Whats your earliest memory of vehicles

lookoutas, Aug 15, 4:28pm
If it didn't start, those bugga's would've blown it up.

Funny thing is that I always felt guilty about that fence, and knew sis would kill me if she ever found out. But when I was 12, she had a go at me as usual, and I grabber her and gently sat her on the floor.
The old man sat there with a silly grin on his face and said. "I think you've just moved to the bottom of the ladder girl."
It wasn't long after this that I confessed, and they both thought I was talking BS! She really did think she'd tied a horse to it.
lookoutas, Aug 15, 4:29pm
Hey bj - where's ya workshop?
curlybear446, Aug 15, 5:34pm
Earliest memory was the 1938 Ford 10. I remember helping my father washing it on the lawn as I sat on the running board. Then I washed my peddle car.
bjmh, Aug 16, 6:10am
Sorensons transport is in king street west . T.K I'm the blue building 2 doors up. same side.
lookoutas, Aug 16, 7:39am
Onto it.
twink19, Aug 16, 3:07pm
on the farm dad had a Hudson Terraplane, & my first car was a 52 prefect
mileyfan73, Aug 16, 5:06pm
My grandparents owned a 1975 Triumph 2500,they imported it from Australia when they moved here in '77.Always remember riding in it and the smell it had,the leather and wood interior.And the horrible sound it made when Grandpop started it up.
My Mum bought a Toyota Corolla brand new for $7995 in 1978,we did a road trip in that all over the South Island,great wee car.My Dad had a 1975 Ford Capri,I thought that was the best car ever!Until the trans crapped out and he sold it.Think our first car when I was a baby was an Austin 1300.Have a picture of me in the drivers seat.Legs were a bit short to go anywhere though!
junky1, Aug 17, 5:48pm
I remember about 1967, I was 7, my mother had a foot that become poisonous with an infection. We had to take her to hospital at about 8.o clock at night and our car was a series 1 landrover with a canvas hood. Well we ran out of petrol and while my father walked to a house to get petrol I remember sleeping in the back on the mud guard while the wind and rain blew at the canvas.Something I will never forget.
bigmuz1, Aug 17, 6:54pm
My dad got an HQ Holden stationwagon in '74, the closest he ever came to owning a new car (I think it was a '72). Only know the year because he picked it up on my 7th birthday and used it to take me and my birthday guests to a farm for the birthday party, and we all got grumped at for slamming the doors and getting muddy shoes on the seats of the 'new' car.
It became known as Humphrey the Holden, and he owned it till the day he died in '98. had a couple of engine rebuilds, a second hand gearbox and diff in it's time. Had the 3 speed column shift, and ocasionally the linkages would lock up on each other leaving you stuck in neutral. Dad was the only one to ever figure out how to change it without it happening.
Can remember driving down to the beach with all the kids sitting on the tailgate and holding onto the roofrack. we all had to duck back in when we had to cross the main road in case the cops saw us
bowla3, Aug 17, 6:58pm
As a preschooler living in Glen Eden (West Auckland) catching the buses to "Town" and back. Mostly Stewarts from the early 30s.
In the 60s I drove for Auckland Bus Co. and was driving the same old dungers, some were older than me.
First car I owned, 1929 Plymouth Sedan.
mk3crazy, Aug 18, 10:47am
Earliest I can recall is my dads car I think it was a 1930 or 1940's Austin 7 it had the spear wheel on the back out side of the boot and had the cover for it and the bonnet was in two pieces also had to crank the engine over with a crank handle to start it. I thought it was a cool car back then but I was only a toddler then.
rotormotor7, Aug 18, 3:35pm
I remember when these nu fangled horseless carrigages arrived on the scene.

Had to buy gasoline in tins as no bowsers in them days.

Probably doing the ol' dukes of hazard window entry/exit in my mums mk1 cortina coupe. unless matchbox cars count ???
lookoutas, Aug 21, 4:31pm
Jeez - you're quick off the mark bj. Called in at 5 past today, and you were gone!
quickbuck, Aug 21, 7:33pm
First memory would be when I was less than 3. I was walking down our street in Aviemore and stopped to look at a VW Combi. I run my fingers around the VW logo and was fascinated by the shape of it. They were the first two letters of the alphabet I recognised.
bill-robinson, Aug 22, 8:04am
being taken to macEwan park on petone beach to see the merican amphilbious tanks and scared by the noise when they started one
bjmh, Aug 22, 12:47pm
sorry mate . hot tip on some wandering porkas. my other hobby. never got squat either.
tigra, Aug 22, 2:33pm
My first car was a 1936 Morris 8 (painted red & white with an aerial up the back) it became mine in the late '50s. ,Funny thing was I was having an infusion in hospital the other day and the guy who sold it to me was in the very next bed. Some would call that Karma especially as he was suffering from the same condition as me. Demylination
bjmh, Aug 22, 2:42pm
tigra ( just looked that up,its a wonder any of us are still alive,falling into sheep plunge dips,spraying gorse,blowing asbestos dust out of clutches /brakes. the list goes on. good luck with your condition.
lookoutas, Sep 13, 8:02pm
Yeh - my brother 12, and me 8, would go get the house cows that had wandered up the road overnight.
He would be driving the Super Snipe, and once we found the old girls, I would sit on the front guard with a pile of stones (on the paintwork! ) chucking them at the cows to hurry them along!