What was your first car?

[ninjacj]

I thought my pickup was a cool first car, but a ford capri....[emoji7] [emoji7] [emoji7]

[softscoop]

K reg 1993 Ford Escort L 1.4 CVH EFI

 

I had an "interesting" feature in that you're waiting at a junction, put your foot down to pull out, and absolutely nothing happened for probably 0.5 seconds. The revs hardly moved off idle, and it would then take off like it should.

 

This was probably down crappy fuel injection system being so slow to react to anything.

Edited 13 May, 2015 by softscoop

[Updown789]

Mk5 51 reg ford fiesta 1.25 16v zetec. Lowered on zetec-s springs, put a full leather interior in, desilenced exhaust, sub and other ice. Was rapid for its size due to it being a dohc,but thirsty on fuel and burnt oil like crazy. Loved that thing, would buy another tomorrow.

[Updown789]

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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!

1600 with shawspeed cams?

[mk4gtiturbo]

 

Similar to above - 1985 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 GLS auto C52 WCG, bought off a friend at uni in 1995 - was actually a famous(ish) car as my mate was on Countdown (and won) and bought it with the winnings.  As it was efffectively a free car to him he let it go for next to nothing.  Should have been £1,500 but I paid the princly sum of £600 for it and insurance was also £600 TPF&T.  Had it for a few years then needed to rebuild the engine but the gearbox failed shortly after.  Sold it to a mechanic mate who replaced the box but then I believe it was involved in an accident an written off.

[sigarland1987]

A 1990 G Reg 1.0 Fiat Uno was the first car I had, never drove the damn thing and ended up going to my brother who promptly skidded it on some ice into someones mondeo. 

 

My first car I owned and drove was a 1997 Green 1.4 Corsa Vegas, what a cracking little car it was as well, I used to love it due to it having a six CD changer in the boot. 

[whitep]

1987 2.0l Sierra Sapphire Cosworth replica!

[bilun777]

1961 Austin seven ( mini.)

Powder blue,reg  666 AFW .

Great first car till I wrote it off at College.Hit a wall sideways on black ice.. :S

[Titanium_Man]

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

My first experience with a modded car was one of these with a Vauxhall Carlton engine in it. That thing shifted!

[Gti Jazz Blue]

Company Car for me first one was a Ford Fiesta 1.1L in dysentery beige COO 893X.

 

First car I owned myself, when we started our own company in 94 was a peugeot 205 XS (1.4 twin choke carb) as had to build up my own insurance no claims history, last company car before that was a Cavalier Sri 130 so a bit of a come-down to the 205.

[KenONeill]

And I still get to be the first to have had a Citroen ZX (Elation 1.4i 3 door, which looked like a sports model and could match them cross country as long as you could keep speed up).

[kilted]

1987 2.0l Sierra Sapphire Cosworth replica!

You mean it had the whale tail but nothing else?

[skomaz]

The first car I personally owned was a face-lift Y-Reg (1982) Vauxhall Chevette Hatchback 1.3 L in pale mushy pea green with a colour coded (green) interior and dash.

 

It was bought at the ripe old age of 17 with the earnings from my first job and it was the second we’d had in the family as my sister’s first car was also a Chevette but an older S-Reg (1977) 1.3 GL in red with a red checked interior.

 

I always wanted the two-tone limited edition one (light green metallic over dark green metallic with fancy wheel trims) so needless to say mine was soon modified with fog lights on the front, an uprated radio cassette, twin speakers in the rear side panels and a go-faster red stripe!

 

It was reliable apart from one major fuel leak (half a tank of fuel in 3 miles) but it didn’t like going much over 65mph where it started to get all floaty…

[whitep]

You mean it had the whale tail but nothing else?

No no whale tail. That's the hatchback. The sapphire wad much more elegant. My car had the full works and a heavily modified 2 litre pinto limp but no cozzie engine. I even fitted a telly in the dash a klaxon and strobes in the fog lights.

[finallysnapped]

1998 Land Rover Discovery 300tdi ES.

Electric everything, leather interior, chunky AT tyres, decat exhaust and removed EGR.

Also leaked a lot, so had regular soggy carpets.

Was starting to need a lot of welding hence skoda ownership. Hassle free, no leaks, or so I thought.

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[Chris B]

My first car was a 1977 Chevette, 24 years later and it still hides at the back of the garage.

