The first car through the newly opened stretch of the Heads of the Valleys Road (A465)

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA My first ever car, a used 1957 Chevy. Will never forget it or the memories it made. ;)

A teen's first car is a great deal -- a dream come true!

Looks a little rough on the outside but the engine runs fine.

I bought this from my grandmother in 1972 with 12,000 miles. She only drove it to church and the occasional store.

Original was a film photo that was scanned. Photographed in the late 1970s.

A wonderful trip down Memory Lane!

Captured at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Untertürkheim, Germany.

(Replica) Benz Patent Motor Car 1885. Mercedes Benz World, Weybridge, Surrey, UK. 2019/12/29

As we were changing locations at RAF Mildenhall, we noticed several Met Police outriders coming down the road stopping traffic, so I quickly grabbed the 50D with the small lens attached to grab some quick shots, as it was obvious what would shortly follow.

Seen here passing the mound at RAF Mildenhall, the Presidential Motorcade had been delivered to RAF Mildenhall that morning, on board two C-5M Galaxy transports.

The lead two vehicles here, two of four in the motorcade, are the specially built Cadillac Presidential State car commonly known by its nickname "The Beast" or "Cadillac One" and are known to the Secret Service as "Stagecoach". Quite a sight to see.

From left to right:

- Benz 18PS Doppelphaeton

- Mercedes 75PS Doppelphaeton

- Benz 20/35PS Landaulet

- Mercedes-Simplex 60PS Reiselimousine

Captured at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Untertürkheim, Germany.

"You are being tagged... Post a picture of you... Tell 16 things about you and then tag 16 of your contacts."

Okay, sometimes I enjoy to play such games and looked for a photo .... you can see me with my first car a Ford Taunus 12 M in 1974. You can believe me ... I was very proud ;-) !

The photo was taken in 1974 with a Rolleicord and now scanned.

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1. My age has the same numbers like the year of my birth in the 20th century, guess ;-)

2. I was born in Diepholz in Lower Saxony (Northern Germany) and lived there a half century

3. Now I live since 4 years in a lovely surrounding in Fellbach (next to Stuttgart in Southern Germany)

4. I have three adult children (33, 31 and 27 years) spread over the world (Spain, USA - Colorado Denver and Northern Germany)

5. Two cute granddaughters (2 and 4 years) are waiting for Christmas presents

6. I still belong to the people who have to work :(

7. Would like to have more time

8. Love photography

9. My hobbies are multifaceted

10. I am very creative

11. Enjoy the time on flickr

12. Can't live without music (from classic to pop)

13. Enjoy reading if I have time

14. Love to travel and see the world

15. Love nature in all variations

16. Enjoy to go out for a good meal

Thank you Dirk ...

If you like view All my photos on one site.

© 2008 Ursula Sander - All rights reserved.

Salon Rétromobile 2011

Paris , porte de Versailles

considéré comme la première automobile de l'histoire

moteur : 1cyl 0,954cm3 0,75cv .

vitesse : 16kmh

1956 Ford, purchased in 1961. I payed for $75....I wish I still had it.

Tell us what your first car was

This was my pride and joy for many years. When I was 15 I was anxious to buy my first car. I'd been saving money since I was 10 delivering the Morning Journal before school each day. I read every issue of Motor Trend magazine cover-to-cover from the age of nine and I LOVED cars. I was particularly fond of the old muscle cars from the 1960's that were becoming a bit scarce in the early 1980's. The 340 Dart was a favorite of mine because it was a bit of a sleeper - grandmas' boxy compact with a big engine. One day while walking home from school I heard a nice engine rumble from behind me. It was a nice old 340 Dart pulling a utility trailer with a lawnmower in the back AND it had a For Sale sign in the rear side window! I had never actually seen one of these cars before let alone one for sale! My heart was pounding. I had 20/5 vision back then and I was one of the fastest runners in my school but I wasn't fast enough and my vision wasn't good enough to see the phone number on the For Sale sign as the car drove by and went up a long hill. BLASTED! There went my dream car. I combed the Auto Trader and newspaper for this car and it never showed up in any ad.

Two weeks later I was driving with my Mom, brother and sister up to Lake Lanier north of Atlanta. I did almost all the family driving when I was 15 with my learners permit and for some reason my Mom wanted us to take the scenic route to the lake. Driving along a country highway BAM! There it was. My car was sitting on a hill in front of a farmhouse with a For Sale sign. DESTINY.

The following day - after a sleepless night: My Dad was a bit breathless after the test drive and I had a mile-wide smile on my face. This car was FAST. I can't believe my Dad didn't try to discourage me from this lethal-fast car with manual drum brakes. After some back and forth negotiation and borrowing $150 from my Dad I had my car! For $1,950 I had an all original Mopar muscle car. This one-owner car was purchased new by a woman in her 60's who loved black and red. The Mercury Marquis she replaced this car with was black with a red vinyl top and red interior and she had on a red dress with black accessories when I met her :)

The Dart sat in our garage for the Summer until I turned 16. This was one of the most exciting years of my life.

