Your favourite childhood car

[RDMcG]

Goes back a long time now to say the least. I was about 12 or so when the house next door was rented to an Iranian student. He had a brand,spanking new Facel-Vega HK500. I had never seen anything so exotic in my life, and, being a decent chap,he gave me a couple of rides in it. It had a 45rpm record player,I recall.
Needless to say it was my dream immediately.

We had no car at all and when we finally got one it was a seven year old Hillman Minx. I did not get into anything remotely as exotic as the Facel for many years after that.

[Marcus R]

The first car i remember going in was my fathers UR quattro when is 3/4..

Always loved them, he had a book about the history of the quattro and i remember seeing a picture of the group b car and loving it. Will own a nice 20v at some point in my life.

[vsonix]

Alfa numeric said:

I've wanted one of these since I was 10. They always seem to be about £100k more then I can afford...

Somewhere at my parents house is a letter from Victor Gauntlett's PA telling me that I'm a bit too young to be shown round the Newport Pagnell works and to ask again in a couple of years. Included with the letter is a full press pack and set of brochures- it's something I'll never get rid of.

such a beautiful car! I too have always wanted one of those. Incidentally, have you got back in touch with Aston Martin to request your works tour? It'd be churlish of them to refuse after all this time, surely! You could do a PH writeup with pics

doogz said:

Always thought these looked mean as hell.

and another great Aston. Those last two are so much better than today's models, I can barely tell the modern ones apart...

Edited by vsonix on Friday 29th July 01:56

[vsonix]

DiTomaso Pantera

[Agrilla]

Capri

This is the earliest car I can remember really wanting (and even now on the rare occasion I see them on the road, my heart gets a little tug)!

When I was looking for my last family hack I wound up at an immaculate garage, that along side selling 2nd hand cars (bread and butter I guess) also had two perfect looking Capri's which were not for sale, and they were doing some work on something else that made my then 80 year old Dad smile - no idea what it was, I was too busy looking at the Capri's!

[getawayturtle]

My 2 favs were a Ford Escort XR3i (white one used to be down our road, and I loved the look of it) and a Subaru Impreza, in the full rally livery.

[CooperD]

Mine was the Maserati Merak. Really loved the buttresses at the back.

[E31Shrew]

Step dad in 1972 worked for a BMW dealer in Thames Ditton called Langley Motors and would come home in various different motors. Favourites at the time were the 3.0si and 3.0 Csl. Both incredibly rare then as BMW were teetering on the verge of extinction

[FIK]

Lancia Stratos in Alitalia livery with Sandro Munari driving.

Makes me go a little bit funny whenever I see anything to do with them!

[PumpkinSteve]

The original Mini, my dad had three of them when I was young and I've always loved them. The Italian Job puts me in the mood for buying one every time I watch it.

[anonymous-user]

This is nigh on identical to the first car I ever saw, could ever name, and the first car I ever loved. I think I was about 4. The car lived opposite my gran's house, and I used to sit on the windowsill and stare at it. The only real difference was that it had a square number plate on the front - and that made it the coolest thing ever.

[so called]

V12 E-Type for me. Nothing ever raised the same emotions.
Oh except the sound of a TVR

[Daston]

At a very early age it was this and to be fair that hasnt really changed

[vsonix]

the Talbot/Matra Rancho


the Subaru Brat


the Alfasud Veloce


Gordini 5



the Hilux from Back to The Future

[falkster]

Without being too predictable it was the E30 M3, watching Steve Soper, Roberto Ravaglia, the mardy Frank Sytner etc

[Daaaveee]

I used to have this exact poster on my wall

[chazola]

this:



this...



and this...



can you tell I grew up in the 80's?