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)

[Puebloswatcop]

I can remember my Dad had a 1964 Pontiac Tempest 4 door. It was a 3 on the tree, wich just wasnt cool back in my days. I remember it had no seatbelts in the back seat, us kids uaed to lay in the back window and wait for dad to hit the brakes so we would fly out and land on the seat ( sometimes the floor). I remember going to the drive-in theater in it. It had no AC....Dad used to tell us it did have 4/75 AC and that was good enough for us. I spent many hours under that car holding the flashlight for dad during oil changes and such (and learning to curse in German).

I used to think that car was "un-cool", he finally sold it in about 1970 to the kid accross the street......Turns out it was a pretty cool car after all, as was my Dad, I just didn't know it. This isnt an actual pic of his car (at least I don't think it is) but it looked exactly like this.