First time in a classic

[ejenner]

Anyone able to remember their first time in a classic car, or even something from the 80s?

[Skyedriver]

Started driving in 1970
It was 8 years before I managed to own and drive anything from the 1970's never mind anything from the 80's!!

[ejenner]

From your point of view 'classic' would be something a bit older. Still a valid question isn't it?

[driverrob]

Skyedriver said:

Started driving in 1970
It was 8 years before I managed to own and drive anything from the 1970's never mind anything from the 80's!!

Ditto
Basically, practically every car I owned from that era was dying of rust and worse within 12 years.

[kambites]

My first car was 6 years older than me.

[ejenner]

If I didn't know better then I'd be thinking nobody has ever driven a car with chrome and a carburettor? But then again, I've seen older TV programs with people driving them... so they must have existed?

[lostkiwi]

ejenner said:

If I didn't know better then I'd be thinking nobody has ever driven a car with chrome and a carburettor? But then again, I've seen older TV programs with people driving them... so they must have existed?

My first dozen or so cars had chrome and carbs.
My first fuel injected car was a Rover 214.

[ejenner]

I think the point is, did you ever ride in a car which was significantly older than what you were used to and how was it?

[Digitalize]

First classic I 'drove' was this 911E last year, first left hand drive car too, first manual choke, and first time driving in front of a new client!



Before that the oldest car I'd driven was from the 2000's.

To be honest, I hated it, I was nervous as hell, and I was just moving it around really. Sure with a bit more confidence and proper driving I'd love it though.

[e600]

Started driving in the late 60's, first car was a Ford Pop E93a with wipers that slowed down when you went uphill, a 3 speed gearbox and rod brakes. Don't think it had a heater which made for a miserable winter on the Isle of Man. Classics don't you just love 'em

[TwigtheWonderkid]

My first car when I was 17 was a classic car. Of course it wasn't a classic back then, it was a 10 y/o heap of crap. But today, if it's still around, it's a 45 y/o classic piece of British Leyland's (dubious) history.

Still wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy though.

[J4CKO]

My family had Jowetts whilst I was growing up and still do.

[Gary C]

My first actual classic was a 911 3.2 Carrera which I now own.

As to 80's stuff, owned several manta's, monza's, Astra, mr2, even had a chevette. Thing is, they were all max 5 years old at the time

[justanother5tar]

My car is from 2002 if that counts?

[SirSquidalot]

My first car back in 2012 was a 1987 Mk2 golf. To be honest it was fantastic, I still miss it now. The first time I drove it I was amazed at the lack of power steering and how heavy the clutch was. But I grew to adore it, made a great noise with a new exhaust with the carb allowing for pops and bangs of fuel and it's handling was just great. 55bhp meant flat out everywhere, it's made me love classic cars.

It was so simple, which is what is missing from modern cars.

[ejenner]

Personally I have driven older cars before but my first time was driving a totally shagged MINI. It actually had no front windows as they had been smashed. I was trying it out to see if I liked it. I didn't and didn't keep it.

[Rubin215]

The first car I bought and paid for myself was in 1986.

It was a 1976 MkII escort which cost me £550.

It was already rusting to pieces and had had the rear arches, the strut tops and the sills replaced and been resprayed.

I spent at least £1k on boy-racer st and sold it two years later for £450...

[Slow]

Passed my test in 2012, got a 1983 Datun Cherry Turbo in 2013.

Love it!

[Tango13]

I had to move a Morris Minor around a car park the other day. it was so old it had traficators and get this...

A knob you had to pull too start the engine! (Stop sniggering at the back!!)

The seat was fixed so at 6'2" I struggled to get in and out of it, the brakes were marginal even moving it about a small car park and the rim of the steering wheel was only just thicker than a paperclip.

It was, in a single word...

ste

[kiseca]

I've never driven anything made before the '70s. The oldest car I've ever driven, an Alfa Giulia GTV 2000, would have been roughly the same age as me. Manual choke, carbs, no power steering, but then that was the norm for cars when I started driving so these weren't really classic traits.