Your first ever car: Would you want it again?
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Completely by surprise, an opportunity has presented itself to me. I have the chance to buy a VW which is exactly the same as my first ever car. I wasn't looking for one (in fact I was just looking at the classics on ebay in general) when this popped up. There are only 60 of them left in this spec according to the interweb, and I'm quite keen. If nothing else, it seems like a very good investment potential.
Have you ever done it? Was it disappointing?? Was it amazing??? Did you regret it? Did you realise how far cars have come since the halcyon days of the 80s?
Interested to know experiences.
Have you ever done it? Was it disappointing?? Was it amazing??? Did you regret it? Did you realise how far cars have come since the halcyon days of the 80s?
Interested to know experiences.
It was an S reg Saxo, in red, either a 1.0 or 1.1, I can't remember. Would I want it back to use daily? Nope! But it wasn't a bad car really, it did its job well and I enjoyed owning it. I managed to sell it for what I paid for it too after spending a grand total of zero on it, but the insurance was ridiculous, of course.
It was really good fun to punt down a twisty B road, yeah it was **** slow but it was still great to thrash the arse out of it.
It was really good fun to punt down a twisty B road, yeah it was **** slow but it was still great to thrash the arse out of it.
Alot of my rose-tinted spectacles would say yes, 1,000 times yes, but the safety is creeping into my head looking back. If something hit my first car (Peugeot 205 GRD) then I would basically be toast, or something very much like it.
It's disappointing really, so I think I'll have to settle for my 4th car if I was to go again, but maybe this time I get the one with the Mustang engine
It's disappointing really, so I think I'll have to settle for my 4th car if I was to go again, but maybe this time I get the one with the Mustang engine
First car was a 1984 passat estate, bought for a monkey at an auction in '96.
Catastrophically bad handling, but floated over speed humps and potholes, would be perfect for london.
easy 40+mpg from the 1.8 carb, I don't see how we've come that far in eco-terms either given it's supposedly such a priority today
Catastrophically bad handling, but floated over speed humps and potholes, would be perfect for london.
easy 40+mpg from the 1.8 carb, I don't see how we've come that far in eco-terms either given it's supposedly such a priority today
Mine was just like this except on a B plate, not really feeling a massive desire for one if I'm honest!
Interestingly we have a customer who brings in mint old Vauxhalls (god knows where he finds ones that haven't dissolved) and he brought in one very similar recently.
It was quite nice actually to sit in one and have a drive again, the things that really struck me were first of all how small it was compared to everything else in the car park and also the smell when I first got in it gave me a total nostalgia rush, I love the way that happens with cars you haven't sat in for years.
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