FabSwingers.com forum: First cars

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

What was everyones first cars?

My first car that was for the road was a 54 mercedes e270 cdi, got it last year, payed for it all by myself insurance included.

Currently not driving it at the moment, is in the middle of getting some air suspension

, currently riding an Aprilia rs125 till its finished

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

Back in 1975 I bought a 1968 Vauxhall Viva HB 1.6 cost me £230 and I paid for it myself too

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

A green Ford Anglia nicknamed Konnie the Kangaroo due to my amazing driving skills.

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

A Viva E...was my mum's car

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By *atelotmanMan
over a year ago

Chatham

Mk 1 ford escort.

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By *ot monkey71Couple
over a year ago

middlesbrough

Mine was a gorgeous Rover Mini Rose, she was awesome

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

"What was everyones first cars?

My first car that was for the road was a 54 mercedes e270 cdi, got it last year, payed for it all by myself insurance included.

Currently not driving it at the moment, is in the middle of getting some air suspension

, currently riding an Aprilia rs125 till its finished

I've got a big Willy Mach 2!

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

Escort mark1

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

"Mk 1 ford escort."

Big fan of old escorts, and anglia's too

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

A mini.

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

Mondeo then an Escort Cabriolet.

Do people not usually pay for it themselves?

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

"Mondeo then an Escort Cabriolet.

Do people not usually pay for it themselves?"

None of my mates did, they all got funded by their parents

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By *haron4465TV/TS
over a year ago

HULL

1968 Mini Cooper with bucket seats full harness roll cage and 6 inch town and country wheels it arrived in packing cases and I had to put it together myself

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By *lirtyjjWoman
over a year ago

Meath

A mitzubishi colt. Japanese import that i ended up suing the dealer over

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

a mk 1 ford fiesta 950 pop complete with bulb you squeezed with your foot on the floor for the screen washers

it was lovely shade of snot green

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By *eforfuncplCouple
over a year ago

Morecambe

Audi 100

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

"A mitzubishi colt. Japanese import that i ended up suing the dealer over "

How come?

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

Mk2 Mini

Mini Clubman

Mk1 Mini

Mk4 Spitfire

Avenger Tiger

Imp

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By *afadaoMan
over a year ago

Staines

Renault 12. It was like driving a tank, what a beast.

It looked like an upside down skip on wheels. In sky blue!

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

Mine was a Renault Clio that I won in a magazine competition

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

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

Thats twice now mate

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

Brabham Viva.

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

bright orange Ford Escort with a black vinyl roof !

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By *ot monkey71Couple
over a year ago

middlesbrough

Mini clubman 1100, bucket seats alloys and go faster stripes.

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By *tevelizCouple
over a year ago

northampton

vauxhall chevette for me. How did we get for and all our camping gear in when the kids where small.

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

"a mk 1 ford fiesta 950 pop complete with bulb you squeezed with your foot on the floor for the screen washers

it was lovely shade of snot green "

Awwwwwe ye can't beat snot green,

* envious

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

Fiesta XR2 white with a red stripe!

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

"vauxhall chevette for me. How did we get for and all our camping gear in when the kids where small."

My friend had a chevette with tartan seats!

Mine was a Fiesta sport cost me a £900

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

1979 Pontiac Trans Am, Smokey and the Bandit shape, bought it when I was 18, never been the same since.

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

First car I had was a E reg fiesta silver back in 98. But sold it due to never passing my test. (Knee op)

Paid for it myself out of savings I'd built up.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

1966 Austin A40 Mk II, pale green, but I resprayed it Royal Blue. She was 6 months older than I was, cost £150, with fully comp insurance £60. Paid for with the money from my holiday job.

Everyone used to stop me to tell me they learnt to drive in one.

And when the battery was flat, you could hand-crank her!

Also had a long letter from the lady who had bought her from new, asking me to take care of her.

Mr ddc

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

Jealous of some of these, pure retro goodness

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

"1966 Austin A40 Mk II, pale green, but I resprayed it Royal Blue. She was 6 months older than I was, cost £150, with fully comp insurance £60. Paid for with the money from my holiday job.

Everyone used to stop me to tell me they learnt to drive in one.

And when the battery was flat, you could hand-crank her!

