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I started out with a,green, Vauxhall Velox which was pure luxury with a family because it took the place of a sidecar outfit.This was in 1965 and the Velox was one of the early upright versions.A six cylinder engine,it went very well but the brakes left something to be desired.Then I found out that one of the rear brakes had a leaking slave cylinder and had been clamped off!!

It had leading link suspension so that when you braked the front went up not down.

I didn't have it long and graduated to a Standard Vanguard with overdrive.Very comfortable but rather tank like.

 

Vic.

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my first car was a vauxhall nova spin 1.2 it was a stolen and recovered jobby only give £100 for it, problem was it only had a door lock key and the ignition barrel was no where to be seen, so i did a bit fiddle with the wires put them on to a switch so that i could get the ignition on, then hidden behind the cigarette lighter i put a push in button to start it, il never forget the day i went to light a cig up and push the cigarette lighter in :oops: you can imagine the noise from the starting motor :lol::lol:

 

she was a good old little car took me everywhere :yes: i wont mention the rest as there has been a few and the list goes on

 

especially if i mention my (cough) boy racing days :blush::good:

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J reg black mini with wide wheels and bucket seats!, cost me £300 in 1978 and I had to squeeze into it as I'm 6' 6" :)

 

Engine lasted about 3 months but the man upstairs to my mum was a great mechanic and put a tuned up 1100 in it for me, didn't half upset the bloke at work with an MG Midget, right poser, thought he was the dogs danglies until I started tearing past him on the way home every night :)

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Thought I'd never get to the end of this one.

Loads of old reminisences and many good memories brought back to life.

 

My first car was a mini van. Green and falling to bits. Took it to the factory I worked at for a summer job and over a weekend (or two) rubbed it down, filled it and painted it purple - the colour of the day. It gradually 'grew' plastic, stick-on flowers (the 'in' thing at the time) as the rust patches came through on the rear door.

Once, on a trip from uni to the girlfriends house, we were travelling in it down the A1 in a bad storm and gradually became aware that the back was filling with water which then wiered over into the front footwells. I had to stop and punch holes in the floor in a torrential downpour to let the water out again. On another occassion, travelling in winter across the Pennines, it began to snow and the windscreen wipers gradually slowed to a stop. I had to disengage one and , holding it by the fixing; put my hand out of the side window and use it manualy. Never had my hand so cold before or since.

A beetle, Lancia fulvia, renault 5 (dashboard change), then a new VW sirrocco and after that nothing of such character except the porche 944 turbo bought new 24 years ago and still in the garage getting old very gracefully.

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White Vauxhall viva reg CWM34C in the late 60's, remember it well.Four of us went to lake district fishing (about 95 miles)On our return to the car saw we had a puncture,jacked it up and chassis broke.Drove home with 4 of us sat in drivers side of the car to help best we could to take weight off the damaged side,got home eventually and welded it up and got shot of it.

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Black 1946 MGTC,DAJ 714. i passed my test in it. It had wooden hinges and floorboards and G clamps that held the hood on. The cylinder head blew every month and i became a dab hand at replacing it The su carbs used to eat more dirt than fuel and i was always needing to work the winscreen wipers by hand as the grease use to freeze in the mechanism and stop them working. It had the dandiest anti theft device ( a removable steering wheel) and also a small electrical u contactor just under the dash. The wheel hubs had wings on them and were removed with a rather large hammer.This was in the days of 4 and 4 shots (UCL) for a £1.Broke my heart when i sold it to a bloke at a garage in Toddington village, :/:no: i would love to know what happened to it. from Auntie.

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1.8 Vauxhall Firenza...yellow like this one....It really was a babe magnet...

 

That was the good old days when insurance was dirt cheap, you could get every bit you needed at Halfords, and petrol was about 25p a litre... So much room under the bonnet if you were servicing it and it started raining you could almost get inside with the lead lamp and shut the lid...

 

Not only that you got served at petrol stations...2 and 2 shots please and dont forget the Greenshield stamps ! :lol:

Wow, that was my first car too, only mine was blue! I think they did a bigger engined one too - was it 2.2 litre? Only a few people can remember them and most of those say 'Was it a drop snoot?'. Well, no it wasn't!

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My first car was this 1970 Ford Escort mk1..

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Also had-

 

Humber Hawk

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Ford Anglia 105e (no pic)

 

Cortina mk4 estate (with skirts and chome wheels!!) (no pic)

 

Sunbeam Alpine

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Toyota Crown custom estate

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Vectra eastate..

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Vauxhall Carlton (no pic)

 

Vauxhall Astra (timing belt broke)..

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BMW 318iS- always breaking down :angry:

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Honda Civic at present- ugly but ultra reliable!!..

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And this in the garage to 'do up' for the summer!!!

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Can't remember the rest of them :blush:

 

 

 

 

John :)

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Here's my list of early cars:

 

1984 MG Maestro (first car and an absolute piece of complete ****)

1981 Escort XR3 (death by field via passage through large hedge)

1986 XR3i

1988 Astra 1.6 Estate

1992 Astra 1.6 Hatch

1996 Renault Laguna (death by "how deep is that flood, ah we should make it through OK")

1992 Pajero SWB (leaked Carbon Monoxide into the cabin and made you ill)

1996 Shogun SWB

1998 Audi A4 Avant

 

Cars got a bit more interesting from this point onward as business started to do well, and before kids arrived!

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