I can probably remember most of my cars, but their years, not a chance.
I know my first one was 900cc Triumph Herald bought in 1962 2nd hand so it was about a 1960 vintage.
This was fun to drive, but had a terrible rear end, gave nothing but trouble, so I sold it after a year or so.
2nd was a 1958 FC Holden panel van, (my first surf wagon). It would go anywhere with a few mates to push.
traded that in on an 186S 4 on floor HK Holden Station Wagon. At my girlfriend's insistence, she wouldn't go away with me in an old panel van. I have some regrets about that, I'd spent a lot of time on that old girl doing it up. And it had taken me on some great adventures with my mates, surfing all around Aus.
Any way I digress, (as I'm want to these days). After that it gets problematic, as my partner and I shared vehicles a bit. She had a Morris 1100 when we met. we then bought a Ford Thames van and converted to a campervan. I was out of work and My sister took over the HK and its payments.
We then got Peugeot 403s each. Mine got burnt in a bush fire, and I had an escort van for work.
Then more complications. I dropped some sand into a spark plug hole during a service, that put the escort out of action for a while. So in the mean time I bought a 1974 2l GTV.
Which wasn't quite a surf wagon, but ata pinch could make do!
I joined my current wife in the early 80s. She had a 120Y, and I had the hotted up Escort and the alpha. Her daughter had the choice of the Datsun or the Ford, silly girl chose the Datsun, she took up sculpture and the van would have been much more practical for her.
So that left us without a surfwagon, so we bought an early Subaru 4wd wagon.
Now it gets difficult, remembering sequences,
At some stage I bought an abandoned 2L Alpha Berlina for parts, and drove it a bit.
The Subaru was dying, so we bought a Tarago and went around Aus with it, traded that in on a Mitsubishi Magna sedan. After that there was a succession of Corollas, until they got too small to take my gear. Then I think we had a manual diesel i30 cross over wagon, that got written off on our first trip, in South Australia. Insurance replaced it with an automatic i30. We found just one car was too inconvenient, so I got an old commodore wagon.
About 2013 we made the mistake of downsizing the i30 to an i20, one of the worst cars I've had.
After the old commodore died, I upgraded to a 2006 model, with gas and petrol.
2016, we traded the i30 for a very nice Mazda 2
The 2006 Commodore lasted until 2022 when I wanted to have another go at the speed strip in South Australia. Wife wasn't happy doing such a long trip in an old car, so I bought the present 2018 commodore.
And of course this year we traded the Mazda for the MG4.
