What was your first ever car...?

my first car at 17 was a Fiat Panda 4x4 great for getting up secluded farm tracks....
 
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No, mine wasn't a de-badged GTi it was a 1.1CL and I loved it to bits!
 
1.6 deluxe Marina...swapped for a gearbox for my MK3 Escort in the end :)
 
For me it was a chocolate brown 1984 Ford Escort 1.3GL 5dr. It had the newer CVH engine and the VV carb which was great :)
 
Hillman hunter gls 1800cc I think, with a holbay engine twin webber carbs went like the clappers at the time but was a rust bucket I remember after passing my test at 17 going up Lake Ullswater on a wet night with my mates there was at least 2 inches of water in the footwells.It was a crap starter as well, I used to bump start it most cold mornings to get to work luckily I lived on a hill. Basically it was a pile of crap but enjoyable.
 
1972 (K Reg) Triumph 1500 Front Wheel Drive (Dolomite shape)....very comfy, but without doubt the rustiest, most unreliable car ever (syncromesh packed up twice on 2nd gear).....knew I should of got a Ford Escort Mk1 ...hindsight eh !
 
70s T Reg Mini 850, with offcuts of carpet from my mum and dad's bedroom and an interior ripped out of a 25th aniversary mini. I loved that car, until a friend took it on a BMX track and snapped it in two :(
 
Gun Metal Grey Mini Neon, H reg 998cc !!!

Ended up 7 inches wider by time I sold it, I loved that wee car
 
Passed my test in 1985. Then drove a 1971 Rover 2000, my dads old car. Davos white with red leather, magnificent! Eventually bought my own, a 1973 Cortina 1.6L, not so magnificent, but rebuilt the engine on a Sunday afternoon. Ahhh, happy days...........
 
My first car was an Austin A35 countryman which I got for swapping my push bike!!. I never actually drove it on the road as it was a shed and also I hadn't passed my test!. After that a Vauxhall Viva, which I bought to learn to drive in, then wrote it off before I passed my test.
So my first proper car was a 1973 Mk1 escort 1100, which I put a 1600 ohv Mk2 Cortina 1600E engine in.
Started off on drum brakes all round and no brake servo, that was fun to drive !!!
 
mine was a f reg vauxhall astra which i fitted a 1.6 8v engine with a twin choke weber carb was well cool lol, its in the scrap yard now :bye:
 
mine was a modified mini cooper mk1 998, wish i still had it to, would be worth a fortune now ha ha........:keule:
 
Mine was an 8L A3 1.6 Sport which regrettably met a sticky end on the M6. I've got a B5 A4 TDI now...

Regards,

Rob.

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Fiat seicento 1.1 Sporting Abarth.

was great fun, loved to **** up that hind wheel !

In my opinion, fiat are crap at making big cars.. but great at little ones!
 
1953 Morris minor 850cc sidevalve engine,split windscreen,black,accidently swiped a jag and rolled it,luckily it couldnt go to fast
 
Sam-K said:
In my opinion, fiat are crap at making big cars.. but great at little ones!
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As long as you agree that the Fiat Coupe 20VT Turbo is one of Fiats great cars, i am with you all the way!
 
b reg polo saloon, passed down from my big sis. 983cc if i remember rightly. loved that car.

great thread btw.
 
Austin Mini 850 Cooler than an Eskimos chuff !!
 
mk1 golf gti 1979 model met green cost me 300 to buy and 1600 to insure and that was in 1994
 
My first car was a 1961 Mercury Comet. It had a 170 c.i. six cylinder engine and a two speed slushbox automatic. No power brakes, no power steering, no power engine. The engine burnt so much oil, the rings were shot, that my dad and I ran a radiator hose from the oil filler neck to the air filter intake horn. The smoking from under the hood was so bad that with out this custom air inlet system, people thought the engne was on fire. I think it was painted a sort of cream color, but it was so rusted out that you couldn't be sure. The seats were upholstered with that 1960's vinyl that was either whole or shredded -- nothing in between. The front seats were shredded. The back seats, as the guy who sold it to my dad put it "had never been sat in.'' It was a rolling wreck, but it started every day and got me wherever I wanted to go at a sedate pace (I just didn't go too very far away). This was in Detroit, Michigan, 1967.
Bill:weight_lift2:
 
In April 1979 just before passing my test, I bought myself (with mum's financial help) a Mitsubishi 1.6 Celeste.
I must have washed it about 20 times before I passed my test in May.
And it never came out if the garage during that time.
I sat in it for hours dreaming away, waiting for my test date to arrive.

:arco: Lucky enough, I passed first time:arco:
 
My 1st car was a true classic!!

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A pea green mk2 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL :puke2: It had matching green velour seats to top off its radiant beauty. I loved it as it had a rev counter!!:arco: Must say it was quite a comfortable car and pretty nippy for an 18year old.

It hit the 100k mark after about a year of my owning it, at which point the head gasket failed and the rattling cam got much worse. I px'd it for another classic ..... an MG Metro Turbo and the Cavalier reportedly blew up 7 miles later.:redface:
 
My first car was a 3 door X reg (as in 1981/82 X) Austin Metro L! (996cc....oooh the power!!)

Need to have a hunt to see if I have any pics...it was class - My Gran bought it for me for £200 quid on my 16th birthday and me and my Dad spent the next year doing it up and restoring it with a view to me passing my test the following year (which I did....1993 what a year!).

We did a really good job on it - looked showroom at the time - I even got a few comments from folk at the local Rover garage (where my dad worked in the Unipart section - which proved VERY handy ;))

The car was Biege with ...wait for it...Paprika vinyl interior.

The laugh is....I sold it after a couple of years for £400 :) - think it only had 60k on it as well.

These photos arent of mine - but near enough identical - this one actually sold on ebay last month for £712!

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First car at 17 was a 1975 dark metallic blue Lancia Beta 1800 ES.
spec:110bhp. 1800cc twin overhead cams, Dual choke carb, discs brakes all round and independent suspension front and rear. Alloy wheels, tinted electric windows.
Had it for three years and did 45,000 miles
 
1983 Y MG Metro 1300. Bought in 1990 sold 15 months later when I discovered the floor was rotting. Great wee car and even replaced it with a 1988 one which wasn't so much fun.

Might have some pics somewhere.
 
Bought in 1992, my first car was a 1984 Mini Mayfair, everyone (of a certain ageshould have a mini in there car history), my raises a few eyebrows as I'm 6ft 8ins tall........... let the high-tower 'take the front seats out and sit in the back' jokes commence :)


Loving the MkI Escort and Golf & many others
 
My first car was a brand new 'L' reg graphite grey - Nissan Sunny. At that time it was great cos my parents bought it for me. Anyway, my brother was about to drive it home from the garage with me (because I didn't want to) but the stupid garage people left it in reverse! and he nearly reversed into the wall! luckily he didn't.
 
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