What was your first car?

[kiraanastasia]

This    Absolutely love it!

 

No way the citigo was your first car! That's so cool haha. I love mine

[MattHunt]

My mother's 1983 (?) Polo, B49 CGO. 1043 cc and when you hit 90 (young and dumb ) the bonnet positively shook...probably as a reminder to slow down!

I took it properly at around 45k and often took it to Aberystwyth to see my girlfriend. Filled up near Junction 7 on the M25 it would just reach Aber on fumes.

In 1998 I drive it to Bordeaux and back. We limped on to the ferry on the way home and just about rolled off in England. I think I pushed it to the local garage the next day.

It died at 104k with rust along the door sills and a piston ring gone.

[Rooted]

First when 16 was a D Reg Hillman Imp as a project to rebuild the Engine & Respray,

swapped for a Ford Anglia to do a Engine transplant in which was sold to buy my first Road car to pass my driving test in.

A Mk2 Ford Cortina.

(like this example but resprayed in the Original Colour & Diamond White above the Body Line and to the Window Line.)

Edited 12 May, 2015 by goneoffSKi

[Richf]

One of these, same colour, should be in the "What car thread" super , super rare, not seen another in the UK ever of course didnt know how rare it was at the time

 

PTC 257S iirc

 

 

[Kenny R]

My first car was a Hilman Imp

[dbg400]

A poverty spec L reg Escort 1100 estate. This is the closest to it I can find, but mine never looked this good.

 

[XLBaconDoubleCheese]

Vauxhall Nova 1.3SR. I was the don amongst a sea of escorts and base spec corsas at 17.

Loved it, wish I'd not binned it off for a crappy punto

[ChrisRs]

My first car was a Hilman Imp

My mother had a white one..I borrowed it after I passed my test ...She replaced it for a Datsun 100A Cherry (Great car!!)

[Scribbler]

Vauxhall Nova 1.3SR. I was the don amongst a sea of escorts and base spec corsas at 17.

Loved it, wish I'd not binned it off for a crappy punto

 

Have that slightly trumped I had the 1.4 sri fuel injected 8v Later version. It was a rocket in comparison.

But my first car was a 1996 Renault Clio 1.4rt which I fitted keyless entry too and a push button start. Awesome Car once I had sorted the suspension and tuned the engine.

[James3107]

Have that slightly trumped I had the 1.4 sri fuel injected 8v Later version. It was a rocket in comparison.

But my first car was a 1996 Renault Clio 1.4rt which I fitted keyless entry too and a push button start. Awesome Car once I had sorted the suspension and tuned the engine.

And hopefully traded in those Lexus lights!

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[BossFox]

1982 (LYH145X) Ford Granada GL 2.8 (carb) V6 Estate.

 

What a tank to be driving at 17.

 

 

Like this, but the spec level down.

[Guest]

Being of an older generation first car was an Austin A30 for £50 to get to work. No floor on passenger side - carpet and Isopon!

Was so good was overtaken by a pushbike when Carb (solex) was not performing.

Hillman imp with Auto choke - Big ends went on that then to a moggie traveller - best ever really - simple and it worked.

Ah the days of real motoring!!

[Scribbler]

And hopefully traded in those Lexus lights!

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Trust me 15 Years ago Lexus lights where the dogs knob, I now fully understand they are a catastrophic error. However trends change and I was a pioneer ;-)

[James3107]

Trust me 15 Years ago Lexus lights where the dogs knob, I now fully understand they are a catastrophic error. However trends change and I was a pioneer ;-)

Haha the original trend setter [emoji41][emoji41][emoji41]

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[James3107]

I can't exactly comment on Lexus lights however..

My first car... Which I thought looked cool with tescos finest tights on the rear lights [emoji85]

However this didn't last long... As I thought I was Lewis Hamilton at this point... Which came to an abrupt halt once I realised I actually wasn't..

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[Ally_bassman]

02 Reg Skoda Fabia 1.4 Silverline.

Mum and Dad bought it new from the new Skoda Dealership in Warrington. They were going to buy a Polo from across the road but the service they got from The VW was shocking and the salesman didn't care. So they took a risk on 'Skoda are now owned by VW'

As the dealership was brand new and they one of the first to buy a car from them, they were invited to the official opening hosted by Tiff Needell! I remember going along and meeting him as an excitable 12 year old. An extra result, the dealership was paired with a high end German car garage, so one side was Skoda the other was Brabus and RUF IIRC!

With it being Warrington, the exciting side didn't last long....funnily enough.

Anyway, we had the car 10 years and it was passed down to me as my first car at 17. I loved having the kudos of 'the only lad in college with a 1.4!' Even though it was a rattly old chain driven lump from the early 90's......

It took me all over the country following my passion of riding mountain bikes and in that time took a pounding from my young, ham fisted and at times silly driving.

I loved it so much that I just had to get another to replace it when I left uni and got my first proper job. Its last gift to me was a deposit for my then dream car, a MK1 Fabia VRS!

When leaving at the dealers, my Sister and I had a lump in our throats, its funny how you get so attached to these things. I've always said, if I see it for sale I'm going to buy it, but I've yet to find it. ;-(

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[Aspman]

Nova 1.3 you lucky lucky ******. How we could only dream of a Nova 1.3.

 

Mine was an Astra 1.3 Merit in Mexico Red. Same engine as the Nova. Uglier than a bulldog licking **** of a nettle.

