Your first car

[patrick]

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.

Mine was just like that. Sunset red but a two door :headbang: 1972 KJJ470K where are you now? :D

Fitted half bumpers to mine and a square number plate in a youthful but sad attempt to make it look like a Mexico

[dickbrowne]

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.

Mine was just like that. Sunset red but a two door :headbang: 1972 KJJ470K where are you now? :D

Fitted half bumpers to mine and a square number plate in a youthful but sad attempt to make it look like a Mexico

considered fitting a 1100L badge to my Mexico to lower the insurance costs :)

[daggartuk]

Mine was an 'L' plated Mini 850 and the first three letters of the reg plate were WWW - I wonder if it would be worth something now that we have the 'World Wide Web'???

[SPEEDY]

This thread need an " R " :wink:

Sorry but its bugging me :lol:

[KavKav]

Ford Prefect. Three gears and you had to rev the engine to make the wipers go faster when it was raining! Paid £30 for it, ran it for 14 months, did nothing other than put petrol and oil in and sold it for £40. :D

[ingenioren]

Brand new 1969 VW Beetle 1300 (last one before the 1302 with the 'fat' brakelights ....)
First thing was to do was remove the hubcaps, painted the nuts red, (later stuck chrome fakes on top) removed the rear silencers and replaced with straight steampipes, and fitted 2 massive Marshall spots on the front..... - cracking car !
Every time we came to UK on hols was chased on the Mways by the likes of Triumph Heralds and Allegros :twisted: :twisted:
Great memories and fun !!!
Still use that as a 'yardstick' on fuel consumption (22-23mpg overall !) today - same as my current twin turbo X5 is drinking at 90mph !!

[garylee]

Ford Anglia 105E, but mine was blue.

Redmonaco’s pictures brought back such memories,

Cost me £50, sold it a year later for £45 and cost me a tenner in repairs, broken gearstick.

[stopa99]

My first was this....Skoda 100 from 1973... :D

[Mark020]

Porsche 964. Wrecked it 3 months later in an ice storm :(

[ddw78]

My first car was an XR3, just like this one, but mine also had the stripes along the lower door and quarter panel.

I couldn't afford to insure the 'i' at 17...

[Normunds]

This thread need an " R " :wink:

Sorry but its bugging me :lol:

sorry, that was unintentional typo. edited and thanks for heads-up.

[stiglet]

One of these



Mine was green though, and without the dents on top of the bonnet :wink:

[20veetee]

This was the first... Rover 220SDI, small car with a reasonable big engine (105 bhp Turbo Diesel)

[jordan-arch]

Passed my test in 2000, First car was a 1990 Fiat Uno, in recession white, 3 doors and roughly 40 BHP of fury.

It was shared with my older brother who didn't give a shit about it in the year or so he had it on his own, went from an old car to a heap of junk, I loved that car, I got an entire spare car for about £50 from a bloke in our local shortly after I passed my test because it was cheaper and easier to get the parts I wanted to replace damaged bit, black plastic bumpers,wing mirrors, headlights and a wheel, than finding them for sale separately.

I gave my younger brother his first driving lesson in that car at 15 (private road of course) when he drove it off the road and into a bush when he expected it to handle like an arcade machine. Extra speakers and a radio that was probbaly more powerful and more expensive than the car we the order of the day at 17 but it didnt matter everyones first car should be at least a bit shit.

[Barryboy]

1964 'B' reg Sunbeam rapier Mk.IV or Mk.V... not sure which, now. It was in Pippin Red with black detailing and red leather seats. I loved that car but as a 2 door jobbie it wasn't all that convenient for back seat action :D which featured largely in my 17 year old life. What with that and the ever encroaching rust it had to go...

Rob

[@lf]

Mine was a '85 Toyota Starlet which i bought for 50 guilders (about 22 euro's) :mrgreen:

I enjoyed her for over a year untill the first big repair came along....so i said goodbye to her for 600 euro's and hopefully she is still doing a good job in Angola....thats what the guy who bougth her told me he was going to send her...

