I was inspired by recent discussions in the Mk1 Fabia section by @nta16 and @TMB to make this thread, plus some photographs I found. Dead simple, post a photo, chat a bit. In theory, it sounds good.

 

So aye, who is going to get the ball rolling?

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Sticking with rear-engined Skodas, two of my past three, period photos.

 

1986 Rapid 130

 

 

1985 120LS (4-speed)

 

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4 minutes ago, TMB said:

My Escort 1600 Zetec (last car I had before my current Fabia)....

 

 

My Great-Great Auntie had a burgundy one of those until about 2012 when the bin lorry took it out! She used the insurance money and some that was stashed for one of those "Limited Edition" Corsas, only gave up driving at 88 a couple of years ago!

3 minutes ago, TMB said:

Me with my first car, a Hillman Imp, which I paid the grand sum of £70 for...

Boy were you rollin' in it £70 for a first car, back then!  You're just showing off. 😊  And another rear-engined buddle of fun.

 

I should recognised that road the Talbot Sunbeam 1.3 LS is on, think it might be Welsh.

 

I was just about to widen the scope of the thread with a non-Skoda model but you beat me to it.

 

1 minute ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

My Great-Great Auntie had a burgundy one of those until about 2012 when the bin lorry took it out! She used the insurance money and some that was stashed for one of those "Limited Edition" Corsas, only gave up driving at 88 a couple of years ago!

 

That's a shame but nice that she was able to drive for so long 

 

I absolutely loved my Escort, the Zetec engine was so smooth. Rust claimed the car in the end as was usually the way with Fords.

Just now, nta16 said:

Boy were you rollin' in it £70 for a first car, back then!  You're just showing off. 😊  And another rear-engined buddle of fun.

 

 

 

 

Haha

 

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I should recognised that road the Talbot Sunbeam 1.3 LS is on, think it might be Welsh.

 

Lake District

 

 

 

Just now, TMB said:

Rust claimed the car in the end as was usually the way with Fords.

 

Especially Fords of that era.

 

2 minutes ago, TMB said:

I absolutely loved my Escort, the Zetec engine was so smooth.

 

I've never been in an Escort actually. My Granda had sold his Mk5 (so the one before yours) by the time I came about. He bought a 1997 Mk1 Punto instead, that, like the Ford, rust also claimed... in 2011 though!

 

2 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

Especially Fords of that era.

 

Yes indeed 😁

 

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I've never been in an Escort actually. My Granda had sold his Mk5 (so the one before yours) by the time I came about. He bought a 1997 Mk1 Punto instead, that, like the Ford, rust also claimed... in 2011 though!

 

My dad had a Mk5 Escort. It was a horrible bloody thing to drive. The Mk6 was a lot better. I loved the way mine drove.

 

Oh yes, FIAT (Fix It Again Tomorrow)

2 minutes ago, TMB said:

Oh yes, FIAT (Fix It Again Tomorrow)

 

Yep, that Mk1 ate handbrake cables as if they were going out of fashion but wasn't as bad as his 0.9 Uno for head gaskets, mind you. He gave the Punto to my Granny (his wife) after buying himself a late-run 2001 Vauxhall Vectra B. He eventually did buy another Punto, and that would have been my car had it not scattered oil, bodywork, and bits of subframe across the MOT testing station at the last MOT.

 

The Vectra -

 

 

Bog standard black 1.8 16v LS. Could shift when it wanted to. My Granda banned my Dad from driving it after they were all travelling down to the Lake District and my Granda looked at the speedo... "55... 60... 70... 75... 85... 90..." and then he said something about it!

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I couldn't afford one of these new but went to a mate's test drive for one when they were first released, he could afford one, £12k new IIRC.  It was at Corby Co-Op Motors (Northamptonshire) and the salesman said to my mate he probably knew more about the car (100% he would) so jus threw him the keys, no paperwork, as quick and simple as turning up for the appointment, can you imagine that now!  As it was just us I drove first, with my mate telling me to slow down through the country roads even though we weren't going at great speed and then when he took over and drives a lot quicker than me I realised what he meant as a passenger.

 

It was the year we had a lot of rain and in the farm fields with hilly slopes the dug up topsoil mud had slid down, I'd never seen that before.

 

A number of years later I went to look at this car for someone I worked with and very surprisingly the very small local dealer had two of them in the very small showroom.  When I went back home to suggest my wife sees them she said she didn't really want to as she'd want to buy one  - so we did.

 

At the time it was the modern day equivalent to a MG Midget, if they'd made one then but they didn't, but of course this was much better.

