The first car you remember, pictures optional

Theseus

The first of my Dad's cars that I remember was one of these Peugeot 504's. Comfortable seats, poor body roll and very unreliable auto box.

                                                                               

I learnt to drive in a mid 80's Opel Kadett. Great little car.

                                                                       

DOBLY

My mum had a Wartburg estate MOU222L - it was bright '70's orange - the perfect hipster car now!

mikes48

Impressed by all the modern cars on this thread .

Here's the car I remember the most - MkII Consul that my Dad bought in Krefeld in about 1958/9

                                                                               

I'd have been about 9/10 then, my wife still calls me "Sparrow-legs"

GrumpyOldGamer

My grandads brown Austin Metro, later to become mine when I was 16 and yes I used to drive it too I still remember the reg A772YON, my friends used to call it the brown bomber

G a f f e r

My brothers vauxhall viva (his was brown):
                                                                                                                                       

CocoLoco

My father always had a car but oddly I cannot remember any of the earlier ones. I remember he came home one day in '86 minus his company car and declared he'd quit his job to setup a new company with his colleagues. The new car he got after that was a Ford Sierra, and there was a whole series of them, all white, mix of sub-models and fuels etc. Maybe his prior car was also a Sierra and hence it doesn't stand out.

He only kept each for 18 months or so as he used to do circa 80,000 miles a year in them as he often worked far from home but never liked staying away from home - at one point he was doing a daily 650 mile round journey to "commute" to Glasgow, have to say circa as many had the speedo/odometer disconnected :S

Mother got a secondhand Austin Mini Metro around 1987 which caught fire and burnt out a couple of years later which was the first car that was "hers"

icemanonline

My first car was this... Same colour too
                                                                               

Hated it but it was the car I purchased after smashing my Yamaha X's 750..... And after getting car I met my now wife of 33 years....

The last car I owned before we got married and had kids was this beastie...
                                                                               

Brilliant car.  Drink fuel but great car.

Had lots of mundane cars since and couple of kids....

Kids are now gone and married... Now have a mint Mk5 Astra 150 BHP.... Chipped!  And it's a beast.  Not over done but goes like hell.  My son fitted bigger brakes, shocks and few other bits..... Not sure of the bhp now but it's up there.  Won't be changing it for a while.

Ice

AMc

Dad's first car that I remember was a Renault 12 saloon.  A car that looked almost the same at the front and back   
Renault 12 - Wikipedia
Dad had a pale blue or white one which he put on its roof, replaced by a metallic green one, then a Renault 18.

Apparently Dacia were still making them until 2004!

mij

My dad had a breakers yard and a car lot so had many cars & vans, but one that sticks in my memory is his Thunderbird, me and my mates used to pretend to be Batman in it

It was similar to this:                                                                        

nvingo

Wow. Very nice.
Batmobile is also what my Consul Classic 315 (the Ford that didn't wear a Ford badge) was called by the younger kids at school.