What was your first car?

[Jimmy]

My first car was 'The Mystery Machine' like off Scooby Doo. Me and my 'crazy kids' mates used to drive around solving mysteries and stuff.

[MonkeyHanger]

My first car was 'The Mystery Machine' like off Scooby Doo. Me and my 'crazy kids' mates used to drive around solving mysteries and stuff.

Trust you to make the 1st sensible post in the thread

[Silber_Igel]

I love this thread!!!!

I had "two" first cars.... a family owned, go get groceries (and don't forget your brothers!!!!) job. A '58 Fiat 1200 Spyder. Maybe 50 or 55 hp. We had to immediately rebuild the motor after getting it and put in oversize Hippolyte alu-min-ee-um pistons so maybe a couple more. Large alu-min-ee-um, finned, drum brakes. Dove grey with black convertable top. Red seats with black trim. We took it from Mississippi to France upon my father's transfer in '61. I fitted it out with Marchal yellow headlights (a must) and the most awsome Marchal fogs. I must have had 1000 watts of lights on it. Must have put a million miles on it by the time we gave it up to the Gremlins and rust Gods. A sweet little car, sporty, cheap to run, and the chicks liked it.

The first car I bought was a '57 DKW 1000SP. It looked like a toy '57 T-bird...fins and all. A mostly alu-min-ee-ium body. It was powered by a mighty 998cc, 3 cyl, two stroke, water cooled motor. It was the high performance model with 55 magnificent horsepower. (Despite having only 7 moving parts, roller crank and rods, 3 coils, 3 point sets, a dual throat carb, and no power robbing waterpump, that DKW slogan "3 = 6" was pure advertising muck! Even more so in the former colonies where the garden variety family bus could pack a 440 CID, 400hp Iron block V-8!!!) "Four on the tree" (3 + OD) that would pull nearly 40 mpg on a good day at highway speeds. It also had a one way clutch in the tranny... once rolling you could let off the gas and it would "coast mode" until you got back on it. It also had an anti-roll back feature for clutching on hills. Being FWD it had a totally flat floor. With a loose muffler it sounded like a cross between a big weed whacker and a chain saw.

Everyone thought it was a Thunderbird despite the 4 interlocking "Audi" rings "Auto Union" & "1000SP" in fancy script on it. It was salmon with an ivory top, salmon and ivory reclining seats.

It was a "B@#%*$d" to get parts for, so I spent a lot of time lurking the "knackers" yards picking up bits and pieces to keep it running. The downside was that driving around town for any length of time would lay about a gallon of the oil mix in the bottom of the muffler. When you got out on the road and heated it up she'd lay down an oil plume that would have put a mosquito fogger to shame. Bad, bad, bad for the environment!

It was fun to drive and being FWD very forgiving. It did not like SWIMBO!!!! Anytime SWIMBO drove it it would pitch a hissy-fit and lock the shift up, lay down and die, clog the fuel filter, or cast off her brakes and run off. I drove it nearly five years and finally sold it to a "Deek" restorer.

DKW (red) and Fiat (B/W) photo from the web.

[bpm]

My first car was a 1990 red Renault 19. It was the rare one with the Renault 19 Van spoiler, but it was a proper car... It was also my very first ICE install... Come to think of it, I've never owned a car without a spoiler or a custome ICE install...

[ColinD]

Citroen BX 1600 Meteor I think...did me well for 18 months...till co. cars

[WW_VRS]

Y reg Ford Fiesta, one of those blue things. Strange that being from The Netherlands I have never owned a car there :eek:

Great little car - cost me about 250 quid, could trash the engine (kinda had to as well ) all the time I owned it and cost me about another 250 to run for about 4 years.

Renault 21 1.7 with the 90bhp engine for a while (didnt appreciate unleaded much, which combined with a garage 'repair' for the heater matrix caused it to die, eventually. Great car for what I needed at the time).

Peugeot 205 (had two of those, bought one for Mrs when she was learning to drive). Shamefully I then bought a Rover 100 which I've still got, which cost me more to repair than all others combined Some kids decided to do a paintjob on it whilst I was on holiday with da Mrs in the last car (Citroen ZX 1.4, bought as I needed something cheap. Had ECU fail on that about 3 months ago, just before I went to the US, due to a bad earth strap. Scrapped it just before I went as a result )

Furby test drive as soon as I get back, and then hope the delivery times are okish. Don't particulary fancy 3 months of driving a R100 500 miles/week really. Fuel cost alone is murder

[WrightyRS]

Furby test drive as soon as I get back' date=' and then hope the delivery times are okish. Don't particulary fancy 3 months of driving a R100 500 miles/week really. Fuel cost alone is murder [/quote']

someone who is new to the site WW_VRS has ordered a Fabia didn't say what spec but he's got a mid to end of March delivery date if i remember correctly.just for your info.

[silvrs]

First car I ever brought was a bright yellow Mk 3 Spitfire complete with wire wheels as a restoration project. Has ended up sitting in my parents garage for the last 19 years.

