What was your first car
 

As the topic was on TG last night it reminded me of my very first car. Back in 1978 it was.....
A Red Vauxhall Victor 2000 SL (like the one on Randle and Hopkirk). My mum insured it for me in her name for me to "drive to the shops" . I really loved that car for all of 6 months and 2 gearboxes before I wrote it off. Hit a hedge, tree, wall and killed 6 garden gnomes the bloke from the house went nuts saying He had 2 kids asleep in the house, didnt help my pissed up mate saying
"your lucky they,re not playing in the garden"....cue the police
3 points £50

Mine was a mini clubman estate, loved it :D

Mine was a 1989 white 1.4 Vauxhall Cavalier I bought from my dad for £1(!)
I used it as a part ex for the Astra - it got me £1 discount and a CD player :lol:

Vauxhall Chevette 4 door, VFY 35V. Went to the scrappies after it rusted itself to pieces infront of my very eyes. Loved it though.:wub

mine was a fiat uno turbo that i got from auction with my dad at 16, i said it was a 1.0 badged up as a turbo :lol:.went through 5 gearboxes in a year :blush: then it caught fire whist i was driving it , i was not happy

Rover Metro 100

cost me £500 and lasted a year- drove every place in it

took it off the clock on the m4 once- never did it again :):)

mine was vauxhall viva 1157cc 1972 with the horizontal speedo :lol: had a great laugh with that until i hit fiat x15 lol snapped the engine and gearbox clean off its mounts lol

Dave

mk1 escort 1300gt,with forest arches on it,came like that im afraid.

Denim Metallic Blue, 1.0l Metro... with black front wings, rally steering wheels and a scary expression on my face!!

Mine was a black vauxhall Nova 1.4. Oh yeah....

Loved that car.......lol

Suzuki SC100

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It was everything you could want from a first - A coupe with a rear engine and rear wheel drive for doughnuts, a rev counter and sports steering wheel so you felt you were in a sports car, and a 1.0 litre engine so you didn't actually go anywhere fast, but at least you could insure it.

Sadly couldn't insure it against the rust though........

a green mini 1000 , wish i still had a mini, but you can't get 6 kids in one:cry:

Were they concieved in it :woot:

Nissan Cherry Europe, shocking car, I had 2 :woot:

1971 mini 1000... turquoise with a gloss black roof... went for miles in it to the east coast every w/e for 2 yrs... 14" paddy hopkirk steering wheel, home made steering column drop bracket, walkers crisp box dizzy cap cover... it cost me £250 'n ended up being p/x'd for a turquoise (again..!) Datsun sunny 120y... got mi £250 back on it... result!

mk1 astra 1.2 brought off my brother. think i had it nearly 3 weeks before i spanked it the first time :wtf:

I had a datsun 120y, i hit a dog and it cracked the chassis so i scrapped it and 2 days later the police knocked me up at 2.30am it had been involed in a armed robbery...mmm not exactly sweeney material :lol:

just remembered i put a 10" steering wheel in the mini, even in a small car it made it fun to park:blush:

alfasud 105Ti

very fast & awesome handling but dissolved in a matter of months :bored:

Mk 1 Astra 1.3. Metallic maroon/brown with beige interior and faded chrome trim round the arches, bonnet lip etc, didn't stay on for long, had it for 6 months untill the mot ran out, it failed on account of the A and B pillars having rusted away from the bottom of the car :lol::lol::lol::lol:

lol... did the same in mine... spun it round in the girlfriends cul-de-sac but only the steering wheel rotated... :wtf: the car just went straight on!!! totalled her neighbours gate... ending up nipping some yellow mole grips on the splines for a week or two... Ahhh... those were the days!

hey, why do "modern" used cars never rust like they used to? it just ain't fair... you young uns don't know you are born!!! :thumbsup:

Mk2 Golf Gti :p

i had a Fiesta MK2 XR2 , colour coded all white, my Dad bought the car and i paid the insurance , i ended up paying more for insuring it :cry:, was like a go kart though :D:D

1963 Mini Seven, complete with fibreglass covers where the structural sills should have been!! :eek: Kept it a year, and swapped it in for a 1965 Austin 1100 with a Cooper S engine, special metallic green paint and a vinyl roof - babe magnet in 1977!!

