Ok im bored with the age thing now.....
What was everyone's first car.???
I'm sure you don't look it @CHEZ
Oh a nova, don't seem many of them around these days
Mines was a scary jump too, from a 153 to my 225 TT haha.... my TT is only my second car only been driving nearly 2 years
Hey...proper man's cars... I bet you used to run over cardboard boxes like I did in my Granada... Were you Body or Doyle..?First car......a mk3 cortina followed by a triumph dolomite sprint!
Then many more after that........
Hey...proper man's cars... I bet you used to run over cardboard boxes like I did in my Granada... Were you Body or Doyle..?
Today's cars might have a lot more power but they're pussy-cats to drive in comparison as they handle so well, have abs and airbags etc. Try putting 150hp down through a 1980s rwd Ford chassis in the rain.. My Granada was a proper wet roundabout special! We learned about oversteer the hard way (and by practising in Tesco's car park in the snow) and learned how to power drift before the Japs 'invented' it! The height of tuning was to get a 1.6 Cortina and dump a 2L engine in retaining the 1.6 gearing. Mate wrapped one of those around a lampost on the Bournemouth 'circuit' after a massive fishtail. We spent the weekend swapping the engine back in case the insurers paid a visit... There was no easy credit then so I worked ****** hard to get a Porsche by 24 and was dead proud. Even that was ***** by comparison of today's cars. But the Silver Shadow I was driving a couple of years before was cool as a cucumber. One thing I learned back then was big powerful 'old man's cars' were considerably cheaper to insure and went like stink. It certainly raised a few eyebrows to see youngsters driving around in a Roller with windows down, heavy metal blaring, wheelspinning and generally hooning around. Parts were ridiculous (I remember well-£457 for a backbox of the exhaust in 1993) so it didn't stay long.
Good times... Thanks for reminding me!
My best pal at university had a Dolomite as his first car, sadly not a Sprint but the standard 1854 8-valver. It was nine years old, everything on it was shot to pieces, but it still chucked out a fair bit of torque. This was channeled through a pair of massive (I kid you not) 155x13 tyres, which only maintained the briefest of contact with Edinburgh's setts (that's cobbles to the rest of us). These streets were worn smooth and permanently wet. We had years of fun tail-sliding it round the city at absurdly slow speeds (just as well because the brakes were non-existent). Opposite lock was never so much fun. Its remains we're finally laid to rest in a scrapyard in Inveraray after a visit to the Mull of Kintyre proved too much for what was left of the engine after years of abuse.
The Dolomite cost £150 to buy in 1981 and in 1984, the scrappy gave us money to buy two bus tickets back to Edinburgh, with enough left over for twenty pints of 80 Shilling to give the car a fitting send-off.
I'm 29 I've had 10 cars and I've got 8 years no claims insurance on my first car (Mk2 Golf 1.8 GL) was £2040 as a named driver! now my insurance is around £300 full comp
Age does have its benefits! I think I paid £1,550 for insurance my first car. Remember thinking at the time that was quite good after getting quotes for £3k!
I'm at 10 cars too ! (14 including company cars - but that's just showing off!).
And the hospital stuff don't forget!
With all the other similarities I know your going to be OK!
We're like twins! Both 29, both on 10th car, both have audi's currently, both cant stay off the word association thread! Its like we're the same person!