Where it all began??

[Bob Green]

Now that car is cool.  

My father had a Hillman with suicide doors to which the passenger’s door flew open giving me the first chance to hear my mother use the F word.

[Liam]

While we are into nostalgia then, this is an example of the first car I drove at the age of about 8 I think, sitting on a cushion. It had a Wilson pre-selector box that beat you up if you muffed a gearchange (by not depressing the cluch far enough). I backed into a wall......shurrup Martin.

It's demise came when one of the rear wheels came off and my mother refused to go in it again. The wheel actually demolished several sets of the old fashioned hooped railings that used to surround roundabouts (or traffic islands depending where you live) and the rear bumper of an Austin A40 Devon. Mother wasn't into F words but she could sever limbs with one look

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

That is a handsome machine

[Liam]

Yes it was. Daimler Light 15 Sports Saloon. You could get in with your top hat on and it had nice little touches like silk grab tassles in the back and a rear blind operated by a handle above the driver. It also had built in jacks (handy when wheels rolled off). Nostalgic moment over.              

[felters]

I love threads like this when all the stories start appearing  

Yep! It's marvellous to have a good old farts thread from time to time...

My first drive would have been in around 1967 in an E93A on a friends farm. I drove it at high speed through an empty pond and whacked the front suspension so hard that I shortened it's wheel base by a couple of inches. In subsequent years I went on to roll his Austin A30 in a ditch, rode his Villers engined James Captain into a fence post and nearly wiped out an entire filling station forecourt on his Matchless 500. Many years later we are still friends and he sometimes posts on here as Molestrangler as he's currently finishing an abandoned Dutton project. I  can't wait to have a go in it...