Needless to say, childhood memories of our family cars are a big part of what we do here at CC, and there’s nothing quite like a picture to capture the feelings. John Honniball posted a couple of pictures of himself at the Cohort with the following bit of text:
My father’s 1965 Rover 2000, photographed in about 1969 outside our house in Colchester, Essex. That’s me in the yellow jumper, which was knitted by my mum. The car’s colour was called “Willow Green” but looked more like a shade of pale yellow. Photo taken by my dad with his Leica IIIb on Kodachrome slide film.
If anyone else has pictures of themselves with their childhood CCs, send them to me via the Contact form or post the at the Cohort. We’ll start a new series. And of course, don’t be shy with the write-ups either.
A great picture. I remember these cars, as I had a Matchbox version as a kid. I need to get some old family slides scanned. I have a couple shots like this somewhere.
I believe that Corgi produced a diecast version of this car. Matchbox didn’t offer one of these in either its 1-75 series or “King Size” range.
It is a great picture. Especially in highest resolution on John’s Flickr page.
I like the extra features like the dual mirrors and mud flaps. If the P6 had been regularly
updated, with better quality control, I believe it could have competed internationally with
the Volvo 200 Series. The flaring at the front of the rocker panels is a nice detail. I am surprised that the lift locations for the jack, on the rocker panels, weren’t body coloured.
There were quite a few Rover 2000s about in 69,I was 11 a neighbour had a dark blue one.I started Grammar school that year and Miss Myers my Music and RE teacher had a mustard coloured 2000.Miss Myers had her Rover til she stopped driving due to old age and it was sold to an enthusiast a few years later after sitting in her garage.15 years later my ex BIL had one in a cream colour which seized it’s diff and then rotted away til the Enviromental Health Officer from the Council slapped a shift it notice on it.
Heh, I have a photo somewhere around here of mom, pregnant with me, leaning against Dad’s 66 Galaxie with my grandparents. Should scan it someday.
I have got one too.
This is my elder sisters and me, taken about 1974 in our backyard in western Queensland.The car is a 1965 Datsun 1200 two door station wagon. These were a commercial derivative of the Datsun Bluebird. I was about five at the time and I think we had just driven about a thousand kilometers, back from visiting family near Cairns on the east coast. At this time the highway to the coast was still dirt most of the way and these rugged little Japanese cars won many fans for their toughness in such conditions.
Rover 2000 was what you would have got had you asked an Englishman to design the Citroen DS!.
Way in advance car that made a Zodiac look lie some thing from the 40s… The Sd1 replacement was a simpler car.