Your Dads first car.

[manclad]

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.

 

[Dogtanian]

Audi 100 was the first i remember but i think my mum had a ford console

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Hillman Minx
OND 748

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

never had one, too poor coming from ancoats.

 

[BlueMo']

never had one, too poor coming from ancoats.

We didn't have much ourselves but i remember a decidedly dodgy Vauxhall Viva.
I recall it spent a lot of time with it's bonnet up!!

 

[manclad]

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.

 

[bluemoon27]

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

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

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.

 

[Mike N]

never had one, too poor coming from ancoats.

Same as but we came from Hulme.

 

[gxblue]

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

 

[Stevinio]

My dad's first car was a ford Anglia but the first one i remember was was a Vauxhall Viva.

 

[wez99]

Moggie Minor in Sky Blue

 

[foley87]

first car i can remember my dad having was a white ford capri

 

[paddystyle]

a big brown hillman hunter,you could have invaded germany in it

 

[andy h]

Triumph Herald

 

[Corky]

Trabant

 

[DirtyEddie]

im prety sure i win the 'dad had a shit car' competition

my dad didnt get his driving license until i was about 5 or 6. he and my mum were bikers and i remember vividly us having a reliant robin because they could be driven on a motorcycle license.