First Cars

[Barney]

Following some discussion about suitable cars for new drivers, what was your first car you owned?

Mine?

1965 Triumph Herald 1200 Convertible, (cost £90),

.... and held the Tryarnon Bay Holiday Camp record for the most people in a car. We got 22 in - on the day before I found my chassis outrigger broken:whistle: But then I wasn't young & irresponsible .... much.

[Barney]

I now mourn the fact that I never had a picture of it, but here's a slightly better example than mine

[giblet]

1992 Rover 216 Gsi Auto. 1.6 Honda engine with a mighty 110bhp

[666damned]

a 'y' reg escort estate.....lol........

[Maxus]

As ashamed as i am to say it, it was a Fiat Punto 1.2 Ltr...wait for it...SPORTING!

[HPRULZ]

:sleeping: Twas a Marina coupe.

Kev

[lancerevo3]

1.0 12valve corsa first 3months then 1.3 civic

[SGHOM]

I can not possibly say! :(

[gallvr4]

fiat 127 sport.....25 pound at the time if i remember

[Nutter_John]

I can not possibly say! :(

didn't know cars were invented that far back , surely it was horse and cart :)

[mattnz]

92 GT Starlet. I liked it very much, but put it on it's roof :/

[SGHOM]

didn't know cars were invented that far back , surely it was horse and cart :)

yep.... Daisy was her name! :laugh:

[mike74]

1275cc D reg Austin Maestro
To this day one of the comfiest cars I've ever owned ie nae sporty!!

[stuey]

rusty 1972 MkIII Cortina estate..

[PaddyB]

Datsun 120Y 3spd auto. 0-60 in 21.6 sec. I loved it. It was turquiose. It gave me freedom & was a hit with the ladies, not. I still remember the reg: HND 564N which is amazing as I can't remember any reg since.

I bought it for £140 - never spent a penny on it (aside from petrol) & ran it for 3 yrs.

I was impressed with Jap reliabilty, which was brought home by my next car - jReg mini 850cc (that's a 1970's J, not a 90's J) - which was not reliable at all but was a hit with the ladies. As cars go that was the best I've had - it possessed personality & charisma by the bucket load.

Edit:
It looked pretty much like this one

[c0xxy]

306 1.9 dt, fitted it with a front mount, upped fueling and boost 18-20psi was the first car i had after i passed my test.
i was bought a seat marbella to encourage me to drive... a whole 900cc! needless to say, it didnt!
it was red and had bull bars!!!
ash

[andyleaves]

Ahhh!
Dolly Sprint in red....
Nice car want another one, but thinking modern motor :D

[Wodjno]

1983 1300cc Vauxhall Cavalier Mk2 Hatchback in Beige. I got my 1st Loan from the TSB for 2 Grand and went to the auction.
Purchased at auction for £1775. Insurance was £225 TPF&T. Cost and insurance totalled exactly 2 Grand :D
Remember doing my 1st oil change on that car /yes
After letting most the all drain out, i thought it would be a good idea to crank it over for a few seconds to see if i could get some more oil out! Well it fired up and fired out /Help Oil all over the underside of the car(my 1st underseal :) ) and all over the road 10yds behind the car :D

[thfelipeth]

is this a u.k only thread?? if it is sorry! 1989 toyota corolla GLX!!! yea 1.6 power! also racing red

[VR4Kaos]

oh no dare i say it but i was young and nieve well i still am but hey
seat ibza thought it was bees knees too lol

[Nube]

1.0 1983 mini sprite.for some reason I decided the best place to park it was four feet up a tree! Was ok because I'd just finished rebuilding the spitfire (triumph),so was still mobile. Well, when I got out of plaster anyway!

[psbarham]

A 1000cc mini clubman in a really dark purple, GVV505N i remember it well, it had wheel spacers and a cherry bomb exhaust.

