what was your first car

1960 Mini van 749 BVC

Anglia 105E 997cc 1964 model reg: CJJ201B with 5.5J steel wheels .

Cost: £210 from a garage circa 1971

[Edited on 10/6/07 by Surrey Dave]

mini clubman 1000

bought in 1979 must have been one of the first clubmans prduced as it was well knackered when I got it



[Edited on 10/6/07 by mookaloid]

my first car was a brown mk1 vauxhall astra i learned to weld on that car when i was a 17 year old apprentice mechanic in 1993. the car cost me £75 and as my parents didnt have a car or drive i had to insure it myself at a cost of £1200 but i wanted to be legal so had to pay it. iused to carry my documents with me as i used to get pulled by the cops all the time the look on their faces when they realised i was all legal was brilliant. the car looked a complete shed and they must have thought there would be no way it would be legal

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'74 Triumph 2000TC (used to tell the chicks it was a Stag with the hard top on!! )

Andy.

1984 1.0 vauxhall nova!!

A tatty mini 1000. I spent a fortune getting the body sorted and sprayed amaranth purple. I was at school, so couldn't do any more than change the exhaust, inlet stuff and the usual stage 1 stuff, as it had to be on the road. I thinkit was standard for about 3 weeks! Even at 17 I was allowed a 10 bhp increase for free with my insurance company! And that's a big difference on a mini.

my dads hand painted bedford pick-up (could'nt say anything to the chicks....couldn't see em for dust!)

1969 Alfa Romeo 1300 GT Junior, riddled with rust, gearbox with no syncro left, used to bounce out of reverse, but I learnt a great deal in a very short time (it was either learn or die in it!)

My Gran's old 1.1 MkI Fiesta - in gold
Rusting to bits.
Swapped it for an almost identical red one which was in really good nick - until I wrapped it round a tree

Volvo 345 DL (for deee lux) banana yellow.

Complete with bullet holes up the side

Blew up the engine in no time, never did like Renaults.

1988 Mk 4 Escort in Blue. Used to clean it religiously every weekend

A grey Moggy.......(Morris 1000)

I loved that car....... even if you had to double de-clutch for 1st gear ........

Fozzie

edit to add.... It was a 1958......same year as Peteff's ......

[Edited on 10/6/2007 by Fozzie]

W reg (first time around) Mini 1000 Bright Yellow with fred flintstone floor option fitted.

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A 1980 emerald green Ford Fiesta 1.1L complete with a very hady brown interior...

It was a shed, but I loved it

Mark

Brilliant motor .

Vauxhall firenza 2 door coupe looked like a magnum but was only a 1256cc painted red with bumper ect colour coded white rostyle wheels and lowered lol for some strange reason I thought it was well cool

Dave............

88 pinto sierra

1994 Rover metro 1.4 diesel in electric blue

A 1937 SS Jaguar - yes really Bought it for £50. Wish I had it now.

I buggered up one of the half shafts trying to bump start it and bought a replacement from a shady character that used to hang around Camberley.

I fitted the replacement, not realising that the knock-off nut was the wrong hand, soon sold the car to a mate. So it was he who was driving when the wheel came off No real harm done - the brake drum was almost as big as the wheel.

A dark blue Autobianchi A112 with a 900 cc engine in it, in those days I thought I could race anyone with it.
I"ve put a bucket seat in it and also a Momo steering weel, so I've had the idea that it would go faster...., but the roalholding was fantastic.

Citroen AX 1.0i - better acceleration than any other 1.0 and 50 MPG to boot. Good steering but lots of body roll. MASSIVE aquaplaning though

Frog-eye Sprite - also had the Flintstones floor option!

Magic on corners, but used to get left behind by 1500cc VW Beetles on the straight...

Wish I still had it, 'cos now I've got the skills to fix it.

Brown Renault 4, JDD 244N, nicknamed Elvis (because it would shake, rattle and roll )

1999 fiesta 1.25 zetec

an opel kadett city.

