The Family Car

[Stillhomewardbound]

To help get The Photo Boot underway I'm opening a small number of themed threads which I hope will focus members on favoured shots in their picture collections. As it says on the tin here, this is to play to remember the family car or cars.

So, to start us off ...

This, I believe was my father's first car and the two cherubs (as if!) were my older brothers. I believe its a Morris of some marque. Any guesses. What really mattered to me as a child was that it was red. I remember also that my dad used to be a cigarette smoker and I can still see his hands on the steering wheel, a cigarette held between his fingers.

I'd say the car was bought second because it looks like its been around a bit.

[Nick Armstrong]

I believe its a Morris of some marque. Any guesses.

Now you're talking!

I believe it to be an Austin A40, in fact.

Few things are as evocative for me as shots of 1960s cars with street scenes.

The first word I ever said was "car" as I leant out of my pram and kissed the front wing of the family Morris Minor. Apparently.

[Nick Armstrong]

I was correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_A40_Farina

An A40 Farina Mark I, to be absolutely precise.

[eighthobstruction]

Of course it's an A40....great little runners (you could swop engines between many of the Morris and Austin models : Morris Minor , A40, MG Midget and many others)

....

[mangerton]

Of course it's an A40....great little runners (you could swop engines between many of the Morris and Austin models : Morris Minor , A40, MG Midget and many others)

....

Indeed you could. I once assisted in a transplant from an A35 van to a Morris Minor.

[Don Petter]

In many ways the A40 was the first 'hatchback'.

[Don Petter]

We had no car in our family until I acquired my first car in about 1963 (A 1936 Morgan Super Sports):

http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee507/Don_Petter/Morgan.jpg

[eighthobstruction]

Here is our first family car....I seem to remember the windscreen hinged forward for ventilation....http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/class...ordpop103e.jpg....and wing indicators of course....

[Don Petter]

The (very) basic Ford Popular, as I recall. (And nothing wrong with that.)

[french frank]

Not my photo (I only have black and white 'snaps', and they're up in the roof space). It was my mother's car and we went on holiday to Devon (Shaldon, Dawlish and Dartmoor). If we came to a steepish hill the passengers often had to get out and push or it just gradually came to a halt. What do I mean "It"? Her name was Aggie.

[Don Petter]

Not my photo (I only have black and white 'snaps', and they're up in the roof space). It was my mother's car and we went on holiday to Devon (Shaldon, Dawlish and Dartmoor). If we came to a steepish hill the passengers often had to get out and push or it just gradually came to a halt. What do I mean "It"? Her name was Aggie.

Still seems to be going - on current DVLA as 'Morris 918cc'. A Morris 8, n'est pas?

[Nick Armstrong]

Very nice, eighth! (I was quite old before I stopped wondering why they'd named a car after a tree, realising it wasn't a Ford "Poplar". Call me a country boy at heart.)

I seem to remember the windscreen hinged forward for ventilation...

Oh yes! I'd forgotten my old Citroën 11L (depicted on my profile) had one of those too! You opened it with a black bakelite wheel under the dash-mounted rear view mirror. Opening it was the only way to clear the windscreen on frosty mornings Fun at 40mph!

[Demetrius]

not mine either, few pictures of that and at the home of my parents, but i searched quite a bit for the right colour scheme. They are still around and you can hear and smell them way before you see them. Ours had no backseat, kind of impractical for a family of four ...

[teamsaint]

those with fond memories of plastics from earlier times might enjoy a day out here.

http://www.bakelitemuseum.co.uk/

[Beef Oven!]

If anyone owns a Volvo, please don't post a photo of it.