Which Car Do You Remember with Affection from your Youth?

[Salty seadog]

Ford Cortina mk3 2000e. There was one in the garage I had a Saturday job at when I was 15.

 

[mickle]

Ford Cortina mk3 2000e. There was one in the garage I had a Saturday job at when I was 15.

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Looks like a GXL in everything but headlights..

 

[slowwww]

The Gazelle was my favourite: it was sort of ivory white with a red side flash - very swanky

My Grandfather had the inverse of that (sort of!) maroony-crimson with a cream coloured stripe. I loved that car!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Remembered not so much with affection as incredulity: the Morris Marina that seemed to be a favourite for the Starsky & Hutch paint job.

Compare it with the real thing...

 

[Drago]

When I were a teenager there was a local lad who had a Vauxhall Ventora painted in full General Lee colours. At the time were were impressed, but looking back it so show doesnt seem so cool.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

View: https://youtu.be/TNJxNx7_uY8

 

[mikeymustard]

Remembered not so much with affection as incredulity: the Morris Marina that seemed to be a favourite for the Starsky & Hutch paint job.


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Compare it with the real thing...

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When I were a teenager there was a local lad who had a Vauxhall Ventora painted in full General Lee colours. At the time were were impressed, but looking back it so show doesnt seem so cool.

Oh, I don't know, there's a certain irony about those sorta paint jobs

 

[Drago]

Theres a Smart W450 in the next village done up in a full Herbie decal set, which to my mind has stretched irony beyond the event horizon.

 

[mikeymustard]

Theres a Smart W450 in the next village done up in a full Herbie decal set, which to my mind has stretched irony beyond the event horizon.

like this one?

 

[raleighnut]

like this one? View attachment 443958

Herbie's Italian boyfriend.

 

[beepbeep]

I had a Fiat Uno Turbo.....went like the clappers and kicked the arse out of XR3i's ....until I blew it to bits

 

[raleighnut]

These were never like this in my day,



View: https://youtu.be/hHjf9zhQIRk


EDIT = BTW That's still an 'A' series motor, not a 'swap'

 

[southcoast]

Ford Cortina mk3 2000e. There was one in the garage I had a Saturday job at when I was 15.

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The 2000E was my first car. Took my driving test in it.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Remembered not so much with affection as incredulity: the Morris Marina that seemed to be a favourite for the Starsky & Hutch paint job.


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Compare it with the real thing...

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Both probably handled comparably??

The Gran-Torino, though, undoubtedly got into trouble faster?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I forgot about this last night, but...………..

A few years ago, Practical Classics magazine an article parodying 'The Dukes Of Hazard', set in Lincolnshire, or maybe Norfolk?

Roscoe drove a Morris 1000
Bo & Luke drove a 'big-block' Marina coupe...…………. a 1.8...…………………….

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