Blue Sunbeam Alpine Mk5 with the westlake head LOX448F Lasted 3 months until the head gasket blew big timelargely through racing a mate who had bought a TR5 . . . and consistently losing! Unfortunately the mate of a mate who was going to fix it turned out to be a junkie and the car disappeared:-( Next was a 1968 Renault 16 TS that had been bought new by my family. It ate half shafts and was terminally rusty but still did 100MPH racing a Porsche 924 (and winning!) in the last week I used it before MOT finally ran out

Caber

dont have a car yet only 16

give me 4 months and a week to be exact and then i will be driven something

no idea what the first car i drove was, too long ago

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Ford Cortina mk1 1500 super Grey with white roof.
CGC671B

God did I love that car, even when I converted it to 1600E mk2 spec and then beyond.

then one day I looked down and saw the road between the floor pan and the inner wing.
In nominee padre et spiritu sancte.

[Edited on 10/6/07 by jollygreengiant]

Mini 850 NMS 544P.

In a fetching shade of orange that was conveniently close to Red Oxide paint.

It seemed ancient at the time (1983) and needed sills doing, well it was a mini after all, but a quick bit of mental arithmetic tells me it was only 7 years old at the time I had it. I think I killed the engine eventually.
Things have really come on since then, imagine a rotten year 2000 registered car.

A 1959 mini 850cc as they all were then . Didn't stay standard for very long but really should have done something about the single leading shoe front brakes. Don't know how fast it was but speedo would go past the fuel gauge.

1997 vw polo 1.9D - and still have it , only been driving 3 years though.

MkII Escort 1300L RGN 323R, got me through me test, then I fitted a 1700 and a mexico front end till some bugger nicked it
hey ho, rear wheel drive, the best way to learn

Jason

1.4 VW Polo

1973 1.3 Marina. Red with a hand painted white Starsky & Hutch stripe

Escort Van - with a mattress in the back! Oh yes ladies, form an orderly queue

Steve

My donor car in Nov last year

Before that all I've driven is SWMBO's car and company hire cars.

Beige 1 litre Metro - I gave it the "pimp my ride" treatment by adding the passenger windmirror and the rear wash/wiper (didn't work!) class motor

1964 Rover 2000SC AOC165B. It had leather and and everything. Learnt to drive in it. It cost me £365 third party for the first year's insurance. As I was an apprentice at the time taking home £16 a week I sold it and bought a 1961 105E Anglia when the insurance came up for renewal.
David

1957 Austin A35, black.
There was a sense of impending doom when driving over 40mph.
It was beautiful, I rolled it end over end which spoiled its looks somewhat (but it still started afterwards!)

Dave

A 'D' reg mk2 fiesta 950 pop in red and rust given to me by my dad after he pranged it 3 times! it should really have been written off then but it gave me somthing to do for a year re-building it and making an copy of an xr2 all baring the engine as only 17 at time. To me it really did look the dogs dangalies after I sprayed it white. Unfortunately 1 week after putting the xr2 dash board in
I kind of killed it by pulling out of a junction in front of someone almost doing myself in at the time! Tought me a lesson though!

john.

Ford Fiesta 1100 S - BFC 338R in Metallic Brown (helped hide the rust) with Gold go-faster stripes. I loved that car more than my girlfriend of the time who took offence and told me where to go. I got in my pride and joy and never looked back

1988 Ford Escort 1.3 Popular. Cost £1000!

1975 (N) MK3 Cortina 1.6 L De-Lux Steel blue metalic with black vinyl.
Fitted a GT manifold and a 28/36 DCD - sold to a mate who who hand painted it the same as a picture he found of Noel Edmunds MK3 race car and then crashed it into a MK3 Granada.

