What was your first car?

[kiraanastasia]

Random. Interesting to know given the range of ages of people on here mine was an X reg Ford Ka called Ka. Pictures welcome

[KevFinVRS]

Renault Clio Authentique 1.2 16v 2002. Never touch another Renault again!!

[Anddenton]

I'm expecting to be the only one here with this, but, wait for it - RELIANT KITTEN DL :clap:

 

It was yellow, 850cc and an old S reg (WHN 637S)

[kilted]

Ford Fiesta - 1.1L Popular Plus. PRS 726W - making it a 1981 car - would be about 8 years old when I got my hands on it. Was proper posh - it had a radio cassette fitted!

[Anddenton]

I'm expecting to be the only one here with this, but, wait for it - RELIANT KITTEN DL :clap:

 

It was yellow, 850cc and an old S reg (WHN 637S)

 

Looked just like this

[ben1990]

First car I drove regularly was my dads R reg fiesta 1.25. First car owned was an S reg diesel vectra. Towards the end of its life the fiesta had a tick over of 4000rpm .

[Titanium_Man]

A "H" reg 1.0 VW Polo, back in 2004.

[Gaz]

1972 Austin 1300 Van Den Plas:

 

 

Back in 1981.  Manual choke, crossply tyres, proper 'wing' mirrors, oil leak to put the exxon valdez to shame and enough rust to set up an export business with  :think:

 

Gaz

[ChrisRs]

My first car was an ex RAF, black, Morris Mini Minor 850 ( D Reg 1966)

Bought for £250 with 5000 miles on the clock in 1971

[vRS19TD]

E-reg Ford Escort 1.3 LX, bought in 1998 for about £150 and needed work done to it. Same colour as this:

[AndyC]

1963 triumph Herald 12/50. Cost £80. Insurance at 17, £28. Needed a new dynamo, £9 and 2 tyres, about £10. Petrol 28p/gal.

 

Andy

[Chriswright03]

Ford Anglia Estate in the same colour as this one but with a white roof.  Had ti have a new engine it it while I had it which if I recall was the same price as I paid for the car £100.  Four gallons of petrol for a quid at the time.  I bought it in 1970 and it was a 1964 car so 6 years old and if I look at my motoring history since that day for a lot of it I would struggle to buy a 6 year old car.  Strange how things change.

 

http://www.simoncars.co.uk/ford/slides/s_Ford%20Anglia%20105E%20AS%20Estate%20side.jpg

 

[Fab Estate]

My first car was a 1966 Vauxhall Viva HB that contained more rust than metal.

[mender]

VHP 398S (First car owned)

At 12 years old, as a toy in the garden, a Fiat 126 Personal 4 652cc air-cooled "DeVille" in orange, with flip-back canvas roof.  I valeted it in and out to the nines and t-cut the top half until it gleamed, popped the roof open and used it as my own lounge, with Dire Straits on the cassette and a supply of sweets.  It was abandoned in the roughest pub in Coventry by a barmaid who returned to Ireland years back, the landlord happily took £60 for it, staggered it over to our house, arriving in a cataclysmic trail of smoke and acrid burnt clutch cloud, for my Dad to dismantle the side fence and let it into the rear garden for me.  My mates could not believe I had my own car to mess around in.

The bottom half was rotten as a pear and one day it split in two, RIP.  God, I loved it.  My Dad and sister shared another 126 at the time, TFK 520R, I have since owned two Fiat 126 Bis and still ogle the remaining 126s running around in Poland.

 

WUY 942G (First car sold for profit!)

At 15 years old, I hadn't learnt from the Fiat 126 episode, so fell for a Morris Minor which was traded into the garage I was working at and they delivered it 500yds to my house for £250.

Again, I minted it and spent hours in it, but it was rotten as a pear underneath.  A local had a load of bits off it for £300 and I sold the rest for £200.

 

C372 TNP (First time out on the road-a scooter)

I saved up and bought a moped, a super-manly maroon-faded-to-dark-pink Suzuki Love of all things, I removed the basket and peeled off the "LOVE" stickers-but the sun had faded around them so it still said LOVE in dark maroon.  My DT50 riding mates used to hide until I had gone as my "shopper" scoot would leave their heavily restricted 50s for dead.  Fun!