FG Series - 1987

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Alex and his first car.

Circa 1975. This is the very first car I could call my own. It was 2 years old when I bought it in 1973. It really taught me a lot about working on cars. It had a points+condenser ignition, so I learned how to keep it tuned. It had mechanical valve lifters, so I learned how to gap the clearance correctly. Occasionally it would get into a bad idling situation, so I learned how to clean the idle jet in the carburetor and eventually figured out that the aftermarket accessory fuel filter that came with the car was passing what looked like little paint chips into the carb. I also had a part-time job while at college so that I could pay for upkeep parts among several things.

Back then, a BMW was not on the short list of dream cars for a typical teen as seems to be the case today. This one was certainly cheaper than buying a brand-new Mustang with a V8 engine, as the car my sister drove. I let her try it out once at which time we found out that as a 20-year old, she didn't quite have the upper body strength to steer the thing as it did not have power steering to which she was accustomed. I had to quickly reach over and help turn the steering wheel lest we plow over the curb of an oncoming curve.

I hope to acquire another 2002 some day. There's definitely a following for this model today, so they are no longer priced as a used car would be.

Joe Biden (rear) en route to KILG, prior to departing for a Juneteenth concert at the White House

Going through some old photos I found this shot. This is me with my 2nd car, a Mitsubishi Tredia Turbo. It was a great car to own in 1986 but would be pretty rubbish by todays standards! This shot was taken in Delamere Forest while out with my brother and his then girlfriend?? He took this shot on my Olympus OM20 35mm film camera. I scanned the original print on my Epson V300 to get this. I was a lot thinner then and seemed to have more hair too :-)

This shot seems to have created a lot of interest 2004 views and counting. Some points:

This car is NO MORE so if someone is trying to sell it to you run!

It cost me £5700, I was single.

It had 63,000 miles on the clock when I sold it.

It would only run on leaded petrol

It had central locking, all round electric windows and the odd 8 speed box.

It had the "pepper pot" alloy wheels

It didn't have PAS so consequently steering was very heavy

It did about 30 mpg or less if you wanted

It started to rust at an early age!

Mini Metro c. 1991

50 Ways To Say Goodbye

So. . . you all thought and hoped that my life would turn around after that picture and I'd cheer up a bit?! Weeeelllllll little did anyone know THIS would happen just 2 days later. . . Yeah. On my way to work on the 14th I was going straight through my light and a stupid lady decided it was the perfect time to make her left turn as I was going through my intersection. . . needless to say, our cars are crunched and I'm hurt. I have a concussion and other sore body parts (neck, back and hips) and my airbag hit my face and burned it a little and gave me a fat lip. You can't see, because of the snow, but my windshield is cracked all the way around it, my front bumper is in my backseat, and all the other crap that you see there mostly on the passenger side where I hit the other car (going 45). So Little Bitch has been deemed TOTALED! :( Good news, not my fault. So their insurance is paying me for my loss and my medical bill.

I was so out of it and in so much shock when it happened that the police officer kept asking if I wanted to be checked out and I kept saying no. .. I should have been. I couldn't even think of a full sentence or think at all really. There were some guys that came over right away from where they were working on the side of the road to help. They were about my age and really nice. One guy that did most of the talking said his name like 3 times and I can't even remember what the name sounded like. I do remember he gave me a hug though. lol Then they moved my car out of the middle of the street. I didn't even recognize the guy that towed my car once I got to this place. He told me I looked pretty bad at the accident when he came to pick up my car and all I could think was, "Oh, that was you?"

I'm still having some short term memory problems, but hopefully it fixes itself. Stupid brain needs to not hurt anymore. Anyway, I'm tired and my head hurts, so I'm going to go lay down. Oh I've been sleeping all day every day for almost a week because of it too, BAH.

Good by Little Bitch. You were a great first car. Even though it only lasted about 2 months, I will never forget you.

Random Fact : Most car accidents actually occur within 5 kilometres from home. There is a common misconception that car accidents occur while travelling to a vacation destination, but this is not the case. (I was just down the street from my house at the first stop light. . .)

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1886 Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (eigentlich Däumler)

Daimler entwickelte den ersten schnelllaufenden Benzinmotor und das erste vierrädrige Kraftfahrzeug mit Verbrennungsmotor.

Gottlieb Daimler bestellte bei der Firma Wimpf und Söhne in Stuttgart dazu eine Kutsche des Typs "Americain".

Die im August 1886 an Gottlieb Daimler gelieferte Kutsche wurde unter Maybachs Anleitung mit einer Drehschemel-Lenkung und einem 1,5 PS starken Motor nach Vorbild der Standuhr ausgerüstet. Der Antrieb auf die Räder erfolgte mittels Riemen.

Sie wurde mit einem Verbrennungsmotor ausgestattet. Gottlieb Daimler stellte damit die Vielseitigkeit seines Motors unter Beweis.

Daimler invented the high-speed petrol engine and the first four-wheel automobile.

