Our car's birthdays!?

[limegreen]

Well, I was talking to Patrick today, and we realised our cars were born very close to each other!
So, let's compile a list of birthdays (: it'll be interesting to see if we can find any 'twins'
either build date or first registration! whichever one you have easiest access to.

regaliaqueen's 4dr saloon, Madeleine "Maddy" - 12th October 1956
sidney's 4dr saloon, molly - 22nd March 1957
sidney's 2dr saloon, sidney - 14th June 1961
regaliaqueen's 4dr saloon, Green "Bug" - 1st Feb 1962
gareth's 4dr saloon, Phyllis - 27th February 1962
regaliaqueen's traveller, Vikki - 13th June 1962
regaliaqueen's Bella (Post-production Convertible) - 1963~
sidney's 2dr saloon, Emily - 3rd April 1963
alex'n'ane's - 08th August 1964
kas279n's traveller - 10th March 1965
hotrodder's - 01st April 1966
george's traveller - 28th April 1967
dryad's traveller 22nd Feb 1968
ondergard's 2dr saloon, Besty Blue - 14th April 1969
mine, 4dr saloon - 3rd Feb 1970
pat's, 2dr saloon - 9th Feb 1970
weimylady's millie - 22nd May 1970
regaliaqueen's 4dr saloon, Tabitha - 12th August 1970
blaketon's traveller - Spring of 1971~
regaliaqueen's 2dr saloon, Bertie - re-registered 8th May 1985

[Blaketon]

Are these completion of manufacture dates or dates first registered? I’m afraid my Traveller was built at Adderley Park and the Leyland records have been lost. It has a steering lock, so I know it’s one of the last from the Spring of 1971. It was registered in September 1971 (I have the bill of sale) to a lady who owned it for twenty years.

I know the MG Midget is 19 – 20th February 1979 and the BGT V8 was May 1974 (Both were registered in the August of each year).

[limegreen]

Date of first registration, as thats the one everybody can access just by looking at the papers (:

[Gareth]

The build date would be more accurate - this is available from the British Motor Heritage Trust through a build certificate.

Phyllis was born on the 27th February 1962.
According to the DVLA, she was first registered sometime in the 1980's. Clearly wrong, but I think she was laid up for a while and re-registered around then.

[Dryad]

My Traveller was first registered on 22nd Feb 1968. When I'm in the garage working on it I listen to music made in 1968 to get myself in the right frame of mind for working on it. I even found a song which was released on that exact date! (Genesis - The Silent Sun)

[Sidney'61]

Here are ours: (registration dates as I only have a heritage certificate for one of them)

Molly - 4-door - 22/03/1957
Sidney - 2-door - 14/06/1961
Emily - 2-door - 03/04/1963
George - Traveller - 28/04/1967

[limegreen]

have added all to the top post <3

its nice to see the birthdays!

[weimylady]

Millie was first registered on 22 May 1970 . . .so she's coming up for her 40th!! and its 3 weeks after my daughters (who owns millie) 18th )

-wei

[ASL642]

Madeleine "Maddy" (4Dr) 12.10.56
Vikki (Traveller) 13.6.62
Green "Bug" (4Dr) 1.2.62
Bertie (2Dr) re-registered 8.5.85
Tabitha (4Dr) 12.8.70
Bella (Post-production Convertible) 1963 (can't remember)

[Ondergard]

Betsy Blue was first registered on 14 April 1969 - so her birthday is in a fortnight!

[limegreen]

happy birthday for betsy in a fortnight! (:

[Blaketon]

How many of us are older or younger than our Minors ? Well when my Traveller was built in 1971, I was in my second year at infants school!!

Funnilly enough, at about the same time as it was registered, my father bought his first foreign car, a VW Type 3 Variant, which cost a couple of hundred more than my Traveller. If I'm honest, the VW probably was, OTBE, more durable than the Minor but I doubt it is still around. I don't know what its number was after it was sold (My father had his own number), so I can't check it. The spares back up for the Minor and the fact that the VW was a bit of a pig to work on will have swung the pendulum the Minor's way.

[Sidney'61]

How many of us are older or younger than our Minors ?

My daily minor (1963 2-door) is 28 years older than me . When I bought my 1961 minor I was 15, the car was exactly 3 times my age!

[MarkyB]

I'm younger than mine, but I'm tempted to get a 1955 model as it was a very good year

[limegreen]

I'm most certainly younger (:

[hotrodder13]

it my cars birthday 2 day, what a day as well, and im 26 years younger then mine

registered 01/04/1966

[Alex'n'Ane]

Yep i'm about 27 years younger than mine. And sorry back to the original point, she was registered on the 08/08/64

[Dryad]

How many of us are older or younger than our Minors ? Well when my Traveller was built in 1971, I was in my second year at infants school!!
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You're the same age as me then! I started infant school in 1969 when my Minor was about a year and a half old. But I was nearly 4 when it was built.

[limegreen]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOTRODDER'S CAR! <3

[hotrodder13]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOTRODDER'S CAR! <3

thanks gona start it 2moro after bein off the road for 2 months