FabSwingers.com forum: What was your first car?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

When you passed your test what was your first car if you can remember that far back

when I passed my test at 17 years old I got told from the parents to go and get a baby blue Nissan Micra it's Japanese it will last forever it lasted me 4 years

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Fiat panda, in lime green

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By *heGateKeeperMan
over a year ago

Stratford

A Peugeot 106 I bought from work with minimal mileage because it was a pool car they were selling off. I wrote it off

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By *aulupforitMan
over a year ago

Corbridge

My first car was Ford RS Cosworth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Yugo, it ran OK but sadly was not the fanny magnet I hoped it would be.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Escort rs2000 i crashed it after 3 weeks then got a renault 5 gt turbo (which is still in my dads barn its not moved for 18 years)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An F reg Ford Fiesta XR2, had an RS1800 engine in it.

I was 17 (20 years ago) and I couldn't afford insurance surprisingly... so used my dads name, which conveniently... is the same as mine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *urora1912Woman
over a year ago

Norfolk East anglia

Blue micra

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By *ut in the back of beyondMan
over a year ago

out in the sticks

My first car was an A-reg Mk3 escort van in red was a 1.4 on the log book but had an xr3 1.6 in it on a twinchoke carb with a 4 branch manifold had it a week then some old fella took me out on a roundabout and wrote it off..

V’s first car was a v-reg focus I paid £80 for stuck it through an mot cost £30 to pass. Drove it for a year no issues at all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hillman Imp.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Morris marina built like a tank

Sloppy gearbox

I loved that car

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By *ang bang bangity bangCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

First car for driving around the farm was a little rwd KP60 starlet

First car I owned myself and drove on the roads was a 1969 BMW 2002

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By *ue and robCouple
over a year ago

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Opel manta 1800sr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

VW Passat estate gl5 till I trashed it.

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By *J647Couple
over a year ago

Daventry

"Hillman Imp. "

Snap 1969 marina green

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

A purpley blue Vauxhall Corsa, 1995 reg. No power steering, no ABS and a terrible electrical problem we never solved. I became adept at roll starting it off my parents steep driveway

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By *ang bang bangity bangCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

"Opel manta 1800sr "

Love a manta

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By *appytochatMan
over a year ago

Deep in the New Forest

Vauxhall nova saloon that had already been written off once. Brought it from a salvage auction and repaired it. Lasted 2yrs before a friend went up the back of it and wrote it off again

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By *oroRick1027Man
over a year ago

Middlesbrough

You've just brought back some very unhappy memories.

I bought my first car when I had my first overseas posting to Germany in 1974.

It was a 1966 VW Karman Ghia. It was right hand drive and was Grey with a blue roof. I had it resprayed yellow, but kept the blue roof. It was gorgeous. I got rather carried away on my very first drive out in it and lost control and wrote it off. I cried.

If I had it now it would be worth around £30,000

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mark 111 cortina

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By *uddly GoblinMan
over a year ago

Manchester

Mk4 Ford escort

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By *aggy dollsCouple
over a year ago

bradford

Citroen ax salsa. Cost next to feck all and ran it into the ground within 6 months, but have some good memories of it.

Mr H.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"When you passed your test what was your first car if you can remember that far back

when I passed my test at 17 years old I got told from the parents to go and get a baby blue Nissan Micra it's Japanese it will last forever it lasted me 4 years

Mk1 capri 1600 gt automatic with 120k miles on the clock... Oh yeah!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Suzuki vitara short wheel base.... may have been lifted and off road kit too !

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By *urulovesnylonMan
over a year ago

Harrow

First car I bought was a mk 1 Honda Civic.. lasted half a day before I scrapped it for more than I paid for it lol

First proper car was an old Ford Sierra sapphire had it a year before i part ex-d for another old banger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Morris 1000 traveller JAC700D

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

4 door 1.1 mk1 escort loved it had it for a few yrs.

