Dangerous thread - your first car is a popular question choice for online security for banks etc.
I'm now very wary of putting this kind of information out into the public domain.
Lovely, and super pics.
Now I really wish you hadn't said that about how good it still is to drive...
That is making me want one again even more.
(Are you sure you can't say that it is really quite disappointing, and that some fond memories should just be left as memories...?)
So clever my foot fell off.
Dangerous thread - your first car is a popular question choice for online security for banks etc.
I'm now very wary of putting this kind of information out into the public domain.
Same here, cost me £100 in 1980. Wheel bearings made a hell of a racket when turning right but it was OK if you only did left turns. I remember getting a neighbour to weld the exhaust back together when it fell off because I couldn't afford a new one. And I used to have to put half a gallon of petrol in it at a time, about 50p worth, for the same reason
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Blimey this brings back memories!
I bought a Renault Fuego 1.5 ( ? can't remember exactly) in 1985 before I passed my test. Obviously failed my test and it sat rusting in the car park of the hospital I was working at until I had a letter from management to remove it or it would be towed away.
It was then towed away before I could even drive it :(
First actual driveable car was a MK1 Astra in beige if I remember...
I had a Red Audi 80 followed very very shortly by an MG Metro in white. I remember the MG very well as I crashed on Christmas eve after having the car 2 weeks. I hoped my dad might buy me something else but as the Audi was totalled a few months before he wasn't that daft and fixed it up. Both fantastic cars.
Ah fun memories. Mine was a 97 Citroen Saxo (in 2004), navy blue 1.1i. That stupid immobilizer thing seemed so cool at the time! Ended up being a write off after being hit by a BMW 5 series at 30mph from behind (I was stopped). Bent the chassis and floor pan, engine fell forwards etc. BMW was drive able!
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Mine was a red Datsun 120AF11. Bought from original owner over 8 months, interest free, at £50 a month. That was a cool car. No doubt a pile of rust now :-(
Foggy
XR3i
years of fun as a young guy, me and a mate paid for it, and we run around together in it (I was the only one to drive for two years)
1965 Ford Anglia Super with the 1200cc engine
Aqua blue with white roof and flash. Kept a few years and replaced it with a Cortina Mk 2 1600E.
Mine was a Wolseley Hornet in green. Same as the pic below. I bought it in my last school year. But unfortunately it never got on the road. There was a fault with the hydrolastic suspension.
I do still have the original V5. Sadly the car was scrapped.
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[QUOTE=blackal;4526283]Oh dear....... The shame! :)
True :)
But it was very comfy to sit in and listen to the radio!
it was very expensive, but I was also making a lot of money then, selling newspapers I kid you not,was earning £70-£150 a night, started at 930pm and finished at around 12.30am, just in time for a few pints at the snooker club.
all this back in the eighties, the eighties.....
a 'y' reg Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint Veloce Trofeo.
A great little car with 85bhp, inboard front discs and a flat-4 engine. Delicious rasp from the exhaust.
yes, mine was 3 years old as far as I remember, one cool thing I liked was the keypad lower centre dash, that you had to input a 4 digit code to disarm the immobilizer,
not sure if this was an option, or only on the higher spec models, little black thing with chromed domed buttons.
Some good memories being brought back on this thread.
My first car was a black MG Metro - B88BBM was the reg. I suppose it was only about 7 years old but had already rusted through both front wings, which was a good intro to Isopon and rattle cans. Once I'd got it looking sharp it was rear-ended by an elderly chap in St Albans.
In a decent display of early man-maths, I decided that a 1965 MG Midget was ideal replacement as my daily driver. HPD837C. That would have been 38-ish years old and sustained me on my 35+ mile round-trip commute for quite a while before the engine went, leaving a neat line of oil down the A405 into Watford. Lovely little car though - chrome bumpers & grille, Cosmic alloys and looked great from a distance. It took me some months to realise the indicators were at different heights because it had non-matching front wings.
Eventually (after an engine replacement for the Midget - £100 from a scrappy) - I bought a Mk1 Scirocco to use over winter to spare the MG. That £200 VW is the only car to date I've ever managed to sell on at a profit.
In 1963 I inherited my dad's 1956 Buick Special, which I street-raced in downtown Sioux City, Iowa at least 2-3 nights every week for a couple years. We sold it for $35 (junk) after I blew up the second transmission! This was THE car (actually maroon and white):
...like this one in color:
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I bought my first car in 1977 it was a 1966 Ford Mustang with a 289 and a three speed. My brother wrecked it while I was in USAF basic/tech school in 1979. Sold it for 550.00 USD because of all the upgrades to the engine as well as the pony interior. That 550.00 became the down payment on my 1979 MGB which I drove for the next four and a half years. the body was barely holding together because of all the rust.
22 years old, last year at uni and 1 years placement salary saved up and it all went on this...
1985 Citroën CX25 GTi Turbo (second series, turbo 1 - with the larger turbocharger and no intercooler) - this is the closest picture I can find of one like mine... though this one is a turbo2
Old Rover Metro Rio in blue. Best thing about it was I had to stop every 15 miles to top the radiator up haha
Great for reverse 180’s too
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Mine was a 1983 Y-reg Ford Fiesta 1.1L. Ford, rather optimistically, called the colour 'Dove Grey' when it was very obviously beige.
53bhp and complete with a charming set of economy indicator lights on the speedo. If you were a little heavy with your right foot a small frosted square amber light would illuminate. If you were really heavy-footed it was joined by a red light. It's achilles heel was dampness getting into the distributor. 10 years old when I got it, I had it for about 18 months and sold it for what I bought it for.
Not my picture, but it looked like this:
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Hillman Minx 1500cc from 1957, best car I've ever owned taught me to drive so it did.
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