Reply With QuoteAt 20 i had a 3 year old Golf Gti 8v, kept it for 7 years, fab car for that period.
:)
EDIT: Same as this one (wish i still had it - BBS bodykit and wheels) -
God it's boring, everything i look at is soo plain :(
Fiat Punto 1.2
1 litre corsa, OMG i'm sooooooooooooooooo depressed :lol:
I suppose i'll save on fuel, but then i am used to my 28 MPG by now.
And as well polishing my beautiful car today ready for the guy coming tomorrow to have a look i felt quite sad to have to let it go :cry:
Ohhh well, time to be like every other 20 year old :D
so what cars did the rest of you have at my age, c'mon make me feel better, and i swear the person that had a ferrari or a porsche will be getting a swift kick in the bollocks :twisted:
Thanks,
Andrew
At 20 i had a 3 year old Golf Gti 8v, kept it for 7 years, fab car for that period.
:)
EDIT: Same as this one (wish i still had it - BBS bodykit and wheels) -
Vauxhall Viva HC. Metallic gold.
Broke down a lot.
:lol: now i don't feel too bad :D :D :D
Thanks guys,
Andrew
Bright red MKI Ford Escort Mexico...but with a 2000E Cortina engine shoehorned in :twisted: :lol:
At 20 I had a pushbike and a rent book. At 24 I had a mortgage. I couldn't afford a car until I was 26, then it was a 1.3 Astra.
Then again, I left home when I was 17. 30 years later i'm close to paying off my mortgage and could afford any car up to £40,00 with the surplus on my endowment.
I'll be keeping my 5 year old 1.6 Civic for another 5 years. There really is far more to life than cars Andrew.
Rover 216SX in British racing green. I loved that car.
At 20 I was just changing from a Y reg XR3 to a Porsche 924.
STUPID with hindsight.
Bank loan crippled me, but at least in those days insurance tax and petrol was sensible.
I'll make you smile - a Volvo 144GL. :D Had that for the first year then got a 360.
If you do low miles get yourself something older and get limited mileage 'classic car' insurance - perhaps a Mk2 Golf Gti or a Mercedes C-Class W202.
I didn't have a car when I was 20. I lived on board ship, and had a bicycle in the hold.
Best wishes,
Bob
At 19? I had a bicycle.
I had a yellow Cortina with purple flashes down the side 8) It would snap knicker elastic from 200 yds :D Mmm, I wished
Rod
At 20, I could have afforded a car, but I spent all my money on watches. 8)
At 24 I bought my first car, an aquamarine Rover Metro Knightsbridge 1.0l. I kept this for a year or so before getting an MGF then decided on looking less like a hairdresser and bought a bog standard Focus Diesel. Haven't looked back. If I ever get a significant disposable income again (which wont be soon), I'd love a Caterham.
At 20 I was a student and didn't have a car, nor could I have afforded one. I didn't get my first car until I was 25 (a company car), I didn't own my first car until I was 31.
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
Why not try a modern classic, such as an early Golf, Calibra, Scirrocco etcOriginally Posted by dawson2k5
Got my first one when I was 21. It was a 1.5 lt Alfa 33 Green Cloverleaf. 105 bhp and not depressing at all, but prone to rattles, sadly.
If I were you I'd steer clear of any car with a 1.2 or 1.0 lt sewing-machine engine. There is indeed more to life than cars, but in the meantime, why not get some pleasure out of driving yours? :)
Cheers
Stern
Guys coming to look at the car tomorrow and maybe buy it, someone from the forum actually :)
Thanks,
Andrew
Red Opel Kadett E-type (don't know which Vauxhall that is :))
like this one.. (not my pic)
.. except no sunroof of course!
It was really sporadic for the last year, the solenoid was getting wet and rusting solid whenever it rained.. also the engine kept sputtering out so I had to constantly open the hood and hammer at the solenoid with a huge wrench, usually in traffic lights. And the high beams kept turning on for no reason at all which got me a lot of traffic stops by the police.
But it didn't leak oil and managed to run in the heat of summer so I traded it for a boat + outboard motor, which I managed to sink later and after hauling up from the bottom of the sea, traded it for a bottle of whiskey.
