What was the first car you saw that burnt into your memory?

[Spudler]

Identical to this, parked up in the middle of Yeovil, im guessing it would'av been mid-late seventies.
Still one of my all time favorites ...

[LuS1fer]

Lamborghini Espada.

..which I preferred to the Miura.

Edited by LuS1fer on Thursday 21st October 12:32

[unpc]

This. My Dad's mate took me out in one when I was 7. Never forgot it.

[SlimRick]

I so desperately wanted a Talbot Solara when I was about 10 - thought they looked proper chunky and mean

[TiMopar]

Saw this aged 12 and that was it.

[Doofus]

Citroen DS in The Terracotta Horse

[y2blade]

I must have watched the cannonball runs films 100+ times as a child

[Stablelad]

On holiday in Italy with Parents about 35 years ago I think...

3 of these (yes,3!) on a Transporter just outside Milan. Pic?....maybe, somewhere in their storage area..

[welsh blackbird]

odyssey2200 said:

Me too!

When I was a kid, one of the directors of Kwik Save lived in our village - he drove an Interceptor when everyone else was in Moggie thousands and ford cortinas.

I've lusted after one ever since!

[Frimley111R]

Prob been said but JB's white Esprit S2 in the film The Spy Who Loved Me. At at years old that was better than aliens from Mars!

[snowy slopes]

Twincam16 said:

First toy car I can remember having that was obviously a model of a particular car rather than a Fisher-Price blob-on-wheels. Remember my Dad explaining that it was an Audi Quattro, and that it did rallies, which I can vaguely remember being on the telly. Unfortunately Group B was killed off by the time I turned four, but this thing, albeit built by Corgi, helped my third word, after the obligatory 'Mum' and 'Dad', to be 'Car':

This for me, and fortunately i was able to own and run one of these beasties for a while, back in the early 90's. However, like the saying goes, never meet your heroes, then likewise i would say never own your ultimate car

[SpookyUK]

Mine had to be the F40... Still amazes me when i see them in the flesh today!

[shouldbworking]

Hopefully this hotlink will work. Strongly remembered after watching Transformers the movie, first film I ever saw in the cinema. Jazz transformed into a 935

[djt100]

Lamborghini Countach, Sittig in a queue for the carpark, It was sat a few cars behind us in the queue, then the driver got bored and full bore floored it down the other side of the road, Ok now i know he was driving like a c*ck, but i was about 11 and all i Thought was WOW. been my fav car ever since, and would still be my first lotto win buy.

[halo34]

It was about 28-29 yrs ago but a flashy red BMW 6 Series in the Perth BMW dealership - I remember the price tag was huge even then.

[Pannywagon]

Was out with my dad in his car back in the mid eighties. it was a straight stretch of road, sun was shining and the windows were down. The richest bloke in the area, who had a jet parked on his front lawn, overtook us in his Lamborghini Countach on what felt and sounded like full chat The noise was immense, you didn't just hear it, you felt it too the thing was so loud. The car shook as he went past.

We drove along in silence for a bit, then just started giggling. I fell in love with cars that day.

[vixen1700]

A Citroen SM in the showroom when my dad picked up his GS in 1972. I was 6 at the time and it left quite a lasting effect on me, still have the SM brochure the sales bloke gave me that day too.

[DLovett]

We had one of these back in the late 80's!

Edited by DLovett on Friday 22 October 15:43

[vixen1700]

So did we.

[weezb]

One of my first toys was a battery operated lime green Lamborghini Countach, the battery made it able go forward in a straight line and (IIRC) the lights worked.

That car has been seared into my psyche ever since...