Hard to find any pictures of it (not GTEs) since it was so pigging ugly.

 

Doors were conveniently easy to open with a brick and a screwdriver. Not convenient to me but to the guys that broke into it twice

 

Poverty spec, you don't know poverty until you've driven the Astra merit, the clock was an optional extra. It did come with and AM radio though. No tape deck.

 

However since it was just an engine, 4 wheels and a few seats there wasn't much to go wrong, it cost pennies to run and was epic in the snow on the cheap skinny rubber I had fitted.

Best thing about it was that it was quite roomy for when out and about or more specifically parked in the dark with the lass

 

Here is a 5 door. I couldn't afford such luxury.

 

[Tilt]

"V" reg Volvo 345DL. Used to travel to Skeggy as I worked as a merchandiser, setting up new Safeway supermarkets. When 'flying' down the A52 there was as much daylight between the door and pillar as there was coming through the windscreen, Lol.

 

Earned more in mileage allowance than I did in wages, Lol.

 

My dads was a Ford Anglia, and we had an old Bedford ambulance ARA 195L.

[Jrjg]

A Y reg 1.1i (i for INJECTION!!) Peugeot 206. It was pimped to the max when I bought it, with 17" alloys, low profile tyres, red painted calipers and drums, tinted windows, a black strip across the windscreen, metal sill covers, 'Lockwood' clocks, and a daft rear bumper that belonged on a 206gti. At least a gti would of been able to back up the look. I joked that my car was "a lamb (not even a sheep) in wolf's clothing". Still, with £400 worth of amp and sub, it was the car of my teenage years, driving many many miles with friends, trips to Glastonbury, random 'let's see where this road goes' road trips, as well as hours and hours spent in the winter months learning to slide in the ice and snow. I spent too much money on it but don't really regret it as I'd of been lost without it. Although I do regret giving it to webuyany*** for ~£150, I wish I'd of crashed it into as many walls as I could find and tried to flip it instead. Or taken it to a field and seen how far I could make it fly off a ramp.

From that to a Fabia vRS was such a jump in performance, the fab scared me for a little while, and still does from time to time two years later.

JRJG

[nbJubilee]

Mine was a 1954 Ford Zodiac in Dorchester Grey and Canterbury Green. Leather seats too. Registration was OND596.

[petrolbloke]

 

1994 Honda Civic 1.3

It was a brilliant little car, cost peanuts to run and was a great little car to drive. Wish I still had it!

[matt_theforce]

'B' registered Vauxhall Nova Saloon. Same color as the picture (same interior too)

 

 

After a little problem with the 1L engine dis-integrating, a 1.6 was promptly fitted by a friend. (no idea how I'm still here to tell the tale)

[Penpusher]

1955 Morris Minor OBC 507, with an 803cc engine pushing out a heady 30bhp!  It had the split screen and semaphore arm indicators.  It was the deluxe model , so it came with such "luxuries" as a wiper for the passenger half of the screen!

[dazz600]

Vw polo in 1991

Bought an 1988 'E' reg

1050cc and £850 to insure

A lotta money back then

Now got a Fabia so gone full circle.

[deecee]

A 1964 Ford Anglia 998 105e bought for £35 in 1972 , this very soon morphed into a 1200 cc after buying a scrap Anglia 1200 , shortly after this I decided to rebuild the 1200 body shell as the headlights on mine had started to point skywards and I discovered the guy who sold it to me had filled both front wings with WALL filler which the rain had  stated to soften .

 

At the time I worked for Fodens the lorry manufacturer in Sandbach so had access to crackle black sheets (remember crackle black anyone) , I decided to cut all the rust out and weld in new bits , manufacture a dash that Boeing would have been proud of , respray and re trim . The finished shell was sprayed in black hammered enamel , and the interior was painted with black upholstery paint to make it look like new , the seats had slip over rally style covers with big side bolsters .

 

For the dash I scoured scrapyards and eventually found a set of Lotus Cortina main instruments which gave me a 120mph speedo , I then also fitted numerous gauges down a centre console feeding me all sorts of useless info , so many in fact you could have a crash whilst scanning them .

 

The ICE was taken care of by a battery driven cassette player which dropped into a frame I made and attached to the drivers arm rest , coool .

 

At this point after pouring over loads of Car and Car conversion articles (best ever motoring mag) I decided no way was I going to stay a lowly 1200 so back to the scrap yards and got my self a 1500 engine and 2000e short shift gearbox which I duly fitted .

 

I then discovered why tripple c recommended fitting Cortina GT back axle and front strutts with disc brakes , with std diff the rear wheels just spun up at the slightest touch of the throttle and once moving it was a long wait before the front DRUM brakes decided to try and slow the car , so back to the scrap yards to find a rear axle and strutts which I fitted , the car now stopped ok but still spun up the tyres fairly easy , this was partially solved by the fitting of wide wheels with equally wide radial tyres , 175s no less , whoo hooo she looked the dogs doodas .

 

My final project on her was to enlarge the engine , the Ford pre crossflow engines allowed you to mix and match parts and end up with various capacities , mine ended up at 1725cc If i remember correctly and was fed by a sidedraft Webber Carb , realistically I would have got better mpg with a bucket and funnel but petrol was so cheap then , she was my last Ford I was into Imps after that .