Your first car, what was it please?

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I only past my test 4/5 years ago, this was my first car £1.700 a year insurance, i had this for around 3 months then got a 2.5 all singing and dancing X type Jag £3.500 a year insurance:-doh, kept that on payg insurance for 4 months, then got a 1tr polo :eek::-lol.

I have just renewed my old Peugeot £259 for the year:)
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No photo's of my first car...it was so long ago LOL....

It was a red Morris Mini...APT287B....some time later I sprayed the top half matt black and the bottom half Hammerite blue.....which did nothing for the already creeping rust and eventually it got scrapped...
 
A beige colored Vauxhall Carlton, great huge car built like a tank, all the taxis drove them at the time
 
1968 Mustang hardtop.I think I paid $600 in 1977.
 
No photos that have survived of my first car either, an Austin A35. I used it for a short while and then bought a damaged MG Midget with the view of putting the engine and front brakes into the A35 as the Sprite/Midget basically uses a mix of A30/35 and Morris Minor running gear.

However when I got them both together I looked at them and thought soddit, I'll fix the Midget instead! I then ran that particular Midget for several years.
 
Renault 4 (Sans pig).

I'd quite like to get my hands on another one now, but they are as rare as rocking-horse poo.
 
Mine was a maroon Vauxhall Victor 101 FC, a 1968 car bought in 1972/3, paid the princely sum of £100 for it.:)

No pics I'm afraid.
 
Mine was a ford corsia light blue with a white roof, lots of chrome, 1500 engine with a max top speed of 62.5mph. Wow they were the days. Every sunday charge the battery and work on the car to get to work the following week !!!!!!!!!!
 
First car was a clapped-out Hillman Minx in 1960.

Took my test in a driving school's Morris Mini-Minor in 1959, they had the first Minis in town.

Many cars since then, Mini-vans, Alfasud, New MK 1 Golf GTi, (ran it to the ground, you did with those :eek: ), Polos - my current car.

55 years on the road. Serious RTA 18 months ago, maybe God's way of telling me to pack it in :-doh
 
Mine was a Cortina 1600E Maroon, Beautiful car inside and out, bought in 1969 for 1200Maltese pounds which at that time were the same equivalent to 1200Sterling.
Had nine in all, all new, love cars - now I have a Mazda Demio 121 - been with me since 1999.
The Hyundia sports coupe I bought in 1991 - kept it for 3 years.
 

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Rootes group's answer to the Mini; Hilman Imp. Had it for 2 years despite all the head gasket problems and followed it up with a couple of Vivas; one HB and then an HC
 
I hated school and often wasn't there my older brother owned a car repair garage, I was working all my days out of school at 14 and earning money , when I was around 15 he had moved premises to a car breakers yard, I was going to school less then more money:),

I have driven all the cars mentioned around the scrap yard, apart from the mustang :(, some great old cars, I loved the little Hillman imps :).
 
Morris Marina ! Lots of thing went wrong, but engine and gearbox was ok, so with a little luck usually arrived at destination.
 
pgh13 said:
despite all the head gasket problems
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From memory they all had that problem apart from one certain type of engine, I am 47 now so going back a few years,

The Marina engine and box would go for ever, they was just a rust bucket,
 
My first was an unexciting Renault Clio back in '98 at university. Underpowered 1.2l engine was a little slow but comfy inside for a small car. Before that I used to borrow my parent's cars. Crashed my Dad's Range Rover (the original style - not the fancy new ones) by sliding into a snow plough in my first year of driving. He wasn't too impressed but a week after we got it fixed he did the same thing - he never mentioned my incident again. :D
 
Mine was a green Morris Mini in 1971, with hydrolastic suspension. I renewed the rear subframe and I sprayed the car metallic light blue, I was not happy with the performance so I mated an MG1100 engine block to the 850 gearbox with an MG 1300 clutch. I revamped the carb with a blue needle and spring. 0 to 60 I could do a standing start and beat a TR6 any day (and often did) but top speed was 66 MPH. The torque was incredible again no pics.

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Forgot to say front tyres only lasted about one year
 
Citroen BX 1.9L TGD Estate with the Meteor trim, engine didn't run (timing belt broken), car was a rusting heap, never got anywhere with it despite best intentions, so it got scrapped, probably could have got it running today though, but, nah, these days I'd rather have a Honda Accord Tourer 2.2L iDTEC or a 2CV... :D
 
Llew said:
First car was a clapped-out Hillman Minx in 1960.

Took my test in a driving school's Morris Mini-Minor in 1959, they had the first Minis in town.

Many cars since then, Mini-vans, Alfasud, New MK 1 Golf GTi, (ran it to the ground, you did with those :eek: ), Polos - my current car.

55 years on the road. Serious RTA 18 months ago, maybe God's way of telling me to pack it in :-doh
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Nostalgia time. My GTi, pic taken in 2004 while it was still roadworthy!

GTi badge nicked, as was the fashion those days :(


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martin-f said:
From memory they all had that problem apart from one certain type of engine, I am 47 now so going back a few years,

The Marina engine and box would go for ever, they was just a rust bucket,
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I once changed the head gasket in 3 hours.... then it took me 2 days before I could persuade the engine to start. :-rofl2

I should have had it skimmed but we only had the 1 car and the nearest machine shop was 20 miles away.....and at 21 you always think you know better :-doh
 
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