imissalot Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Mine was a Sunbeam Rapier and it was fantastic. Then a Vauxhall Victor Estate and later I put a V8 in it just for fun Now I went off the rails so Austin allegro Vanden Plas Mk 1 escort Next BMW 5 series 3.0lt Capri Land rover series 3 And another land rover Daihatsu Fourtrak 2.8 Mercedes Benz estate Isuzu Trooper 3.0 do you nknow how they got the name for the car when it had a puncture a leg grows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelongwayup Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 My first car was a MKIII Escort. An utter wreck it was and lasted a whole week before the police stopped me and ordered it off the road. 4 hours later they stopped me again and impounded the car as I must have misheard them say it shouldn't be on the road... :yp: Never paid to collect it and have no idea what happened to it. A week later I bought a ford fiesta XR2. Had a load of fun in that and somehow managed to stay points free. You ended up getting a proper bo***cking in the late eighties rather than instant points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robadob Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 another Allegro owner , fiesta, escort mk3, polo, mini city, 1959 850cc mini,mini mayfair, mini cooper 1.3i, jeep cherokee sport 2.5td, volvo ??, skoda favorite, daihatsu grand move and on the look out for another mini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30-6 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 (edited) Vauxhall Viva HB, no radio, no heated rear screen, no wing mirrors. "F" reg, (the old F reg when it was at the end of the number plate). Edited October 9, 2011 by 30-6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpk Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 (edited) Mine was a blue and grey Renault 5 with a broken passenger window and no seat belts in the back think I payed £150 for it Edited October 9, 2011 by mpk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webber Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Ex Cheshire Police car, Morris Minor 1000, 1963 reg number 517 TU webber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 (edited) Vauxhall 101, I was given it by my grandfather when i was 16 O what a toy for a 16 year old to have, taxed Mot and sat outside, was I ever tempted, well that would be telling my 2nd car was a Hillman Minx estate £130 and it went every where, up and down Newquay. Had a Spitfire Mk4 and a couple of Capris 1300 and 1600 all excellent fun to drive I remember the old Hillman Minx nice solid cars but the gear box was strange as I remember the first gear was so low that you only used it to start going on steep hills the rest of the time you started of in second gear. One thing that I forgot to say about the old Vauxhall Crestas with the 2262cc engine they was quite fast when the engine was worm but when it was cold and only having a three speed gearbox going up steep hills they was **** my sister lived on a hill and I could only leave her place by going down the will quite embarrassing really when there little for anglea with low gearing would go up with no problems when cold.. Edited October 9, 2011 by four-wheel-drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Triumph Herald.Walnut dash,sunroof,0-60....eventually.Turned on a sixpence;loved it.Cried the day I wrote it off. My Dad had a Dolomite Sprint;overdrive was a little button on top of the gear shift...built like a tank,went like **** off a shovel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark the hat Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 mk1 escort 1300E...........purple metalic,my old man bought it off his sister for me as i was only 16 at the time,....classic imho atb mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilR Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Mum's hand me down - a Morris 1000 Traveller complete with rotting wood. Dropped the back seats down and shoved an old mattress in the back and turned it into a passion waggon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Bought a clapped out old jetta to escape from a job from hell when I was working away. Got home (surprisingly) and scrapped it the next day. First proper motor was a 72 Bug. It was also the first motor I restored after which I de-chromed it, dropped the front a bit and sprayed it in John Deere colours. It was awesome, shame I wrote it off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norrie Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 (edited) My first ever car was a 1966 Ford 105E,( Anglia) bought it off my mates dad for £5.....that was before I passed my test in a 1971 Triumph Herald 13/60 convertible on 31st Dec 1974......then my parents bought me a 1963 Mk1 Cortina...BSG 789B...1200cc Crossflow engine...still got an old number plate off it..many happy days.. I've had so many cars, I dont think I could remember them all....but might do one day... I used to buy a lot of my cars from guys in the pub...sometimes for as much as £20... Edited October 9, 2011 by Norrie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 