Cars you've owned and loved

My first car was a Jowett Bradford Van, bought for £12/10s in 1961, passed my test in it in 1962. Sounded like a tin box full of spanners no matter how often I adjusted the tappets, [ a swine of a job being a flat four engine] Sold it in 1963 for £15 so not a bad return for two years running. Favourite car was a BMW 700 bought in Germany in 1964 powered by a 700cc BMW motorcycle engine, dosen't sound much but could it shift, unfortunatly some swine nicked it in 1966 whilst I was serving in Aden, often wondered what happened to it as it was still regeristered in Germany.

My other personal love was a 2003 bright blue Toyota Yaris, bought when it was 6 years old. Over 13 years she never let me down, I never had one major repair nor did she ever fail her MoT except for trivial reasons. I thought I would be driving her until I wasn't fit to drive.

Except that a young idiot tried to race across a crossroads, because he thought he could get across before the car on the main road reached him. Well, he hit us amidships and as the retail value of a car now 19 years old, was so low, it was scrapped. I still mourn her and it has taken me two years to get used to not driving her, we worked as one.

During our first couple of years in Oman, I had a white Beetle, which was of course christened Herbie by the children on the construction camp where we lived.

One very little boy (he’ll be over 50 now!) once told dh, ‘I’ve just seen your mother going to work in Herbie.’ 😂

His mum told me they’d almost give up trying to get him to differentiate between Mother and Wife!

I learnt on a Holden premier wagon. It was so huge I felt safe because of the length between me and the back and front of it. It was hideous, two colours cream and brown but I loved that baby. Vrrrm Vrrrm.

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When we first met my husband had a Ford Corsair which was his pride and joy but he sold it to enable us to buy our first house. Since then we have been very fond of an Alfa Romeo 147 and a Ford Granada.

Sold a Ford Corsair to buy a house!

Those were the days, houses much more affordable.

I loved my first Mini I don’t actually remember it breaking down, certainly got me to college and back each week, happy days.

SAABS! We are both SAAB lovers and still run them although they ceased production in 2014.

My first car was a 2 stroke SAAB. When I put petrol into it, I had first to pour a pint of oil into the fuel tank - 1 pint to 4 gallons of petrol. The number of times anxious men raced up to me to tell me I shouldn't be putting oil in the fuel tank and I would calmly explain that the car had a 2 stroke engine!

I had further SAABs, all very old and tending to look it. But, according, to DS, at a private school, my elderly SAAB gave him more street creed than did the very expensive car of the father of one of his friends, and once when I went to collect DS and his friends from a railway station to take them back to school and turned up in DH's car - Renault estate. I had to drive them back home first so that they could return to school in my old SAAB.

When DH stopped getting company cars, he started buying SAAB estates - and we still have one as our main car.

My first car, a Saab 96 V4. Bright red, no power steering. I loved it.

First car ..Fiat 124 Special..looked like the kind a car you draw when little

Second car For Capri--two colours

And many many more cars after that!!

Not sure I am able to post here becaus it says Grandads shed..sorry if I am not ..I will go away now )

This was dh’s pride and joy in the early 70s - a white MGB with leather seats and wire wheels.
He had to sell it before we were married, since he’d gone to work in Oman. (Where we stayed until 1987!)

He’s never loved any other car anything like the same since.

There used to be one of me perched on the bonnet and trying to look glam, but goodness knows where that’s got to.

Never had a car in my life

Oh my Red 2 CV POPPY - such happy times with my daughter then a teenager now 50 this year jumping up and down in the back with her friends and the roof turned back.

First white golf bought off sons friend who had lovingly looked after it. I was thrilled with it and drive it till my husband said the mileage was too high and sold it. I cried that day.🥹

My car I never had was the Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire.

Favourite old car? A Volvo with heated seats and a built in child seat.
Favourite present car-Clio-has lasted for ages without hassle. I bought it for the name!

Rover. Hauls a lot, holds the road, safe as is possible.

Strangely two favourites over the years have both been Renault. Renault 4 and Renault 16 the 4 was so much fun the 16 so much comfort.

I've had hundreds of cars but my new Honda crv auto is the best ,all the toys and auto, I love it,it'll be my last car

I had a bright blue Mazda RX8. It was beautiful and incredibly powerful but hugely expensive to run. I still miss it though.

I’ve never loved any car. To me it is a tin box on wheels with an engine. As long as it gets me from A to B reliably and is not too big I wouldn’t care what it is.

My Ford Capri was very comfortable to drive, and never let me down

We've had the amazing Ford fiesta first generation. A stunning small car with clever interior packaging and amazing fuel economy, that served us over 10 years. This beauty was a big hit at the time, but I don't think the feeling will return in another hot hatch from Ford again in the future. Maybe I'm biased

My lovely, lovely Toyota Yaris, that some idiot wrote off for me earlier this year. She was bright blue and we had been together for 14 years. She was not new when I bought her so was just coming up to her 20th birthday. In all that time she never once broke down, never required expensive repairs and only once failed her MOT. She fitted me like a glove and I kept her garaged when not in use.

I was devastated by her loss. I thought of buying the same again, but the Yaris has had a redesign and is now a dull rather than distincive car - always identifiable in a crowd. I now own a Hyundai i20, we are getting to know and like each other, but it is a struggle, I had my 'little' blue Yaris for so long and cars are so much more complicated now.

Then someone drove across a minor road at a crossroads and claimed he hadn't seen me coming the down the dead straight main road with the sun shining on the bright blue, which was fullt reflective after a very recent, but rare wash

Gabrielle56 Saab were certainly well made, safe cars. My son in law owned one and was forced off the road by another driver and collided with a concrete lamppost which fell over and landed on top of his car. He walked away from it. The police said any other car and he wouldn’t have survived it.

A Triumph 2000 automatic which we bought for an absolute song. It still had the plastic covers on the leather seats and had done about 1200 miles. I loved the walnut dash and the way it absolutely purred. But it ate fuel, which was fine when we were abroad and got fuel coupons, but when we came home we swapped it for something smaller and more practical - broke DH’s heart! On a personal level, it has to be the Honda Jazz that we bought as my car (too small for DH), that fitted me like a second skin and became almost an extension of myself. When we went down to one car it had to go!

32 SAAB cars over 47 years!! Loved ( nearly) all of them . Americans bought the marqe , asset stripped the brilliant technology and innovation and basically destroyed what had been the world's safest and one of the oldest and most successful ( Rallye pedigree etc) motor company ever. .....( Saunters away head bowed shoulders trembling......?!)?