Edited 13 May, 2015 by Chris B

[robt100]

Passed my test in 2008 aged 20 (no money before that!) First car, which I still have:  1986 Ford Capri 2Litre Laser. Bought it a year before I passed my test, Wasn't even having lessons at the time but saw a bargain and bought it! 72k on the clock, garaged and not used for last 10 years.

I then set it in a field for another year, then replaced rear brake cylinders and drove it to the MOT station 30 miles away.......Passed first time no advisories! And has done each year since

So to reward it I've sent it off to have a 2.9 24v cosworth engine fitted

Thought id best upload an image to go with the chat!! From back when it first went on the road....

[AlanRHB]

1998 Land Rover Discovery 300tdi ES.

Electric everything, leather interior, chunky AT tyres, decat exhaust and removed EGR.

Also leaked a lot, so had regular soggy carpets.

Was starting to need a lot of welding hence skoda ownership. Hassle free, no leaks, or so I thought.

 

 

You came from a Disco 300TDi ES as well finallysnapped... the Mk 1s are still very popular with off road enthusiasts as less engine electronics to be water damaged and easily customised ... I had a decent 1994 model until recently, (not my first car of course as I posted earlier in this topic) ... as your ES was,  leather, all electric, twin sunroofs, decat and no EGR, the pump had been tweaked as well so it went very well,  it had been bought by a friend of a friend who ran a race shop in the Midlands (Porsche and Ford Puma series prep for customers) as a tow barge, but changed their minds, bought another Merc Sprinter van to carry spares and tools as well as to tow, and sold the Disco to me.

 

 

Although I enjoyed the Land Rover, and it would cruise all day at 80mph, it was noisy and due to a need to increase my monthly mileage dramatically, 55mpg in the Octavia is far more affordable for me than 25mpg in the Discovery ...

 

Alan.

[Jaspire]

1974 Opel Kadet 1.2 Automatic in Red, rear wheel drive and an engine compartment you could sit in and work on. Kind of inherited from my brother in law. I was 16 and an apprentice mechanic, so I fixed it up, booked it for its not resit(used the first to find out what was up with it), and enroute to the garage the polis were pulling people for random checks. With no mot, road tax, insurance or licence, I felt stopping was a bad idea so indicated I was pulling in and when the copper turned away booted it round the one way system straight to the scrappy who gave me 25 quid for it and no paperwork. Used a fiver for a taxi back to work and that was the end of it. That car would be worth a few bob now. Poor wee motor.

[domhnall]

1985 Skoda Estele 120L

[lfc958]

One of these that drank fuel, & realised after i had gotten rid that it only needed points setting & a new set of spark plugs.

 

 

 

 

 

[Dallen75]

Mine was an awesome 1984 Opaline Metallic Greeen Austin Maestro with brown velour interior, but it had colour coded bumpers and when i saved enough money i lavished it with a pioneer pullout and. New 4" speakers, which of course were worth more than the car!!

[finallysnapped]

You came from a Disco 300TDi ES as well finallysnapped... the Mk 1s are still very popular with off road enthusiasts as less engine electronics to be water damaged and easily customised ... I had a decent 1994 model until recently, (not my first car of course as I posted earlier in this topic) ... as your ES was,  leather, all electric, twin sunroofs, decat and no EGR, the pump had been tweaked as well so it went very well,  it had been bought by a friend of a friend who ran a race shop in the Midlands (Porsche and Ford Puma series prep for customers) as a tow barge, but changed their minds, bought another Merc Sprinter van to carry spares and tools as well as to tow, and sold the Disco to me.

 

 

Although I enjoyed the Land Rover, and it would cruise all day at 80mph, it was noisy and due to a need to increase my monthly mileage dramatically, 55mpg in the Octavia is far more affordable for me than 25mpg in the Discovery ...

 

Alan.

 

I miss it in some ways, the sitting high up, the daftness of it, the once we had proper snow. But the difference now is the mpg obviously, now we take the Superb everywhere because comparatively it costs buttons to run. 

[matpilch]

mine was a fiat brava 1.6, bought by my parents in 2000, then passed on to me once I've got my licence.

it's now owned by a friend and still running strong (for a fiat) with 290k km on the clock (~180k miles)

[Rhys94]

Mine was a 1997 (P Reg) Peugeot 106, 1.5 Diesel. Was a nippy little thing to be fair.