What was your first car

[V8D]

I learned to drive on a Morris 1300 (GLW 668J) belonged to my mum, I then broke the car due to rust in 1979, and fitted the engine (with a few mods!!) into my first car, a 1966 Mini Van, (MGW 498D) which I bought from an old fruit n veg dealer in Swiss Cottage for 60 quid! Next 3 cars were all Minis. Then things got more expensive!!!!

[booster]

hainser said:

How many times did you have to 'pump up' the suspension on the way? I used to get sea sick in mine! hurl:

Never touched the suspension. But it was very puke inducing and I lost several good friends after taking them out in it. Just used to carry a hammer in the boot to bang the fuel pump every ten miles or so, as the diaphragm kept getting stuck. I got pulled on the A1 once. The coppers just wet themselves laughing at me. I had three illegal tyres, the back end of the exhaust on the back seat (had just fallen off), no wipers, duff handbrake, no tax and a crack the size of a small plate in the windscreen. I'd been driving from London and had been going for the last 6 hours. I looked like death. They let me off - said that I had to get the changes made and an MOT stamp in the next 2 weeks to prove it was road-worthy. Shame the coppers today don't have the same sense of humour. Great scheme that tho' - especially for a poor student like I was. Only cost just over £100 to repair it but far better than the fines and points that I'd have got. Ahhhh, those were the days!

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[bells v8]

a 1975 mini clubman 1275gt.which cost £7 to fill the tank and get to skegy and back on the same £7 .the good old days.

[P47ThBolt]

J reg Austin 1300 GT - great little car with B****r all subframes, wheels and chassis would go one way at a bend the body another! Had to refill water in rad every 40 miles or so and had HUGE Goodmans speakers that shook the poor thing to bits - still at least AC/DC looks/sounds more credible in current steed!

[P47ThBolt]

J reg Austin 1300 GT - great little car with B****r all subframes, wheels and chassis would go one way at a bend the body another! Had to refill water in rad every 40 miles or so and had HUGE Goodmans speakers that shook the poor thing to bits - still at least AC/DC looks/sounds more credible in current steed!

[big guns]

A LOVELY boogie green 16 year old Mini....Reg No.7432 KO!I was 18 years old and in the Army.Saving to buy an engagement ring! (as you do when your testosterone is flowing and she insists on a ring BEFORE the dirty deed!!!)Car cost me £160.00...850cc of sheer pleasure!Actually ended up shagging the car!!No you lot........I blew the engine..er up!!!
Got to be so careful what you say round here!!!lol

[mose]

First car was a black 1303s "Jeans" Beetle......and the more I remember it the car provided quite a few "firsts"

[PCV8]

My first car at 17 was shared with my mum. It was a Wartburg Knight!! 3 cylinder 2 stroke engine. Sounded like a tormented Bee but was built like a tank, which it needed to be.

First car with my name on the V5 at 19 was a MK11 F**D Escort Mexico with the RS2000 engine. Insurance was a lot cheaper then.

I was stopped by the boys in blue on the way home the night i collected the car for hanging the tail out on a roundabout LOL.

Made my excuses about all that power and rear wheel drive in the rain and they let me off!! That would not happen now.

Had lots and lots of fun in that car.
History repeating itself in the Monaro.

[308mate]

Holden HZ Kingswood SL wagon. Lowered, 5 spoke kidney-bean mags (autosol'ed them to death!), had the spoiler over the top of the tail-gate window (not the electric one sadly) and a mandatory NO-FEAR sticker across the top of the window. I could drive around with the tail-gate window down and just leave the NO FEAR sticker sticking up above the tailgate. Seemed like a good idea at the time.... It was in that creamy beige colour they did. Bought a heap of mdf and some chamfered screws and re trimmed the far-back and tail-gate. It could hold 9 people in (relative) comfort and style. Used to change my own CV joints on the driveshaft over my dads pit. Red 202 motor with a 3spd traumatic. Shaggin wagon indeed! Unfortunately I had an aversion to ever warming the engine up before taking off at warp 11 and I wasnt too bothered about the occasional knocking from the engine so I shouldnt have been too surprised when I blew the side off the #2 piston top and smoke screened the freeway one day!! Mint car that. All me mates prefferred it to their own.

PB

[n2hsv]

A 1959 Morris 1000 Convertable (4992EV)- it lasted 18months, then I wrote it off, as you do when your 18 years old -- a long time ago.

[eh*rob]

"A HOLDEN OF COURSE"

It was a 1970 HT Kingswood (NOT THE KINGSWOOD) Aussies will understand.
186 c/inch 3.0L straight 6 (red motor like in me EH)
3 on the tree (3 speed on the Columb)

Thought it was great !

Regards,
Rob.

[vipers]

Austin Countryman, got it from by brother about 1966 for £30, (god knows what year the car was), column change, first winter it froze, all the plugs burst in the block, and it also split, end of first car.

[demolition man]

Can I have my first car in Australia?

1967 HR Holden. Blue with white roof, lots of chrome, 3 column shift, bench seats.

First got it in 1991 as a rolling chassis, then fully restored it over 3 months. With a new paint job, it looked awesome. I added an extra radiator fan, a new stereo and a CB radio.

Drove it from Hamilton (Vic) to Cairns in 10 weeks - not even a puncture. I had to get back to Melbourne quick, so drove from Cairns to Melbourne in 3.5 days.... over 3000 miles - Again no problems (apart from hallucinating due to lack of sleep!). Looking back, a stupid thing to do.

Sold it when I came back to Blighty. Gutted. My Relly's still see it driving around Hamilton - going strong.

[Paul.H.]

...a Ford Cortina Mk1 with the round 'Y' tail light cluster - ENX 92 - two tone dogshit brown but the log book said 'Safari Yellow'!! Bought it for £75 in 1970. Don't know the year of it but it was oooold!