What was your first car?

[Coops]

Talk about thread revival - 2008!

Anyway, first car was an "A" reg light blue Ford Fiesta 1.0 Popular Plus, think the Plus added headrests.

[softscoop]

Oooh I had a "lovely" K reg 1.4 Ford Escort L

Had no options so windy windows all round, no air bag, ABS that didn't really work, and the interior was pretty manky from the guy who had it before me smoking 50 zillion cigarettes a day.

However I did get it up to an indicated 110mph, which was probably more like 90. Would probably go a bit quicker given a down hill stretch, but the steering went so light I didn't dare get any more out of it.

Cost £400 to buy the car - £1400 to insure it for the first year.

Ahhh the days of being 17

[lewyvrs]

1982 Mk1 Golf 1.1c started me off at 17, use to cut out going up hills, down hills and err...come to think of it on the flat as well.

Traded it in for a Mk2 XR2 at a garage that was at the bottom of a steep bank, so just coasted it into the forecourt. Never heard anything back off them - they probably just scrapped it.

[magic62]

Lots of fords here.

First car a 1980 Fiesta 1.1S (swapped the engine for a 1.3 later)

After that also a 1988 Mk2 XR2, one of my old loves (had 4 different engines for that car, std 1.6, totally modified 1.6 a totally modified 1.9 and the last months a 1.4 because I couldnt find a 1.6 to replace the 1.9)

[Harvey1978]

1986 Austin metro 1.3 in Brown, met an unfortunate end while driving home to Salisbury from Coventry, smashed it onto a sign saying Salisbury 9 miles.

[Ceannaideach]

Late 1960's Morris Minor Traveller in dark blue with 100k miles on the clock. Cost me £125. Brakes failed going down a hill on an icy road, drove along the road verge bank to stop it before I reached a main road junction. Later the king pins went. Oh the joys of motoring.

[CrankShaft]

1994 Peugeot 306 1.4.... with some silly house speakers put in the boot... ahem..dont have a clue who put them there!! :think: :think:

[@Lee]

First car was a Mk1 Escort, black and modded to look like a Mexico. Everything electrical had been connected directly to the battery and one night, before I got around to connecting everything up properly it caught fire on Dunster Mile just outside Minehead. Bought for £100. I tried to restore it but gave up. Sent to the scrappers.

[gac]

First car? A 1989 G reg Fiat Panda 750. Something like 30bhp when it was new, and bearing in mind I didn't pass my test until I was 18, mid-2000, I wouldn't be surprised if it had less bhp than I had years by the time I got hold of it. As you'd expect, it was an absolute crock of ****, it was flimsy, it'd cut out for no reason, sometimes it wouldn't start, sometimes it would start but then not rev at all, sometimes it'd just drop back to idle when driving, etc. But it was given to me free and meant I didn't have to rely on my parents or our rubbish village bus service so I loved it

[vRS19TD]

Mine was an E-Reg Ford Escort LX 1.3 or 1.4, 5 door in blue. Loved it, apart from the head gasket kept going and i left a trail of smoke behind me when it went. :(

[Maverick vRS]

Mine was a Cinquecento sx. 899cc and 38 Italian stallions trying to get out of the small bonnet. Filled the back with speakers and had a chrome exhaust trim and neon lights under the floor.

Man, some good times...

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[Tigger25]

Mark 2 Red Ford Escort 1.3L.

[SJFISHER67]

Mine was a SEAT Ibiza 1.5 GLX System Porsche - 1987 in metallic blue, wish I still had it to be honest (only as a restoration project tho as it was a bit of a shed)

[4wheel]

1957 Goggomobil T-250 Sedan.I was 16 and used to drive it around with the family caravan tax disc on the w/screen ! Gear change side to side with religious brakes,(You prayed a lot !)

Pic attached.

[gac]

Mine was a Cinquecento sx. 899cc and 38 Italian stallions trying to get out of the small bonnet. Filled the back with speakers and had a chrome exhaust trim and neon lights under the floor.

Man, some good times...

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I "test drove" one once, as a potential Panda replacement (god knows why). The handbrake had seized on the forecourt and it didn't have enough power behind it to get it moving. Didn't buy it

[CliffoVRSFabia]

1985 C regd Black Mini 1000, fitted a holley intake manifold fitted bigger 1 3/4" carb, LCB exhaust manifold and home made centre exit single box exhoust system, sounded great and get to a ton pretty quickly, made plenty of people feel sick with its cornering abilities and even played chicken with a TVR one day after he thought he had right of way.

[corbo]

A Gold Mk3 Escort 1.1, cherished for decades by a little old man. One year of driving to college later and it was a wreck, shame on my teenage self.

Edited 24 August, 2012 by corbo

[mdon]

1991 Skoda Favorit Forum. H915 VAO was the registration.

[domhnall]

1991 Skoda Favorit Forum. H915 VAO was the registration.

ah that was my second car, my first was a Skoda Estelle 120 - great wee car,

Edited 24 August, 2012 by domhnall

[2WSR55PB]

datson 120y.red with a black vinyl roof

[Ste j]

A 1980 chevette special two tone gold and brown saved my £28.50 yts wage for a year to buy it!

[Maverick vRS]

I "test drove" one once, as a potential Panda replacement (god knows why). The handbrake had seized on the forecourt and it didn't have enough power behind it to get it moving. Didn't buy it

At least the handbrake worked. I had a couple of house bricks in the boot to wedge under the wheels...

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[Redboy]

In 1979 I passed my test and bought a 1976 Celica 1600 ST with an Eagle on the bonnet and the biggest pioneer speakers I had ever seen. cool or what.... Maybe not now.

[Chronicbint]

Didnt need/own a car until I was 26 when I bought an EP3 Civic Type R, 10 years ago!

[Dudeoli]

I bought my first car in February last year. 1994 Audi 80 avant 1.9tdi. It was really slow, had a heavy clutch, locked itself when it was started or switched off or the boot was closed when the engine was off, it didn't like corners and it only broke down once (wishbone fractured at 70mph). I miss it, but I'm glad to have replaced it with fabia vrs