What was your first car ?

[paul1606]

H reg hillman minx 1500cc of sheer hell, seized & been standing 18 months at the back of my uncles .Bought it off him for £50 unseized it ,got it through an mot 17 years old... downhill....off the clock......blew it up.......end of.

[BIG MAC]

1967 Singer Vogue bought from a chef at the Albany hotel Glasgow I only met the guy the once but remember his name was Keith Luck (Kluck to his mates!)
Bought it in 1980 while also being the owner of a CB250T both were considered outmoded...both were quicker than the unitiated may think

[chilly]

brown austin allegro 1750 HL with a full length windey vinyl sunroof :lol  it used more oil than petrol. it rotted so badly underneath that the drivers seat went through the floor one day when i sat in it. my uncle managed to bodge it with some steel plate from work. when i eventually scrapped it for £20 i bought a brown datsun 120Y. a little belter it was too!

[imax]

X reg Corsa 1.2. Was brand new as they had a decent finance package and the first years insurance was free. Sold it after 7 months as I'd gone from young free and single to married with children and needed something a bit more family friendly

[Oldgit]

Rielly Kestrel 1300--all rosewood veneer on the inside and boy could it shift.

[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!!  :o

I'm sure one day it even reached 80 mph (downhill with the wind behind it)

[dr bong]

XR3i  8)

[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!  :lol :lol :lol

[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  :rollin

[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.......