Reply With QuoteMini 1275gt.
Fantastic fun, held the road really badly, wheel-spun extremely easily, would never start, electrics never worked, fell to bits.
Probably both the best and the worst car I've owned.
So, what was your first one?
Mine was pinnacle of soviet engineering - ??? 965. *Design, as usual, was stolen from italians.
Engine was in the back of the car.
in a front trunk there was spare wheel and fuel tank.
I bought it, restored and drove for a year or two. After that I got fed up with this miracle of soviet engineering.
photos are not mine.
Mini 1275gt.
Fantastic fun, held the road really badly, wheel-spun extremely easily, would never start, electrics never worked, fell to bits.
Probably both the best and the worst car I've owned.
Mini 1000...... in greeeeeeeeeeeen errrrrrrr :shock:
Loved that car , I even managed to get my leg over in it :lol:
Talbot Samba. Quality motor, passenger door had a habit of flying open on roundabouts.
Brighty
Rover 214Si with the walnut dash :roll: :lol:
mmmmmmm (not my picture)
Ahem, Polski Fiat :lol:
Fiat uno 45 for me, and I have nothing positive to say about it. Total bin.
Ford Anglia 105E
1 year, 10k, no probs :)
Not my pic, but the same colour I had
1955 Ford Popular. Rod brakes (that hardly worked), no heater (apart from vents to the engine bay that oozed warm, blue smoke), vacuum wipers (that stopped when you went up hills), semaphore indicators (that stuck in cold weather and you had to bang the side of the car to get them back in!), transverse springs (fun on corners), skinny cross-ply tyres and a starting handle for when the 6v battery went! As you can tell, I loved it! :lol:
Mike
Scirocco GTi - Black, fast, and Springsteen on the stereo - happy days! :D
Xr3i in White with with White heat stickers,janspeed exhaust etc,well I am from Essex.
Me too, but an estate, a bit like this one, happy days. Easy to fix, cheap to run. 5 engines in 6 years, each one a bit bigger than the last.....Originally Posted by redmonaco
Ford Anglia 105E
1 year, 10k, no probs :)
Not my pic, but the same colour I had
E reg Nissan Sunny
that motor
BMW 525e, like this:
A damn sight nicer than my mates' 1.0 Fiestas, Novas and 105s.
Bought for 600 quid from my friend's dad when I was 17.
1983 Y plate Ford Fiesta 1.1L
According to Ford it was a colour called 'Dove Grey'. That's beige to you and me.
No pictures remain, sadly but mine was a bright yellow Renault 5 1.3 auto, with vinyl roof. Achingly slow but it did the job. Some years later I bought the 1.4 auto and it was a much better car for it.
1984 mk3 Escort 1.3L - so crappy it only had a 4 speed box, and was a flat baby blue colour. Bolted a Halfords rev counter on top of the dash and added XR3 wheels, as you do. Oh to be 17 again :lol:
1973 Ford Escort mk1 1300L that looked very much like this.
The oil warning light was yellow, and the alternator warning light was red. I thought they were the other way round, so when the yellow light came on, I revved it harder. I killed it.
Cool thread....
In 1996, at the age of 16, I got myself a 1966 Austin A60 Cambridge for the bargain price of £150!
Full leather, bench seat, hand brake on the right and a steering wheel the size of the moon.
Rebuilt it whilst I should have been studying for my A-Levels.
Painted it green and fitted an MGBGT engine and gearbox.
Would love to track it down and buy it back.
No pics either but everyone knows what a 1997 blue 1.25 Ghia Fiesta looks like, was fortunate enough for my folks to buy it new as my 17th birthday present
Mine was just like that. Sunset red but a two door :headbang: 1972 KJJ470K where are you now? :D1973 Ford Escort mk1 1300L that looked very much like this.
The oil warning light was yellow, and the alternator warning light was red. I thought they were the other way round, so when the yellow light came on, I revved it harder. I killed it.
Austin allegro 1.3cc (cir. 1974/5) bought in 1981 at a car auction, had it for about a year.
It was not too slow, used alot of oil but only needed one small repair while I owned it.
It was feedom without getting wet (I had a moped before) and best of all ment I could start going out with girls!
It was a Golf 1.6 LS 3dr Mk 1 - the nearest thing to a GTi that I could afford to insure. It looked identical to the pic below.
Hmmmm. A Wolseley 6 auto. Seats like armchairs. Had it for about 2 yrs. I was great fun.
Rgds.
J
I had one of these in 1994:
Same colour, same spec, same reg as the one in the picture (but the picture isn't mine). I 'upgraded' it with a smaller steering wheel, a big speaker in the boot, and I drilled a load of holes in the air box.
Blew the head gasket fairly quickly (which I replaced, was pretty proud of myself), keeping up with my mate on his 125 :D It was a rubbish car, but none of my friends had cars. Got rid of it (well, it sat on my parents drive for years) when the clutch went.
White Nissan Micra 1.0 Litre 2003
VW Scirocco GLi Mk1 in Dragon Green
Cracking first car - weighed nothing (700kg) and had that lovely Mk1 Golf GTi engine (110BHP) in it.
When it was working well (rare - unfortunately) it would spin the front wheels in 1st, 2nd and 3rd!
The speedo went up to 120 (optimistic - I think) and I had the needle bouncing off the stop on more than one occasion.
When sold it still had a (naughty lady's!) footprint on the inside of the windscreen
Cheers,
Ford Cortina MK1 - yellow with purple flashes :D thought I was the db's in it.
