Your first car . . .
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best first car imo lol
got my flamesuit on, let the hate commence. :lol: "back in my day!!!..."
Waited until the grand old age of 27 for our first car, as MrsG and I were crazy cycle folk back then. A Nissan Cherry 1.3. paid £3300 for it, I seem to recall. We had kittens putting that size a hole in our savings back in the 80's. 
Very nice car for it's day and certainly my P&G for several years. You be pleased to here I don't have a Photo. :wink:
Very nice car for it's day and certainly my P&G for several years. You be pleased to here I don't have a Photo. :wink:
1970 Mark 1 Escort, white 1100L reg No. SOV737H. Bought it with >70k miles on the clock for £350 and sold it 2 years later for the same amount. It never let me down.
This was back in the age before cameras were invented, so this is the nearest picture I could find:
This was back in the age before cameras were invented, so this is the nearest picture I could find:
First buy ( before I had full license) was a Vauxhall Chevette 1.3 GLS hatch in bronze, I remember the horn didn't work and the local ( dodgy) garage rigged the horn to a switch on the dash so it would pass its mot (also had Fred flintstone footwells)
Bought a MK2 Escort in China blue when I passed my test and didn't treat it too well - put too many miles on it in a short time and didn't pay enough attention to the tin worm before I bought it which caused its demise at next mot (this was in 1984 I think)
Then bought a MkV Cortina Crusader in Red - thought this was the bee's knees at the time - was quite a good car had it for about three years I recall
Sadly no pics
....old memories though - guy around the corner has bought a 1962 Ford Capri - which looks stunning - and reminds me of my dad's Ford Classic ( the 4 door version) from when I was wee
Bought a MK2 Escort in China blue when I passed my test and didn't treat it too well - put too many miles on it in a short time and didn't pay enough attention to the tin worm before I bought it which caused its demise at next mot (this was in 1984 I think)
Then bought a MkV Cortina Crusader in Red - thought this was the bee's knees at the time - was quite a good car had it for about three years I recall
Sadly no pics
....old memories though - guy around the corner has bought a 1962 Ford Capri - which looks stunning - and reminds me of my dad's Ford Classic ( the 4 door version) from when I was wee
Graduated from having a part share in one of these (Mofa) in the late 70's in Germany - you were allowed to drive an under 50cc bike with limited speed (25km/h) from age 15:
To an original beetle 1200cc with a whopping 40bhp, in orange, similar to this (mine had more dents and rust):
I was persuaded by my mate Udo who also had one, almost identical, although his was LHD. Udo rolled his at a sharp 90 degree bend between Weeze and Laarbruch (in Germany) at a place called Hees. In his defence, it was a notoriously bad bend (called Hees Bend), that used to ice up regularly in winter... luckily the surrounding area was just fields with a pub near the bend if you wanted to "recover" (Heeserhaurs). We just rolled his beetle back over (benefit of having passengers) then pushed the roof back out by lying back inside the car and pushing up with our feet. Learned a lot about how not to drive (obviously), how robust original beetles are (no thin metal parts), and when I got mine I spent a lot of time tinkering with the engine and doing my own maintenance. Fond memories.
To an original beetle 1200cc with a whopping 40bhp, in orange, similar to this (mine had more dents and rust):
I was persuaded by my mate Udo who also had one, almost identical, although his was LHD. Udo rolled his at a sharp 90 degree bend between Weeze and Laarbruch (in Germany) at a place called Hees. In his defence, it was a notoriously bad bend (called Hees Bend), that used to ice up regularly in winter... luckily the surrounding area was just fields with a pub near the bend if you wanted to "recover" (Heeserhaurs). We just rolled his beetle back over (benefit of having passengers) then pushed the roof back out by lying back inside the car and pushing up with our feet. Learned a lot about how not to drive (obviously), how robust original beetles are (no thin metal parts), and when I got mine I spent a lot of time tinkering with the engine and doing my own maintenance. Fond memories.
First car with my name on the log book was a 1994 Burgandy Honda Accord 2.0i
Cracking car had everything apart from electric leather seats and covered 185,000 miles still on the original clutch.
Before that I was just a named driver on an A reg silver 1.2 Nova and then an E reg white 1.2 Nova Club
Cracking car had everything apart from electric leather seats and covered 185,000 miles still on the original clutch.
