Sexyhaggis
Member
always nice to hear what kickstarted peoples love for cars/bikes/trucks/mobility scooters,
from a young age I always remember my dad watching the F1 and rally on the tv and I’d sit watching it listening to all the noises of the cars and the day my uncle took me to knockhill in his white Peugeot estate which i remember feeling like a rocket ship but the biggest memory of that day was how bloody loud the touring cars were and I loved it, weirdly enough my dad and uncles (5 brothers, my poor nana ) never really had any fast cars but were always messing around with cars and especially vans swapping lumps in transits and such but the passion was definitely there,
yes I know this will sound like your typical roughian ned choice but from about 14 year old after hearing a Subaru burble in real life and not just on the tv I knew I wanted one as did my older best mate but even ten years later they still seemed to be out of our reach money wise untill 1 year later at 25 I decided the time had come after working 12 days on 2 off 12hr shifts for months and didn’t have time to spend money at that time (wife was heavily pregnant and online shopping wasn’t huge then thankfully) so I found money was stacking up so I decided a nice family car would be a white 1995 WRX import and I still remember to this day the guy meeting us at the ice rink and we heard it coming round the corner and we couldn’t stop grinning, we done the deal and me and my mate had our first even drive in a Subaru, I drove home then let my mate have a run in it and it’s a day we both still remember very well,
15 subarus later I still have one outside but can’t deny I do enjoy the merc E320 for comfort and long drives but every now and again just getting in the Subaru and hearing it just takes me back to where it started for me.
from a young age I always remember my dad watching the F1 and rally on the tv and I’d sit watching it listening to all the noises of the cars and the day my uncle took me to knockhill in his white Peugeot estate which i remember feeling like a rocket ship but the biggest memory of that day was how bloody loud the touring cars were and I loved it, weirdly enough my dad and uncles (5 brothers, my poor nana ) never really had any fast cars but were always messing around with cars and especially vans swapping lumps in transits and such but the passion was definitely there,
yes I know this will sound like your typical roughian ned choice but from about 14 year old after hearing a Subaru burble in real life and not just on the tv I knew I wanted one as did my older best mate but even ten years later they still seemed to be out of our reach money wise untill 1 year later at 25 I decided the time had come after working 12 days on 2 off 12hr shifts for months and didn’t have time to spend money at that time (wife was heavily pregnant and online shopping wasn’t huge then thankfully) so I found money was stacking up so I decided a nice family car would be a white 1995 WRX import and I still remember to this day the guy meeting us at the ice rink and we heard it coming round the corner and we couldn’t stop grinning, we done the deal and me and my mate had our first even drive in a Subaru, I drove home then let my mate have a run in it and it’s a day we both still remember very well,
15 subarus later I still have one outside but can’t deny I do enjoy the merc E320 for comfort and long drives but every now and again just getting in the Subaru and hearing it just takes me back to where it started for me.