 

 

27 minutes ago, TMB said:

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I should recognised that road the Talbot Sunbeam 1.3 LS is on, think it might be Welsh.

 

Lake District

Yes a bit lower scenery, doh.   No doubt we've been on it with a few tours over the years.

 

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Learned in a 2017 Ford Fiesta, passed in a 2019 one that was basically the same but with an extra set of doors. Both were 1.0 turbo lumps. 

 

Obviously learned in my Fabia at home, my Mum's Duster twice and a shot of the old Auris on private land.

 

Just now, AnnoyingPentium said:

Learned in a 2017 Ford Fiesta, passed in a 2019 one that was basically the same but with an extra set of doors. Both were 1.0 turbo lumps. 

 

Obviously learned in my Fabia at home, my Mum's Duster twice and a shot of the old Auris on private land.

 

 

You are so young, Ryan. You make me sick

1 hour ago, TMB said:

What cars did you guys pass your test in? I learned and passed in a white 1979 Chrysler Sunbeam 1.0LS.

I had a white 1979 Chrysler Sunbeam 1.0, basic spec, with tan vinyl upholstery as a company car!  But passed my test in a Mk1 Cortina (bench seat and column change) in August 1964.

Just now, Baxlin said:

I had a white 1979 Chrysler Sunbeam 1.0, basic spec, with tan vinyl upholstery as a company car!  But passed my test in a Mk1 Cortina (bench seat and column change) in August 1964.

 

Nice one

10 hours ago, TMB said:

What cars did you guys pass your test in? I learned and passed in a white 1979 Chrysler Sunbeam 1.0LS.

Toyota Starlet (rwd) school car, and an Opel Ascona 1.9 SR Berlina (Father's car for extra practice).

My first car, and the car that got me into Skoda.

 

 

Edited 10 February, 20224 yr by Kenny R

The cars that introduced me to Skoda weren't even in my immediate family really. The first was a Silverline Fabia belonging to a neighbour. I just thought it looked cool. The second was my cousin's Fabia vRS... that she rolled through a field.

 

I was quite taken on by a local Felicia too. All of these cars are presumably scrapped now, especially the one that was rolled. 

 

When looking for my first car I saw a dark blue 1.4 Fabia, bit of a shed but it was £850. That sold, so the red one was the choice, and here we are now.

11 hours ago, Baxlin said:

But passed my test in a Mk1 Cortina (bench seat and column change) in August 1964.

I passed my test in 1977 in my driving tutor's car, I can't remember what it was, certainly not one I was used to seeing, at the same time I was driving my own pre-reg, so at least 14 years old, Ford Consul Cortina (Mk1) 1200cc about 50hp perhaps when new (standard front seat and long gear lever out of the floor).  Old cars back then were not like old cars now most were really old bangers, and not "classic" either.

 

I remember when my licence arrived it was valid until 2030, in the next century, I couldn't imagine that time and being that old. 😁

 

Edited 10 February, 20224 yr by nta16

My second car, an Asta 1.3 GLS A reg. The picture is from halfway down the North Wales stage of the 1992 Lombard RAC Rally. It was the car I learnt to weld with (like all 80s cars...)

 

I still have the Cibie Oscar+ in the loft.

 

I passed my test in 1988 in a Citroën AX GT. I was a bit lighter then, but still 6'5". I didn't so much drive it as wear it. 😆

 

(no pictures of the first car, a V reg Escort mk2, £450 in 1988, rusted to mot failure in under a year...)

14 hours ago, TMB said:

What cars did you guys pass your test in?

 

i learned the basics of driving in my dads 1993 525i on the driveway at home in about 1997. i was 14/15...

my first actual lesson was in a 1.6 civic instructors car. first insurance was on a 2000 1.0 saxo (awful in every way, even as a learner!) then did  and passed my test in a 2003 1.1 Getz cdx - electric windows AND sunroof and a cd player! loved that car,  was written off by my girlfriend now wifes insurance after she (deeply ironically) low speed crashed into the rear bash beam of an artic lorry full of laptops at a roundabout, on her way home from our rental to sit her driving test the following day... she had to do it in her mothers 07 corsa and failed - unsurprisingly as she had never driven that thing and everything was different - gearbox layout, control stalks backwards, light switches in different place... desperate 😞

 

3 hours ago, Kenny R said:

My first car, and the car that got me into Skoda.

 

 

 

 

Ah, another Imp owner, and another J-reg too! You must have been a masochist like me