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Here's another - first car..... 21:44 - Oct 12 with 4547 views

As the football dessert extends into a second week.

What was the first car you owned.

I started with a J Reg Austin 1100 that I wrote off in an accident in Balham. Moved on to a Talbot Horizon which was a dreadful car that used to die in the rain.

After that a Mark 3 Cortina V reg. Great car and loved it.

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loftboy

Was 17 in 1984 and for my birthday my parents got me a 1967 vauxhall viva for £25 with a years tax and mot, my dad took me out in it every Sunday morning, passed my test first time 30 years ago next month, and it's all thanks to that car, the first car I paid for was a 1978 mk2 escort. £500 and it was the dogs bollocks.

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MoonshineSteve

Little Red Fiat 126. Superb. Makes a Smart Car look palatial. I could park it in a space eight inches longer than the car cos I could drive the front in then pick the back up & shuffle it across. Wired in a stereo more powerful than the engine & crooooooooosed.

Those were the days.

I am still Steve but no longer in Dagenham.

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loftboy

York, surely a V Reg would have been a mk5? I owned I mk4 painted in council yellow, and two 2 litre mk5's

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flynnbo

1973 Yellow Triumph 1500 which cost £500 back in 1982. Saved up from my year abroad. Ended up using more oil than petrol. Moved on to a Chrysler GLS after that.

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MoonshineSteve

Here's another - first car..... on 22:10 - Oct 12 by loftboy
York, surely a V Reg would have been a mk5? I owned I mk4 painted in council yellow, and two 2 litre mk5's [Post edited 12 Oct 2014 22:12]

Nerd alert!

I am still Steve but no longer in Dagenham.

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N12Hoop

Rusting Datsun 120Y which was surprisingly nippy. Followed by dreadful Talbot Horizon. Hardly surprising Talbot went down the pan.
And then a Nissan Cherry Europe: an Alfa engine gone inside a Nissan bodyshell. What a bad idea that was.

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AlbRanger

Parents bought me an Austin Maxi to learn in at 17 (1988) and passed my test first time. Reg was KME 416P. Took forever to get up hills but no time at all going down them. Absolute tank.

First car I paid for myself was a white Fiat Uno, reg E135 GOO.

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MoonshineSteve

Younger posters won't understand all these references to rust. Elimination of that problem has to be the major advance in motoring in the last 30 years.

I am still Steve but no longer in Dagenham.

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spothoop

Also passed my test first time (not until I was 19, had a few Lambrettas and Vespas first). It was a bright yellow MG Midget, great in summer, cold in winter!

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N12Hoop

My Datsun had so much rust you could pretty much have stuck a pole straight through the car. Used to plaster it in this paint that was meant to solidify it as well as stick tubs of putty in all the gaps. It was a losing battle. Had forgotten about those battles

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komradkirk

didnt have a car until my late twenties so a VW Golf.

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Aitch

About 1982 or 83 I'd guess. A Hillman Imp that cost about £50. Engine in the back so had to put a couple of concrete slabs in the front just to give the steering a chance to get round corners. Don't think I ever of overtook anything that wasn't stationary.

TPFKA Stans_Left_Foot

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Bluce_Ree

Bitches. I've got you all beaten.

First car. A £300 Talbot Samba that I bought in 1996 and it was already really old then. Complete piece of shit. It died within three days (gearbox seized up costing me another £300 to fix as it was all one piece with the fking engine!).

Kept it going for two years somehow. Absolute piece of shit. Couldn't go much over 50 mph.

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enfieldargh

My mum always drove minis so when she needed a newer one in convinced my dad to buy this nice gold one from his mates lot off Ladbroke grove ....my mum would never drive over 30mph usual in second gear most of the time

This nice gold one was a 1275gt which I soon offered to drive all the time.

First car I brought was a TR7 which my dad reversed into the day I got it home as he said he couldn't see it in his rear view mirror

That car was fecking cursed!!!!

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FredManRave

Yellow (!) Ford Escort Mark I with full length sun roof. Bought from my neighbour in 1987 for 200 quid. 'kin loved it. Felt like it went like shite off a shovel at the time and was obviously thrashed to pieces at the time. Over 25 years later I now drive a Ford Escort (no sun roof) Estate.

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Toast_R

Austin Metro. Absolute heap. Used to leave puddles of oil wherever i parked it. Wheel baring went in the end but before that someone actually nicked it. The police found it a mile away dumped, they even pulled the radio out and left it on the back seat when they realised it wasnt worth a w@nk.

Golf Mk2 after that, pound for pound, still best car i ever bought.

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Lblock

Blue Vauxhall Viva with a tinge of brown rust in key areas - learnt to drive in it.

Passed me test just after 17 and was out that day practising when I saw my mates brother walking home from school with some sort. He shouts "You passed!" and while leaning out the window giving it the big un I forget I'm practising three point turns and reverse into a tree.
Kept that car for a good few months and we turned it into a playground as we drove around Ealing. We all knew it was crap but fitted it out with big F Off speakers on rear shelf, had a proper trim phone in there, furry dice and a sticker on the boot that had the car christened "Famous Shamus"

I was over-joyed in the end to bin it off and cruise in my powder blue Ford Mk I Escort

Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal

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izlingtonhoop

Mmmmmmm....
Football dessert....

