ardrossanrentboy wrote:first car was a 1952 Sunbeam Talbot Mk2 bought in 1963 from the tin shed garage opposite the Palazzo in glasgow st. (was it Wallace's of West Kilbride, or were they next door? ) It was bought mostly by Laurie Savarrio (then aged 14 or 15) by 'borrowing' the money from his gran and as I was only 16 and held only a motorbike licence we hid it around the top of ardrossan never parking it in the same place twice. Had a faulty fuel pump which wouldn't manually prime so I had to suck some petrol along the supply pipe then jam it onto the carburettor to get it started. We couldn't afford the petrol unless we recruited paying passengers from the Melbourne and the Eglinton cafes. Unfortunately we parked it in a field north of Lawson Drive and when we next returned to it there was no glass in it, the roof and bonnet had been jumped on and a turd of cowshit rammed up the exhaust pipe. We failed to find a buyer for it.
Ah, Ardrossan..no wonder I only ever passed through on my walks..except for the Red Herring..and the Ingledene and, more rarely, the Lauriston
"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
C.S.Lewis
ardrossanrentboy wrote:just made a wee list of cars I've owned and it totals 30 cars or vans and 5 motorbikes. Longest I kept one was 7 years for a Black Volvo 240GL Estate 2.4 7 seater automatic. Holidayed across Europe in it for 5 summers.
I went to try and add up the number of cars I owned in the wee hours of this morning lying in bed but gave up at over 80, including 20 or more Armstrong Siddeleys and seven Austin Sevens. A number were only parts cars but I had fun with the ones that hit the road. I remember some years ago doing a list of motorcycles I owned and they toted up to 107, again with a number of projects that never hit the road. Some of the ones that got away I curse selling - like the Brough Superior 1150 motorcycle I sold for a thousand dollars. That model is a $100,000 item these days! Wee Ali
Our first car was a Ford Consul 1964. Maroon with a Grey roof. Number plate TAG 716. . And gears on the steering steel. Where I had my first driving lessons, but I passed my test ( first time) in the driving school car
My first car was a ford anglia got it from Pringles garage £37.50.did not last long as I left it at home when I went back to Cyprus and an uncle wrecked it that was in 1969 no more cars for me until my ford Capri silver fox in 1972
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