Do any of these bring back memories l?

Learnt to drive in a Mini.. grandad drove round in a traveller.. had a Morris 1000 as my daily for a breif affair with water cooler classics..

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My first car was a cortina YRK 27H

 

I always loved driving dad's mini.

 

My mum's first car was a Morris Minor which she replaced with a light blue Mini (first car I ever drove (at about 10 years old!)).

 

First car was a mini thou, then a mini 850, then a brief stint with capris , before discovering vws ...

 

When I was a child, my mother drove a pale blue Morris 1000 that had been a panda car. It had a hole in the roof where the wires to the blue light had been, that was now plugged with a wine cork (probably Blue Nun). For most of the 90s we drove a beautiful old Morris Traveller, which we bought from a Concorde pilot. Unfortunately, we didn't have a garage back then and the wood worm and termites were gathering. So we sold it to a Swedish guy who drove it straight back to Scandinavia. That and the fact that three of the four brake cylinders had seized causing me to sail through a red light outside Maidenhead station without the ability to even slow down. They were fixed before its Scandinavian adventure. Happy days. My father still has an old Austin A35 van in his garage that hasn't moved for twenty years. When we came back to the UK to stay with them for Christmas, my son would right the year in the dust on the windscreen. He eventually ran out of room.

 

My first two cars ( yes I bought a second !)
were Hillman Imps.
Brilliant vehicles, but flawed....I'm sure if I had back then the money that I now throw at the bay, then I could have had them running beautifully.

 

I studied A level economics (really) and the Hillman Imp was a case study. I just remember that apparantly every one sold was sold at a loss, especially after Tony Benn somehow got Glasgow involved in production. I could have imagined that last bit.

 

Never owned any of those but have been the passenger in quite a few. Most scary was the Anglia that my mate owned - he was rarely sober.

 

Used to get a lift to primary school in a moggie traveller ... Couldn't get over the flip out indicators .... and sounded like a car should (to a six year old anyway)

 

Built at Linwood in Scotland....or should I say assembled...seems parts went back and forth up the motorways...hence lack of profits...work creation for Scotland.

 

... and an ex had an automatic mini that sounded like an asthmatic wasp running up the stairs

 

1st car was 13year old mini 850, used more oil than fuel. Swapped it for a pair of car seat covers for my new car a Datsun 160b.

 

My first car, and the one I learned to drive in, was a Mini. BOK 554C. The second was an 1100, the same pale blue colour as the one in the picture.

 

My Mum had a blue mini, I think it was an 850, but can't be certain.

 

Mum used to have a Ford Anglia when we were kids which we all hated going in. I later learnt to drive in Mum’s mini 1000 traveller with moss on the felt window sliders and wood frame, that and my mate’s Mum’s mini 1000 saloon which we ragged mercilessly round the back country lanes.
A girlfriend had a Riley Elf - a mini with a boot and a posh dashboard.
Edited to add that the girlfriend was also petite and had what you might call a ‘posh dashboard’. Her nickname was ‘Jugs’

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Had a Minor traveller, Mini and 1100 and my ex drove a Wolseley Hornet (posh mini) and my older brothers had grey Morris Minor and the yellow/white Ford Anglia. Those were the days.