My first car was two tone blue Hillman Imp which was a twenty-first birthday present but it was unreliable and would only go for about thirty miles before seriously overheating so I only kept it for a few months and I bought my own real first car, a flame red Hillman Avenger top specification GL, 1500cc, registration WRW 366J, which featured four round headlights internal bonnet release, two-speed wipers, brushed nylon seat trim (previously never used on British cars), reclining front seats, hockey stick rear light cluster and a round dial dashboard with extra instrumentation.
Oh Boy, I was so proud of that car…
Have Bag, Will Travel 
Beauty
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I love this photo Andrew. Forget the car it is the bell bottom pants that are gone but not forgotten. 🙂
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Well let’s hope so. Hopefully 1970s fashion has been left in the 1970s!
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Here’s hoping! 🙂
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Love the hair, Andrew. I guess it does date you almost as well as the car 😉
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1970s style was a bit of a disaster – the car and the hair!
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I love the bell bottoms and the car! My first car was my Gran’s old Austin Allegro – I ran it into the ground!! Can’t beat the old cars can you! Great photo challenge!
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the Allegro, Marina and Avenger – I loved them all at the time!
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Well, look at you in your flares!
I love that you remember so many details about your ‘real first car’.
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I am usually reluctant to throw out my old clothes but I didn’t hang on to the flares! I wonder if they will ever come back into fashion? Let’s hope not!
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Cool flares perhaps, but a great car!
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I kept it for about 3 years and then bought my dad’s Vauxhall Viva. I am willing to wager that you had a pair or two of flares?
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White flared corduroy Wranglers, no less 🙂
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Love the photo! 🙂
My first car was a white three wheel Robin Reliant. It was very old and all I could afford. Made of fibre-glass, bits regularly fell off it! But it was warmer than my bike 🙂
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Ah, the Robin Reliant, gone but definitely not forgotten! Do you remember the Bond Bug, the souped-up version?
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I don’t actually, but it sounds fun!
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Great photos and story, Andrew. The photo brings back memories of the TV show from the 70’s “The Dukes of Hazzard” to me for some reason.
My first vehicle was an Ex British Gas Ford Escort Van. Boy the stories I could tell about that van, but not on here 😉
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Young men with vans make good stories!
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And were they your first pair of denim flares. My first car was a Citroen Light 15. And I loved it.
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I think I had a lot of denim flares in the 70s. I think we all fondly remember our first cars!
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Yes I know we all fondly remember, but you can’t honestly say you compete with a Citroen L15
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That is a cracking car I have to agree!
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Bugger! I thought I was in for an argument. Maybe some other time.
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No contest on that one! Try me again some time soon.
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I’d forgotten all about bell bottoms. Still, you look like a cool dude ready to take on miles and miles of travel in that hot rod. Did you already feel the travel bug?
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My first car was a lipstick red Pontiac Acadian–one of the most unpopular cars ever built! Yours looks much cooler than mine, and I seriously love the Bay City Rollers style hair!
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Haircuts were as bad as cars in the 1970s but at least I didn’t ever have a perm!
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My first car was a silver Camaro with red pinstripes. It would go fast.
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Just looked it up. Yes, I imagine it could!
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somebody already beat me to it – those bell-bottoms are classic 🙂
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That was my favourite pair with the basket weave pockets!
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In those times, I had not a car, but I had pants, like yours, but bright green 🙂 with yellow socks. 🙂
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A great colour combination Victor!
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It was fashionable.
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There’s something very special about that very first automobile. Mine was a ’64 VW bug. They just don’t make them like that anymore! LOVE the bell-bottom jeans! You look extremely spiffy! 🙂
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Bring back the bell-bottoms, I say 😀
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