What was The Earliest car That you remember Your Family Owning When You Were Growing Up !!!

The family car I remember was a 1959 red and white chevy Impala.
My brother put flame decals on the front sides of it. (y) We drove it to Santa Cruz for our family vacations.

My dad had a 49 faded 2 door baby blue plymouth he used for a work car.
 

My dad bought a 1929 Model ‘A’ Ford orchard truck at an auction for $72.00. I had no license yet (I was 14) and he handed me the keys and told me to follow him home. We were only about 8 miles away. It was a 3-speed on the floor with an L-head 4 cylinder and foot pedal starter, but it also had a crank if needed. We used it just to clown around in while driving around on our property. We had a 40 acre old farm that was no longer being farmed. Dad had bought the land just a few months before to build our home on.
dobielvr said:
The family car I remember was a 1959 red and white chevy Impala.
My brother put flame decals on the front sides of it. (y) We drove it to Santa Cruz for our family vacations.

My dad had a 49 faded 2 door baby blue plymouth he used for a work car.
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I shouldn’t say this, but I always thought the 1959 Chevy was the ugliest Chevy ever built. It was more like a boat anchor. Big and heavy.
 

Know we had cars before this one, but our 1963 Impala Super Sport is the one I remember.
A Jet Black body, White roof, red interior, two door thing of beauty.

Older brother told me, at the time, "it's a 327 and a Hurst Shifter".

Sounded Cool to an 11 year old!

My Mom drove us cross country from Panama City, Florida to California to put it on a ship
bound for Hawaii.
(Dad was riding his new Ship to Pearl Harbor)

Mom drove only till the afternoon and we always stayed at a Holiday Inn each night.
Brothers and I would hit the pool (summer school break) to wear us out.
Dad told her to only gas up at truck stops, they would look out for us.
(It was another forgotten time, when they were the 'Knights of the Road'...)

Without a doubt, best trip of my life!
 
My father had a 1928 Essex sedan when I was born. In 1937 he traded it in on a brand new Chevrolet sedan for $700. He drove that Chevy until 1950.

My wife and I owned 41 cars over the years. For 20 years I did not own a car of my own, I drove company cars. The cars that we did own were American, British and Swedish. The one "Japanese" car that I owned was built in Tennessee.
 
My father bought used cars. The ones I remember were a 1953 Chrysler Imperial, 195? Nash Rambler, 1959 VW,
and 1960 Plymouth Valiant. I remember driving the Valiant to my Senior Prom in 63 (really impressive huh).
 
I couldn't begin to tell you what kind of car it was but it was dark green and had a split windshield that cranked out from the bottom to get some ventilation and it was used when we got it. I can remember that toward the end of our ownership, the reverse gear went out and there was no money to get it fixed so my Dad always made sure he didn't have to back out of anywhere.

Our dog liked to ride on the hood. When we went anywhere, he'd jump on the hood and ride to the end of the block. Dad would stop the car and the dog would jump off and go home.
 
charry said:
My Dad Had A Small Green Car , With A Wheel On The Boot , i think it Was austin A40......1958

but i remember His Black Standard Vanguard more !!! 1960
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Nice picture of a Standard Vanguard Charry. My picture was fairly recent and was taken by the tower at Beachy Head, did you forget where you parked it? ;):D Best move it as the way the cliffs are eroding it will be in the sea soon.
 
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It came as a surprise to find out that our MG was not pre-war. It had been designed in the late 1930's but MG, like many other factories, went over to war production. At the end of the hostilities the only car that MG had on the drawing board was this one. They produced it up until 1953. After that MG cars had the more modern appearance.

That car was so under powered, it did about fifty flat out, and struggled up the hills, but it was a car, and we kids loved it. The memory of it must have struck a chord, about fifteen years ago I was thinking of buying one of those MG sports cars that you see a Spitfire pilot driving in war films. The price of them put me off, then I remembered Dad's MG, not a sports car but it still had that iconic MG "face."

Sadly Dad is no longer with us, he would probably thought that I was completely mad, but happy memories and a lot of fun, I have a car, just like my Dad's.
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