 was complete but not officially open. Dad went to the roundabout, moved the cones and drove onto the empty M4. With two adults. two young 'uns, a bootful of luggage and a carrycot we did 104 miles in 58 minutes 

[Guy]

I can remember my Dad's Mk 1 Escort 1300GT (similar to above). It had the twin-choke Weber carb and the ZF gearbox. One night we were coming back from the West Country when I was a baby (I don't remember this) and my Dad was fed up of the A4. The M4 was complete but not officially open. Dad went to the roundabout, moved the cones and drove onto the empty M4. With two adults. two young 'uns, a bootful of luggage and a carrycot we did 104 miles in 58 minutes 

M4 between swindon and maidenhead opened in 1971 (22nd December) so does that fit in with your maths? Just asking, will help you verify the story

[MrBounce]

If that's the case then I can't have been in the car as I was still 4 months away. However, Wikipedia is not always 100% correct - I have no reason to doubt my dad's story but he could have got certain details wrong - such as me being in the car!! 

[Guy]

If that's the case then I can't have been in the car as I was still 4 months away. However, Wikipedia is not always 100% correct - I have no reason to doubt my dad's story but he could have got certain details wrong - such as me being in the car!! 

http://www.hungerfordvirtualmuseum.co.uk/Events/Opening_of_M4_Motorway/opening_of_m4_motorway.html

[Ninja]

My gradads Lada. 

[MrBounce]

If that's the case then I can't have been in the car as I was still 4 months away. However, Wikipedia is not always 100% correct - I have no reason to doubt my dad's story but he could have got certain details wrong - such as me being in the car!! 

http://www.hungerfordvirtualmuseum.co.uk/Events/Opening_of_M4_Motorway/opening_of_m4_motorway.html

Cheers for that! I shall cross-examine my Dad and get the truth out of him!! Or at least try to. He's 72 and does tend to repeat things he's said...