Your Fathers Car., earliest memory. Options

[wonkipop]

i had a big afternoon of meetings getting a headache listening to net ball australia's special requirements for a girls netball facility.

got home at 7.00pm with a headache.
opened the fridge.
no beer.
ah - sh#t. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

wander out the door, down the lane to the cellar shop to pick up a 6 pack of J beer.
and whats propped on the curb at the end of the lane.

holden fc. 1956-58.
my father's first car (not the actual one but similar - same two tone color, same interior).
my first childhood memory of a car is this one.
would have been 1964/5. sitting in the back seat of one of these little aussie numbers.
sometimes in the front seat. i specifically remember going to the bakery with him to get the bread.

he did have a car before that. a whippet. but i have no memory of that.

anyway this one was there.
completely original. no restoration.
on full plates too. not historic plates.
i have not seen an unrestored one of these for at least 3 decades.
this one was completely intact.
over 65 years old.
the aussie car.
actually a GM product and a kind of shrunken poor cousin north antarctica chevrolet!
but a great car.
these things could survive even a nuclear attack let alone australian roads back then.
ford falcons fell to pieces from the front end back under assault from australian pseudo tarmac. but not these babies.




it blew me away to run into something older than me, and with no plastic surgery. memories came back.

who else has run into their first family car they can remember?
and confronted them again in the street.

post them up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[brant]

luckily my dad was a car guy...
and that is what led to getting a 914 at age 15

he had always been a car guy
and had many cars that were before my birth, that I don't remember

including a convertible 59 special edition 2 door chevy v8 with factory candle apple red, carb pack, and a 4 speed, and a bigger motor from the factory option list.
not to mention the MK2 right hand jaguar that I was delivered in the back seat of.
plus the lotus Elite, and TR3

but the one I remember was around age 5... he used to own a 67 lotus Elan and would pull up on the drive way and let me sit on his lap and steer as he pulled it into the garage. I remember crying the day he sold that car...

about 10 years later we were at a vintage race in Steamboat.... walking through the paddock and there were many elans.... he was showing me how "this one is too late and such and such is different"... then we walked up to one and he got a puzzled look on his face.... he declared this is my car... the actual car...

it still had the details he had put on the car. the white painted headers he put on when he rebuilt the motor, the cracked wooden steering wheel under a cover that his neighbor had caused helping him push the car. the bumpers painted as my father had done in black.

the owner came up... to tell us that he was only the 2nd owner of the car and it had original low mileage. my father nicely pointed out that he had rebuilt the motor with a hot cam at 110,000 miles... owner got upset with us... said that there was no way.. as the car had under 30K mileage on the odometer....

I still have the factory leather key fob that came with the car when my father purchased it new... as well as the wooden shift knob from it, that had been replaced with aftermarket during the time my dad owned it....


this is not the actual car
just a screen print from google: