Your first ever car: Would you want it again?

Your first ever car: Would you want it again?

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Riley Blue

20,907 posts

225 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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A '62 Mini Traveller 'woodie' in red. Yeah, I wouldn't mind having it again.

RacingBlue

1,394 posts

163 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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A bog spec Mk5 Escort?

Nah, I really wouldn't want to do that again!

ffc

606 posts

158 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
35 yrs ago, my first car was an Austin 1300. Would I want it now...fk off, I didn't even want it then!
My first car was a 1966 Austin 1100. It was an utter piece of crap. I just don't get the nostalgia for old BL cars like these, they were truly awful.

vrsmxtb

2,002 posts

155 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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I wouldn't mind driving it once for sts and giggles, but no way I'd want it back. Was a 1 litre Citroen AX, and I remember the first time I test drove it after learning in a relatively modern Corsa, that everything felt so heavy and cumbersome that I was worried I wouldn't be able to drive it.

I remember my first drive on the motorway in it, the wheels were very unbalanced which I hadn't noticed as I'd been driving it around on local roads and I thought it was going to shake itself apart!

Xaero

4,060 posts

214 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Like my first girlfriend, I imagine being older and used by other men means that it's not going to be as fresh and fun as I remember, so I'll pass.

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

150 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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ffc said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
35 yrs ago, my first car was an Austin 1300. Would I want it now...fk off, I didn't even want it then!
My first car was a 1966 Austin 1100. It was an utter piece of crap. I just don't get the nostalgia for old BL cars like these, they were truly awful.
Escort MK1 for me, different car, same sentiments.

ian2144

1,660 posts

221 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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1972 DAF 33 Van, variomatic belt drive it would go as fast in reverse as it did forwards. would I want one now, yes for the novelty value.

Pie n Chips

69 posts

253 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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A heavily modded 1963 mini for me - if I could fit in one now, sure why not

Don

28,377 posts

283 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Renault 12 TS Estate. Passion Wagon.

Would I have one again? Not on your nellie. It was the worst piece of st I have ever had the misfortune to own.

I did have some good times in it. But I'd much rather have had a better car. It was all I could afford.

DeanoX

164 posts

204 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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A525 UOK, Zircon Blue Mini Mayfair with pale blue velour seats. I'd have another mini - just not that one unless someone else had sorted the terminal tin rot.

Still got my 2nd car and the Mini's replacement after 24 years.

Vacumatic

188 posts

112 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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My first car was a 1965 970cc Mini Cooper S. Would I like it back?


Fitzygti

23 posts

194 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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1992 Clio RT 5 door. leaky sunroof, screaming fan belt, no heater and smelt like dead people. Loved it! id have it back tomorrow if a truck hadn't mounted it outside my house.

americancrx

394 posts

216 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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1988 Honda CRX, more rust than steel.

I broke it in half going over a set of railroad tracks, so I don't think I'd want it back.

It was pronounced dead at the scene.

m444ttb

3,160 posts

228 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Mine was a Pug 106 1.3 Rallye in black. I'd definitely have one again. I strongly considered finding one to restore and use for fun a couple of years ago.

Mound Dawg

1,915 posts

173 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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1978 1100cc Escort van? No thanks. It was crap then and it would feel 20 times as crap now.


DanielSan

18,745 posts

166 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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1998 1.25 Fiesta. Red, 5 door. Would I want one now, possibly as a cheap daily if I had to start driving a decent distance to work but other than that no.
Great car because it was my first car. And the 1.25 engine is a gem to be fair, quick for what it is and loves to rev.

Davie

4,732 posts

214 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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I had a 1988 Peugeot 309 XSi which soon got 1.9 GTi wheels and bumper, Konis, a Mongoose exhaust and after blowing the 1.6 apart whilst doing a huge burnout... a 1.9 8v went in and then some mad Citreon XM bottom end / Citroen BX 16v top end bd hybrid engine my mates Dad built. It went really well... in to a ditch.

Would I have it back... I want it more than my next breath!

Would also love to be young and stupid again.

Finlandese

540 posts

174 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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1973 Porsche 914 2.0. The only rusty car in California. Which I crashed... I´d love to have one, not the one I had, though..

raceboy

13,081 posts

279 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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My first car was a Lancia Y10 FIRE, 999cc of teenage freedom, would I have it back, probably not, and according to 'how many left' there's only 5 left on the road in the UK. eek

stuttgartmetal

8,108 posts

215 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Mine was a 1968 mk2 Cortina 1600GT two door
I put chrome rostyles on it
An E interior
Loads of clocks
A banging stereo
Updated and lowered the suspension
Wipac he'll raisers properly wired through a relay with big wires
And finally a twin cam engine.

Would I want it again
Yes , to sell on.
I sold it for £350
Mug