Your first car

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What was it, do you still have it now etc.

[G Richards]

Volvo 480 ES.

 

Lovely little car. Headlights popped up. Fairly sporty in it's day. Mrs G crash on M1 with a lorry driver changing lanes and not seeing her saw the thing written off. The famous Volvo safety cage saved her life, mind.

[Guest ShoePiss]

1972 MGB bought in 2001 in San Francisco, didn't drive in the UK and when I first came to California didn't have any choice but to get a licence and a car. Still own it today and it should be with me until the day I die.

[Dan]

1972 MGB bought in 2001 in San Francisco, didn't drive in the UK and when I first came to California didn't have any choice but to get a licence and a car. Still own it today and it should be with me until the day I die.

 

i had a 1998 fiesta(in 2008 ),but yours is nicer,just a bit!

[stevebaby]

My first car was a half share in a Fiat 500 which cost me $AUD25. My mate and I taught ourselves to drive it in the bush near his place. It had no registration, no seatbelts and bald tyres but neither of us were old enough to drive on the road anyway.

It lasted 3 weeks before we managed to destroy it completely but we had some fun with it.

[navbasi]

A Red XR2, I paid £3,700, at 19 it was the bollocks.. I wasted so much money on cars when I was younger, after the XR2, I got a Renault 5 GT Turbo which I had for around 9 months and wrote it off, then got a Clio 16V, again wrote that off, then got a LTD Edition Renault 5 GT Turbo Radar and surprisingly didn't write that off, sold it for £1000 more than I brought it for 6 months later. I now drive a Clio 1.2!!

[RedinSweden]

Renault 5 GTL. Was a nice little car. Owned by a biddy since new. Bought it in 1995 for 600 quid. Sold it a year after we got the first child in 1997. Traded it in for a Volvo 360 GLS. Got 500 for it.

[jeremy]

1990, purchased a Fiat Panda from 1984, good little motor with shite interior. Had that for a year, went all over the place in it.

[Pony Princess]

E-reg Vauxhall Nova saloon (not the one in the pic but identical)

 

Boss little car, cost about £1100 I think in 1997. Lasted me for about 5 years before the head gasket went and it wasn't worth repairing.

 

[JohnnyH]

A 1989 Citroen AX. Keep in mind I'm 6'4 and at the time weighed around 22 stone.

 

I looked fucking stupid.

[Guest TesticleOReilly]

Mini 850. Put it into a ditch driving round the country lanes thinking I was Mansell. It survived, then blew one of the cylinders, at which point it got a heart transplant and an upgrade to ... 1000cc! Then it was a pocket rocket.

[dirty_sanchez]

A 1996 Ford Escort 1.6. Paid £500 for it, sold it for £350 with 160,000 on the clock. Great car. Not exciting, but gave me no mechanical problems whatsoever and went like a dream. The guy I sold it to said that the cambelt went about 35,000 later, which is impressive.

[Chairman Meow]

First road car bought was a Mk2 Escort which I still have, bought when I was 10 or 11 year old and supposed to be the car I was going to have when I passed my test, I was already driving at this point just not on the road. Started off as a minor repair and tidy up job, it's due to finally be painted some time this year. A mere 18 or 19 years later.

 

First road car I ever used properly day to day was one of these:

 

The Granada lasted about 8 or 9 months before I had to sell it to buy a service van for the rally car. Road car wise even at 17 I've always loved big old comfortable old mans saloon and estate cars.

[Pony Princess]

First road car bought was a Mk2 Escort which I still have, bought when I was 10 or 11 year old and supposed to be the car I was going to have when I passed my test, I was already driving at this point just not on the road. Started off as a minor repair and tidy up job, it's due to finally be painted some time this year. A mere 18 or 19 years later.

 

First road car I ever used properly day to day was one of these:

 

The Granada lasted about 8 or 9 months before I had to sell it to buy a service van for the rally car.

 

Nice. Love it when you see an F to M kinda age car and its shiny as fuck and well looked after. Props to someone who can look after a car that well. I find that once a car has had a bad scratch or scrape, I totally lose interest in keeping it in top condition. Maybe thats because I tend to go for workhorse type cars though. I was very close to buying an MX-5 last winter though - I'd give that plenty of TLC.

[Sweeney287]

A beige V reg Mk II Escort for £250.

 

Suck a classy motor that when driving in the rain for the first time I realized that the wipers didn't work properly. My sister had to lean out of the passenger window to keep on giving them a nudge. She wasnt best pleased but at leat I was dry.