Also had a long letter from the lady who had bought her from new, asking me to take care of her.

Mr ddc"

A fair few people stopped me and asked how much my insurance was lol

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

ford escort mk 2

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

"Thats twice now mate"

Get a life!!

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

A fair few people stopped me and asked how much my insurance was lol "

I dare say a bit more than 60 quid lol!

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

Ford escort mk2 for him

Mini 100 for her

Back in the day lol

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

Cost about the same is the car!, but I got the car cheap, but still a fair wedge lol

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

Daimler V8 (inspector Morse type)in 1978.

Fell in love with them as a kid.

All my NORMAL mates were driving minis and escorts.

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

"Daimler V8 (inspector Morse type)in 1978.

Fell in love with them as a kid.

All my NORMAL mates were driving minis and escorts."

All my mates have corsas and cars a like, they cost the same to insure as my car

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

Hillman Avenger 1250 deluxe. Rolled it 6 weeks after passing my test.

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

ford capri 2.0 s in jet black on an A plate back in 1991.xr3i eat my dust

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

morris ital - eba 497y - (useless information i can remember

) - this was on a list of the worst ten cars - i really loved it - leather seats and everything including 4 gears hahahah Sx

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

"ford capri 2.0 s in jet black on an A plate back in 1991.xr3i eat my dust

i would have killed for a capri - m reg or earlier as i liked the shorter back window

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

"Hillman Avenger 1250 deluxe. Rolled it 6 weeks after passing my test.

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me fckn too!!

Twas metallic bronze, ye know - & I was well proud!!

...........but then, through the grapevine I learned, that my baby's name had been bastardised to 'revenger' - & 'scavenger' - by my so-called 'friends'!!

...... so then I went Jap, naturally!!

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

"ford capri 2.0 s in jet black on an A plate back in 1991.xr3i eat my dust

i would have killed for a capri - m reg or earlier as i liked the shorter back window

that'll be the mk1 with the boot not the hatch .capri's are worth a fortune now i sold my last one last yr for £2500.00

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

"ford capri 2.0 s in jet black on an A plate back in 1991.xr3i eat my dust

i would have killed for a capri - m reg or earlier as i liked the shorter back window

that'll be the mk1 with the boot not the hatch .capri's are worth a fortune now i sold my last one last yr for £2500.00"

i wouldnt have a clue just remember when N reg appeared so did the longer window - preferred the chunky one

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

"ford capri 2.0 s in jet black on an A plate back in 1991.xr3i eat my dust

i would have killed for a capri - m reg or earlier as i liked the shorter back window

that'll be the mk1 with the boot not the hatch .capri's are worth a fortune now i sold my last one last yr for £2500.00

i wouldnt have a clue just remember when N reg appeared so did the longer window - preferred the chunky one"

yeh n reg to s reg was mk2 with square headlights then t reg 1978 till 86 was mk3 .been trying to replace the capri ever since but failed so far

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

Insurance isn't all about engine size, I'm paying less on a 1.8 with specialist modified insurance compared to a 1.4 with no mods

My mate has a 6.3 AMG and doesn't pay much more than me.

Certain cars cost a lot more than others

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

Thats the thing many lads my age don't realise, I'm just counting down the days till I can insure an S13

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

Ford Escort estate in a dark metallic blue - bought in 1988 & would have been a few years old, but can't remember what year the car was

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

A yellow vauxhall cavalier. We paid £50 for it. It used to break down all the time as it had a rusty fuel tank. We sold it to friends for £80 (having done some work to it!) and then it got written off by an hgv....i was gutted. I loved that car.

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury

In 1981, I bought a 2 year old mini 850 at an auction which was stolen/wrecked/ recovered. I restored it to working condition. It took me and two mates down to Munich in October 81 and was a brilliant car. I still pine for it.

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By *ickey60Man
over a year ago

London

Good old Ford fiesta popular plus. A massive 950cc

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

"A mini.

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Awwwwwe, how cute!

......my first few lessons were in a mini, ssssoooooooo difficult to learn in, I thought at the time.

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By *mm_n_ZedCouple
over a year ago

Fareham

A K reg Escort Mk1 in midnight blue with a red stripe down the side. I called him Errol.

