FabSwingers.com forum: First car memories.

By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

What was your first car, did you give it a name, was it a rust heap and unreliable but you loved it anyway or your pride and joy ?

As a follow up what was the first car you remember your parents owning ?

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

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

My first car was a beige (I know) Mini. I was supposed to learn to drive in it but my first boyfriend commandeered it and I only drove it twice.

I can't remember which was my Dad's first car in my liftime. I remember a big, curvy American(ish) thing with leather seats. Then there was something else and then I really remember the Cortina Mk2 (circa '72-76).

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By *appytochatMan
over a year ago

Deep in the New Forest

My first car was a nova saloon. It just loved to be trashed. First car I can remember my parents having was a hilman hunter.

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Dad had a blue Angela when I was growing up, I remember sliding from one side of the car to the other going round bends, before the days of back seat belts.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I've only ever had 3 cars and a Transit van in ma life (about 26 motorbikes though), but the first one was ma Dad's 1981 Datsun Sunny 150Y. It worked, that's about all I can say about it really

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By *heLaserGuyMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Mine was an applejack green mini, reg TAC 710W . Loved it until some arse drive into the back, had another 5 minis after that.

Also used to run a mini owners club.

My dads first was a mini mk1. Various family cars when i was younger, plus a TVR Taimar Turbo when we had grown up.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

The first car I remember ma Dad owning was a Rover P 80

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By *ue and robCouple
over a year ago

ware

Bought a triumph vitess convertible when I was 14 for £10 took it apart put it back together sprayed it orange with rattle cans put Capri rs 4 spoke wheels on it got a white roof then my dad made me sell it cause it took up to much space got £250 for it

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

Mine was a 10 year old Fiesta that I barely fitted into. I called it the Crimson Deathtrap and I loved it, until the rear suspension went and would have cost twice the value of the car to fix.

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By *unloversCouple
over a year ago

rotherham

My first car was a shitty brown escort mark 2

I loved it cos it was brilliant to be able to drive everywhere

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By *ust chilled out meMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

I had an astra my dad gave me had to rea build the engine to get it running

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

My first car was a red very old vw polo....I loved that car

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

"My first car was a red very old vw polo....I loved that car

Did it have a sticky back seat covered on junk.....

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

First car was a 1971 White Vauxhall’s Viva. Loved the freedom, even now, when certain songs come on it takes me back to those times.

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

Mine was a citroen ax 1.5 diesel 1996. I didn't name it (I've never named a car) and it cost me a huge amount in repairs in the 2 years I had it.

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By *ichmond GentMan
over a year ago

Richmond Upon Thames

1985 Blue XR3I B362 SUA lovely motor cost me £4,800 not quite new.Sold it in 1988 for £4,000.

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By *rickyd72Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

My first car was a 1977 Vauxhall Viva. It was the top of the range GLS model with a vinyl roof and plush velour seats. I thought it was the dogs nuts. I was only 18 at the time....

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Rover 220 turbo. I wanted something different from the SR Nova crowd.

It was my office my shag pad and social life all under one roof for a while.

Me and the Gf spent many an evening listening to music eating junk and fucking away.

It was a magnificent beast that cost me a fortune in fuel and repairs. Luckily I had a very understanding Dad who paid for the insurance.

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By *dinBiGuyMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

1983 “Y” reg Austin Metro purchased for £200 in 1995 with a “years MOT”

) must have been dodgy.

Reversed in to a bollard after 2 weeks and because it was a metal bumper drove round the rest of the cars days with a massive dent in the bumper. Still was a cracking wee first car and never gave me any problems.

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

Mr first car was a 1979 Ford Capri 1.6L

Loved that car. Still have fond memories of it - even though I've had much better cars since

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

My first car was a Hillman imp 1964 cjh 991b was not very reliable the engine blew up and the brakes failed twice but I still loved it. My parents car that I first remember was a Austin A40 horrid square thing

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

Hillman Imp. With the engine at the back it always had a habit of sliding in the wet!

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

early 70s Blue mini. Ironically not that comfortable for short people(me) but they could zip along speedily.

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

My first car was a fiesta mk1. Bought it for £30. Taught myself to drive in it and it lasted about 2 years no breakdowns. Not that alot could go wrong with it. Loved that car!! I had a portable radio on the passenger seat coz it didn't have one.

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By *rickyd72Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

Not my first car but one of my favourites was a 1981 Fiat Super Mirafiori. God, that car was quick! Twin cam 2.0 engine, limited slip different, 5 speed gearbox. I was 21 and in the forces with more spare money than I knew what to do with. Swapped it for a 1981 SD1 Rover that was an ex police traffic car. Souped up 3.5 litre V8 in it. Went like a train and drank about as much fuel!

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

Austin. Allegro. (cream) colour.

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By *.A.MGUY55Man
over a year ago

littleborough

Rover 216 on a C plate loved it £100 an chassis was rotting but it drive perfect

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

My dad had a ford prefect called Katy... I had a six volt green beetle...

