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[villawagen]

my dad had a hillman minx, just like yours devil !!! he loved the bench seat in the front and the colombe change gears and was a two tone green colour, he really did love this car and always said it was the best car he ever had. my older brother (who now lives in paphos) smashed it into the back of another car, in birmingham city centre, a week after he passed his test !!! my dad was not happy that was about 1968 i think.

[devil]

That was modelled after the Austin A40 c. 1948 model

[Niki]

NO>NO>NO>NO

It was my car...........

this is Noddy's car >

Oops sorry

No really it is lovely!

Niki

[devil]

my dad had a hillman minx, just like yours devil !!! he loved the bench seat in the front and the colombe change gears and was a two tone green colour, he really did love this car and always said it was the best car he ever had. my older brother (who now lives in paphos) smashed it into the back of another car, in birmingham city centre, a week after he passed his test !!! my dad was not happy that was about 1968 i think.

Guess that was a much earlier model, c. 1956, I think. Hillman stopped the bench seat and column change with the Minx III, if I remember correctly. I did have one like that and then I had one with the curly tail fins (c. 1959) before the one I showed above. The bench seat/column change was an American influence, but weren't popular in Europe, except by courting couples!!! I think Hillman had them only for a couple of years, but Vauxhall kept them up longer, with their 3-speed gearbox. The changes were very mushy.

[GG]

I will not bore you with the cars that I have owned but if I look back I am embarrassed by my 'carbon footprint':
1 x 6700cc, 2 x 6000cc, 1 x 5600cc, 1 x 5000cc, 1 x 4600cc, 1 x 4500cc, 1 4200cc and so on

Jesus!!!! That must have been in the USA!!!

[deedeepuss]

Mine was a little blue mini, cost £1050.

You are all missing one very important thing, what was the car called?

Go on tell me it is a girly thing.

My first little mini was called Luther Van Der Car

[jody]

Mine was a blue ford fiesta get this i called it Beryl ask me why i do not know but she was a great little car for the year until i came home from work got off the train went to go and get in her and she was gone couldn't believe it thought i was going mad xx

Jody xx

[Jerry]

Mini
Riley Elf
Mini Traveller
Rover Coupe 3 litre
Triumph Herald Estate
Renualt 16TS
Fiat 128 Estate
Renault12 Estate
Rover 23000 SDI
Rover 218SD
Citroen Berlingo
Citroen Berlingo

Which one would I have again? The Renault 16TS

[Hiyar herif]

Mine was a blue ford fiesta get this i called it Beryl ask me why i do not know but she was a great little car for the year until i came home from work got off the train went to go and get in her and she was gone couldn't believe it thought i was going mad xx

Jody xx

i hope its not a girly thing - my first car was a fiesta called Ena - but thats proberly because of the number plate.

but i did have a beefy toyota once called Arnette ( it was a female )

[deedeepuss]

After Luther I had Arthur, he was a metro, never really liked it but it got me from A to B. Then came along Marti, he was lovely a little purple KA, he was named after Marti Pellow. Then there was Yoris the Yaris, and now I have Betsy. We also have a Vauxhall estate but he doesn't really have a name. Amazing how you know if it is a boy or a girl isn't it ?