Andrew

1975 Triumph Dolomite 1850 HL. Got it cheap as it had a front end smash. Got the bits from my mates dads scrappy and my uncle painted it but at 17 it was too expensive to run so got a 1976 Mini Clubman with more holes than floor but it had wide arches and weller wheels

mini clubman 1100cc

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Originally posted by GazzaP
1984 1.0 vauxhall nova!!

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A 1968 Vauxhall Viva HB. back end was mint but the front wings were almost all filler inc the bonnet hinge mounts

Fluffy material on the back shelf and all of 8 watt speakers.

Used to run on £5 of petrol a week

1.3l 1988 f-reg VW polo great little car

1.3l 1988 f-reg VW polo great little car

MKIII cortina, 2.0litre XL, PON 633M

Followed by a MKI 3.0 litre Ghia Granada, in proper sweeny colours, now that was a cracking car !

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Anglia 105e 997cc with stromberg carb,peco exhaust.band widened steel wheels and 1340 control arms.Speedograph dash and shag pile carpet.43bhp and thought i was the boy
happy days

1984 Peugeot 205GTI. Brilliant little car but cos me an absolute fortune in repairs. I worked out that during the time I had the car, all factors considered, it would have been cheaper to take a taxi to work every day and I worked over 100 miles away from home

Phil

1.0 litre Fiat uno IE mambo no less. Would love to say it isn't still my daily driver....

Technically first car was a '56 oval window beetle, I was given when I was 16. V rusty, and eventually scrapped.

"Proper" first car, ie me legal, it legal was mothers 1973 Fiat 500.

Sprayed it black with flames behind front arches

ATB

Simon

Pale blue MKIV Ford Cortina 1.6L, POL 806R.

1972 FORD ESCORT Mk1 1100 L in daytona yellow. VAV 716L and the start of a passion for cars, the quest for power, handling and everything mechanical ever since. OH and grimy dirty hands ever since. Happy days indeed where did they go

2.4 Mk2 Jag. £25.00 of a mates dad. Only had 55k on the clock. Garaged for 4yrs, put some go juice in and a charged up battery. Started first turn of the key.
Had it four days and some Ar$ehole Robbed the twin carbs and cam covers, then butchered the dash. Got £11.00 scrap!

Mark 2 Escort (P Reg) - road rally car. Lotus Twin Cam - bast*rd to maintain but lovely looking and running on Castrol R.

Arches, Bilsteins, full cage, LSD. Holes in floor...!

Did some stage rallies and scared myself!

Put a Pinto in it in the end. Then put it sideways into a stone bridge one night.

I wish I'd kept it and still had it under a sheet somewhere!

Wyn

UAA994M 1974 Triumph Toledo 1300 in ice blue, with doly sprint alloys

I had a 1275 MIni. Lovely car i want it back. I know where it lives and its a state now...

Austin 1300. It was scrap in the corner of the workshop, engine and knackered gearbox in another corner. Test to see what I'd learned; A case of I could have it if I could fix it. Complete strip and rebuild of engine (boss paid for the parts!). Machined out damaged gearbox casing, repaired and rebuilt. Lots of filler on the wings and new sills. Sold it 2 years later for £90.

Adrian

1971 Ford Crapi MK1 1.6L.
Paid over the odds for it but loved it to bits. It could understeer or oversteer and sometimes both, but I certainly learned a lot about driving with that old thing.
Kept it until the jacking point went up through the floor when trying to change a puncture.

Ah the fond memories!

83 Old "Y" MK 1 GOLF, Dark blue with a black bonnet as the old one rusted away

Black bonnets on modded tin tops now seem to be the way!

WOW i started a trend

Well, everyone else had motorbikes for the pit heap scrambling but for me at 14 years old, a BMW 2002!

First legal car at 17, blue '74 Morris Marina, 1.8 TC with a tacho! Nice and fast, at the time, thats how I learned to steer with the back wheels and thats why I hate front wheel drive cars now!

