Digitising my old slides and came across my first car, a 900cc Triumph Herald. Nice to drive but had a very fragile rear end, wasn't long before I traded it in on an FC van.

Colour on the old slide has gone really strange, no matter what I did with white balance couldn't get green grass.

how much would you like to have it shiny and parked in your driveway now

Pitbull said...
Did it only come in black and white?

Colour wasn't invented back then.....everything was b&w. You only have to watch old movies to know this.

PS my first car was a Leyland mini I borrowed off my sister one weekend at uni and never returned it.

The getting of wisdom
1977 Gallant Wagon
1974 Suzuki TC 125

Similar. Dodge Dart
Kept it until the floor rusted through , and the frame broke.

No pics (too embarassing....)
First car was a Torana LJ bought for fifty bucks, painted red.....with a brush, dabbled in motorbikes for awhile......"invested" in a 1952 Morris Minor.... ninety bucks for an oil filter.....VW Kombi......it was pink, had a crystal hanging from the dash, cops kept pulling it over, looking for drugs, go figure?......now I drive your Grandmothers car.....Toyota Corolla.....and before you ask....yes I learn things the hard way and yes I know what it feels like to set fire to 100 dollar notes........

Like Sausage my first car, for a grand price of 300 British pounds sterling, was a 1974 1000cc Leyland Mini bought in 1991. Four forward speeds, looooong gearstick, no synchronised gearbox, big bus-like steering wheel. Awesome acceleration from 0-to-30 mph and then a screaming engine as it closed in on 80 mph...Had to turn the radio WAAAAYYY up to drown out the sound of the engine! Am glad there was no rev counter God knows how I survived those first years of driving!!??

....it gets better...took the pink kombi to the wreckers at the end of its life....got 200 dollars for it...left my 200 dollar Mako sunnies on the dash....never saw them again......is that what they call karma??

I heard reports of a mini front getting grafted on to an imp rear. Not sure if they managed to combine the controls, or if there were 2 gear levers and 2 clutch pedals. Sounds like a beast whatever they did.

Squid Lips said..

Here's my '73 Cortina not long before going to the wreckers. Mostly rust, brush paint job in white by the previous owner from the original brown. 3 speed manual, 200 x-flow. The base of the back seat was not bolted down and one of the seatbelts was tied on

Love it - thanks decrepit

The colour loss on the slide doesn't diminish the content - look at those garage doors - just about to replace our roller door with a similar set

The gallant ( my first car in baby puke yellow) the Honda 4 ( my first road bike a gold 400/4)

And ( drum roll) how bout the composition of the Corty ........through the gum tree in the backyard with the battery on the deck. My mind just Implanted the concrete first Australian and the white tyre swan

GOLD

Ah the old R12, was a great car in it's day Fly.

Haircut the 6cyl version of the Marina was a lethal unit, dodgy torsion bar suspension

^^been in that car , like driving a bowl of jelly

1969 Delta 88 Oldsmobile bought for $350 in the early 80's. This one is not mine but same model




Was in the States at the time. V8, 455cubic inch engine (is that ~ 8 litres?) but only a small 2 barrel carbi. It was happy to cruise at 100mph (160kph) though took a while to get there. Petrol was an outrageous $1.00 per gallon at the time.

It was big enough so I could lie stretched out in the back seat. And made of solid steel. Once crashed through 6" thick tree with only a dent in the bumper.
Finally sold it for $100 to this bloke who had a restored 60's Camero but was scared to drive it in case it got scratched.

Cambodge said..
no synchronised gearbox,

It must have been well and truly stuffed then. Right from the Mini 850 onwards they had synchro on all but 1st and reverse. Like nearly all manual transmissions at the time.

Macroscien said..

Riddle for you. Where do you find fuel cap to replenish your tank with 78 octane petrol mix? I bet you will not guess!

I thought fuel caps only helped to retain fuel in your tank.

I didn't know that fuel caps could replenish your fuel tank, let alone where to find one.

Gee I feel real young now.

First car I purchased was a 2001 Subaru Forester which proceeded to have a very rough existence.



I then upgraded to a 1973 SIII Land Rover
Then a Hilux Surf.
Then an 80 Series TD LandCruiser
Then another Subaru wagon

...and now a turbo diesel taliwagon. Also have a Fiat x1/9 car for the track.

Going to go back to the old Land Rovers though I think.