[razor]

Fiesta Mk1 in about 1990.

 

It was handpainted blue. It cost about 200 notes. It permanently stunk of oil and so did everyone who went in it. I had to park it on hills so I could push start it on my own. Even in good weather. It was a classic early-90s rave slave.

 

 

Like this only not as nice. And with brush strokes (resplendent with brush hairs every now and again). Like this one it also had the back windows replaced with metal (why?).

 

I once drove it back from Stoke in bouncing rain with no window-wipers or heater. Mist on the inside and a hurricane on the outside.

 

And we criticise kids these days...

[RJ Fan club]

Ford Escort 1.8 diesel. Under powered, handled like a shopping trolley, had a spoiler which didn't add to performance, bright red and 0 to 60 in about 18 secs.

 

It blew up and a piston went, in the end it was more expensive to fix than it was worth.

 

I loved that car.

[Guest davelfc]

It was a piece of shit but I loved it.

[silverlining]

My first car was a BMW 3 SERIES, 2.8 litre automatic. Metallic blue/ grey.

About 8 years old, paid £6,000 for it or something. I was 33.

[Trumo]

1995 Honda Civic 1.4. Ultra reliable and surprisingly nippy. Looked a bit like an old man's car, what with the fake wood interior trim and the British Racing Green paintwork. Got rid about 6 years ago.

 

It was a piece of shit but I loved it.

 

That was the first car my dad bought in this country back in the 70s. A white one. He got rid when I was about 4.

[JagSquared]

I have a 99 1.25 Ford Fiesta. Got it 3 and a half years ago. It had 60k (ish) on the clock it now has 137k. I need to replace it.

[stringvest]

 

This. Bought for £4 at the auction place on West Derby Road. The bidding started at £3 and I held my nerve, played a cool hand, and homed in on my quarry. Drove it for 6 months and sold it for £50. Like a mini Porsche 911, but with an 850cc engine and a tendency to jump onto the pavement if you pressed the brake pedal. I'm thinking of getting another one now. Funky.

[VladimirIlyich]

Astra Mk1.

 

It was a red rust bucket and i paid well over the odds for it. Paid about £650 in around 1992 when it was only worth about half that.

 

Fell for the trick where the seller parks one side tight against a wall so you cant see all the rust on the inside of the door.

 

Sold it six months later for parts or scrap for about £175 when a piston went.

 

Saw it parked outside a garage next to speke airport,old entrance,a few months later still being used as a runaround.

 

It was crap but helped me learn a bit more about what to check for when buying a car.

Next car i bought was a vauxhall cavalier and that was a great car,im sorry i got rid of it.

Its engine was great but it started to rust big time.

[Simbo]

My first car was a MK2 Ford Fiesta. It was white and had the XR2 pepperpot alloys....I fucking loved it. The previous owner had fitted a 5 speed gearbox as to replace the 4 speed one....at 18 years of age I didnt have a clue what the fuck that upgrade did but I was proud of it none-the-less.

 

I used to go out driving in it with my mates before I passed my driving test. One night I had 1 mate in the front, 4 in the back and 1 in the boot. We were causing havoc by driving around and egging people and generally being asses. We parked up in a car park and a couple of my mates thought it would be a good idea to start a fire next to the car. Before I knew it the car had caught fire. I stupidly started the engine to try and drive away from the flames but ended up bailing out. 30 seconds later the car exploded, the fire brigade turned up accompanied by the police. I thought I was fucked. In a panic I confessed to the fireman that I didnt have a license..he told me it was none of his business. The policeman started questioning me but never asked to see my driving license so I got away with it. I had to phone my parents at 3am to tell them what had happened and, as you can imagine, were less than impressed.

 

I made a claim with my insurance company stating that I had been taken for a driving lesson at 3am by my dad and that the car just mysteriously caught fire.

 

The stupid fuckers paid up.

 

I've got loads of pictures developed of the burnt out wreckage....might try and upload them somehow for the GF.

[Hand Shandy]

I was given a 1987 VW Polo in 2001 by friends who were buying a new car and couldn't be arsed scrapping it.

 

Had six months tax and MOT left so expected to get that much out of it before a new MOT would cost more than it was worth...

 

Cost me £100 to get it through the MOT and it lasted three more years at the same kind of money before we got a new car.

 

We gave it to some of our friends who had it for another two years...

 

Great little car.