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

mk escort xl metalic blue cloth steats and raidio

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

1937 vauxhall 14, cost me the pricely sum of eleven pounds,go over 65 and the head gasket blew every time,the days when cars were cars,with there own character......

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By *edsBonkingMan
over a year ago

Near MK

"Mk 1 ford escort."

Same here. Light blue. I can still remember the reg no. !! Lol

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By *inkxRabbitWoman
over a year ago

Mostly in GU24

I had a white mini, old type. I bought it in 1986 for £1200. I paid cash for it.

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

First car - Peugeot 106 - I bought it when I was 17 - paid for myself - £500

Second Car - Peugeot 206 - I bought it new when I was 19 - paid for myself in full - £9,500

Third Car - Toyota Yaris - I bought new when I was 26 - paid for myself in full - £10,500

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

Vauxhall Corse, 1.4 White!!!

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

"morris ital - eba 497y - (useless information i can remember

) - this was on a list of the worst ten cars - i really loved it - leather seats and everything including 4 gears hahahah Sx"

Are you sure about leather seats?

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

i had the peugeot 309 hatchback was a nice car but i kept having to replace the weights in the distributor

my driving and i always did race tune it

after that a french ford sierra 1.6

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

"morris ital - eba 497y - (useless information i can remember

) - this was on a list of the worst ten cars - i really loved it - leather seats and everything including 4 gears hahahah Sx

Are you sure about leather seats?"

definately -

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

"Mondeo then an Escort Cabriolet.

Do people not usually pay for it themselves?

None of my mates did, they all got funded by their parents"

How things have changed. Explains a lot about the youth of today. They have everything given to them while we saved up and got it ourselves.

MkII escort. Then an mg Midget. Then a 1275gt mini. Escort. Escort. Escort. Cavalier. Golf gti....,,,,,, now got an m3 evolution and a transit van.

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By *omnlynneCouple
over a year ago

milton keynes

1970 mk 2 ford cortina 1300 deluxe next car triumph 2500 PI then oldsmobile delmont 88 coupe .....and hadnt turned 19 ....couldnt do it now with cost of the insurance...

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

"Mondeo then an Escort Cabriolet.

Do people not usually pay for it themselves?

None of my mates did, they all got funded by their parents

How things have changed. Explains a lot about the youth of today. They have everything given to them while we saved up and got it ourselves.

MkII escort. Then an mg Midget. Then a 1275gt mini. Escort. Escort. Escort. Cavalier. Golf gti....,,,,,, now got an m3 evolution and a transit van.

Definitely does, I work with yoots and loads of them get cars bought for them.

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

D reg fiat panda in red, cost me 200 quid, brought it is 2003 when i was 16, to learn in, but my mother has always been a fecking awful passenger and there for made a nerve wracking teacher!

bloody thing had a choke!

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

My first car was a silver 306...loved it, was a nippy little thing but was fairly old and after the clutch went a few times and it sprung a oil leak I traded it in towards a rav4.

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

I had a limited addition rover metro jet black . it was all black with a red stripe . Black seats n interua with red pinin it was da dogs

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I learned to drive in a 1953 army Land Rover, passed ma test in a 1978 Opel Kadett and ma dad gave me his 1981 Datsun Sunny 150Y.

Already had 4 motorbikes at that stage though

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

"I learned to drive in a 1953 army Land Rover, passed ma test in a 1978 Opel Kadett and ma dad gave me his 1981 Datsun Sunny 150Y.

Already had 4 motorbikes at that stage though

I've had plenty of bikes before I was legal, and cars too

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

Renault 5 GT turbo, 1st time and last time I'll ever own a Renault

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

I had a 1982 ford fiesta 1.3 supersport, it'd be worth a few grand now, I too paid for it with all my own money, insurance too

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

"vauxhall chevette for me. How did we get for and all our camping gear in when the kids where small.

My friend had a chevette with tartan seats!

Mine was a Fiesta sport cost me a £900 "

p reg silver chevette, no front bumper with mustang p45 shark teeth painted round the front.....Got people's attention. Lol

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

Mini Mayfair in cashmere gold,, awesome car and regret selling it

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By *exywheelsCouple
over a year ago

inverness

Audi 80 a lovely car till the engine blew when I was trying to do 70 in second gear

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

"Mondeo then an Escort Cabriolet.