Motor genannt "Standuhr" named "Grandfathers clock"

Daimlers: 4 wheel automobile motor specs:

1,1 PS // 0.8 kw

Technische Daten

Zylinder 1

Bohrung: 70 mm

Hub: 120 mm

Gesamthubraum: 462 ccm

Leistung bei 700 1/min: 0,8 kW (1,1 PS)

Höchstgeschwindigkeit: 16 km/h (neue Messung 18 km/h )

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Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose goal was to create small, high-speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device.

Benz-Daimler-Maybach - who is who:

Although Gottlieb Daimler died in March 1900—and there is no evidence that Benz and Daimler knew each other nor that they knew about each other's early achievements—eventually, competition with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) in Stuttgart began to challenge the leadership of Benz & Cie.

In my opinion they must have known each other - having the first auto-cars 1889 in Paris Expo - World's Fair -(Automobiles - Galerie des Machines).

Peugeot built 1890 his 'Typ 2' using Daimler's motor in licence. The Expo 1889 was a must and honour for all inventors and good for new contracts.

In October 1900 the main designer of DMG, Wilhelm Maybach, built the engine that would be used later, in the Mercedes-35hp of 1902.

The engine was built to the specifications of Emil Jellinek under a contract for him to purchase thirty-six vehicles with the engine and for him to become a dealer of the special series. Jellinek stipulated the new engine be named Daimler-Mercedes (for his daughter).

Maybach would quit DMG in 1907, but he designed the model and all of the important changes.

After testing, the first was delivered to Jellinek on December 22, 1900.

Jellinek continued to make suggestions for changes to the model and obtained good results racing the automobile in the next few years, encouraging DMG to engage in commercial production of automobiles, which they did in 1902.

Mercedes Benz Museum : 701.000 visitors in 2011.

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effiArt 2009, corrections December 2011

Picture taken around 1990, Outwood, Surrey, England. My first car! I bought it for 300 quid off a bloke in Lingfield. I'd always loved the shape of these old Celicas, and just had to have one.

My life as a 16 year old improved dramatically when I bought my first car. This is a 1929 Model A. It cost me a whopping $100.00. I could pack nine kids in, if I had to. Notice my dog, buddy, with his chin on my shoulder.

This was not quite in the 1950s. The year was probably 1948.

This photo was taken in our driveway in Denver. The place where I grew up.

Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese en route from KILG to Biden's home in Greenville, DE for the 2024 Quad Leaders' Summit

This is my daughter picking her her new car. She's been saving for a few years and finally the moment came. Honda had incredible year end rebates, and financing, making the process a little less painful. Didn't really want her to have a car now, but we live in the country, so it's pretty much mandatory

Two more in the comments

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Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese en route from KILG to Biden's home in Greenville, DE for the 2024 Quad Leaders' Summit

Joe Biden motorcade en route to KILG, for a campaign event in White Plains, NY

This is the Fiat Panda 1000S that I owned sometime 1989/90. It was my first car and I was 18 or 19 years old. This is a scanned photo.

I'd forgotten that I'd made quite a few modifications.

- The alloys were from a Fiat X1/9 - these were readily available at the time from breakers.

- I think I'd already fitted the SPAX lowering springs at this point - they lowered the suspension by about 1".

- The exhaust was replaced with a ANSA sports unit - it had a very subdued note to it. Nothing like the boys of today in their cars.

- The lights are Cibie units, 2 fogs and 2 driving beams. Cutting holes in the bumper took some commitment to do.

According to the online car tax checker it's last tax disc expired 1/11/2000.

Date of first registration was 29/2/1988.

My First Car... to be rat style

This is a scanned photo of my first car...or at least the first one that I bought with my own money. It's a 1956 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan that I paid $800 for in 1981 when I was only 14. Of course I didn't get to drive it until I turned 15 and got my learner's permit. I drove it my Junior year and part of my Senior year of high school, until I bought something more "dependable". I sold it a couple of years later. I would like to have it back.

I saw it a few years ago at a local cruise in. It had passed through a couple of owners since me. It had been repainted the light blue color all over. I think the tu-tone suited it more.

*The wrinkles in the photo came from me carrying the photo in my pocket for a while after selling it, just to show folks the hotrod that I used to own. :)

First car in England, Tankerton Kent June 1969

This car, Chad's high school dream machine, is currently en route to us in Arizona. His parents are shipping it from Michigan.

My favorite car in the world loaded with a couple bikes. This car taught me how to drive, taught me repair, and also that Volvos can be cool. I don't care what you guys say about Volvos, this was one of the coolest cars I've ever seen. It even had an intercooled turbo in it! I miss it dearly.

I have a tattoo, and a car.

Salon Rétromobile 2011

Paris , porte de Versailles

considéré comme la première automobile de l'histoire

moteur : 1cyl 0,954cm3 0,75cv .

vitesse : 16kmh

Salon Rétromobile 2011

Paris , porte de Versailles

considéré comme la première automobile de l'histoire

moteur : 1cyl 0,954cm3 0,75cv .

vitesse : 16kmh