1977 Ford Cortina in British Racing Green, Reg: RYN 64R Bought 1987 sold 1989. Made £80 quid on it when I sold it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSPUK Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 have to say this thread is no good without pictures -preferably with poster dressed in good old 60-70s gear - Kipper ties - flairs - winkle pickers - sideburns - medalion (Capri men)- lace cuff's - huge curly hair - - can anyone add some more. dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 (edited) 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 ! Edited October 9, 2011 by Fisherman Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratman2 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 1959 Mini....OEE185. Wish I still had it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.I.A Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 (edited) My first car was a 2002 Volvo S40 T4 (had been played with by previous owner to about 300 BHP, never forget the ammount of chavs i dusted in there subarus ), i remember the car well but i remember my insurance premium more Edited October 9, 2011 by M.I.A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Triumph Herald.Walnut dash,sunroof,0-60....eventually.Turned on a sixpence;loved it.Cried the day I wrote it off. My Dad had a Dolomite Sprint;overdrive was a little button on top of the gear shift...built like a tank,went like **** off a shovel. I had one a bit later on...the first production car to do 0 - 60 in under 9 seconds and 127 BHP. Beast ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 My first car was a red Vauxhall Chevette-registration number KWC15V.Titchy little 1300 engine and slow,but i thought a chrome pancake air filter would make it go faster...wrong! In winter the carb would ice up and stall at traffic lights etc.Wrote it off so it had a dignified death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren m Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 bought 2 VW beetles , hoping to make one good from both , but it never happened , then had a mk2 escort and another 20 odd cars since Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenhunter Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 bought 2 VW beetles , hoping to make one good from both , but it never happened , then had a mk2 escort and another 20 odd cars since At last, someone else had VWs! Had several, the first of which cost me £35. It had a hole in the floor pan and the headlights were held in with masking tape. MOTs were not the same in 1974!! It caught fire on one trip over the Pennines, the battery shorted on the metalwork under the rear seat. I was moving jobs and house at the time and everything I owned was in the back. I had to unload it very quickly before I could put the fire out. It still started and got me there though!! Also had a 1500cc mk1 cortina and a mk1 Capri. That was a 2ltr GT XLR auto and great fun to drive? The wife blew the engine on the M1 travelling from London and had to limp home(Chesterfield then), firing on 3 cylinders. Fixed it but it was never quite the same. Have had loads since then but nothing that was ever as much fun to drive. GH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
escortmagnum999 Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 i had a red fiesta mk 2 xr2, twin webber carbs, high lift cam, loads of engine work, it was immaculate. i had it 5 days then rolled it on a well know 'bad corner'. if only i hadnt crashed it.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziplex Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Use to borrow my father in laws 1600E Cortina but a Datsun 140J was 'my' first car.......bright orange but I loved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 (edited) E 735 BPU Fiat Uno 999cc "fire" engine (clever marketing name) Hats off to the gentlemen engineers at Fiat: Mungler and I got stuck in a farmers field whilst he was off roading it. Mungler and I often got airborne in it on a humped back bridge in Ingatestone. Used it for entertaining ladies Used it for "smoking" Used it for roof surfing Used to sleep in it at the rugby club on a Saturday night in preparation for Sundays game Got 9 people in it on the way back from a Guns N Roses concert It got thru more tyres than I had hot dinners Wore the brakes thru the pads, thru the pad backing plate and shunted someone whilst braking on the caliper! It had two new front ends in the time I owned it Got T boned by a skip truck Sold it to "a mate" for £400 !!! Edited October 9, 2011 by ME Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tam Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Morris Marina pick up truck ex forestry commission with limited slip diff got it off my uncle for a bottle of grouse started off with a 1.3 engine but g/box was on way out :blink: someone kindly donated a gearbox but it didn't fit (1.7 with longer output shaft) so I picked up a 1.7 Ital engine to match :lol: you could do donughts for fun with the LSD :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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