Re: What was your first car?
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 7:09 am
My very first car, in 1962, was a 1936 Morris 8. No boot, spare wheel stowed above the rear bumper, taxi-like rear leg-room (with leather upholstery) and the 1936 version of a dipping mirror - a blind in the rear window pulled up by a cord on the driver's side of the windscreen.
Cost? £3 from a friend at work and as I didn't have a licence at the time my father and mother between them towed it home. It turned out to have a cracked cylinder head and on a £5 per week wage I couldn't afford to replace it, so it sat on our driveway for a few months until my father put his foot down and told me to get it shifted. So i sold it for a fiver and thought I'd done OK.
Anyone know what one of those would be worth now? On second thoughts, I'm not sure I want to know.
Cost? £3 from a friend at work and as I didn't have a licence at the time my father and mother between them towed it home. It turned out to have a cracked cylinder head and on a £5 per week wage I couldn't afford to replace it, so it sat on our driveway for a few months until my father put his foot down and told me to get it shifted. So i sold it for a fiver and thought I'd done OK.
Anyone know what one of those would be worth now? On second thoughts, I'm not sure I want to know.