Had some nice news this week. My 1996 Peugeot 306TD, sold to a mate's mother-in-law for £600 with 150k on the clock was used on a scrappage deal for her new car last week. With 195k on the clock (original clutch and fuel pump!!) it fetched £2k under the scheme leaving her with a shiney new VW Fox. Now that's what I call a deal!! :thumbsup:

mine was my great grandads singer chamious sport wich he had from new .lol was and old h reg still got it in my uncles feild .didnt use it for long was way to scarry no breaks ,2nd car was my mums triumph dolly sprint in british racing green with yellow allys on it what a wepon that was :woot:

A Vauxhall Chevanne van :drool::woot: CLV54X like this but in pale blue white roof and white rear panels :wub

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Lancia Delta 1.3! I swore blind I was Carlos Sainz ;-)
It was ace until the gearbox fell out...

I should have learnt from that about Italian cars but it takes a while...

Mine was a 1989 G reg 1.0L Citroen AX. Worse thing i have ever owned.

Red Mk3 ford escort.
It was ace...until 1 week after me passing my test, some old bloke threw his renault estate at it and wrote it off!!


...and they say the young 'uns are the worst drivers!

Hmm, I was 17 he was 63 and he was the one that was looking round the footwell of his car for a casette whilst travelling downhill towards a junction!!
decided he'd try to replace the rear bumper of the escort into the back seats...and almost did it, my mum, little brother and the shopping stopped it from going any further!

1970 datsun 100a in putrid faded yellow. i managed to get 55 out of it once, engine never was the same after that.......

Looking through the posts there majority seems to be Vauxhalls.
My first car was a mk1 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 l.
Was in a lovely shade of armitage shanks toilet blue.
I sold it on with a boot full of water .:D

1987 D 1.0 Metro D924 CPL :blush:

Peco back box for 3hp at the wheels ;)

My god it was dire ...........

Snapped knicker elastic at 200 yards those babies :woot:

First one I owned a MkIII Cortina 1600XL sunburst red rostyle wheels firestone semi slicks blue alloy Gabriel shocks all round, twin electric aerials, and what must have been the first onboard graphic equaliser with red leds on the dash in 1980:lol:
Plus twin 110 watt wipac hair raisers on the front and rectangular fogs underneath, as was the rally set up of the day.
Vast improvement on driving my Mum's renault 4 or the Daf 44 variomatic my Dad bought her she refused to get into:D

1973 VW Beetle 1200 (standard) FFW 805L. Powder blue with no extra's at all. Total vinyl interior and rubber floor covering which was good as the Lee Challenger crossplies it was on meant bugger all grip, so after you'd pee'd yourself negotiating a roundabout at 5 mph, you could hose it out :lol::lol:. Also discovered it had concrete in the heater/sill channels whilst trying to work out why the heater didn't work. Probably long dead now but bizarrely I spotted another Beetle (looked like a 1300/1500) registered 2 digits off (FFW 803L) in Barnsley a couple of months ago. I do NOT really miss that car, it was crap but it taught me loads about oversteer.

A beautiful Vw polo, saloon. That bad boy in 'Mars red number 2' had it all. :pA massive 1043cc. 185 tyres- jees that was wide in 1991. Wheel arches, spoiler in contrasting black and a gear selector that i had to build up with washers so it wasn't like stirring porridge:lol: Combine that and a radio cassette pumping napalm death no wonder the chicks came running, or was that ran away:eh?:
Me and my best mate rocked. He had a blue shuvette, missing bumpers so his dad 'fabricated' some out of black guttering:lol:

Oh, I dunno, Rover kept the flame alive until they went under, it's weird their 75's and 200's/25's/MG ZR's seem fine but there are loads of gammy 400's/45's/MG ZS's around our patch yet the Honda Civic version seems immune. And have a look at the rear arches on any pre-2005 Mazda MX5, you WILL find metal maggot starting to have a nibble, honest. But yes, generally it's just not fair is it, fancy the kidz being brunged up not knowing the joys of sculpting aluminium mesh and Isopon P38 :lol:, garnished with a layer of Plastic Padding.

My mate had one of them. The heat exchange had gone sending fumes through the car. The heater takes its heat from the exhaust system, we arrived everywhere strangely giggly. :lol:

1971 mini clubman bought while away at collage in lowesoft end of term drove it all the way back to north wales fully loaded with stuff had it for 1 year till the brakes just stopped working one day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

NO only in the back ;) :woot: