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What was your 1st car?

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SimonG said:
Loved my older cars. You could actually fix them without having to plug them into a computer to tell you what was wrong.
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thats why i have the landy,got sick of vans that needed to go on the computer,that said mine is the year proir to the td5 being launched they got complex from there even the brand new defenders despite looking the same have a very complex transit lump
 
Morris minor ha what heap that was it had a starting handle on the front nearly broke my f;;; arm of
 
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Showing his age.....Morris Mini Minor 932 BWB, no MOT 30 quid runner or spares.
 
Ford Anglia van, ex post office telephones, £150 bought on hp over 12 months.
 
D reg Fiat Panda you could fill the tank for £12.

Those were the days......i used to blow my wage every weekend and then put the £2 i had left in my tank on a monday and it would see me through until Friday again.
 
1959 Morris Mini,(MBV 858) how I wish I had it now, it would be worth a fortune
 
My dad had one of those.

British racing green - aaaah the irony of it lol.
 
Below was my first car.

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Now running this
$_58.JPG Saab 95 se 2.3 eco power turbo with a hirsht conversion = 300bhp all for £380.
 
97 reg ford fiesta in purple. Mum saw it crumpled into the back of a lorry two weeks after I sold it. (Knew I should of given him the brakes as well) 😉
 
Plastic Pig 1978. We used to take a mobile disco around in the back plus 4 of us. All to rock gigs; we were all bikers & this was the closest thing to a car that we could get or wanted at the time 🙂 Mine was like this but without the 'Eyelashes'. I learnt a lot about riding a bike from driving this back from parties ......
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1938 Ford 8. Cable brakes (never really worked), side valve engine (8HP). easy to repair used wood to repair the chassis and lots of fibreglass to fill the holes in with. (MOT not then even thought of then). 6Volt system gave headlights like candles.
 
vauxhall nova 1.2. fit my own stereo and the petrol gauge packed up. had the stereo nicked and it started working again...god knows how..
 
I had a mk2 fiesta. Ripped the normal seats out and put xr2i seats in. Put a stereo in it and a couple of 6x9's in the parcel shelf. What on earth I was thinking!
 
My brother had an xr2i many moons ago.
Always remember when he advertised it he sold it some bloke for the asking price of £4400.
He then called the bloke back and said he wanted £4600 for it as he advertised it too cheap lol....

The bloke still bought it and paid the extra.
I would have told him to *'off lol...🙂
 
My first car back in '76 was a 1965 Hillman Hunter with a 1750cc engine and a sunshine roof if any of you know what one of those is.

It was a brilliant motor, I can't imagine what the insurance would be on something like this for a youngster nowadays.
 
My first car was an old mini - old 'F' reg whatever year that was, I'm 6'2'' and 14 stone and I had more room in that car than most cars I've had since...
 
Red Renault Clio 1.2 RL Paris. R298PRG. Had it 8 months and traded it in for a new Silver Clio 1.2 16v BN56VSF. Both great cars. Then went to a Renault Sport Clio 197 HN58UKE. Great car. Loved it. Then Mazda 3 MPS YE59NPK. Very quick. Now just got a Pug 307 HDI. House came first :-(.
 
Nissan Almera. 1.4, 5 doors, burgundy. P892 YJO. painted the whole (standard) exhaust bright red and fitted a deafening sound system.

Oh yes.
 
Ray Stafford said:
A bedford CF van called Gladys. Claimed to be an ex tour van from the Shadows. I won it from my boss on a coin toss, so it cost me nothing - but could have cost me £100 if I had lost the toss.

Painted blue on one side and black on the other to confuse witnesses. 🙂


True story.

Unfortunately I tried to drive it down the gap between our house and the neighbours. Didn't quite work. Sorry about that soil stack Roy! 🙂
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i had an ex post office commer like that was red with a yellow panel one side used to cofuse the wife no end when she claimed she had seen it out side such and such pub
 
dont think i could list every car ive had in the seventies old cars that drunk juice were 2 a penny and i had several big old beast some only for a few days or weeks jags daimlers consuls zephyrs insurance was easy then as i was on the old mans trade poliucy
first car i legally owned and drove was a mini
followed by
anglia car
anglia van
fiat abarth 850
mg 1100
another anglia car souped up version
1600 capri
singer gazzelle arrow shape
another mini
a mini van with windows and a 1275 lump
escort mk1 i brought my son home in that
two sweeny style grannies
a frogeyed sprite
triumph vitesse with a 2.5 lump
datsun 240k coupe bright yellow with loads of chrome
rover 2.2 pig
dutton melos hooligan
seirra car 1.6
seirra estate 4wd 2.9 another nice cars towed race cars all over the place with that
astra deisel estate
saab convertable had this for 1 month short of ten years it was 100 miles short of 200,000 miles when i sold it hardly spent a penny on it great car
now a poxy nissan note which i hate
there the main ones but ive had morris minors an austin a40 a big citroen a renault 4 a couple of hillmam imps
 
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