What Was Your First Car?

[DriverNo1]

Just as the title says - post what your first car was. As a 16 year old who is very close to his first driving lesson, I'm just curious to see what everyone on here had .

[Magic919]

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t... and many more.

[schmalex]

Mini 1000. JVT 355v. Black with a brown interior. Cost me £200 to buy and &300 to insure Went like a bat out of hell. I broke the steering column doing handbrake turns in a New Forest car park. Sorted that and then about 2 weeks later, a Transit hit me head on (100% his fault) and wrote it off.

[GuitarTech]

Rover 90. Can't remember how old it was, cost I think, 40 quid (no pound sign on my keyboard here). It was black with brown leather seats (smelled lovely), and had overdrive on 3rd and 4th gear. After a while, I chopped it in for an Anglia 105E with wide steel wheels and Paddy Hopkirk seatcovers. Yeah!
And yes, I realize that this reply has outed me as Methusalahs older brother :-)

[Chris71]

This:


It's a Quantum 2+2.

Kit car insurance was the only way I could afford to run anything vaguely decent. It cost me a less than a basic Fiesta or Metro would have done to insure and drove very well. I've technically still got it, but it had lichen growing on it the last time I checked.

[cris654321]

a very rusty saxo was a giggle to drive and had some good memories in it

[JDMDrifter]

Im still on my first car after 7 months of driving

A 1.3 mk2 golf

[chickenkebab]

JDMDrifter said:

Im still on my first car after 7 months of driving

A 1.3 mk2 golf

Can see where the username comes on from

[Codswallop]

1.4 Honda Civic I was very original in my choice clearly.

[Chris71]

cris654321 said:

a very rusty saxo was a giggle to drive and had some good memories in it

Actually, technically a Saxo was the first car I drove regularly too. It was a 1.1 on hard, skinny Michelin Energy tyres that seemed to lift-off oversteer almost as readily as a 205 GTi.

[Iain XR4i]

Ford Escort Mk2. MYS 351P

[DriverNo1]

JDMDrifter said:

Im still on my first car after 7 months of driving

A 1.3 mk2 golf

Looks like a tidy first car.

[Dave Hedgehog]

turbo charged sierra xr4i with a cosworth front end

[OldSpeed]

I was greedy and had two at once!

[s-line]

Vauxhall Nova 1.4 SR face lift model. God i loved that car.

[bazbiker]

mk2 Escort 4door, back when they were ten a penny

[morgrp]

Renault 19 RSI in metallic lazuli blue. It was like a pseudo Renault 19 16v - had sports seats and steering wheel. I stuck a set of 16v alloys on it. Sadly the asthmatic 1.8 litre engine was around 50bhp shy of the 16v's.
Very comfy car though and well made considering it was a renault. Appears to be a rare beast - have seen very few in my time

Edited by morgrp on Monday 2nd January 23:01

Edited by morgrp on Monday 2nd January 23:04

[Fluid]

Peugeot 205 Gti 1.6.

Great car, kept it for a year then got a 1.9.

[anonymous-user]

A £600, 1995 Peugeot 306 1.9d that the previous owner had removed the cooling fan from, in addition to it having a hole in the radiator.

25,000miles in a year, not one breakdown and sold for a £300 profit to some guy who came and bought it on a rainy evening the dark!

Best car ever.

[Fleckers]

for my 18th parents got me an Opel Kaddet 1.2 special

JGN 588T