Gave it up when I passed me test and bought a Kawasaki Z1000ST. Oh, how I wish I'd kept that bike

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1938 Morris Series 2 Two door,(kerb sweepers), tourer. 27 bhp side valve engine. Swoopy wings, and running boards. Oh boy what a bird puller, I was the only one to have a car, all the rest had m/bikes. The car, by the way, was one year older than me, at the time. Ray

950 fiesta pop in cream MMMMM nice.

still never really let me down as they were simple as hell.

Regards

Agriv8

1973 Morris Marina Coupe 1.8, finished in a lovely shade called Harvest Gold.
bought and sold before i got a liciense
Traded up to a Viva SL 1974 M reg

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Originally posted by Surrey Dave
Anglia 105E 997cc 1964 model reg: CJJ201B with 5.5J steel wheels .

Cost: £210 from a garage circa 1971

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Ford Thames 15 cwt van.

1960 Austin A40.
Steering wheel the same size as a buses, substandard remould crossply tyres, then a MK1 Escort van.

1976 Ford Fiesta 1.1 S

1976 saab 96, which i still have and intend never too sell. Its getting further and further away from the road tho.

my proper fisrt car, ie one that i drive on the road is a 1988 nissan micra with four gears, is such a great car, gf loves it to bits.

I can't believe how young you lot are and so many "normal" road cars, must have something to do with the cost of insurance these days. My first car, a Ford E93A Special, that meant that someone had taken the body off and fitted a "sports" body that looked like a proper Bentley only much smaller. It came with cable brakes too, very useful for steering, push gently and hit the nearside curb, push harder and hit the offside one. Blind panic and it would stop dead straight. First legal road car a Turner Sports that in those days cost me £30 to insure at 17. Excellent car and had great fun eating sugar sandwiches in St Ives (well it was 1968), only problem with it the back wheel kept falling off. Never had a hood but still drove it all year round even though by then I also had a minivan for "rainy days", oh the joys of youth.

Regards

Keith

After my Ford Anglia came a 1959 VW Camper van complete with hippy flower paint job (it was the 70s after all) It had a habit of ejecting the steel hubcaps when undergoing 'spirited' cornering - they used to fly off like frisbees with a loud BOING!

I had a mk2 Escort at 15 yr old that never saw the road. Next car was a Mini 850 deluxe. I loved that car. Reliable - No. Pretty - big no. There is something about sharing your new found freedom with a mini - it stays with you for a lifetime. If i could find it id buy it back or at least want the plate - TBR 19V. I sadly think it is long gone.
How do you go about finding out if a plate is still in circulation?



After the Mini i had 2 Triumph Acclaims. Not a nice car by any stds but compared to the mini was luxurious and fast. After that was a succession of BMW's. I blame this route for my lack of learning with carb'd engines. Ive missed out on the usual ford cars and all the experience they bring.

You can see the DVLA database here:
http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/

The vehicle details for TBR 19V are:

Date of Liability 23 05 1991
Date of First Registration 14 09 1979
Year of Manufacture 1979
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 848CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Unlicensed
Vehicle Colour BLUE


So still unscrapped (officially), but either SORN or forgotten somewhere.

I had a 1981 Trabant 601...
600cc and 26 BHP. If you learned to drive the thing and keep up with the traffic, you could drive anything...

Gergely

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I had a Frisky three wheeler ( two at front ). It had a villiers 197 engine which had a dynastart ignition which allowed you to stop the engine and restart it running backwards giving you four speeds in reverse. Bike engined cars ?Ha beat you all by years. I wonder if I can get the zx9 to run backwards?
Ater that I swapped my BSA Road Rocket for a Triumph Herald which is when I learned all about rust.
AH The good old days.
Regards Kipper.

1982 escort 1300 cvh.
First thing I did was put shortened suspensions spring and change steering wheel. I had lot of fun with that car not only for the car but also for youth related. You know what I mean ...