What was the first car you saw that burnt into your memory?
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countach. red, late model with all the wings & spoilers. used to come visit a neighbour from time to time when i was 8-9ish. guy that owned it would tell us what it was.......
.....which, when I found out what a q plate meant and that he sold it to buy a sierra, meant I had an early encounter with a misbadging poser.
still, it made me get dad to run me to the model shop to spend my piggy bank on the tamiya countach kit. bought the stratos one too
a couple of years later, a kid at our school was dropped off and picked up everday in a 512tr. he should have been playground royalty, but the sad fact was that he was called tristam, had the only cut glass accent in a northern state comprehensive, and was bullied mercilessly. awesome car though, gunmetal and red leather, daddy loved gunning it away from the gates and it sounded sublime.
.....which, when I found out what a q plate meant and that he sold it to buy a sierra, meant I had an early encounter with a misbadging poser.
still, it made me get dad to run me to the model shop to spend my piggy bank on the tamiya countach kit. bought the stratos one too
a couple of years later, a kid at our school was dropped off and picked up everday in a 512tr. he should have been playground royalty, but the sad fact was that he was called tristam, had the only cut glass accent in a northern state comprehensive, and was bullied mercilessly. awesome car though, gunmetal and red leather, daddy loved gunning it away from the gates and it sounded sublime.
As a child reading about Thrust 2 in a book, I was fascinated by it. It looks so much like the batmobile in the original Tim Burton Batman film.
I even wrote a huge essay on it as a project in the junior school. As the work neared completion, my brother informed me that the record had been broken by Thrust SSC ages ago. I took a fit and tore up my handwritten work
Oh yes, and I collected pictures, magazines and posters of the Countach.
There was one red one in particular that I recall. I even remember the plate: "C701 BYX". I think a PH-er owns it now. It was for sale a couple of years ago and I emailed the seller to tell him "my" history of the car
There was one red one in particular that I recall. I even remember the plate: "C701 BYX". I think a PH-er owns it now. It was for sale a couple of years ago and I emailed the seller to tell him "my" history of the car
It was a very long time ago. I was about ten years old and we lived in a very ordinary part of Dublin. The house next door was rented out one time to an Iranian student. He had a Facel Vega. It was simply beyond anything I had ever seen. He drove me in it a few times and showed me the record player which played one 45 rpm disk at a time.
I remember it very well. The car was brand new.
I remember it very well. The car was brand new.
t about cars and made me look elsewhere for car excellence. 
My old man was very good about taking me to motor racing events. I vividly recall seeing one of these in Mod Sports as a 5 year old. Subsequently drew one in my school book spinning at Cascades at Oulton Park. It must've been one of my very first pieces of school work, I guess. Took me 20 years to afford a Lotus of my own.
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