Do people not usually pay for it themselves?

None of my mates did, they all got funded by their parents

How things have changed. Explains a lot about the youth of today. They have everything given to them while we saved up and got it ourselves.

MkII escort. Then an mg Midget. Then a 1275gt mini. Escort. Escort. Escort. Cavalier. Golf gti....,,,,,, now got an m3 evolution and a transit van.

...... in certain other countries, driving was actually affordable .......... just imagine trying to afford not only to buy a car but more importantly, run a car today; even apart from the massive tax on fuel, there's the unbelievable shroud of red tape!!

.....I genuinely feel sorry for the kids, - they cannot possibly live the lives of their western counterparts ......because of Westminster? It really does suck, to be honest!

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

Fiat Panda which had a rollback roof and no brakes!

How I didn't kill myself is a mystery!

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

My first was a mark2 volkswagon polo.

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

I had an old mk1 XR2 fiesta that I squeezed an XR3i engine into. Took it out to the max and made the bitch scream. Think I was suppressing something!!!

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

Bright pink mini 1340 rally car for Bo and a mini metro auto for Daisy.

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By *dsindyTV/TS
over a year ago

East Lancashire

Talbot Samba..a total wreck, leaked like fuck, struggled to reach 70mph and kept on breaking down. what a piece of French junk

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

Rover 216 vitesse reg was D705VAL was a fantastic car until I was hit from behind by some dozy bint at a junction.

She was doing her make up on her way to work instead of looking what she was doing.. really was gutted.

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

A Vauxhal Tigra sport in silver, when I passed my test at 17. I have the picture up on my wall now... Big pink bow, filled with balloons, and a massive teddy in the drivers seat

my Ma will always be the absolute best at surprises.

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

citroen 2cv6,get in there

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

A Hyundai I20. Courtesy of daddy

. Had it 5 years now. Love my little car.

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

Couldn't tell you my first cos I had probably 10 plus cars whilst I was learning as our family business is a Ford Franchise and 2nd hand car garage so I had everything from 3l Cortinas to toyotas, to Datsuns...the first car I had for any length of time was a converted Fiesta van, reg GBV 71W with a dodgy starter motor so I carried a hammer with me to tap it when it gave up...ah, happy days...I'd probably be done for going equipped for assault nowadays and I'd have no fecking idea where the starter motor was to thump it with said hammer

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"A Hyundai I20. Courtesy of daddy

. Had it 5 years now. Love my little car. "

I had cars courtesy of Daddy until I was 44...still on fleet insurance so although I do kinda own my car now (on Ford Options lease), I've yet to enter the wide world of car insurance

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

"I had cars courtesy of Daddy until I was 44...still on fleet insurance so although I do kinda own my car now (on Ford Options lease), I've yet to enter the wide world of car insurance

You probably couldn't afford anything of your own now!

I've had classic/American insurance for 20-odd years so although I'm completely clean in all ways, I've got no ncb so even mundane cars are stupid money to insure, but I'm happy sticking to the older unusual gas guzzlers that cost pennies to insure.

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By *adybee77Woman
over a year ago

MAMOBA, miles and miles of bugger all (Aberdeenshire)

An old audi coupe - H reg, silver, 2ltr... I loved that car! Was only about 10 years ago that I passed my test.

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"I had cars courtesy of Daddy until I was 44...still on fleet insurance so although I do kinda own my car now (on Ford Options lease), I've yet to enter the wide world of car insurance

You probably couldn't afford anything of your own now!

You're probably right, although when I changed car last year, Ford gave me a quote that, whilst not prohibitive, was a lot more expensive than my sister in law's. I'll stick with the garage insurance til they kick me off

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By *aylor8Woman
over a year ago

Newcastle

Banana yellow viva 1300 E x

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

Signal Yellow mk1 1300 sport ford fiesta W reg.

With CB and huge mag mount ariel, great fun little thing it was.

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

"Mondeo then an Escort Cabriolet.

Do people not usually pay for it themselves?"

Yes of course - unless they're daddies girl, naturally!

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By *D123Man
over a year ago

Kings Heath and Estepona

Morris 1000 Traveller with the wood on the rear!

