Your first car memory

[DickyC]

An earnest discussion betweem my parents in the car, still in the drive at home, about whether or not to have the roof down on their Morris Minor convertible. I was either three or four, so it was either 1957 or '58. Dad had just started to reverse out and had to stop to put the top down.

[DickyC]

GT03ROB said:

Throwing up in the back of a Viva!

TommyBuoy said:

Throwing up in the back of a calibra turbo!

But the love of cars triumphed on the end.

Just not Vauxhalls.

[DickyC]

talksthetorque said:

As a four year old sat between my mum and my dad.

In a Frogeye Sprite.
Yesl I was sat with my arse in the boot and my feet on the transmission tunnel.



Call social services and the police NOW!

I did have an old cushion to sit on though- it wasn't that bad.

My mum had a Frogeye. If we needed to go out when dad was at work, it was mum driving, big bro in passenger seat, dog in passenger footwell and me in the middle with my feet in the boot and back against their seats facing the wrong way like a tail gunner. Anyone not familiar with the Frogeye should know there was no bootlid. You passed things into the boot behind the seats like shopping and little brothers.

[DickyC]

Riley Blue said:

Mort7 said:

Sitting in the front seat of my dad's Ford Anglia, late 50s or early 60s, no seat belt, with one of these stuck to the windscreen.

I had one too, during the mid-50s, in my Dad's Austin A40 reg. EDN 945.

They tended to understeer I found. Or my turn-in was sooner than my dad's.

[DickyC]

Another early car memory for me is lying across the back seat of mum and dad's car returning home after trips to the seaside or to grandparents. The back seat was flat so my brother and I could doze top-to-toe all the way home looking up, watching trees, buildings and telegraph poles flashing past. Safety concerns put paid to that particular experience for kids but we enjoyed it and, at the time, it was a very safe and cosy feeling. 'Feeling' being the operative word. I know it wasn't safe. We felt safe.

[DickyC]

Oak Green said:

One of my earliest memories is pressing the floor mounted push button start in my uncle’s B reg pale blue mk1 Mini.

When I read that I knew just how important you felt when you did it.

[DickyC]

KungFuPanda said:

JCollins said:

I was about 8 years old. Stood up on both inside shoulders of the front seats in my dad's Red Ford Orion, with the top of my torso poking out through the sunroof while it was parked up at Farnborough Air show as I was enjoying a 99 w/ flake.

A 99 always comes with a flake you ‘tard. If it didn’t come with a flake, it wouldn’t be a 99.

JC was qualifying the 99. Without reference to the Flake, 'enjoying a 99' could have been something unwelcome in polite society.

[DickyC]

rallye101 said:

At night with my dad in a mini countryman circa 4/5 years old...he would be saying ''lights on/lights off'' when oncoming cars were heading towards us and the main beams were doing it by magic! I was in total awe-little did I know there was a switch in the footwell operated by his left foot! standard fitment back then apparently..

My mate was sitting in my Frogeye in the garage at my folks. I asked him to back it out. He fired it up then... Graunch. Graunch. Grrrrrr-aaaa-uuuu-nnnn-cccchhhh. He was pressing the dip switch not the clutch. He drove a dead modern Anglia.

It has always bothered me that he didn't question the different feel of the dip switch in the Frogeye and the clutch in his Anglia.