My New/First Car

[School boy]

flattotheboards said:

Will you be 18 by the time its Le Mans? Because you need to be 18 to drive abroad.

Unfortunatly not so plans have turned to 2009.

[_dobbo_]

SB - Nigel said:

£4,000 on your first car at 17 is headshaking to an old fart like me

Indeed... I recall working/saving my arse off at 17 to buy a car for £900 and insure it for £900. Mods such as a sound system or tinted glass were out of the question!

[Xenocide]

Hah that's fantastic! Good stuff.

Post more pictures when you get it!

[SB - Nigel]

_dobbo_ said:

SB - Nigel said:

£4,000 on your first car at 17 is headshaking to an old fart like me

Indeed... I recall working/saving my arse off at 17 to buy a car for £900 and insure it for £900. Mods such as a sound system or tinted glass were out of the question!

You youngsters
£900 ! my first car was £30, £100 would get you a very good banger - £900 well that would be a newish car

I've no idea how much the insurance was then but the cars' were only ever worth TPF&T so the annual premiums were not enough to worry about

Mods were perhaps a stereo radio/cassette and er, a go-faster stripe and er, well that was about it

Course it was all fields 'round here when I was a young girl

[Carpie]

My friends dad bought one for a laugh, he drives around the local town in it!

I'd love to have one, great fun with mates in there!

[jonnydm]

Thats definately an original first car! Would be interesting to see how you do in terms of insurance.

[flattotheboards]

How many miles has it done?

[School boy]

The clock says it's done about 450,000 miles but they say it is likly to have done more. Suposedly this isnt a problem as they have a fleet of wedding hire taxis that have done around 800,000 and are on the original engine and gearbox.
Everything else will have been replaced within its working life in order to pass the annual, now 6 months carriage office test.

Edited by School boy on Saturday 26th January 16:02