A 1957 model, one of the first with a full windscreen rather than the split one!

Paid for by my summer job whilst doing my A levels. £40, all in!

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood

I passed my test in my mums fiat panda (the old model). I used that when I use to be on nightshifts for months, till I was able to afford my own car which was:

Fiat chiquicento (I'm sure it gad a 750cc engine)

Bought it myself (and paid for my insurance etc) without any help from parents etc.

Car was ok, got me to and from work, which was less than 5 miles away.

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

Mark 3 Cortina 2000E automatic in sebring red on an M plate.

I had to have I converted to a manual after my mate slammed it into park while I was driving as he 'wondered what would happen '!

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

Austin A40, AUB 876, Cherry red! Did all our courting in that car and had it for years, got £8 for it at scrappers when it finally died! Top motor!

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

Yellow mini van, OYC 3P, about what it was worth.......

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

Toyota mr2 turbo, great little car

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

"Toyota mr2 turbo, great little car

I have just had to scrap one of them , great car put a grin on my face every time i around the TT course in it

First car Austin A40 payed £50 Quid for it at age 16

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over a year ago

Ford fiesta back in 88

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over a year ago

Rover 213 on a c plate back in 2001 great car never pulled by cops

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

Datsun sunny held together with fibreglass. Was a handme down from my dad. Loved it!

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By *oby BestMan
over a year ago

the shires

a 1964 powder blue triumph spitfire

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

Lovely red mini cooper (real one not new fangled nonsense) with a white roof, two white stripes up the bonnet and four extra spots named Jilly (as in Cooper).

She was awesome, a tad unreliable and spent many hours by the side of the road watching the world go by as she remembered she was a car rather than an ornament, but I loved her.

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

1960 VW Beetle paid £55 ran it for 10 months then it got nicked and finished up in the foyer of the Grand theatre in Blackpool. Yes they literally lost it and rammed it through the front door.

(before Church St was pedestrianised)

Then "upgraded" to a Mk1 Cortina.

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

1971 mk1 Capri 1600gt. Black with chrome detailing,had it in 1983,

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"Daimler V8 (inspector Morse type)in 1978.

Fell in love with them as a kid.

All my NORMAL mates were driving minis and escorts."

The 250 Dart engine was one of the smoothest V8's ever built. Why they didn't use that engine in the Stag was always beyond me.

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over a year ago

"Mondeo then an Escort Cabriolet.

Do people not usually pay for it themselves?

Yes of course - unless they're daddies girl, naturally!

had to pay for everything myself from an early age - looking back i was quite well off as a teen just no time to spend the money - paper rounds, after school job, saturday job and babysitting

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By *aughtynigel02121980Man
over a year ago

Brandon

Mk2 Ford Fiesta, part exchanged a games console and £200.00. Was red with a fido dido logo on the near side rear. Was a cracking first car, and cost £15.00 to fill from empty

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

Hillman husky.

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

Not all of who had cars given to them were able to drive them on the road straight away!

My Dad gave me an Austin A35 Countryman when it failed the MOT due to rust. It also had a knackered engine as well so I spent a good year making it roadworthy, then fitted a Riley 1.5 engine in it! When this engine also blew up, I fitted an MGB engine in but this only lasted a week due to a collision between me and a VW camper that pulled out in front of me!

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By *utumnWoman
over a year ago

leeds

Black Opel Manta

Gold TR7 soft top

Gold Capri

... now, Passat estate, I'm trying to grow up!

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By *onnyeasygoingMan
over a year ago

Somewhere on the M62 between 24 and 14

Mk 3 Escort 5door 1.3L. One of the only sensible motors I owed before the Capri revolution began.

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

A Mk 1 fiesta, cost £150 and almost £700 to insure it! P.

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

Vauxhall nova , great cheap first car

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By *oe bloggs69Man
over a year ago

fife

Mk2 escort then mk2 rs1800 then Renault fuego

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By *nterracial2Couple
over a year ago

Ribble Valley

Bmw 320d e46 face lift edition. With a limited edition factory paint job in "topaz blue"

Saw me a lot miles that did! Bloody efficient too.

