My First Car Let's see yours

The first car I drove was a 1960 VW Beetle. My high school and jr college car, but actually my parents car. The first car I bought was a 1976 Chev Monte Carlo.

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Ameriscot said:
We used to go to the Detroit auto show when we still visited at xmas. I love vintage American cars but I've always found those tiny European convertibles to be soooo charming.

You would enjoy a place we often go when we visit Michigan - now called the Henry Ford it is a huge complex of Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. Tons of vintage cars and you can go for a ride in a model T.

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My Dad once bought a 1929 Ford Model 'A' that was made into an orchard truck. I used to drive it through the fields in back of our home. Lots of fun for a 14 year old. I remember the starter being on the floor and it also had a crank, in case the starter went bad.
 
Ameriscot said:
We used to go to the Detroit auto show when we still visited at xmas. I love vintage American cars but I've always found those tiny European convertibles to be soooo charming.

You would enjoy a place we often go when we visit Michigan - now called the Henry Ford it is a huge complex of Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. Tons of vintage cars and you can go for a ride in a model T.

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Have you ever visited the riverside museum of transport in Glasgow Annie..? It used to be my very favourite place to go when I was a kid, it was on a different site then and just called the transport museum.

The London transport museum is ok too...but every other year we go to Knebworth house for the outdoor Vintage car show..unfortunately we can't go riding in any of the them.

This is just one of the many American cars that get shown..
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I didn't have a car until the mid 70s as I always had motorcycles. When finally forced to give up riding (by an ex-girlfriend) and not having passed my car test, I bought one of these which, being a three wheeler, you could drive on a motorcycle licence. 700cc and a glassfibre body meant it went really well, UNTIL you tried to corner enthusiastically, when it reverted to two wheels ...

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hollydolly said:
Have you ever visited the riverside museum of transport in Glasgow Annie..? It used to be my very favourite place to go when I was a kid, it was on a different site then and just called the transport museum.

The London transport museum is ok too...but every other year we go to Knebworth house for the outdoor Vintage car show..unfortunately we can't go riding in any of the them.

This is just one of the many American cars that get shown..
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Aye, I've been to the new transport museum. Never did make it to the old one but my hubby says he liked the old one better.

Not sure what was going on here recently but saw lots of vintage cars parked in a hotel earlier this week.

The Ford museum I mentioned has the car JFK was riding in when shot, the chair Lincoln was in when shot, Wright brothers shop, Edison's lab, etc etc. It's a massive place!

https://www.thehenryford.org/
 
Rob said:
I didn't have a car until the mid 70s as I always had motorcycles. When finally forced to give up riding (by an ex-girlfriend) and not having passed my car test, I bought one of these which, being a three wheeler, you could drive on a motorcycle licence. 700cc and a glassfibre body meant it went really well, UNTIL you tried to corner enthusiastically, when it reverted to two wheels ...

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How cool!!
 
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