 

G390 XKV (First car after passing test)

I learnt to drive in a Lada Riva 1200L (plastic seats and the nearside mirror, wheel trims, side stripe and seat covers were cost options) and when I passed my test, I inherited it.  I was so ungrateful as it was the butt of all the school's jokes when I was taken to school in it but what a present it was!  A really good car which taught me proper car control as if you can hustle a Lada with three inches of steering slack, a bus strength clutch, on/off mental brakes and a throttle cable with 5 inches of travel of nothing, nothing, nothing FULL POWER you can drive anything else easily.

If only I could return to the days of youth and relive the best feature of it-the seats folded into a really big, comfy bed which was a real hit with various girlfriends of the time.

What a car; built like a Victorian bridge, had a full tool kit, under-bonnet light, huge boot, proper bumping bumpers and could take on roads so awful that a Defender would shake to bits.

Sadly, it met its demise when a Triumph Acclaim shot over a cross-roads over the give way, hitting the passenger door and wing and shunting it into an opposing bus and three other cars.  Every single panel was hammered flat on both sides, so it looked like it had escaped a wild banger race but the lights all worked and the doors opened so I had to drive it for three weeks until the insurance money settled.  No-one, but no-one would argue with the car in that state-islands were bliss, narrow gaps a breeze, no-one parked next to you at the supermarket and it was like having a police escort in traffic such was the space left around it by other drivers.  I went on to own four more Lada Rivas, all much loved.

 

DON 828V (First car I loved to tears)

At 17 years old, I acquired (by trading in a Lada Riva!) a MINT Alfa red 1979 Alfasud SII ti with a Webasto pull back roof from the main dealers for Alfa in Birmingham, Mario Deliotti-it was his son's own car and he'd poured whatever it needed into making it as new.

Probably the only car which has hit my emotions so hard; utter joy to utter despair on a daily basis.  As I've said before on here, it was like dating a supermodel; occasionally when she's in the mood, it is the experience of a lifetime, but the rest of the time is varying degrees of misery.

Traded in for a newish Fiat Uno for £400 (would have got this off for not having a trade-in..), the dealer sold it at auction for £107, the buyer sold the plate for £800, the car for £3000 and it would now be worth £10-15,000.

 

Some years later, after much tearful reminiscing, I saw a chap with a similar car at a scrap yard, buying bits.  I paid him £5 to drive it 500yds, much to the incredulity of my mates.

 

 

Aahh, memories.  I've now got a Zafira, which I respect highly for being a really good family car; the head won and the heart pines.

Screw it, time for a Mustang.

[samuir1974]

1991 Rover Metro GTi 16V mpi  - was a great little car!

 

[WeirdKerr]

Ford Fiesta - 1.1L Popular Plus. PRS 726W - making it a 1981 car - would be about 8 years old when I got my hands on it. Was proper posh - it had a radio cassette fitted!

Snap....

 

Only mine was an '81 X reg (AFE 680 X) in Beige with brown and orange stripe and brown interior.... and didn't have any in car entertainment

[mac11irl]

Learned to drive in a horrid 2000 reg saxo 1.0l that the sister inherited - she got shot of it for an accent in 04...

Saxo was replaced by a 03 CDX Getz 1.1l - great learner car and 1000 times more likeable than the saxo. Getz met uts demise in the back of an artic trailer hauling laptops and pcs for Dell, whilst now wife was (ironically) drivung it home for her drivung test the following day. Understandavly havung to do it in an unfamilar car - hers mums corsa- she was unsuccessful that first time...

[camelspyyder]

c.1958 Austin A35 off my uncle who had won the inheritance lottery and gave me his old motor as he had bought a brand new Granada Mk2 2.8GL wagon.

[Robjon]

1965 C registered Hillman Imp Mk1 with optional heater, undersized clutch and ridiculous front wheel camber.

 

Burnt valves, blew head gaskets and sheared head bolts - as did most Hillman Imps.

[VWD]

Wolseley  1500 . I got it in 1968 ,and it would have been about10 years old then . Only had one problem- oil leak from gearbox .

[RobClubley]

This!

 

 

I took the stripes off it soon after I bought it from my dad

[HJM12]

This    Absolutely love it!

 

[DanHam]

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Changed the engine and fitted some wild cams, idle was really lumpy, had about 130bhp but the potential of anything up to 145bhp with the cams setup, a map and raised rev limit!

Loved it!

[pee81]

A 4speed citreon ax

[mdon]

1991 skida favourit forum in moon dust.