Author Topic: What was your first car ? (Read 18808 times)

Kev8261 · « **Reply #50 on:** 06 October 2011, 01:14:55 pm »

E reg Mark 2 Cortina 1500 GT.

What a piece of junk, couldn't trust it to the end of the road, let alone work and back, still it did have all those dials on the dash.

mickdel · « **Reply #51 on:** 06 October 2011, 02:40:16 pm »

89 Ford Escort. Got it new. Didn't know any better at the time.

Shadrack · « **Reply #52 on:** 06 October 2011, 06:23:44 pm »

1954 Wolsley 4/44 £15.00 from Rock Ferry car auctions in 1968.

thecert · « **Reply #53 on:** 06 October 2011, 10:40:24 pm »

1947 Austin 8 bought it for £20.00 in 1963 but it smoked like a good ' ern. and was the first engine that I completely rebuilt, striped it and sent away the block for a rebore with new pistons and the crank for a regrind, when rebuilt I sprayed it gold like the Austin gold seal recon engines that were available for the sixty's BMC cars of thouse days.It looked a treat and could out accelerate a basic Mini in first and second gear.

phil on a fazer · « **Reply #54 on:** 07 October 2011, 10:23:25 am »

A red Renault 5 which was a bag of nails, clutch was on the way out so sold it to a women who lived over the road. ( i then moved house)

recently started working with the lady by coincidence....she wasn't too happy when she found out it was me who sold her the car

InTheY2K · « **Reply #55 on:** 07 October 2011, 12:03:58 pm »

Mine was a 1980 Volkswagen Passat in "frog green" as I liked to call it.

Very similar to this one:

It featured a sensational 55 horsepowers that was with replacement engine for the original 85hp engine. The gearbox was still original so you can figure the acceleration it produced ;-)

I spray painted a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers logo on the hood. This car was my pride and joy. Spent a lot of time in it, even only listening to music. *sigh*

HarryHornby · « **Reply #56 on:** 07 October 2011, 12:18:31 pm »

1983 - Y reg VW Polo 1 litre, black. I put a new stereo and parcel shelf mounted speakers in her and wired up a CB radio with an aerial attached to the roof gutter.

We did many miles together visting friends at various Unis and some travel for work plus traveling around away for football, it was the start of my freedom.

I live in Kent and we went to Cornwall, York, Lake district, Derby, Peak District, Manchester, Ipswich, Leeds, Silverstone for the British GP....

I remember almost getting stuck up Wrynose and Pass in the Lake District one february when I decided to pull over and admire the view. The hand brake hardly held and when I got back to start the car all the petrol had gone south and as darkness was starting to fall, along with the snow my car just about coughed and splutterd into life after several minutes of trying.

Happy memories :-)

mr grimsdale · « **Reply #57 on:** 12 October 2011, 07:51:02 pm »

Biggest majority of us on here going by the age of some of the cars must be over the 40 mark !

millemanuk · « **Reply #58 on:** 13 October 2011, 01:09:13 pm »

A 1977 Duck egg blue Ford Escort mk2 1.1 pop plus with a 1.3 cross flow engine in it. Pretty reliable. Parents bought it for me, ran it for a couple of years then changed to a 1983 Nissan Stanza!

InTheY2K · « **Reply #59 on:** 13 October 2011, 03:38:18 pm »

Quote from: mr grimsdale on 12 October 2011, 07:51:02 pm

Biggest majority of us on here going by the age of some of the cars must be over the 40 mark !

Yes. So? Any problem with that?

Robbie8666 · « **Reply #60 on:** 14 October 2011, 04:02:01 pm »

mine was a Renault 5 Gordini! loved it did all the work to it myself
woke up one morning in '88 to it missing reported it to the law who took me to a bit of waste land where fire brigade were hosing down 4 motors! mine was one of them along with 2 x mk 2 escorts and a chevette! GUTTED

Dead Eye · « **Reply #61 on:** 26 October 2011, 03:07:40 pm »

First car was a Peugeot 106 (1996) 1.5 Diesel in Red - it had no power what so ever but the mileage was great! Sold now and was replaced with a Volkswagen Golf Mark II (1991) 1.8 GTI (8v) in Oak Green

Instructorman · « **Reply #62 on:** 26 October 2011, 06:59:27 pm »

Beige Rover 2000TC, I can even remeber the registration number OAF435M

No comments about the "Oaf" please.....

Captain Haddock · « **Reply #63 on:** 26 October 2011, 07:40:49 pm »

Mk1 escort 1100, totally rotten so chopped it up and put the engine and gearbox in a mk1 estate that I got for £30, didn't have engine but it had 6 months mot left on it

, went on to pass another one too

eventually rebuilt a 2 door mk1 saloon and dropped a 1700 x flow in it, went like feck!
Went through loads of other heaps of junk in a series of swaps and cheap deals till finally got round to passing a bike test, even owned anal aggro estate with automatic gearbox once

, it was the biggest heap of crap ever invented, I got conned into owning it by selling a set of electric windows for £50 only find out it was £50 and the car he was offering, still managed to sell it for good money though

.

seangee · « **Reply #64 on:** 28 October 2011, 10:43:07 pm »

Wot - no jap scrap. Mine was a 75 (or thereabouts) Datsun SSS. Think it was called a bluebird here.
Sort of like this but much more rusted.

BIG MAC · « **Reply #65 on:** 28 October 2011, 10:52:11 pm »

Bit like this one

Oldgit · « **Reply #66 on:** 30 October 2011, 12:22:40 pm »

Quote from: mr grimsdale on 12 October 2011, 07:51:02 pm

Biggest majority of us on here going by the age of some of the cars must be over the 40 mark !

Try well over the sixty mark

narked · « **Reply #67 on:** 30 October 2011, 02:23:51 pm »

Mine was a 948cc Triump Herald Coupe, not a spelling mistake, but it was mising a small chrome H on the boot.

nick · « **Reply #68 on:** 30 October 2011, 07:54:32 pm »

Mine was a Triumph Vitesse 2 Litre which was a fast car for a 17 year old until i decided to take the back wheel off and the jack went staight through the Diff which was rotten,

born to be mild · « **Reply #69 on:** 02 November 2011, 08:23:28 pm »

Why ?

1967fazer · « **Reply #70 on:** 02 November 2011, 09:15:56 pm »

Bunch of old buggers on here then

. '69 Mini 850, that did about 10 mpg, was rotten as anything and often wouldn't stop! but it was all mine

peejay · « **Reply #71 on:** 02 November 2011, 09:33:13 pm »

1962 Austin minivan. green, go faster stripes, straight through exhaust and a mattress in the back. Ah those were the days

. Just out of interest, my first memory of buying petrol was at 4/6 a gallon for my Triumph tiger cub

mr grimsdale · « **Reply #72 on:** 04 November 2011, 08:35:56 pm »

Quote from: Oldgit on 30 October 2011, 12:22:40 pm

Quote from: mr grimsdale on 12 October 2011, 07:51:02 pm
Biggest majority of us on here going by the age of some of the cars must be over the 40 mark !

Try well over the sixty mark

You dont count.............

FROGSIDE · « **Reply #73 on:** 05 November 2011, 10:08:58 pm »

A Bond Bug.

Well, I could drive it on my bike licence!

Tori · « **Reply #74 on:** 05 November 2011, 10:26:48 pm »

MkII Escort estate, *read as 'in a state*

I paid £235 for it in 1990 and I loved it.