What was the first car you saw that burnt into your memory?
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norby1 said:
Bizzarely this.....Citroen Ami 8
Th first car that I actually remember my mum having and it was probably the thing that started my love of Citroens. Currently having a hankering for a Mehari, but they are silly money on Fleabay!
When I was 5 years old, my Dad drove an Ami. It was sky blue with cream wooly seat covers. He could even un-bolt the seats and take them out for picnics. Crazy!Th first car that I actually remember my mum having and it was probably the thing that started my love of Citroens. Currently having a hankering for a Mehari, but they are silly money on Fleabay!
Edited by DaveShark on Thursday 4th March 06:15
A Boxer. The first car that truely implanted itself on my consciousness.
The first car to have an impact in a real life way though was the Griffith. Until then flash motors had simply been flash motors. Posters on a wall, things other people owned, to be merely lusted after by such as myself. The Griffith though just homed in on some part of me, none-ownership become non-optional! I was 14/15 I think at the time, 28 when I got my mitts on one.
The first car to have an impact in a real life way though was the Griffith. Until then flash motors had simply been flash motors. Posters on a wall, things other people owned, to be merely lusted after by such as myself. The Griffith though just homed in on some part of me, none-ownership become non-optional! I was 14/15 I think at the time, 28 when I got my mitts on one.
juansolo said:
The very earliest was when I was a child and I used to get taken to visit the grandparents in Brandon. We'd pass an MG spares garage, but it wasn't an MG that was parked across the road pretty much every time we went, it was one of these:
Weird but true. It's the first car I can remember that I thought was ace.
Same here. Dad was a member of an 'Investment' Club (half a dozen blokes in the back room of the village pub drinking and talking about shares, but mainly drinking) on a Sunday morning and mum always made him take my sister and I with him while she did dinner. We'd be installed outside the pub with crisps and pop and without fail a red 240Z used to come into the car park. Weird but true. It's the first car I can remember that I thought was ace.
I seem to remember he had fruity exhausts fitted and he'd rev the engine before he parked up and the sound, coupled with the bright red paintwork made me fall in love with the thing.
Thing is, we had XJs though my childhood and I know a lot of kids wished their dads had them too, but for me, the 240Z was the absolute ultimate.
Me aged twelve saw the first one of these and when a neighbour got one. Fast rides in it sewed the seeds of a lifetime's enthusiasm for the marque.
However, the first supercar I ever saw was one of these Gull Wings in silver, again aged twelve and it was outside the Dorchester Hotel in London. They cost the price of two decent semi-detached houses in 1954 and so I started saving my sixpences ~ still saving. :~
No Mercedes-Benz since has ever matched the appeal of that 1954 300sl Gull Wing.
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However, the first supercar I ever saw was one of these Gull Wings in silver, again aged twelve and it was outside the Dorchester Hotel in London. They cost the price of two decent semi-detached houses in 1954 and so I started saving my sixpences ~ still saving. :~
No Mercedes-Benz since has ever matched the appeal of that 1954 300sl Gull Wing.
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glazbagun said:
Fiesta MKII. THought they looked really futuristic with those curvy lights/indicators & (for reasons I cant' understand) really like d the rear lights, too. When the MKIII Came out I thouhgt it fell from space!
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