It was the fastest thing on the road, well until I got a real lesson in speed from a swb Audi quattro /lol reality's a bitch when your 17 :sick:

[horndog]

I bought a mini city which had the top choped off, had it a total of 47 hours then rolled it.
I kept a photo of the remnants blown up on my wall to stop me overestimating my skills ever again

[Subaru ETA]

The mighty 1986 Mazda familia 1.5 auto was my first car. Got it when I was 14 and did it up so it was ready when I turned 15. Blew the trans doing burn outs in it lol. Then made it a manual

[chrisvr4]

My first car was a 1973 ex rally prepared mini. I bought it off a guy i used to work with.

It was a 1275 gt bored out to a 1410, very quick off the mark but very unreliable.

[Gly]

1991 Mitsubishi Galant (facelift with full factory kit), 2L dohc, 5spd manual, silver.
purchased stock standard....

lowered, 2" stright thought exhaust with 4" cannon muffler,
full audio install, window tints, 16" OZ racing wheels,

written off after 11months of ownership,

[dave-at-home]

Datsun 120Y Coupe. Red with random rust. Crashed it into the local college car park fence after 2 days of ownership. Had a new front end fitted by a local bodyshop who happened to have a scrapper that had been rear ended. Problem is it was blue so I ended up with a "United Colours of Benneton" 120Y.

About 3 weeks later - T-boned a young lad in a Mini in the pouring rain. Turned out the poor lads dad owned a local bodyshop that happend to have a blue scrap 120Y that had been rear ended - need I go any further. Happy days!

[Beastlee]

A 1985 VW Jetta 1.6 Driver, It had the GTi arch mouldings with stock steel wheels. I fitted GTi seats to it and removed the tow bar that came with it, I reckon it gained me a full 10 seconds to 60 LOL
Was impressed to get insurance for £400ish at the time too.

[statham234]

1980 mk2 escort 1600 sport in orange paid £300 squid for it. ended up making out with a tree

[Erskine_atom]

N reg Citroen ZX 1.9 Elation diseasel. Many reckless miles covered, much air and understeer powerslides! Oh and I managed to get 1 set of brake pads to set themselves on fire chasing a guy with a massive beard in a ratty old Renault 5, on the B974 Cairn o' Mount road. Oh to be 17 again! Finally laid to rest after being rear ended by a Volvo xc90 in the snow.

[Kryton]

Californian import Jeep Wrangler, with lift kit & massive wheels, 4.23 ltr engine instead of the standard 4.0 & the best part, was a hard & soft kits with interchangable doors, removable roof & a fold down windscreen. Cool car (other than the fact it was metallic brown:rolleyes4 )

[Wobble]

95 supra mark iv . loved this car wish i never sold it for the money eating evo:smash:

[Pastor of Muppets]

1978 VW Type 2 Devon conversion 1998cc with twin choke webber idf40 carbs. Brought for £2,000 of a guy in a car park in Reading turned out (surprisingly) to be an absolute lemon but she was my pride and joy and cost me well over £10,000 to restore to the condition i sold her in for £8,000 five years later. she had a bare metal respray and was striaght as a die sadly the last time i saw her someone had hand painted flowers all over her. i was going to leave a note but it was their bus not mine by then but was still feeling a little bitter!


Edit: Only one Bucket Dave??? Surely not!!!!!

[SGHOM]

Well.....

My 1st car was a 1966 vauxhall viva HA, or beagle!
It was brush painted banana yellow & bought by my sister in 1975 for my 17th birthday for £60 :bananadan

I passed my test in it, & to this day..... It's been the most reliable car I've ever owned !!! No brakes.......but never let me down :helmet: p

[Eurospec]

1986 Mini clubman. Stopped working in the wet. bus steering wheel. Went through a hedge backwards in it.

Three speakers in it though!

Cheers,

Ben.

