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Surely we all remember our first car. I always wanted to drive and started saving for a car even before I left school. A lot of my pals in 1966/7 bought scooters but I wasn't tempted. Luckily my dad was a driving instructor so I got my provisional license and passed my test within 5 weeks of my seventeenth birthday.
My lovely machine was a 1960 Austin Healey Sprite. My "frogeye" as we called 'em was finished in old english white with maroon trim. The registration was YXV 841. All I have now of her is one of the original numberplates.
My best mate Ian Vosper had one too, in dark blue, and we had great fun bombing around the lanes of Hampshire. They were great bird pullers too and we were never short of a nice girl to take for a spin.
She made a few long trips camping and the like and never let me down other than once when the third gear went, but I still got her home.
I had her from 1967 until 1972 when, having moved to London, found I had nowhere to keep her. What a sad day when she was driven away from me, but I believe she may be out there somewhere and hopefully not in that great scrapyard in the sky. I bought her for £180 and sold her for £250 but that is no consolation. Probably has a market value of £12,000 if she is still about. Hopefully I will hear about her again one day.
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