What was your first car ?

[flesh]

1984 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 as a back up to my then commuting tool of a Honda CB250 Super(wet)dream

[DryRob]

1991 1.6 metallic blue Ford Escort, was a Ghia so had leccy windows and a large dent covered in primer on the front wing. Got it free when my old man got a new car, insurance was over a grand but still worked out cheaper than buying and insuring a 1 litre Clio/Punto/106 like my mates had. Had to scrap it when I went to uni cos I couldn't afford to run or insure it and the repairs would have cost more than I'd have got selling.

[TheToaster57]

Maroon MkII Cortina 1300; this was in 1974 eeek then I jacked it up 'til the headlights only lit up the floor under the bumper... what a pile of shit. HTM991F where are you now? Probably recycled as a coke can and all the better for it........................................

[dickturpin]

K reg blue mini clubman estate, the one with the 4 inch wide wooden strips down the side!

[helen]

A white Austin Allegro........with the square steering wheel!! 
 
I'm sure one day it even reached 80 mph (downhill with the wind behind it)

[The Rocketeer]

XR3i 

[dazedandconfused]

An Orange 1978 Opel Kadett 1.2

[Aegis Bearing Mel]

A silver A reg Vauxhall Nova, cost me £40.
Comedy gold, dubbed her the Mystery Machine as it was a mystery how she kept running.
Fuel filler had a huge crack running down it so couldn't have the tank more than half full or fue pished out every time I went rounf right handers.
Front shock spring cracked, rear panels more rust and filler than anything else, cut out every now and then due to a dodg fuel feed...

Man,  I LOVED that car.
 

[slappy]

Is it just me or have most of us had shitty cars in crap colours?

[dazedandconfused]

Is it just me or have most of us had shitty cars in crap colours?

Let me put it this way.

It's not just you! 

[gerkin]

1973 1300 m1 escort

[Dave48]

1965 Austin Minivan DEX 174C with wide wheels,big-bore exhaust, twin spot & fog lamps in grille, all held together with lashings of rust under the blue paintwork and black roof. This was the dry sprung model not hydrolastic and drove like a go kart. Paid my mate Steve £100 @ £10 a month. Steve passed his bike test before me in 1966 and had a Villiers powered Norman 197cc two-stroke single. I was riding a Lambretta  TV175 with polished ports , Ancilloti exhaust, and I could usually beat him from a standing start although eventually he could pip me on top speed. Although slow by modern standards I seem to remember we overtook a lot of cagers. Cars began to get better(quicker) with the crossflow engine Fords. Steves brother had a Janspeed conversion Morris Minor convertible with twin SU carbed 1275 tuned engine. Looked shabby but it shifted! Petrol was 6 bob a gallon in 1965 (30p in modern jargon) Happy days!

[tartanleathers]

1983 Y Reg Volvo 340 GL 3 dr in Baby Blue. My folks couldn't see past Volvo's at the time & were mega safety conscious.
It's was immaculate to be fair. At least when I got hold of it
It died an undignified death heading thru a hedge backwards, before smashing into a tree.
I did buy a scrap 340 & kinda rebuilt it, but it was never the same.

Sold it & bought an XR2. That was truly awful!

[mr grimsdale]

Fuel filler had a huge crack running down it so couldn't have the tank more than half full or fue pished out every time I went rounf right handers.
Front shock spring cracked, rear panels more rust and filler than anything else, cut out every now and then due to a dodg fuel feed...

Man,  I LOVED that car.
 

Sounds a bit like your last bike 

[fazed600]

1980 Mini 1275GT, in black and rust, bought for £750 and sold for £750 a couple of years later. Great little fun car, replaced with a 1984 Jaguar XJS 5.3 V12.......

[Aegis Bearing Mel]

Sounds a bit like your last bike 

 

[SEPTIKANGEL]

1978 Reliant Robin 850 super, tipped it onto its side at20 MPH, 2 of my mates climbed out through the passengers window and flipped it back onto its wheels, took it home and filled the door pillar with P40 and was back on the road an hour later, got it free off an old uncle, ran it a year and sold it for £500.

Mine was a Regal saloon, early 70's and I made it outta 3 scrap Regals, one with a good engine, one with a solid chassis and the other with half decent bodywork, Jeez, my Mum hated me and Dad fixing that up, what a mess, but it got me going.  Well, other peaople did actually 'cos it always needed pushing to get fired up   Slept in it too overnight at Oulton Transatlantic Races with three mates, we we're a lot smaller then, but even so I ended up just lying underneath the drivers sill 'cos the glove compartment was already full of someone elses feet.    Wot a grin, great car on two or three wheels and real fun in the snow, always had to make my own tracks.

[Just Anne]

A 1982 Caprice 2.0S, black with white go faster stripe, recaro seats and alloy wheels. Paid 1175 cash. It was later stolen from Nottingham City Hospital where I worked. When it was found it had no seats and odd wheels!

Anne

[Grahamm]

What car? Never owned one!

[Skippernick]

Showing my young age here,


A white 1993 renault clio 1.2. I was great until i grew up and part exchanged it for a Audi coupe quattro 20v. that was better.

[scoobie_paws]

1984 Ford Capri in british racing green. Twin headlight one like bodie and doyle's in the professionals 

[GrahamB]

S reg' Morris Marina coupe 1.3 Racing green when I bought it for £350.00 in 1988. Me & a mate sprayed it satin black one Sunday afternoon for something to do. Sprayed the dash & head lining too so had to drive with windows open for a few days until the fumes cleared. Had I kept it to this day it might just about be worth what I paid for it by now? 

[Rehab]

D Reg Ford Sierra 1600L In black, it was 8 years old when I got it. Was given it, sold it to a mate for £200 a year later and he donated it to another mate a year after that. It died an honourable death as a banger racer!

[Hodge]

Back in the mists of time I remember it as being a white Austin 1100.

[ReNcE]

paid £50 for an old Xreg terracota red (brick brown lol) MkI 950cc Fiesta