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By *ll of a QuiverCouple
over a year ago

Douglas

Fiat 127 in Bronze with a leather slide back sunroof and alloys as standard.

Wanted something different from my mates who mostly had minis

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

1998 1.4 Renault Megane, solid little car it was too

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By *MP3Man
over a year ago

Between Scylla and Charybdis

My first car was bought in 1999, an Audi A3. Loved that car, though I would never go back to Audis after having had BMWs for the past 10 years

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By *rishsteveMan
over a year ago

carlow

1972 Bond Bug 700 ES Three wheeler 110 mph. Lasted a year and wrote it off and 14 stitches in my head.

Could drive it with a motorbike license aa it was under 8 cwt

Cost £678 brand new.

Now fetching £6k plus.

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

VW Corrado G60.

The insurance alone was 3 grand. I was about 19.

I used to blow my wad on that car. .then my mate smashed it up.

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

92 blue Ford Fiesta no power steering, long gear stick nightmare to drive

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By *pple16Man
over a year ago

Macclesfield

Triumph herald.

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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago

North West

1978 Mini. Furry dashboard included.

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

"Ford fiesta back in 88"
My (Jane) first car was a 97 BMW 316i coupe and i passed my driving test in it too. Loved that car!

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By *oconut2Woman
over a year ago

Nether regions of the back of beyond

A 1968 Ford Cortina Mk 3 in Daytona Yellow

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By *U1966Man
over a year ago

Devon

1971 Renault 12tl in beige used more oil than petrol but always started

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

In 1972 bought 1963 Austin 1100 cost £95 - it was brill - had posh speedo - orange line instead of needle. While using it was approached by a guy who bought the registration for £35 - 555 Grh. Nowadays I wouldn't want to drive it to end of street but at the time it was my Roller lol

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"A 1968 Ford Cortina Mk 3 in Daytona Yellow "

I Think you have probably got the year wrong.

The Mk3 was only launched in 1970 so a '68 would have been a Mk2 and as I don't remember Daytona Yellow being a Mk2 colour you probably had a Mk3 from the early 70's.

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By *urreyfun2008Man
over a year ago

East Grinstead

Austin a40 mk2

Built in 1963, bought in 1990 for £400. Once drove five miles home having to top up float chamber after fuel pump failed. Remember clambering around a scrap yard for a hand brake cable too.

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

My rover was £100 an got £250 when i sold it for parts only

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

It was a 1973 VW Beetle 1300, I got it for £300 back in 89

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

An M reg Nissan Micra. I loved that car

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By *osieWoman
over a year ago

Wembley

In 1989, a third (or fourth-hand?) 1971 Chrysler Valiant; I felt young and invincible

Now, I just feel old and invisible

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

"citroen 2cv6,get in there

Used ta luv watch em go round oulton park four abreast leanin on each other

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By *ipster8Man
over a year ago

South Lincs

Mk3 ford escort

Cost me £700 to insure it 3rd party fire and theft.

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

Austin Allegro. Paid £150. Lovely little car.

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By *mandaboundTV/TS
over a year ago

Newton Le Willows

Brand new Ford Fiesta. Saved 3 years for it

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over a year ago

"Daimler V8 (inspector Morse type)in 1978.

Fell in love with them as a kid.

All my NORMAL mates were driving minis and escorts.

The 250 Dart engine was one of the smoothest V8's ever built. Why they didn't use that engine in the Stag was always beyond me."

Progressed to a Dart when I'd made a bit of money.

What a beautiful sound!

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By *awk_eyeMan
over a year ago

east london

Porsche 944, the insurance was more than the car

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

Royal Blue Talbot Sunbeam

Went like shit off a shovel.

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over a year ago

Mk1 Feista super sport.

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

A 1988 maroon 1.1 Ford Fiesta Ghia, the cream interior was so lovely

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

Ford Fiesta Xr2 (1986) B reg. In Cadbury Purple with the RS style bonnet vents (very rare) and green bumper inserts, very good looking car. Paid for it myself but couldn't afford the insurance so drove it very rarely.

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

First car I bought myself - nissan micra cc. cute little car loved it.

The first that OH got for me that was driveable was a hillman imp.

the first car we had as a married couple was a 1956 morris oxford. guess that should be read in reverse

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