My first proper car that I used daily for about three years was an '85 Sierra 2.0iS. Great fun especially with RWD, Only spun it once :eek:

[Octygone]

After reading everybodies first car I now feel very old...... mine was a 1960 Morris minor 1000 It lasted 4 months and used as much oil as it did petrol, mind you 4 tyres cost less than a tenner back then and a gallon (remember gallons) of petrol was 48p (or 4.5p a litre if you can't)

No got to stop I'm starting to sound like my Dad

[KLB]

1965 Ford Anglia 105E - AKA "the gutless wonder" . White with a red plastic interior. Barely over a year old when I bought it (yes, that long ago ) and already had the factory-installed rust bubbling through the door skins and wings. Still, it represented independence and mobility (as long as I didn't want to get anywhere in a hurry....)

[Gwilo]

First owned car

Pug 205 1.1 Look,

complete with white wiper boots.........tasteful........

G Reg.........was alright, until it started to develop a swimming pool in the rear footwell..........lol

[William]

My first car was a 1981 Mk3 3 door 1.3L Ford Escort. It was Irish spec rather than UK as I bought it in Dublin. It was a real dog, with an automatic choke that kept malfunctioning. Eventually the floor rusted out. This was bad as it was only 7 years old at the time. It was Nordic blue in colour.

My next car was a big improvement - a 1986 Lada Riva 1.2L (I am not joking about it being an improvement).

[owlets]

My first car was a 1978 Talbot Horizon 1.3 GL, my parents bought it for me for my 18th birthday on the promise I'd stop riding motorbikes and falling off them!

It had the usual very tappety engine, the gate had gone on the gear box so you had to play "hunt the gears" ever time you wanted to change gear.

[steviec]

T Reg as in the old Registrations Mazda 323 1.3

[roo]

My first car was 'The Mystery Machine' like off Scooby Doo. Me and my 'crazy kids' mates used to drive around solving mysteries and stuff.

But was it ever the fairground owner in a yeti mask, who 'would have got away with it if it was not for you pesky kids'

[spinndrift]

I had an old push button start mini - can't remember the reg.

It died when a wheel sheared off on the motorway.

[EddyH]

I just can't believe some of you guys - how did you manage to afford Imprezas and Type R's as your FIRST cars? The mind boggles....

I was 23 when I passed my test, insurance on the Type-R was £1300, the worst part was the sub 20mpg fuel consumption. I kept it for 6 months and 10k miles, I sold it needing a service and 2 new tyres and got what I paid for it.

[redbaron]

Montego 1.6L E282KPV

bought in 1993!

[cmcm789]

After reading everybodies first car I now feel very old...... mine was a 1960 Morris minor 1000 It lasted 4 months and used as much oil as it did petrol' date=' mind you 4 tyres cost less than a tenner back then and a gallon (remember gallons) of petrol was 48p (or 4.5p a litre if you can't)

No got to stop I'm starting to sound like my Dad[/quote']

Seems like conversion rates have changed since then as well pdtdi.

Now we only get 4.54 litres in a gallon, instead of the 10 litres you used to get. :confused:

I feel we've been short changed!!

JD

[ScoobyChris]

Got to agree with that, even if you can afford the smart car how did you get the money to insure it without?

I'd been a driver on other people's cars up to that point so the Impreza was the first car I bought. Worked all the hours of the day to save up the money for it (in IT so working all hours wasn't a problem! ) and insurance at 24 was a mere 1244 quid which was the same as the new Astra 1.8 SXi we were also looking at. The choice made itself really

Chris

[LXI]

Mine was a tomatoe red coloured 1000cc 1981 'W' reg Min HL ( predecessor to the 'Mayfair ) which had a few more extras than the bog standard one.

Such as rear opening windows, a black coach line stripe, and tinted windows er...that was about it!

Fitted a radio cassette to it and some speakers to the rear parcel shelf, and 2 fogs and 2 spot lights to the front of it ala 'rally' car style

Sadly written off in a RTA, when car pulled out of a junction and didn't look to see what was coming....cheers for the broken leg!

Got a picture of the damage somewhere, might post when I'm feeling ghoulish! :eek:

[philc]

I'll just get this time machine started .....hang on....

Mine was a 1967 Vauxhall Viva HB 1200 MXE 593E, brought in 1979 for £75, after I had a motorcycle accident, and parental pressure forced me to get a car. Me and my Dad then spent three weeks rebuilding the engine and fitting new inner and outer wings, sills and a few other bits to get it through the MOT. It kept me going for a year or so, with a few minor glitches, including being stolen. I finally sold it for roughly what it cost me -£280, as I recall.

Ah, memories......

Phil

[Tech1e]

My first car, bought when I was 16 to play around with for the pricely sum of £80

1976 BL Mini 850cc, got over taken by just about everything but taught me alot about cars and welding..lol.

A little while later it looked like this...

And my journey into car modding had started.

[Stuart_J]

Age showing again, Ford Cortina Mark 2

[spinndrift]

Age showing again, Ford Model T

:eek: Didn't think you were that old!!!