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Discodroids

yellow ford cortina mk 3 reg 'muc 3p' 1986. for shame. a sherman tank.£150.

to save my soul the second car i bought in 1987 was a capri m2 xre 634s , yellow with a black vinyl roof with arthur daley stickers in the back. terry mcann me up.£800.

my old mate essex taxi's was a harold redkbapp kubblewagon. £PRICELESS

oh the halcyon days of 'L' 'GL' 'GHIA' 'LASER'..

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danehoop

When I was 18 and just passed my test I wanted a Golf GTI or RS 2000. My dad (who was largely financing the purchase) wisely bought me a Austin Allegro. A car that was so crap it went through a pint of oil a week, blew fuses every day and had a heating system that stopped working everytime you went over a bump (ever sprayed anti freeze on the inside of your window whilst driving?). It was though cheap to repair and able to to take a lump or bump without too many alarms and not likely to break the speed limit. First 2 years of driving it served a good purpose.

Then got a T Reg 1.6 Mk 5 Cortina, king of cars. Reliable and looked good at the time, good progression to a real car. After that I got an Escort which was utter pony, a golf that was brilliant and then my favourite car I have ever driven, a Seat Ibiza, where someone at Seat thought to insert a golf GTI engine into a Polo sized car and combined it with a rally suspension. reliable, stupid fast, incredible handling and looked good as well. Gutted when I had to sell it. All down hill from then on as family life required sensible choices.....

Never knowingly understood

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YorkRanger

Here's another - first car..... on 22:10 - Oct 12 by loftboy
York, surely a V Reg would have been a mk5? I owned I mk4 painted in council yellow, and two 2 litre mk5's [Post edited 12 Oct 2014 22:12]

You could be right LB....may have to bow to your superior knowledge. It was the square shape.

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YorkRanger

Here's another - first car..... on 08:20 - Oct 13 by danehoop

For those who got their first car in the 80s still waiting for the Austin Allegro, Austin Princess and Morris Marina stories....

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collegeranger

Dad was a car dealer so learnt to drive in a blue Metro 1.3S. Passed test and had to give it back - it was sold on and the shell was used for a Metro Challenge racing car!!

Then told to dig deep for my first car Vauxhall Chevette - WDP 148T Baby puke beige with a faint check interior. Went all over the country in that including a few away games. I seem to remember a summer friendly at Dean Court Bournemouth and a first day of the season thrashing at Southampton - 5-1 I think!!

Changed my cars quicker than my underwear in the 80's - first bunch in order
Vauxhall Chevette
Fiat 128 Estate (very fast .....compared to the Chevette)
Citroen Dyane
Ford Fiesta
MGB Roadster (wished I had kept that)
Vauxhall Viva 1800 (poor man's RS2000)
Ford Cortina 1.6L Mk 4 (mate puked in the back so was sold 3 weeks after purchase with free bottle of Givenchy pour homme poured on said puke sation)
VW Golf 1.3
Audi 80 5S

Then into company cars until changed jobs then had to buy on car and got a
Citroen 2CV (fantastic little car) wished I had kept that

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BrianMcCarthy

A clapped-out white Nissan Bluebird when I was eighteen. with a million miles on the clock. Had it a few months and then took it back as it was smoking badly. The lad at the garage asked me if I ever put oil in it. I said of course, I put in a couple of tanks a week!

He's probably still laughing. I left him, the poor lad in convulsions, and drove straight 'round to the brother's place and made him tell me everything I needed to know about engines, starting with how to open the bonnet.

Sold it to a man who honestly believed me when I told him that blue smoke out the exhaust was a sign of a healthy engine.

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zicoshoops

In 1978 I bought a very old Mini Traveler for Fifteen quid.
A death trap on wheels.
When it rained the front foot well's flooded, so going round corners there was a 'Wave' system going on inside the Car.
Painted it 'British Racing Green' with a two inch brush.
It died while going through Hyde Park.......Turned the steering wheel approaching Serpentine Bridge, and the Car just went straight on into a Hedge.
Got out of the Car, and just walked away.

Next up was an Austin Allegro.........A B'astard on four wheels.
Wheel Bearings and steering joints needed replacing every couple of months.
It had Hydogas suspension, which if I remember needed topping up quite often.
I was sitting in it, at the Garage on the corner of Rillington Place/Ruston Close, waiting for an MOT.
There was a noise like a bomb going off.......I thought I'd been shot, everyone in the Garage threw themselves on the ground.
One side of the Hydrogas suspension had exploded, and the Car was sitting at 45 degrees.
A Mechanic walked over and said, 'I don't think it's gonna pass mate.'
I still kept the B'astard for another year or so, spent a fortune on it.
I hope everyone responsible for the design and build of the Allegro, dies slowly and painfully.........The B.astards.

P.S.
Bit harsh wishing death on them I suppose, so.........
I refer you to the opening scene from 'The Godfather,' where The Undertaker request's the death of the Guy's who abused his Daughter.
When told that would not be justice as his Daughter was still alive, he replies........

'Then let them suffer, as they made her suffer.'
That'll do for now.

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