Earliest memory that influenced your petrol head future

[pdr479]

Indulge me Ph collective!
For me, i used to love pushing toy cars around the playground in primary school, that i guess was the starting point, who could get there car furthest down the black top without throwing it and it had to stay on its wheels longest distance won.
Simples
Over to you?
Regards Paul.

[davepoth]

I really can't remember why it was cars - my earliest toys are cars (still have them!) and I can certainly remember being car mad back as far as the 1986 Lombard RAC Rally, as it was all the Group B cars and they started off in my home town.

[Zoobeef]

Building remote control planes, cars, boats, hovercrafts etc. Drove me to love knowing how things work.

[mikefacel]

Consequently I still have a real soft spot for any Italian breadvans (albeit that car is British!).

[drivin_me_nuts]

Not a car, but a colour scheme: JPS.

No other scheme looked so good.

[zed4]

My day's electric blue mk1 Escort Mexico rally car. I was too young to remember the RS2000 before.

I used to have a child seat in amongst the roll cage for the school run.

[SEE YA]

Dinky cars in the playground.

[jackh707]

Must be about here... age 6ish?
That and my dad use to take me to school on the back of his foxeye fireblade a couple of years later than this photo, certainly left a lasting impression on me.

[pdr479]

SEE YA said:

Dinky cars in the playground.

So its not just me then!

[pobox205]

It's definately my dads fault. He was never any great expert on cars but all he did was bring home car sales brochures from work.

All the mid Eighties Ford brochures with the Sierras and Mk4 Escorts etc. I remember the Austin Rover brochures with Maestros and Montegos too. That interest and knowledge not only about the market but also how modern cars work has grown and grown.

I hope my sons knowledge will grow to an even higher level than mine.

[-Z-]

For me, messing about with, and becoming obsessed with, my dads new Alfasud in 1986 when I was 3 started it all off.

Although cheap Italian plastic meant I snapped off the indicator stalk and got me a telling off - which probably explains why I hate Alfas.

[M159V8]

Becams obsessed after experiencing 1.3 leptons in an E30 M3 as a 4 y/o

[Pvapour]

i was about 6 or 7, my Dad used to race cars on the way back from my gran & grandads late at night, slightly inebriated shall we say, no wrong in those days & it was a great laugh.




feature of the car I remember well was the rear number plate used to fold down to reveal the fuel filler cap

[crostonian]

We used to live in a house backing on to a busy dual carriageway near a motorway junction, I remember being aged 3 or 4 and sitting on the window sill watching all the cars and trucks go by, I had a copy of Observer's Book of Cars, Usborne's Car Spotters Guide and one of those annual magazines produced by the Mail/Express around motor show time.

[GravelBen]

Like many, matchbox cars as a kid. Parents also found a school story book from me as a 5 year old which had pictures of cars and stories like "this picture is me driving a 4wd turbo Ford RS200 rally car".

[Krikkit]

Being bundled into and out of a green Mini Estate when I was about 3-5, that car oozed such a huge character that it left a lasting impression on me.

[Fun Bus]

Pvapour said:

Good Lord that is beautiful.

For me, it was being driven around in my Godfathers BMW 7-series (E23, early 80's). That, and the black, Sierra XR4i that lived down the road from us. I'd always look out for it when driving past the house. Still have a soft spot for them now.

[vxr1]

This little beast!

[Terminator X]

Black Sierra Cosworth with black leather parked in Slough in late 80's, saw it on way to the cinema and fell in love. Ironically never owned one but it did turn me on to fast cars.

TX.

[vxr1]

My Dad's first 'OK' car, after a few old Rovers and a Nissan Serena was a Chrysler Grand Voyager (51 reg) 3.3L, I loved it at the time and that's what got me into cars really.