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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 :lol:

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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.

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Vauxhall 101, I was given it by my grandfather when i was 16 :good:

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 :lol:

 

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..

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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.

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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...:)

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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 - :good: - can anyone add some more. :rolleyes:

 

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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:

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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 :good:), i remember the car well but i remember my insurance premium more :good:

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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. :good:

 

 

I had one a bit later on...the first production car to do 0 - 60 in under 9 seconds and 127 BHP. Beast ! ;)

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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 :rolleyes:

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

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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 !!!

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Morris Marina pick up truck ex forestry commission with limited slip diff :yes::oops: got it off my uncle for a bottle of grouse :lol: 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: :lol: you could do donughts for fun with the LSD :P :P :P

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