Your first car

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1st:

2nd:

3rd:

 

[wiskey]

bought a sierra for £30 when i was £15 (obviously no license), most of the bits to make it work were in boxes in the boot.

decided making it work was boring so flogged it on for £55 to a mate two days later.

havent bothered buying another one since. might do when i have a license

 

[oneflewover]

One of these, in this colour, but nowhere near as nice.

 

[ViolentPanda]

One of these in "Harvest Gold"

 

[kyser_soze]

You boy racer you, VP...

 

[beeboo]

A little red Renault 5 affectionately known as The Foxmobile.

I miss that car!

 

[Poi E]

'74 Crown coupe. But in a metallic baby blue. Full electrics, cooler box on the rear shelf and pillarless. I used to see it walking home from school in this old fella's garage. Finally, it popped up for sale. Made a cool alternative to all the Holdens and Fords my mates were driving. I miss that car.

 

[Lisarocket]

I loved my first car. It was a bright orange Hillman Avenger with a black vinyl roof. Think it was a 1978, but i can't quite remember. That was in 1988- i've never had a car that was younger than 10 and i prefer classic cars. I'm still mourning my MG BGT, which was 33 when it had to go, but i couldn't afford the welding

Got a 2 litre 1994 Golf GTI for £500 a few weeks ago and am loving it already. It's also the least rusty car i've ever owned

 

[longdog]

One of these in "Harvest Gold"

I had an 1100 version for a couple of years. Not the worlds finest looking car but went surprisingly well for its engine size and ran on the smell of petrol. Mine had been repaired with polyfilla and dulux gloss (I found the tin in the boot), I never bothered repairing it properly but the polyfilla never fell out.

I eventually trashed it by hitting a kerb sideways while trying for a full 360 degree handbrake turn. It shagged the hydrolastic suspension and it wasn't worth trying to repair it.

Nice little motor though.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I had an 1100 version for a couple of years. Not the worlds finest looking car but went surprisingly well for its engine size and ran on the smell of petrol. Mine had been repaired with polyfilla and dulux gloss (I found the tin in the boot), I never bothered repairing it properly but the polyfilla never fell out.

They were surprisingly good little motors, the 1100/1300 range.
The 1300GT had the Mini 1275 twin-carb engine and gearbox, which meant it had real low-end grunt as well as being pretty quick off the blocks. Was a bit thirstier than the 1100s though.

I eventually trashed it by hitting a kerb sideways while trying for a full 360 degree handbrake turn. It shagged the hydrolastic suspension and it wasn't worth trying to repair it.

Made for a very good ride, but it meant loads of 1100s, 1300s, 1800 and 2200s, as well as Maxis (blechhhh! ) went to the junkyard before their time.

Nice little motor though.

Very.

 

[moose]

My sister and I were learning to drive at the same time, and we shared one of these.

I've not really moved on much - 22 years later I'm still driving a small, square, red Volkswagen.

 

[Radar]

Half a little grey 850 mini.

Cheap as chips to insure, which as an 18yo in Ireland was pretty important. Still, the annual third party only insurance was twice the cost of the car

In the end the insurance screwed me. Once I'd passed my test I ended up on a yammie 80 scooter. I got hooked on 2 wheels and never looked back

My mum then used it as a run-around until one of the local gobshites nicked it to get home one night and caused so much damage hot-wiring it the insurance wrote it off

 

[mattie]

'74 Crown coupe. But in a metallic baby blue. Full electrics, cooler box on the rear shelf and pillarless. I used to see it walking home from school in this old fella's garage. Finally, it popped up for sale. Made a cool alternative to all the Holdens and Fords my mates were driving. I miss that car.

What's that? That's mint for a first car. Mine was a 950cc Fiesta, I used to race my mate in his 1049cc polo, not that other road users could tell they were so slow. Started first time all the time though.

 

[dessiato]

The first car that I bought was actually two HA Vivas, the idea was to put a Jaguar V12 in one, but I ran out of money. I don't know why I bought two. One I put a hole in a piston on the way home from the garage, then, while being towed home, the rope snapped and put a dent into the roof of my mates father's RR! Happy days.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

A rustier J-reg version of this

which I drove til the hole in the door meant it wasn't worth fixing.

God I miss that ugly wonderful car!

 

[cesare]

It was a citroen ami 8 van. A bit like this ^^^ but dark blue and (obviously!) no passenger windows. My parents handed it on to me for my 18th birthday. Suffix registration J i.e. 1970/71 which means it was already 9 years old and suffering from years of transporting two adults, 3 kids, 2 dogs and a tent down to Cornwall for family holidays by the time I got it

Column change gears, complete nightmare to change without knocking the indicator on. And the spongiest brakes of all time Not the easiest first car to have when you've just passed yer test.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

VW Polo 1.3 CL.

A absolute tank to drive but it never let me down in four years apart from that time on the M3 when the engine cut out in the middle lane, to this day I'll never know how I managed to steer it onto the hard shoulder

These days I stick to the Northern line.

 

[VWT2GEL]

This baby exactly the same colour with syrup coloured nylon seats and when you dropped a bit of fag ash on them they would ignite

 

[SpookyFrank]

Mark 3 Golf diesel, 140,000 miles and 20 years on the clock when I got it. Fucking hateful piece of shit it was.