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Offline Guy

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Re: the first car you remember being in...
« Reply #60 on: 05 July 2011, 20:57 »
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!!  :smiley:

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...  :grin: :grin:

it's not really worth it... i'd let sleeping dogs lie!  :grin:

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Re: the first car you remember being in...
« Reply #61 on: 05 July 2011, 22:17 »
My dads Ford consul met green with a black vinyl roof.

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« Reply #62 on: 05 July 2011, 22:27 »
My dads Ford consul met green with a black vinyl roof.

gawsh.. thats going back a bit... can anyone beat that?!

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Re: the first car you remember being in...
« Reply #63 on: 05 July 2011, 22:30 »
I think Len has  :wink:

It was a 1975 version like this:



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« Reply #64 on: 05 July 2011, 22:36 »
I think Len has  :wink:

It was a 1975 version like this:




my apologies... didn't realise he'd replied to this thread!!  :grin:

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Re: the first car you remember being in...
« Reply #65 on: 05 July 2011, 22:38 »
It's a great thread Guy, nice one  :wink:

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Re: the first car you remember being in...
« Reply #66 on: 05 July 2011, 22:58 »
It's a great thread Guy, nice one  :wink:

i love seeing these old cars... wish there were more about now.

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Re: the first car you remember being in...
« Reply #67 on: 06 July 2011, 07:08 »
1972 Lincoln Continental i remember looking through the oval opera window on the way to school.
I also remember the rear bench being leather and so slippy i used to slide from one side to the other when going round a bend.
Cheers for buckling me up dad! :grin:


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« Reply #68 on: 06 July 2011, 10:51 »
First family car was a green left hand drive Triumph 2000,which my old man drove into a lamp post while turning left at a junction.
Next was a brown fiat 131 which he had to weld to pass the mot.he didn't wear any eye protection and  was blind for three days. :laugh:
Best car was mk1 Granada in white,in which he ran over my sister in laws foot while she was getting out.
He had several Talbot avengers which were embarrassing to be picked up in.
Think he wrote off a rover sd1 too.

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Re: the first car you remember being in...
« Reply #69 on: 06 July 2011, 11:15 »
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!!  :smiley:

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...  :grin: :grin:

Take a look here, the timeline of what sections of the M4 opened on what dates:
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/motorway/m4/timeline (a database of all UK roads maintained by one of my sad friends)