What was your first car

21 Jun 2006

Always one for nostalgia I've just been going through some old photos and come across one of my first ever (road going) car a 1981 Ford Cortina :scared: was origionaly a 1.6 Ltr untill I fitted it with a V6 ( if I remember) oh how the insurance company loved me when I rang for quotes. Lovingly resprayed with paint stolen from work It was my pride and joy...................................well untill I replaced it with an XR3 (no i) that would at least start every morning lol

:lol:
So come on fess up what piles of crap did the rest of you potter around in during your youth :lol:
In edit: due to the fact its still driving like a bag of shite some would say I still potter around in a pile of crap redface

:lol:

21 Jun 2006

No such stories from me I'm afraid!
Ford Focus is the best I can do!

21 Jun 2006

Y reg grey fiesta 1.1. For no good reason I loved that car. Is it always like that the first time?

21 Jun 2006

I don't remember much about my first car but it was a little blue mini biggrin

21 Jun 2006

I've lost count how many cars I've had over the last *cough* years but my 1st one was a lada Estate ( I kid you not rolleyes

) It was an ex taxi, I was forever getting flagged down ( and no Officer I did not pick up that little old lady laden with her shopping ) and it had go-faster stripes on too. I hasten to add, the stripes didn't work confused

Other cars have included various Fords from Grenadas to Escorts, a Peugeot 605 :inlove: and an XJ6 ( my baby :cry: ) I also still have the front numberplate from my Orion that was nicked and burnt out as it was the only salvagable thing left :?I was the proud owner of a few Dagenham Dustbins in my time :roll:

21 Jun 2006

I had an Austin Allegro first but the subframes were rotten so never got it on the road.
The first car i used on the road was an Opel Kaddet (same as the Vauxhall Chevette) saloon.

21 Jun 2006

Quote by goose35
I had an Austin Allegro first but the subframes were rotten so never got it on the road.
The first car i used on the road was an Opel Kaddet (same as the Vauxhall Chevette) saloon.

ah the Chevette ! AKA the Shove It as you had to get out and push the fecking thing more often than not !

21 Jun 2006

Quote by Sassy-Seren
I had an Austin Allegro first but the subframes were rotten so never got it on the road.
The first car i used on the road was an Opel Kaddet (same as the Vauxhall Chevette) saloon.

ah the Chevette ! AKA the Shove It as you had to get out and push the fecking thing more often than not !
Exactly
I still looved it though. It was so low it felt like a gokart.
The Allegro was known as the All Aggro lol

21 Jun 2006

the first car I ever drove was a red ford escort belonging to my older brother... had more lights on the front than a bleeing search party and I still remember the registration number.
The first car I kinda of owned was a ford orion although it was my ex whose name was on the registration document.
The first car I have ever really had to call my own with my name on the registration documents, insurance and repair bills is the one I bought a few months ago... my ikkle vw polo

21 Jun 2006

Oh
Used my dads car first which was a Chrysler Alpine (Crashed)
I',ve had two Triumph Dolomites (1500 and 1850). Never managed to get the Sprint version.
Austin Maestro (Crashed)
Vauxhall Chevette, Nova SRi (Crashed), Astra 1.4 CD, and currently on a Cavalier 2.0 which i had in 1995 at two years old and its still going strong with only one break down (8 year old battery buggered up) Also had a new cat fitted this year.

21 Jun 2006

Quote by goose35
Oh
Used my dads car first which was a Chrysler Alpine (Crashed)
I',ve had two Triumph Dolomites (1500 and 1850). Never managed to get the Sprint version.
Austin Maestro (Crashed)
Vauxhall Chevette, Nova SRi (Crashed), Astra 1.4 CD, and currently on a Cavalier 2.0 which i had in 1995 at two years old and its still going strong with only one break down (8 year old battery buggered up) Also had a new cat fitted this year.

'kin ell hun, you ever thought of riding a bike instead?? :shock:

21 Jun 2006

Mine was a blue Fiat cinquecento. It had dodgy central locking and it unlocked itself regularly. Not good. And sometimes it just wouldn't go into gear, any gear. But it did have a sun roof. So not all bad

21 Jun 2006

Quote by Sassy-Seren
Oh
Used my dads car first which was a Chrysler Alpine (Crashed)
I',ve had two Triumph Dolomites (1500 and 1850). Never managed to get the Sprint version.
Austin Maestro (Crashed)
Vauxhall Chevette, Nova SRi (Crashed), Astra 1.4 CD, and currently on a Cavalier 2.0 which i had in 1995 at two years old and its still going strong with only one break down (8 year old battery buggered up) Also had a new cat fitted this year.

'kin ell hun, you ever thought of riding a bike instead?? :shock:
All those crashes were in my youth you know lol

Some other twonk scraped down the side of my Cav. It now ha a go faster strpe (not stripes) down one side in a fetching rust colour.
Yes i,m gearing up to start bike lessons as i speak.