[bowz]

I had a fully chavtastic AXGT with allsorts of ungodly Halfords bolt-on's stuck all over it. The worst thing is that I & most people I knew thought it was the muts at the time, I hang my head in shame:(

[Nick Mann]

1986 Rover SD1, 2350cc.

4 electric windows and taxed and tested for £250. And I still can't bring myself to get rid of it.

[aboo]

My 1st car was a B reg 1.1 cross flow Escort estate. I never payed for it as I served my time with my Uncle & the car was a company car.

The 1st car I payed for was a 2.0 Vauxhall Cavalier Mk2 auto. I paid £200 for it & it lasted 1 night. Had it full with a few friends got it up to 80mph & the gear box went.(sounds familiar:) )

Sat out side my folks house on 6" blocks for about 6 months till I had to get rid of it.

[Ryan]

My first car was a red 1978 Leyland Mini 1000 with a top speed of 95km/h and that was screaming its head off!

It didn't last long unfortunately before a cracked cylinder ended its brief career as Ryan's rally car.

[giblet]

1986 Rover SD1, 2350cc.

4 electric windows and taxed and tested for £250. And I still can't bring myself to get rid of it.

You still have an SD1? AWESOME!

[chrisvr4]

I like those sd1's :)

Went to a local race circuit in Wales some years ago (pembrey) and watched those sd1 vitesse with a tuned up 3.5 v8 engine race! Wow the noise and to this day I still remember the sound of thunder as it was going round the track.

There was metro 6r4's there and nothing could catch this rover on the straight!

[Humpty's Revenge]

Mine was a Hillman Avenger 1.3DL in silver with a black vinyl roof. PDL 452M bought for £50 with MOT & TAX.

You could`nt fill it up because it leaked really badly, it also had no heater because that leaked.

Only positive thing that happened was I part exchanged it for a 2.0ltr GXL Mk3 Cortina which was its double in Life on Mars :unbeleeva

[Fully]

Mine was the Mark II Zephyr - Stolen after 2 months.
Then got a Ford Prefect 100E =)

[CANDEE]

Mine was a '93 7G Mitsi Galant VX 2.0 V6. :) Came lowered, had a new trans & Atf cooler thanks to the previous owners trading it as it only had reverse... lol

Only lasted me about 6 months before I traded it for an AE111 Trueno..

[Adam.Findlay]

mine was a ford telstar TX5 XRI, good car 2.5 litre v6 picked it up for 2300nzd and then sold that for my legnum :)

[statham234]

Well.....

My 1st car was a 1966 vauxhall viva HA, or beagle!
It was brush painted banana yellow & bought by my sister in 1975 for my 17th birthday for £60 :bananadan

I passed my test in it, & to this day..... It's been the most reliable car I've ever owned !!! No brakes.......but never let me down :helmet: p


still remember the speedo on them lol my 2nd car was a shuvit

[Gizmo]

My first car was a Seat Ibiza Special 1989 1.5L 90BHP Porsche system :P

http://img.motorpasion.com/2009/05/historia-seat-ibiza-07.jpg

[Nutter_John]

My first car was a Seat Ibiza Special 1989 1.5L 90BHP Porsche system :P

http://img.motorpasion.com/2009/05/historia-seat-ibiza-07.jpg

My sister had the 907cc version of that car for 7 years

[fuel]

mine was a 1987 Mitsubishi Sigma GSR-X, a NZ new model which had actually been brought in from Japan already assembled. Was sold new to my father who had it as a company car for a while and then he bought it for himself off the company in the early 90s, then a year or two later he suffered a stroke which meant he couldn't drive again, so it didn't get driven much over the next 10 years and during that time Dad couldn't bare to sell it, especially to some other geezer, and after months and months of hounding I purchased the car off Dad when I was 16.

Best thing about it is that it had the Sirius DASH 3x2 engine fitted to it, and it was in the rare Black Onyx over Silver two tone colour combination. Was a great car for nine months until it got written off... not by me though, a drunk driver slammed into me. At this stage I was just about to go to Uni, so I took the insurance payout which paid for my first year's Uni tuition and I bought a cheap crapper 6G Galant which had done 320k when I picked it up and 3 years later when I was nearly done with Uni I sold it with 410k.