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By *HELONDONCOUPLECouple
over a year ago

london

Mk 2 cortina and hers was a mk 1 Ford Granada (sweeny type)

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By *ohnny4playMan
over a year ago

Kinross

Austin Allegro, was great little car, despite its reputation, cheap(ISH) to insure, I found it so good my next three cars were all Allegro's.

Cheap to buy then and cheap to maintain and run.

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By *heLaserGuyMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Mini 1000, had it deseamed front and back. Head skimmed, Cooper s 3 2 1 manifold and peco exhaust plus other tweaks

Those were the days

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By *elloIntrigueMan
over a year ago

North West UK

I had an S Reg 3 cylinder Corsa that sounded like a lawnmower!

It got me through my first 2 years of motoring though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fiesta xr2 red with pepperpots

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By *oxyVikingCouple
over a year ago

East Anglia

Volvo 240. Tank. Never seen a car with so many right angles X

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Rover 220 my Dad said he would sort me out with a car and insurance. He walked into a bit of a trap with that one.

Loved it but the Head Gasket seemed to be made of paper.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ford escort

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By *utchyjackMan
over a year ago

Newquay

Triumph Herald 945cc, great runner but prone to rust.

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By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

I passed in 1992 and got a white Ford Escort estate the old X reg, I named it Fifi, it was a lovely car and lasted 1 year then conked out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I past my test 4 weeks after my 17th birthday in 1987 and had saved the money by doing literally 3 jobs at once to buy a 3 year old, 1.3l mk3 escort, 2 door in sunburst red.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Rover 220

Loved it but the Head Gasket seemed to be made of paper. "

As was standard with pretty much every rover. For roughly 20 years

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An old hillman avenger. Bought it on the saturday and wrote it off on the sunday. Aqua planned into a dry stone wall??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Triumph stag

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Vauxhall princess. it was so bad.

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By *orny 4 moreMan
over a year ago

durham

W reg Mk1 fiesta supersport

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Parents landrover

Then a vw polo

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

My first car was a Corsa. I had it from new but completely trashed it within a couple of years. I didn't realise you needed to put oil in, and when the engine started getting noisy I just turned the radio up.

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By *oomarangMan
over a year ago

Chester

1984 B reg 2.8 injection Ford Capri bought it in 1989

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A 1.5d corsa

loved it but damn it was sluggish

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By *ausysoddMan
over a year ago

2007 silver VW fox 1.2

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ford fiesta 1.4 xx

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By *ugofirstMan
over a year ago

livingston

1970 beetle which I customised. Great car

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Vauxhall nova sr ,wish I had it now

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By *imbo2007Man
over a year ago

Peterborough

Rover metro

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

White Vauxhall Viva Mk II

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A 1994 Jaguar XJ in black with a cream interior.

Had the straight six 4.0L engine and I absolutely loved that car.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

A burgandy citroen ax

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It was red (mainly rust) and slower than Window's updates

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Grey vw scirocco y reg. 2ltr loved that car

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Corsa and I still own it

It was a relative's then I took it

I have thought about changing it and I can financially but I have no reason to apart from wanting a better car and keeping up appearances then Corona hit and I drove 2000 miles last year so no point for now

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By *uncouple4u19Couple
over a year ago

SHEFFIELD

A pale blue Hillman Imp in pale blue. Registered before the days of suffixes or prefixes. 1963

Him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Peugeot 206

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Golf 4 motion 2.3 v5

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saab 93

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A purple fiesta

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A late 1970s Datsun Sunny.

Lovely to drive, cheap insurance, good mpg, easy to maintain, shame the bodywork rusted away until there was more filler than steel.

When it was about to fail its MOT I gave it to my parents who used it to trade in for a newer car, they got £1500 off the price

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a old burgundy Vauxhall Viva I bought from the auctions. The previous owner had obviously loved and taken great care of it..On at least a couple of occasions it was seen being driven about late at night close to where I lived, but always returned. Never did find out who was taking it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ford Capri

Loved it

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By *ncutgemMan
over a year ago

Bath ish

Hadn't invented cars Mine was a sedan A sedan chair

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