[moggi1]

mk 2 escort for me, lasted a whole week before it went bang! then spent four months sat outside my parents house untill i sold it for parts for a measley £75...

[PADDYS]

A MK 2, XR2, light blue. It was about 3 years old when I bought it the day I passed my test. It lasted 3 weeks before I hit a 2 ton boulder and unsurprisingly wrote it off. A couple of years ago I bought a 205 GTI as that was the car I really wanted when I was young. The 205 had been tinkered with and was brilliant fun but I did miss modern day luxuries. it lasted about 10 months before being sold.

Paddy

[Cavham]

I am sorry to say my first car was a company car so i had no choice. It was a 1980's Fiat Panda in baby blue.

[Quasar]

Vauxhall Chevette, 1300cc of gutless engine and a bronze paint finish which matched the rust. No photos exist, with good reason, the worst car I ever had and still remember it today. 3 yr old in 1983 £1800 and 18000 miles on the clock. After buying it I realised why it the previous owner only did a low mileage, it was awful to drive.

[Andrew-C]

A 1985 Mini Metro City...

I only bought it because it was black, with no attention paid to either structural or mechanical integrity. A flaw in my purchasing process that would be cruelly exposed in the coming months!

I happily managed to sell it as soon as the full horrors of the engine and gearbox faults were exposed, along with the worrying lack of metal in the sills and floorplan...

I still feel a pang of guilt when I think of the look of pride and happiness on the woman's face as she drove it away. Ahh well Caveat emptor!

[Harry Tuttle]

Ahem, Polski Fiat :lol:

Me too. Mine was a fetching shade of fawn though.

Mine was full of cutting edge, futuristic gadgets like a boot catch you could use from the drivers seat. One of the drunk mountaineers at university liked to put one of the headrests down his back, put a gas mask on and hide in the boot. I would then be required to drive up to an innocent bystander pull the catch and he'd come out like a jack in the box.

It had a sort of primitive cruise control. You pulled a knob next to the choke, which locked off like a choke and a mechanical linkage pulled the throttle down. Trouble was it would pick up or lose speed depending upon whether you were trying to go up or down a hill. I tried it once on the motorway, scared the living daylights out of me.

There was a ribbon speedometer, and more warning lights than the Star Ship Enterprise. The fuel warning light flashed when the tank was a third full, I could barely afford it but had to keep it full just to avoid having my retinas burnt out.

It was a magnificently awful car, but sadly not the worst I ever had...

[Boshly]

One of these :mrgreen:



Anyone care to guess 8)

[-L-]

I had one of these...


wrote it off in a 50mph head on with a long wheel base high top transit (I survived by the van didn't), then went and bought another one... :)

[johnnyguitar]

I had a Peugeot 309 1.4 GL (I think it was a GL, the badge had long fallen off the back).
It was the last of the carburettored cars and ex-Met Police which meant it had done 300,000 miles in reverse, over kerbs and through shopping centres and was almost completely f*cked.
I put a set of 1.6 GTi wheels and a Bilstein Sportline kit on it, which made the ride so hard it made the lenses fall off the headlights. A mate of mine ran a vinyl graphics company and, after I'd helped him with his phone (I was in the trade at the time), he said he'd do me some vinyl. Having been used to driving my mum's cars, I kept losing the 309 in car parks and thought a stripe would make it easier to spot - I was thinking a subtle pinstripe so imagine my surprise when I came back to it after leaving it with him for an hour to discover it had two 3 inch blue stripes, running from bumper to bumper over the roof! :lol:
It was pretty much on its last legs anyway and, when I took it to be MOTd just to see how much actually needed to be done to pass, I got a print out longer than a phone book.

[Neil.C]

Triumph Herald (not mine)




Two tone as many were but mine was coffee and white.