Rod
1985 MG Metro, just like this one (not my pic)...
The red seatbelts made it go like a rocket :D
Kept it for about a year before deciding in my wisdom that replacing it with a near 40-year old MG Midget would be a good idea, An old geezer going up the back of the Metro and writing it off sped up that process very helpfully.
I used to drive from hay on wye back to dorset on a w/e. It was the slowest thing i ever had and barely made it up the hill from Tintern! The wiring was al fabric covered. One time the horn shorted and caught fire !
Fixing these and other sorts out of neccesity, I learned about mechanical engineering and how to sort out old cars. I had A30's, A35s, Austin Cambridge,Morris Minors and travellers (rebuilt all the woodwork from solid oak on one of this).
Now the best I can do is check the oil/water/fluds and check the tyre pressures. Cant fix a modern vehicle without a degree in computer science!
A 1971 VW 411LE (10 years old when i bought it) just a variant saloon really and i paid 110 quid from my dads garage as it had come back in a part ex deal.....it only had 22,000 miles on it and it had the porsche 914 fuel injected engine but it didn't go and handled even worse... had it about 3 months and wrapped it around a tree after racing my mate in his SAAB 99 EMS (remember them??) and managed to write 2 cars off coming the other way too!!
I sold it for scrap for a profit as the engine was worth more than the car to Porsche owners or Beetle fanatics who wanted a better engine:)
Bought a Triumph Vitesse Convertible from 1967 after that and loved it... still miss the Triumph!!
Mine was a 1970s Mini 1000 which was dressed up to look like a Cooper, red with a black roof and Cooper wheels. Paid £170 in 1987 for it. Brakes failed on the way home from buying it down a steep hill and handbrake was not connected. Managed to force it down through the gears and get it stopped after flying round a junction at the bottom slightly out of control. Passenger was a mate who was extremely handy with a spanner. He got such a fright that he replaced the entire braking system and put a metro engine in it for the price of mateship for life and a few pints. Eventually sold it for £250 cash to a drunk farmer who had been at the village show and needed to get home, saw my ad in the local shop and called from a phone box. So pissed he could hardly count out the money before he drove off in it. Different times!
I had a crappy 1.3 Ford Escort, lasted about 9 months! I think I went through 4 cars in the first 2 years of driving :shock: not through writing them off, but through assorted engine failures :( I guess I'm not that lucky when buying cheap snotters :(
1985 Cavalier 1.8 SRi
Insurance cost me a fortune but the recaro seats more than made up for it!!!!
Tried to look for a Mk3 Escort XR3i last year, as that was the car I passed my test in and wanted one as a second car to put in the garage. Cost a blooming fortune to get one even half decent!!!
a Gold Y reg 1.6L Sierra with awesome rust.. I mean speed holes in the doors :lol:
No pics of mine, but it started life as a 1973 Capri 1.6 gxl and the engine was removed and sent to Burton for tuning, me mam wouldnt let me drive it when I got it back on the road and made me sell it for a mini
No pic I'm afraid, but I started out with an Austin A35. Cost me all of £30 to buy and £60 to insure, (3rd Party Fire & Theft :shock: ).
I named it Nelson after a hate/hate relationship, (and one that I won :cheers: ), with a prat of a teacher at the school I used to go to. Glamdring will know who I mean from the name :lol: :lol:
It was so much fun inserting the starting handle and thinking of my old English Teacher. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Almost ashamed to say it was a 1963 Ford Anglia Estate, I think the Super (or was it the deluxe? 997cc - I think the Super had a huge 1200cc lump.... :shock: ) model in blue with a cream stripe. Was 10 years old then.
Paid £50, learnt SO MUCH about cars with this. Had it for 9 months or so and sold it for £115! About the one and only time I've made a profit buying and selling.
Took my driving test in it too. Passed second time...
a d reg ford orion in powder blue 8)
what was i thinking at the time
Austin 1100c.c. in two tone............................... red and rust.
Peugeot 205 1.6 followed 4 months later by a 309 gti
Bright yellow 2CV with a rotten floor! Bought a new exhaust and took 10 mph off its top speed! Ah memories .......
toyota yaris hahaha
S reg Mk2 Ford Escort,it was more holes than car but it was reliable,more so than most others I have had since :shock:
Something to be said for simple electrics and mechanicals.
Mk1 Escort Mexico. Oh yes. It was rubbish, I spent 12 weeks welding new floor, suspension mounts, inner wings and sills, replaced all the suspension, brakes and the exhaust. Got it through the MOT and wrote it off 6 weeks later when a sales rep drove his cavalier into the side of it on a roundabout.
Bugger.
Ford Orion 1.6 EFI 'G' Plate with pepper pot alloys :) I was only 16 at the time...
It went like stink too.
Morris 1000 convertible, Trafalger blue. FPL 603 C. It cost me four and a half weeks wages -- £45.00!!!. It was full of junk and rubbish (you couldn't see the floor or back seat), and when I cleaned it out there was about 15 quid in change, and a number of small antique items and jewelry that sold for more than I paid for the car. Happy days.
Yellow nova sri, with a bass tube of course.
BMW 525e, like this:
A damn sight nicer than my mates' 1.0 Fiestas, Novas and 105s.
Bought for 600 quid from my friend's dad when I was 17.
Great 1st car :)
Mine was a 1l Metro iirc
Cheers
Is that like a boob tube for fish? :?:
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