What was your first car ?

[Robbie8666]

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]

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]

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

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

[Captain Haddock]

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  :eek  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  :o , 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]

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]

Bit like this one

[Oldgit]

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

Try well over the sixty mark :'( :pc

[narked]

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

[nick]

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]

Why ?

[1967fazer]

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]

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 :rollin

[mr grimsdale]

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

Try well over the sixty mark :'( :pc
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You dont count............. :lol

[FROGSIDE]

A Bond Bug.  :lol

Well, I could drive it on my bike licence!

[Tori]

MkII Escort estate, *read as 'in a state* :lol I paid £235 for it in 1990 and I loved it.

[VNA]

[VNA]

No edit button again I see.  Grrrr.

[VNA]

That's not the actual one, I shared  it with my Mum. 
Dreadful thing.  I spent every other weekend filling in the holes in it.  Then I pranged it against a gate post damaging the drivers side wing badly.  I drilled a hole in the side, got some wood in behind and pulled.  Out it came, but when I looked under the bonnet the bulkhead seam had split as well.  I, umm, just threw some more shit from the bulk buy tin of fibreglass I had.

I then eventually tried to kill it.  I never changed gear till it revved out, but it just kept going, gutless but bullet proof 850cc engine.  Top speed just over 60mph.  Could get stuck on steep junctions with three passengers and caused tail backs on long hills. 

It might have been dog slow but you could scare the shits out of folks with it.  Super soggy suspension, fly down farm tracks or just stick it up on two wheels going round roundabouts. 

I did see one that had been in a bad accident, it was spread all over the place.  Scary. 

But no the first car that was all mine, apart from buying it, was an Opel Rekord 2.0S.  My Dad gave it to me, it probably had well over 120,000 miles on the clock (the speedo didn't work for a while), it was worthless but it went.  I loved it, abused it and ran it into the ground.  It was totally focced by time I scrapped it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jk1971/4373773676/" title="Opel Rekord E 2.0S by jenskramer, on Flickr

Then I bought my Dad's old 1983 Cavalier SRi.  I wish I hadn't.  He been trying to run it on unleaded.  And my Dad's never wrong.  No it was him that burn't out the inlet valves it was me thrashing it.  Aye right.  So I learned how to get the head off and fix it.  Then I learned about stretch bolts and did it all again.  Then I leaned never to neglect cam belt changes, away we went again.  I was tempted to stick that head on with wing nuts and carry a spare gasket in the boot.  Anyway I wrecked that too eventually. 

Since I've had a 1992 Cavalier SRi, scrapped that, and now on a VW Bora 2.0S

[VNA]

Foccing no edit button  :groan