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tommy vercetti
3,323 posts
32 months
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Alfa Romeo 156, remember my old man having one around 2003.  I remember Jenson Buttons name coming on the TV screen once when I was watching F1, wasn't really into F1 and didn't know much about it, but started to watch it regularly because of him, my favourite driver, also remember when I was younger I used to watch Knight rider, I always thought the Pontiac was real, aha good days.
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Carparticus
933 posts
71 months
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As a kid barely able to tie my shoe laces, I was exposed to various cars my granddad used to turn up in at the poverty spec 2 bed semi we lived in back in the 60's. He gave us a painting one year of an E-type, and promptly turned up in one the following year on Christmas day, and then a silver with red Aston DB5 the year after. I think he was going through a mid life Bond car crisis. My Dad used to take me along to see films like the Italian Job, Marseille Contract, and all the Bonds … whenever he'd had a shouting match with my mum, so we got to see lots of films full of cars. At the time he worked for Ford R&D and used to bring home all sorts of bizarre stuff, and attended all the early 70s motor shows when semi naked babes used to be liberally draped over concept cars before the idea was banned. So yeah, cars, engine sounds, films and show-car women all got ingrained at an early age and have moulded me ever since. Who said kids weren't influenced by what they see ?  
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melvster
5,454 posts
54 months
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 and also this, a lad in my class at primary school, his dad had one. 
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The Horse Man
144 posts
40 months
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It was parked up on the side of the road. First time I even knew that the car existed. I approached from the rear (quiet in the back there!) and saw sideways exhausts and the numberplate N666 HEX It made me late for work. 
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LaurasOtherHalf
6,323 posts
65 months
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DanDC5 said:  The irony is now that I don't like Porsches  Maybe that's the reason I have owned911s?  But like most, I can't say one certain car, but like a lot this certainly cemented everything that I ever wanted: 300bhp/ton said: This I think: 
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Tazio77
41 posts
131 months
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As an adolescent at Mallory, I sat in Sid Taylors Lola T70, hooked ever since, also standing behind a Mclaren M8 at Silverstone being warmed up sans silencers, awesome, watching F5000 cars at Mallory, their Morand tuned Chevy V8s shaking the ground you stood on, this in the days of 5J rims on an Anglia being outrageous lol.
Still haven't had my V8 yet........
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bigdom
420 posts
14 months
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First car I can remember the old man having in mid 70's, this colour, chocolate interior.. 
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SlimRick
1,418 posts
34 months
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Hudson
1,256 posts
56 months
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 Toss up between Nigel annihilating everyone in the wet without breaking a sweat, or my dad's 3.0l mk3 Capri, minus it's exhausts
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Yiliterate
1,442 posts
75 months
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My first Scalextric cars - Triumph TR7s: 
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Grey Ghost
2,770 posts
89 months
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One of these used to burble down my road when I was a nipper.  It used to stop me dead in my tracks and I would wander down to where it was parked just to stare at it. I had the pleasure of driving one a few years ago and was rather surprised that you could watch the fuel gauge going down if you used the loud pedal frequently
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giltranator
186 posts
57 months
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Dad's first Porsche  I still keep this picture in my room  But the one that made me slightly crazy...  Think it runs in the family as my grandad always had cool cars too
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2manycars
294 posts
47 months
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DanDC5 said: The irony is now that I don't like Porsches I can't believe it, i totally forgot that i had one of these. Must have easily been 20 years ago. I just got on Ebay and purchased a slice of childhood for £30. The first car that i ever really took any notice of was the Volvo 740GLE. My Dad got one brand new as a company car, it only had delivery miles on it when he got it. I remember it was freezing cold (bad winter) when he phoned my mother from work (no mobiles back then) and told her to stand outside the house with me and my two brothers. It took him about 20 minutes to get home and we were just about to walk in the house when he turned the corner. We all piled in the car (we could leave the house unlocked back then) and headed to Blackpool to see the lights on the promenade. I remember my Dad opening the (electric sunroof) and allowing me to stand in between him and my mum so i could stand through the sunroof. Absolute amazing memory, i don't think it matters what the car is, i think its the memory attached to it/them.
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W00DY
7,848 posts
95 months
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A white Sierra XR4x4i, which was my Father's company car when I was 2. I used to get my parents to pick me up so I could stroke the spoiler  . Definitely started me down the path to car obsession and in particular a love of 80s metal. 
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Steamer
8,851 posts
82 months
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W00DY said: I used to get my parents to pick me up so I could stroke the spoiler . I used like 'squidging' the spoilers on the back of XR3's - Remember the black foam ones that were like sponges when it rained?
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irocfan
1,514 posts
59 months
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suspect this has a lot to answer for... 
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Andy_sx
2,313 posts
75 months
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 My Dad raced these before I was born, but has always had a passion for cars ad motorsport, even if it is dwindeling now as he gets older. Used to go to Brands as a tiny kid, my younger brother would spend all day playing in the mud while I sat mesmerised watching all the cars race by!
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Fane
614 posts
69 months
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My Dad and I were driving down Mottram Road, Stalybridge in his Cortina Crusader and got overtaken at well above the legal limit by Rodney Felton's Alfa Romeo P3, no headlights, no wings, nothing. Must've been about 1981. The car is still campaigned in VSCC events. This isn't the actual car, but is similar: 
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had ham
1,479 posts
52 months
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Apparently this.  For some strange reason, this was the first toy I was ever given. On my arrival home from the maternity ward, my nan put this in my cot. I owe that woman a lot, as like somebody above, she bought me a matchbox car every week when she came to visit - still got them all in the loft. My first word was 'car' apparently.
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Simon Bags
423 posts
44 months
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The car, the show, the end. 
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