Then I was carless for a couple of years while starting my own company and when I sold it, I got a company car :wink:
At 20 I had a 1979 MG in white and the AF let me use an F-106. I loved and hated that car.
Thats an Astra like mine I could be wrong but I think it had a choke. :?
.. except no sunroof of course!
The original mini had a food mixer engine and it wasn't dull. I believe the new Fiat Panda is similarly fun to drive.
The original mini had a food mixer engine and it wasn't dull. I believe the new Fiat Panda is similarly fun to drive.
Not all 1.2 lt are dull, agreed. But most are. Sad but true.
A 2 year old Escort RS Turbo....Loved it!!
1967 VW Beetle 1200
34bhp
140,000 miles
6 volt electrics
Utterly reliable.
Pete
First car at 21 - Renault Clio.
Second n last at 24 - Clio Champs Elysee ltd edition.
I crashed it after 36hrs n 80 miles.
Paul
GOT...TO...KILL...CAPTAIN STUPID!
My first car, at 21, was a 1968 VW fastback (Type III). Pancake engine. It was a quick little bugger.
Best wishes,
Bob
PS The second was a 1965 VW van. The third was a VW Thing. ;)
RLF
At 20 I had a Nissan Cherry 1.3 GS.
0-60 in about 15 seconds. Steel wheels. Dodgy suspension. It wallowed like a rowing boat.
17 years later, with a whole range of sports cars including one 650bhp Skyline under my belt, in frustration at a lack of choice but with a desire to get rid of a 350bhp car in a crashing economy, I jumped on Autotrader. Criteria was 10 miles from my house, max £1000. Bought the most interesting car I could for the money... a Golf Cabriolet.
0-60 in about 15 seconds. Steel wheels. Dodgy suspension. It wallows like a rowing boat.
I'm hoping the rest of history plays out and I catch myself a girlfriend of 20 again. Mind you, this Golf isn't very manly, if you see what I mean... I'm more likely to catch myself a boyfriend of 20.
At 20 I was cruising around in this bad boy! 8)
At 21 I got my first company car, a red Nissan Micra! fortunately it got better after that.
That Capri was the last car I ever owned, comany cars ever since.
Although looks like I'm going to have to actually buy something next month as obviously the car goes as the job goes... :?
Aha we called them Vauxhall Belmont (Astra with a boot) not seen one in a long time !! :D
And another with a bicycle - in my case until I was mid 30s (when I took my test), though my wife drove.
Part of my training cycled or ran / to from work, somedays I ran 14 miles each way - still faster than London Transport.
No real interest in cars so I have an X reg Mondeo, but do have the use of my wifes TT Roadster and sons TT as well.
So, a couple hairdressers in your family then !! :D
At 20 I had a Tahiti Blue MGB GT. Absolutely loved that car, but it used almost as much oil as petrol!
I suspect my wife should have been - her previous car was the Toyota MR2 Roadster - and before that a Supra!!
Have you thought about a classic car Andrew? Low insurance as long as you limit the miles and no road tax if it's pre 1971. Might be worth looking into especially if you're not to fussed about fuel economy. So much more character than todays offerings and you should be able to afford to insure something with more than a hairdryer under the bonnet :wink:.
To answer your question.
Aged 20 - pushbikes and motorbikes,
21 - Morris Mariner van. My Dad's spare work van with a knackered cylinder head gasket that acted as a smoke screen if you did over 40mph, very James Bond, but not. :lol:
Cheers,
Gary
Think positive - you can get yourself another Capri! :)
At 20 I had a Ford Consul Mk1 - 3 speed column shift & bench seats 8) :thumbright:
MK2 Escort RS2000, took all my money , left me great memories, one of the only cars i ever really felt I knew where each wheel was :D
ps still havent grown up
Slight correction for you - no road tax for vehicles constructed prior to 1st January 1973.
BTW the date of manufacture is the key point, not date of UK registration. :)
I've been looking at 1960/70s USA pickup trucks recently, in fact i'm getting rather obsessed...
I had one of these at about 22 (but in white) & cost me £600.......loved it to bits, which is what it ended up in a pile of :D
For me twas a 998cc Mini - doubt you would fit in it mate, but hope it helps your expectations.....?
