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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

Was it what you wanted or what you could afford at the time.

Mine was what i could afford a little mini in the 70s for £75.

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

mine was a 1966 vw beetle,paid £45 for it when i was 16,but had to put 4 wings on it,as well as an exhaust for its mot.

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

Hillman Avenger 1.6 Deluxe with two speed wipers...£150...I still miss him...

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

Ford Fiesta and it decided it wanted to go through a wall 6 weeks after getting it

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

Honda Moped givento me by my mum bright orange with a basket

first bike i paid for a fizze 50 lol

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

Mini Van in about 1979 - TVY 687H has it's Reg No. - great little car, cost me 100 quid

Started to run and restore VW Beetles and Camper Vans a while after that, so there was always something from that era at my parents house for a number of years.

Happy days they were - epsecially because my Dad was still alive and could always be found alongside me, showing me how to dismantle and rebuild a Beetle Engine

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


"Hillman Avenger 1.6 Deluxe with two speed wipers...£150...I still miss him... "

2 speed wipers , next you'll be telling me that it had a heater and radio fitted

And for all you yung uns who may chuckle - heaters and radios were 'extras' in the good old days

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By *oe_Steve_NWestCouple
over a year ago

Bolton

Mine was a 1962 mini that i customised with a new flash paint job lowered roof and tinted glass. 1300 engine from a morris and uprated brakes. shame i never got to drive it as some scroats knicked it and crashed it into a wall at the bottom of the hill i lived on cos the brakes had not been connected up.

Was really mad the smashed it to bits but rather pleased to see all the blood they had left behind when they hit the wall.

Steve

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Hillman Avenger here too, 100,000 on the clock. Always reliable.

Sold it a year later for £50 less than i paid, so all in all a cheap car.

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

I got what my dad thought was safe and a sensible price as he held the purse strings!

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By *uton_coupleCouple
over a year ago

luton


"Hillman Avenger 1.6 Deluxe with two speed wipers...£150...I still miss him...

2 speed wipers , next you'll be telling me that it had a heater and radio fitted

And for all you yung uns who may chuckle - heaters and radios were 'extras' in the good old days "

and solid rubber tires were the norm

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By *oe_Steve_NWestCouple
over a year ago

Bolton

Mine was a left hand drive golf gti - lowered harder suspension (apparently) loved it - was a little rocket! Z

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By *WfellaMan
over a year ago

liverpool

1.1 beige fiesta Pop, basic old W reg with a go-fast stripe, the main thing i remember was when i came to sell it, a young girl bought it as her 1st car, she fell in love with it and started crying ,am going to cherish this car its lovely its beautiful its gorgeous etc, i just stood there thinking, no its not, its utter shite

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By *oe_Steve_NWestCouple
over a year ago

Bolton

My first motorbike was an Aprillia RS125 - gorgeous paint job - was also quite quick - then I got a Ducati! Z

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

first car was a 1968 Vauxhall Viva HB 1.6

first bike was a Suzuki GSX250 brand new in 1979

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

first car november 91.a ford capri 2.0s 1983 a reg in jet black and mint condition.i loved it and it was soooooo fast it was scarey .i paid £1500.00 for it.wish i still had it its worth double that now

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)

The first car was a VW Beetle in bright orange 1973 model The only car i ever doubled my money on buying for £400 and selling for 800. It was a temperamental fooker spiting chrome tail pipes out the back like bullets. It was a cooker in the summer, freelancing in the winter too.

Bike wise i still have it more than 20 yrs later and that was a Kawasaki Z1000 bought the bugger before i could ride and still have only put 26k on in all that time.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

mine was a citroen AX and i loved it (well not that much as it was a tad frilly after i had it for a while lol)

was a surprise for me that my dad bought using some money my nan had out aside and i was more chuffed with it than chiffing anything

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

I've had Bikes all of my Life from old scrappers to decent ones later on, my first Legal road bike was a Fizzy or FS1E as they were called, the older I get the Faster it was

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By *adgeeMan
over a year ago

Sw Scotland

It was a Silver Renault Clio i bought for £2000.

It had a leak in the sunroof and every time i turned a corner, (After it rained) water pissed everywhere.

Ahh the memories

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By *weetieCouple
over a year ago

hayes, middx

I had a Skoda S800 Rapide in shiny black, looked like a poor mans Porsche. Was a blazing hot summer and the windows packed up, can still remember how sweaty I got on them plastic seats.

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

back in 1981 I got a Yamaha 50cc off-road bike. What great memories....

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By *lutandhubbyCouple
over a year ago

west midlands

my first bike was a honda SS50. i gave £150.00 for it. my brother hadnt long died on a bike, so me and my dad fell out big time over it!. we never spoke to each other again till the day he died. (wish i could turn the clock back)

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By *ouplefunukCouple
over a year ago

North Bristol

Suzuki GS 125 (because I was only 16 at the time) brand new on the day the P reg came out. It sat in the garage for 2 whole months before I was old enough to take my CBT to ride it lol

*Her*

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

My first evervehicle was an NSU Quickly moped bought for very little money. My first car was a hand-me-down Austin A35 van which I shoe-horned a Riley 1.5 engine into. When that engine blew up, I replaced it with one from an MGB Sadly, a week later, some twat pulled out into my path and wrote it off

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

My first bike was a BSA 175 Bantam,out of my mates shed.

First car was a 6.6 Pontiac Trans Am. R

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

my first car was a 1962 Triumph Herald, paid £35 for it with my first weeks wages and sold it for £35 9 month later just for the body work as I had blown the engine

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By *eprobatepairCouple
over a year ago

london

Car: B Reg 1.6 Vauxhall Cavalier GL company car given with a new job in 1987 which I managed to ding in the first week.

Bike: Honda CB125 bought this February

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By *irtydanMan
over a year ago

Blackpool


"Hillman Avenger 1.6 Deluxe with two speed wipers...£150...I still miss him... "
i had one of them with a vinyl roof

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By *irtydanMan
over a year ago

Blackpool


"1.1 beige fiesta Pop, basic old W reg with a go-fast stripe, the main thing i remember was when i came to sell it, a young girl bought it as her 1st car, she fell in love with it and started crying ,am going to cherish this car its lovely its beautiful its gorgeous etc, i just stood there thinking, no its not, its utter shite"
lol very good

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