Ahh I wish I had pictures of the Sigma, I miss it dearly and would give the world to get it or another one back.

[miller]

One of many cars i bought from age of 12 onwards.....field driving! the ultimate in RWD handling! Wish i had more pics of them!

1978 Mazda 323
1980 Datsun 140j
1980 Datsun 140y

MKII Carina 1.6

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b319/miller_63/Funnies/Carina001.jpg

[scottie2hotti]

1987 VL holden commodore manual lol lowered fat tyres guard rub scrapage and then sold it to some stupid 15yo..

[Atik]

1990 H reg Peugeot 205 Trio. Had it for two weeks then upgraded to a 1995 Nissan Sunny Spray.

[AlanDITD]

First car i ever owned was a brown 1.3 austin maestro...i was 14 and we drove it round the fields...

Then i borrowed my mums 1.4 nissan sunny 1.4 twin cam when i passed my test, it was rapid haha

Then i bought a 1.6 MK3 cavalier for 75quid loved it, so comfy to drive.

[Ghost_2008]

My first car was a 1 litre Mini Mayfare, mainly blue with black hammerite hand painted roof and skirting...... It handled very very well in fact it's only second to the Legnum so far, better than the Civic and Punto that followed anyway........ It lasted maybe a year and I still feel very sentimental when I see a mini, in fact if I had the time and money I would happily buy another Old Skool Mini and sort it out properly....... She later passed away following a very quick left hand turn into a petrol station, all was well in my nice sideways slide until I found a raised central bollard, the damage was almost nothing, changed a damaged wheel/tyre and drove home, unfortunately she never started again.

I returned home from college to find she had been taken by the local scrappy, I didnt even get chance to say good bye..........

[andydckent]

My first car was a CJ Mitsubish Colt 1.3 GLX in Silver.

Before that I used to drive my dads black Ford Fiesta Fiesta MK4 1.4 Zetec, and before that I drove his metalic blue Ford Fiesta MK3 1.4 LX. :)

[horndog]

..............if I had the time and money I would happily buy another Old Skool Mini and sort it out properly.......

Same here, After writing off my mini cab, I picked up a 1275GT and still love minis.
I was so close to buying this instead of the VR4, - I just couldnt figure out where to put a baby seat

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SPECIAL-RACING-MINI-1989-IDEAL-TRACK-HILL-CLIMB-CAR-/260632375118?pt=Automobiles_UK

[ianb]

Mine in 1967 was an Austin Devon 1951, "bargain of the week" in Exchange & Mart for £13 10shillings, Pxd it 3 months later for a 1952 Riley RMF 2.5 litre for £25 which was fantastic for a year till the clutch went.

[Ghost_2008]

Same here, After writing off my mini cab, I picked up a 1275GT and still love minis.
I was so close to buying this instead of the VR4, - I just couldnt figure out where to put a baby seat

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SPECIAL-RACING-MINI-1989-IDEAL-TRACK-HILL-CLIMB-CAR-/260632375118?pt=Automobiles_UK

That is one lovely looking mini........... I would love however to buy a rolling chassis and fit a Type R Civic engine......... 200 bhp with virtually no transmission loss in a car that weights less than a ton.......

[feonix]

That is one lovely looking mini........... I would love however to buy a rolling chassis and fit a Type R Civic engine......... 200 bhp with virtually no transmission loss in a car that weights less than a ton.......

A friend has mini with a v-tec in. had to fit a new front subframe to mount the engine in, extended the front by 90mm. Bit of a deathtrap. the fastest i've ever been was in that Mini, i was passenger, 145mph!!

[pedro]

1984 Austin Maestro 1300 5 door. All white (ish) with 1 blue door
4 speed manual gearbox. 90mph at 99000rpm. she was a scremer. Not bad for £50