21 Jun 2006

austin allegro 1.1 burgundy with two ( count em ) gold go faster stripes, a tiny racing car steering wheel, pumped up shockers at the rear and smalle tyres at the front...break lights on the rear window......oh remember the crappy wooden consuls from halfords ..one of them had my cassette player in that wow it was a cracker biggrin

unfortunately ......had no floor in the back.......had to have extra battery to work cassette player ahem and for starting ......oh and did`nt go any faster than 50mph........oh and travelled from Glasgow to Torquay with three mates and a tent one summer.........think it took 4 days to get there........
the camp site was outside peignton and the lads had to get out and push the car up all those steep hills to get to the camp site
yeah it was a great car ohhh well "salad days indeed"

21 Jun 2006

Funnily enuff we recently posted to a very similar thread on a different forum.....
...just please don't laugh...!!
ex-GPO 1972 minivan (his)
MGB (his)
1100 mini (his)
austin1300 (ours)
fiat 126
austin healey sprite Mkiv (three)
mini 1275 GT
capri 1.6
Pontiac Grand prix (two)
Capri
Chevvy Camaro (two)
mini clubman estate
Pontiac firebird (two)
mini pickup
other minis (we've owned 9 altogether)
frog eye sprite
MGB GT
Merc G-Wagen SWB (three)
Fisher Fury kit car
Fiesta diesel (yeuch- less reliable that the MG)
Mondeo Si
merc c200 estate
Porsche 911
Bikes
GS750 (for 10 days)
Honda 750
CG125
Kwak Z250
Kwak Z400
Kwak Z900
Gpz 750
Gpz 900
FZR 1000
superlight (two)
748
M600
S2R
rolleyes

21 Jun 2006

didnt get my 'own' car until i was 32 and it was a blue peugeot 405 gl and i loved it, the cars before that were mine and my husbands so they dont count.
the 2nd car i can call my own is my black widow, black 16v 2 ltr ghia ford focus :twisted:
Earthy xx

21 Jun 2006

not sure my first "cage" counts as it only had three wheels! yep sorry to admit it but i did buy a robin reliant & to make it worse it was a van redface

my excuse is i needed a van for work & only had a bike licience & seeing as the plastic pig was classed as a trike i could drive it without passing another test smile

my first real car was an old beat up ford escort mexico cool

now that car was class :) only trouble is if you took hands off steering wheel it would quite happily go round a roundabout without crashing :shock:
ahhh the good old days biggrin

:D

21 Jun 2006

I bought my first car when I lived in Australia..... I bought it in 1985 and it was a 1967 Hillman Hunter.... Not a speck of rust on it and ran like a dream biggrin

21 Jun 2006

A nice Rolls Royce for the weddings will do me! cool

21 Jun 2006

Well mine was an old Y reg 1.4 Ford Escort that suffered the black death!!! next was a Suzuki Swift GTI that went like the clappers and cost Â£1300 to insure third party!!!
Saldy numerous cars later, I've got a diesel Xantia. Time for a mid life crisis. wink

21 Jun 2006

Mine was a Reanualt 5GTI and went very well..............

21 Jun 2006

My first car was a little 1.0 nissan micra which i learnt to drive in, needed a clutch by the time i past my test, but it was a great little run around.
Once i got a bit more confident on the road i progressed onto 'His' 3 lt supra that was cool..... till i blew the engine up ... redface

We got that fixed up then part ex'd it for a 2 lt Avensis that we shared
Then last year part ex'd the Avensis for my mitsubishi Carisma 1.9 summat or other, and a few weeks later He got His mitsubishi 3 lt GTO import.

21 Jun 2006

Quote by Sarah
Mine was a Reanualt 5GTI and went very well..............

Sarah, if that was the Turbo I always wanted one of those!!!!

21 Jun 2006

I want a Triumph Stag or GT6

21 Jun 2006

Mine was a Triumph something (can't remember!), old M reg and dark green.
Then had a Datsun 100A, old P reg and gold.
Then a VW Derby, old X reg and red.
Then we've bought cars together.
I currently drive a Renault Megane and he drives a Hyundai Accent.

21 Jun 2006

Quote by robhambledon
austin allegro 1.1 burgundy with two ( count em ) gold go faster stripes, a tiny racing car steering wheel, pumped up shockers at the rear and smalle tyres at the front...break lights on the rear window......oh remember the crappy wooden consuls from halfords ..one of them had my cassette player in that wow it was a cracker
unfortunately ......had no floor in the back.......had to have extra battery to work cassette player ahem and for starting ......oh and did`nt go any faster than 50mph........oh and travelled from Glasgow to Torquay with three mates and a tent one summer.........think it took 4 days to get there........
the camp site was outside peignton and the lads had to get out and push the car up all those steep hills to get to the camp site
yeah it was a great car ohhh well "salad days indeed"

My Sis had an Allegro estate. It took 7 of us and camping gear to Rhyl in north Wales n Back. Those were the days of no video survelance and could get away with it lol

21 Jun 2006

Quote by hjd10
Mine was a Reanualt 5GTI and went very well..............

Sarah, if that was the Turbo I always wanted one of those!!!!
No turbo, but still went like a bomb so to speak, great fun.

21 Jun 2006

Quote by Dawn_Mids
I don't remember much about my first car but it was a little blue mini

My mini was orange cool

and it had proper leather seats and a funky little steering wheel. That was 14 years ago and the car was about 10 years old then (old old 'P' reg confused

)
Minx x x

21 Jun 2006

Quote by mike48
I don't remember much about my first car but it was a little blue mini

My mini was orange cool

and it had proper leather seats and a funky little steering wheel. That was 14 years ago and the car was about 10 years old then (old old 'P' reg confused

)
Minx x x
I had a green one amd went to amsterdam in it :smug:
:giggle:
If we still had these cars we could have a multi-colour-mini-munch! lol

:twisted:
Minx x x

21 Jun 2006

Quote by Sassy-Seren
Oh
Used my dads car first which was a Chrysler Alpine (Crashed)
I',ve had two Triumph Dolomites (1500 and 1850). Never managed to get the Sprint version.
Austin Maestro (Crashed)
Vauxhall Chevette, Nova SRi (Crashed), Astra 1.4 CD, and currently on a Cavalier 2.0 which i had in 1995 at two years old and its still going strong with only one break down (8 year old battery buggered up) Also had a new cat fitted this year.

'kin ell hun, you ever thought of riding a bike instead?? :shock:
How about some driving lessons instead?
:giggle: