My very first car.....

a 1935 Chevolet lorry!  I was 10 years old.  I shared this with my brother who was around 8 years old.  Somebody owed my Dad £2.10.0d and he paid Dad with this lorry.  Dad gave it to us.  Our very own car - (lorry)!

We had already learnt to drive properly.  My lesson was in a large Chevolet car where I could barely touch the pedals and just about saw where I was going above the dashboard (through the steering wheel).

We lived on a large sheep station of several thousand acres which was privately owned and had plenty of roads (gravel).  We weren't the only kids that owned a vehicle, I remember one other family of young lads had one too., and some of the older guys did too. 

Every week (well I think it was every week, it could have been every month), the boss made us drive our vehicles into the garage (on the sheep station), and he would inspect each vehicle and tell us what needed to be fixed. 



I remember this lorry had rotting wood panels at the sides, and the boss made us replace these and other things that needed to be done before we could even drive it.

We kept the lorry for many years, driving every weekend we could.  When I was around 13 years old, I did cause some extensive damage by hitting a water gully in the middle of a road and knocked the radiator clean out of its fixings.  My brother and I  were some miles from home in the middle of nowhere, and I can't remember how we managed to get our lorry home.  I know my brother was real mad with me, because it meant our lorry was off the road until we fixed that radiator securely.

We sold our lorry to someone else on the sheep station when we moved in the mid 1960s.  We could not take it with us to town.  With the money we bought ourselves a bicycle each.

My second car was a fiat estate - which I bought soon after moving into the town.  Unfortunately I had not a driving licence then, and so the car was permanently parked on the front lawn of our family home.  I sold it before I had the chance to drive it.