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple
over a year ago

Cumbria

Austin Maestro 1.3 A reg with no engine took me nearly 3 weeks to get the fucker running after purchase enginethe form local scrap yard..

Her was Mazda 323 Fastback

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By *iker BullMan
over a year ago

leeds

"Not my first car but one of my favourites was a 1981 Fiat Super Mirafiori. God, that car was quick! Twin cam 2.0 engine, limited slip different, 5 speed gearbox. I was 21 and in the forces with more spare money than I knew what to do with. Swapped it for a 1981 SD1 Rover that was an ex police traffic car. Souped up 3.5 litre V8 in it. Went like a train and drank about as much fuel!"
super mirafiori was 1.6 twin cam,the 2.0 ltr was a 131 mirafiori sport two door,and didn't come with slip diff,only the 131 abarth had slippy dff standard,I know this as I owned both,and a Cpl of strada 130 tc

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By *aron_TentakuruMan
over a year ago

Exeter

My first car was a BMW 318ti Sport (e36 generation) in Avus Blue metallic with full M-tec kit. Weirdly enough it cost me half as much to insure a sporty 1.9 RWD hot hatch as it would have done to insure the boring Mazda 3 1.5 that I was originally looking at as a sensible first car. I passed my test in it, at the ripe old age of 30!

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

Land-rover series 3 because corsas and saxos were too mainstream. It had no name but I still own it.

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

Mini 850. Sliding door windows, floor start. 2' wonky gear lever. It was older than me when I got it.

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By *plpxp2Couple
over a year ago

Middlesbrough

A Bedford HA van was the first, was useful for one or two other activities though lol xx

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By *yrdsisWoman
over a year ago

Gleam Street

A 29 year old.. at that point... Morris Minor.... she was the cutest thing ever and was called Maisie. My Nana loaned me the money to buy her...I had her til I had to drive into shitey Glasgow every day and had to get a car that could do more than 60mph.

She was awesome!

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By *itvclaireTV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

My first car was a MK1 Fiesta First car I can remember my parents a owning was a Mini. White with a brown vinyl roof. Very 70s

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

One of my first cars was a fiesta xr2 with a toad alarm paid £50 off a mate wish I had it now

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By *heekyFlirtyCoupleCouple
over a year ago

stockport

My first car (Mrs) was a Datsun Cherry FII 100A - silver. Loved it.

My parents was a Bedford white van with a bus seat fixed in the back for me and my brother to sit on! Great memories.

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

My first car was a gold rover metro vanden plas with a brown velour interior. Massive alloys and a huge exhaust cost me £150 in 1993.

First car my parents had that I remember was a triumph spitfire. My dad just found it for sale and he's put an offer in to buy it after selling it 37 years ago.

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

A 1970 vw camper van , white/blue

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Mk2 ford cortina 1.6L

In bronze.it was a flipping tank.

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

Mk2 fiesta with pepper pot alloys sunroof and twin Webber carbs and a tin of wd40 any one worth a Ford from that decade will know what the wd40 was for (damp mornings)

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

My first six cars were minis

Dads first car was an allegro

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By *elma and ShaggyCouple
over a year ago

Bedworth

I still own and adore my first car. I call her Phoebe.

Hubby bought her for me after I’d had half a dozen driving lessons. I failed my first test 20 years earlier and had given up. My car sitting on the drive waiting for me was the incentive not to quit this time around.

She’s an 02 plate, mk2.5 Phoenix edition mx5, black with red mohair hood.

Before I passed my test it was fun for hubby to meet me from work, tape on the L plates and drive her home. I would always get awesome comments from guys walking by who thought it was cool to be learning to drive in an mx5

These days I allow him to borrow her occasionally to go to work, normally on a Saturday. He enjoys a good top down spin at 3 am

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

Mine was a saloon Volvo, big chunky beast back in the day for a learner but my parents bought her for me instead of driving lessons, had her for a few years, she had a few names which I can’t remember now but I remember when I first past my test the next day I went on a huge journey with a friend and got lost down a road and reversed and I thought I just hit a curb, turns out I knocked a wall down (a little one) and the police found me

it was all ok but my dad wasn’t happy as I was still on his insurance

I loved that car but I don’t ch oke, Also I only drive automatic cars as my dad convinced me I would never manage a manual (he also was convinced I wouldn’t get on driving in France but I can drive better over there than here!)

Danish x

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

"Mine was a saloon Volvo, big chunky beast back in the day for a learner but my parents bought her for me instead of driving lessons, had her for a few years, she had a few names which I can’t remember now but I remember when I first past my test the next day I went on a huge journey with a friend and got lost down a road and reversed and I thought I just hit a curb, turns out I knocked a wall down (a little one) and the police found me

it was all ok but my dad wasn’t happy as I was still on his insurance

Danish x"

Fucking nails! I don’t miss the ch oke! (Did you know you can’t say that word!)

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