Your Dads first car.

manclad

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I,ve just started work at BCA, Belle Vue & it was Induction Day on Friday.
There was a slide show & part of it showed some of the original auctions in the early 50's & then the mid/late 60's.
The other person in the Induction Day was a nice lady called Alison & I jokingly said to her
"I bet you don't know what type of car that is ".
"It's an Austin Cambridge " she said "I know that cos my Dad had one when I was a kid".
That got me thinking about my Dads first car.
He had a Renault Dauphine around about 1963.(In Sky Blue of course) Reg. No. was 4 numbers followed by NC.
Then he had a brown Vauxhall Victor, a B reg.
And then came the 1st of many Fords - a white Ford Corsair V4 Reg.No. ENA 609D.(I painted this number on the guider/bogey
I made at this time ,from pram wheels & a plank of wood & that's how I remember it).
PS. BCA = British Car Auctions.
 
dont think it was my dads 1st car but its the 1st i can remember a Mk1 lotus Cortina which he left in our old garage when we moved house and they fetch 10 to 15 grand now
 
manclad said:
FRAN THE ARAB said:
never had one, too poor coming from ancoats.

Just been reading the book "The Gangs of Manchester" & some of the worst "Scuttlers" came from
Ancoats,the most notorious being the "Bengal Tigers" from Bengal Street.
yeah read a post on here a couple of week back, saying there was a book out about gangs in ancoats. i think i will be getting a copy is there one of the gangs called the newmees or something like that they used to sharpen the buckles on there belts to fight with.
 
my dads was a silver shadow rolls royce, we still have it in a garage somewhere in the grounds of the manor.or was it a ford anglia
 

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