Before that I was just a named driver on an A reg silver 1.2 Nova and then an E reg white 1.2 Nova Club
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Think mine was a MK3 Fiesta XR2i replica. Think the base model was a 998cc poplar or something. It only had 4 forward gears with a 98mph top speed down hill with the wind behind :lol:
It also unfortunately met a sticky end on christmas day where it got t-boned by some silly old bint not paying attention.
It also unfortunately met a sticky end on christmas day where it got t-boned by some silly old bint not paying attention.
PlumbNB1 said:Mine was a White 1970 Triumph Herald 13/60 Convertible when I was 18, cost me £150 to buy and £140 to insure. Looking at the price of good examples now is rather shocking!
My 1st was a 69 Ford Escort, but it very nearly was a Triumph Vitesse 2.0 saloon, the guy wanted £300 and I agreed and said I would be back with the cash, when I returned with cash in hand, he said he has just sold it to his neighbour
Dont laugh but heres one of the last ever photos of my first car
It was a Mazda 121 (basically a re badged fiesta 1.25 Zetec) I loved that car until I turned it upside down
Cost me £2200 and then £1800 to insure but I got £600 back on that after completing pass plus, unfortunately that was only third party insurance so I got nothing back after it was recovered from the field. At least I was still alive, very lucky the cable caught me as you can see from the other photo!
It was a Mazda 121 (basically a re badged fiesta 1.25 Zetec) I loved that car until I turned it upside down
Cost me £2200 and then £1800 to insure but I got £600 back on that after completing pass plus, unfortunately that was only third party insurance so I got nothing back after it was recovered from the field. At least I was still alive, very lucky the cable caught me as you can see from the other photo!
Not mine, however exactly the same, but mine was a B-reg I believe.
And I bought it for the princely sum of £3.50 and a big-mac meal (large, with a shake)
Had that beut up to an INDICATED 129mph on the "new" A1M.
The guage ran out at 120, and the needle was another 10mph's work round from there.
However, I suspect it was more like 100mph ACTUAL.
Plus, I had to have the passenger hold the door cards on and the heater controls in the dash
This car died as a result of quite possibly the biggest handbrake turn I've ever done...
On Bourne airfield, they lay out large barrels, half filled with concrete, to be used as bins during the Bourne market.
They also proved excellent "slalom" poles for young kids in motorcars
On this fateful morning however, I decided I was going to handbrake slide between two of them.
It was working well.. I'd hit 50mph in time, the handbrake had locked the rear as expected...
I guided the sliding car into a bit of a turn, looking perfectly online to slide between the two targetted barrels.
And then a tyre gave out.
Backend spun pretty much 90 degrees around and slammed the rear quarter into a barrel at about 30mph.
Dust, Barrel, glass, bumpers, Macdonalds wrappers, folder full of CDs - the air was filled with debris for what seems like forever.
When the dust finally settled, and my mates stopped pissing themselves (albeit momentarily), we inspected the damage..
The rear wheel was about 45 degrees off where it should have been. The exhaust wasn't attached to anything anymore.
The rear hatch was kaput. The rear seat now had a speed hump. The fuel tank was on the floor, and neither the right or rear side had any glass left.
It was dead. Deader than flares.
So I bought a Cavalier instead. :roll:
A burnt orange Peugeot 206 1.6 xi. At speeds over 50mph and slight deviance from straight on a road would cause the car to wobble like a blancmange and feel like it was about to spin out of control :-(
I'm embarrassed to say that I had a double sub in the boot which ensured you could get nothing in there and made me sound like a right chav. For shame :-(
I'm embarrassed to say that I had a double sub in the boot which ensured you could get nothing in there and made me sound like a right chav. For shame :-(
My first car which lasted all of 2 months before i was bored of it
replaced quickly by
Again, not actual photos (just googled). The Xr2i cost me £1,800.00 to buy then i sat on the forecourt trying to get insured having only had a licence 2 months. £2,200.00 was price I had to pay after many many phones calls, before meerkats could do it for you in minutes.
The folks were furious when i came home in it, but had the last laugh as i wrote it off in less than a year.
replaced quickly by
Again, not actual photos (just googled). The Xr2i cost me £1,800.00 to buy then i sat on the forecourt trying to get insured having only had a licence 2 months. £2,200.00 was price I had to pay after many many phones calls, before meerkats could do it for you in minutes.
The folks were furious when i came home in it, but had the last laugh as i wrote it off in less than a year.
My mothers Fiat 128........ Then I bought a ford Capri when I passed my test.... A long time ago
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