What was the first car you saw that burnt into your memory?

What was the first car you saw that burnt into your memory?

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Emsman

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6,974 posts

197 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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What was the first car that you saw- be it on the road, at a racetrack, or on the telly, that had a lasting impression on you?



For me, it has to be this:


james_gt3rs

4,816 posts

198 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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Still one of my all time favourites...

AndrewW-G

11,968 posts

224 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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Dino 246gt


Twincam16

27,646 posts

265 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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First toy car I can remember having that was obviously a model of a particular car rather than a Fisher-Price blob-on-wheels. Remember my Dad explaining that it was an Audi Quattro, and that it did rallies, which I can vaguely remember being on the telly. Unfortunately Group B was killed off by the time I turned four, but this thing, albeit built by Corgi, helped my third word, after the obligatory 'Mum' and 'Dad', to be 'Car':


hahithestevieboy

845 posts

221 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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This is gonna sound sad. Dark red rover SD1 owned by my grandad. Being in it with him is one of my first memories if not the first. I was two and a half years old.

SVX

2,188 posts

218 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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For me it was this:



So much so that I bought a Delta HF turbo at 18 when funds permitted. Absolutely timeless.

dpbird90

5,535 posts

197 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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It just had to be, I had a set of 3 matchbox toy ones as a child (in red, white and blue) and the first proper car film I ever saw was the Italian Job. Plus a few family members had one at the time.

The other car I remember from such an early age was a Ford Anglia sat in our garage, rust all over, no paint, no interior, doors, glass, engine or gearbox. Dad kept meaning to restore it but never had the time due to work commitments. Would love to know what happened to it but I can't remember the reg no.

S3_Graham

12,830 posts

206 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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Jaguar XJ220 - My first remembered Supercar spotting.



Was in my Uncles 2.8 Granda ( you know the PROPER granada ) and remember it flying past us on the A3 and us trying to chase after it for a second look. Can still picture that rear view...


piquetuk

151 posts

191 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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Predictable really, but in the early '80s I saw a Countach going the other way on a dual carriageway when my dad was driving his Citroen CX. My neck still hurts from the double take I did spin

Edited by piquetuk on Wednesday 3rd March 17:46

Twincam16

27,646 posts

265 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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S3_Graham said:
Jaguar XJ220 - My first remembered Supercar spotting.

I remember my first 'supercar spot' too. Being driven from Manchester to Brighton one night by my Dad in his old Mk2 Cavalier GSI (go and find one for sale now, I challenge you) for the wedding of a couple of my parents' old friends, we pulled in at a motorway service station for some 'food' by way of dinner at the Little Chef. Now, you've got to remember that I was all of about five years old at this point and had never been in a motorway service station before, so to me it looked for all the world like a spaceship inside. I remember looking out of some floor-to-ceiling wrap-over windows at the car park, and seeing one of these, in this colour, pull up outside:


Emsman

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197 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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Twincam16 said:
S3_Graham said:
Jaguar XJ220 - My first remembered Supercar spotting.

I remember my first 'supercar spot' too. Being driven from Manchester to Brighton one night by my Dad in his old Mk2 Cavalier GSI (go and find one for sale now, I challenge you) for the wedding of a couple of my parents' old friends, we pulled in at a motorway service station for some 'food' by way of dinner at the Little Chef. Now, you've got to remember that I was all of about five years old at this point and had never been in a motorway service station before, so to me it looked for all the world like a spaceship inside. I remember looking out of some floor-to-ceiling wrap-over windows at the car park, and seeing one of these, in this colour, pull up outside:

Kevin, the chap who does IT for a mate has a mk2 cav gsi, recently restored, and another with the (i think) irmscher body kit.
Still, whatever floats your boat

Elroy Blue

8,718 posts

199 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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Oh..I so wanted one of these when 'I were a lad!'





scarebus

858 posts

178 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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I dont know why, my dad had 3 when I was a kid. Were nice and different in their time.

Twincam16

27,646 posts

265 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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scarebus said:



I dont know why, my dad had 3 when I was a kid. Were nice and different in their time.
My Auntie had an estate, absolutely loved it, had it for nearly twenty years. Incidentally, when they wanted to get rid of it, they were expecting to literally pay a scrapyard to break it, but it turns out they're very sought-after in Africa, and the money they got from the export agent paid for a VW Microbus restoration project for my uncle, which is now rebuilt and finished in a gloriously hippyish shade of bright orange, complete with all interior fixtures and fittings.

Mr AJ

1,247 posts

178 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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I'm going to have to be a bit murky on here and attribute my fascination with cars to 3 seperate vehicles:



Got plonked in one when i was around 6 or 7 at a local fair. Was fascinated by all the levers and pedals, felt like Toad of the manor. Oh, and the horn... did i mention the horn? I honked that thing for what seemed like hours and then begged for one for my bike for months. I'm happy to standup and say the Ford model T is what sparked my original interest in cars. Up until then a car was just that thing that takes me to school and back.

Shortly after i was plonked behind the drivers seat of one of these:



Owned by a friend of a family friend, In a lary Gold coloured paintjob. Still see it out and about every now and then no idea if its owned by the same guy still, but it was his pride and joy.

Then at the age of about 10 my dad came home with our newly aquired Video Camera he'd lent to a friend at work to record a car show he'd gone too. Full of hot rods, that really ignited a fire for hot rods and modified cars.


There's plenty of cars that are burnt into my memory since then for being gorgeous looking, or having amazing performance. But those are the 3 that have really burnt in.

tangent police

3,097 posts

183 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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Probably this in a motorsport hardon sense. Very very very very fast up hillclimbs. Sounds like a food blender full of spanners at idle

MarJay

2,174 posts

182 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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Knight rider.

The Coyote X from Hardcastle and McCormick

The 308GTS from Magnum PI

And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eU8j4MeJ4I

fathomfive

10,163 posts

197 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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For me it was the Ford RS200. I remember standing in the newsagents on a Saturday morning flicking through a magazine which was running a spread on it. The white paint, red seats and £50k price tag are still very apparent when I close my eyes and think back.

miniman

26,309 posts

269 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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My Dad's Dolly Sprint.



I had to have one of my own.


160steve

708 posts

199 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
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My nana had one very similar to this when i was a kid -


I wanted it so badly throughout my childhood but just as i was about to turn 18 she sold it cry

I will own it one day - Where are you CBR 332S??

Edited by 160steve on Wednesday 3rd March 18:29