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
My 1st was a 1971 Beetle (1300 SC, IIRC...) great car, except the brakes, sold it when I was 20 to be replaced by a left hand drive Mk I Golf 1600 held together with baler twine.
Regards
David
I Always wanted a Capri.Think positive - you can get yourself another Capri! :)
Paul
GOT...TO...KILL...CAPTAIN STUPID!
At 21 I had a 1.8 Corrado, over the next 10 years I wasted horrendous amounts of cash on fast cars always wanting the next 'must have' mod, getting ripped off on the insurance and of course the fuel. :roll:
My advice for cheap motoring is to buy a small van.
I had two Capri's, a 1980, 1.6GL with varying shades of metallic blue for paintwork and then upgraded to an 83, 2.0SI Always wanted a Capri.Think positive - you can get yourself another Capri! :)
To this day the 2.0S is probably up there in my top 3 all time cars that I have had and I must be getting on for treble figures over the last 20 years!
When I was 19 my dad bought me a brand new Sierra Sapphire Cosworth 4x4.
I thought I was the luckiest person in the world, but over the next 2 years I lost count of the number of times the boys in blue took an interest in a geeky looking kid driving a nice car!
Always drove it very sensibly though :D
Dan
Here she is in all her glory! Big, bad, curvy, what's not to love.
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You wouldn't like to hear about what I got next after graduating from college.
Regards,
Original mini for me as well (1 litre city E in Old English White i.e. rust brown infused white :lol: ). Found it in the Loot and 600 quid later she was mine. Loads of fun.
At 20 I had a motorbike.
But I often borrowed the Morris Minor my father inherited from his parents (who had bought it new in 1969).
The summer I turned 21 I drove it to the south of France for two weeks with a girlfriend - no AA cover or anything - madness in retrospect, it was 16 years old by this point and had well over 100k on the clock and was still on its original engine/clutch/gearbox. Needless to say it did the trip with no problems whatsoever.
My father still has it - 40 years old this year :)
A Morris Minor,
raspy exhaust, fantastic low speed oversteer in the wet, Happy Days.
wish I still had it, its a minter now, sold it to a restorer.
Dad thought I could not kill myself in it, Thankfully he was right.
It was solid.
My first car was a beetle. I bought it when I was 18.
1972, 1300cc restored by Halifax Beetles. I loved it, most of my friends had much quicker sporty horrible Nova's but I was an art student and in no rush to get anywhere.
I drove it for a year, having saved up ages to buy, tax and insure it. I fitted new suspension, disk brakes, big stereo then after a year I garaged it for winter and intended to put a 1600cc engine in the following summer but I was skint so it never happened and the car along with the new engine bits stayed in the garage.
It was laid up for the next couple of years until I sold it. It was too easy to use my mum's car while I was a student (which always had fuel in!).
Happy memories of the old Beetle, even though it was either too hot or too cold, slow, noisy, bouncy, terrible in the dark and ran the battery flat if the lights and stereo was on loud, which it always was. Such a fantastic car.
My first was and old yellow Citroën GS which transferred down from my dad. If it still wouldn't start after about twenty tries I got worried. Ten was really good. But it floated over the road on that hydropneumatic suspension, and when it ended its existence by flattening a lightpole (not my fault, I had to choose between an idiot coming at me in my lane or the shoulder), and it was sitting there withs its front wheels dangling off the ground, I set the suspension in 'high', the wheels went down like aircraft landing gear and the car lifted itself off the pole, to limp its last few hundred metres to a car lot under its own power. Died in style.
Next came a little silver Renault 5GT, which rusted away while you looked at it (in fact two years after I bought it new the rear hatch just fell off, as the hinges had rotted out of the roof; maybe the goal was to build a biodegradable car or something...). Number three was a white three-door Opel Kadett, the most boring car ever, but that was unimportant because it pulled a trailer with a hot-air balloon, my own - and I'd pick a balloon over a fast car any day. After that I passed into my thirties and the cars became bigger but mostly to carry more stuff: stationwagon, VW van, which I still drive after 14 years; it takes the balloon plus 5 people:
These days small, efficient cars are all the fashion. You can say you're driving one for the environment. :wink:
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