discussion Your First car and those that came later

[rickoshea52]

im an ex-Rock

Oh, no! We had some pet Rock Apes on 230 Sqn, great lads. It was handy knowing them if you wanted to go for a bevvy in the Bimble Inn.

 

[tanktrack]

1/ car ford Anglia 105e

2/ morris marina

3/opel kadett 1200s

4/ Toyota starlet

5/ fiat tipo

6/ mk2 escort

7/mazda 323

8/Toyota yaris verso

9/ Suzuki splash

10/ and current car a kia venga

I also had a 1964 triumph herald 1200 until recently

 

[Guest]

What do you now run Steve Kir That looks remarkably like the model you completed a while back.

Laurie

Yes, I confess. We presently run a Skoda Octavia and have done since 2006 (present one being 2011):

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With different interests we also had a Skoda Fabia as well until 2011 while we lived in the country. You need a car nearly every time you leave your front gate in the country (no busses) but sold that in 2011 after we moved into town. Skoda have been in the top three of the user satisfaction surveys for many years. The Octavia is a roomy, comfortable and relaxing car. Since 1962 we have had a Mini (dreadful car to own due to its many faults), Triumph Herald (its front wheel fell off when carrying a load of children, rolling off in front down the road!), Ford Fiesta, a new Ford Cortina, several Vauxhall Cavaliers, a Vauxhall Astra diesel, (Vauxhall used a petrol engine design and modified it for diesel, a disaster), Suziki Baleno (it wasn't a real Japanese car as far as quality was concerned), a Daewoo Matiz (fun car), then the Skodas.

The Cortina (1965) was a joke. The engine had no power and I took it back to the dealer 5 times. The last time I tested it immediately on the new motorway and it couldn't do 45 mph. I called Ford in and the engine was replaced. Also, I applied underseal to the Cortina (cars were poorly painted in those days). The insides of the door panels were mainly without any paint at all, literally just bare metal, rusting after 3 months already, and the bottom plate was designed to allow water to collect at the bottom and next to the outside skin and rust away. What awful dismal times then, in so many ways (unless you were young and without many responsibilities). That's my experience anyway.

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[Guest]

ford fiesta 1.1

ford escort xr3i

rover 213 ( 3 weeks then gave it away) utter crap

renault 19

vauxhall bellmont ( bought of a boy racer who had done allsorts to it but never touched the outside, looked crap but fastest thing i have driven, some great times as a young un having people in top cars next to you at lights and then looking at the shock on the faces as i left them standing)

vauxhall cavalier 1.8gls

vauxhall cavalier 2.0

daewoo lanos 1.6 (cost me £150) sailed through four years mot

current car is vauxhall vectra 1.8

 

[Guest]

I tried this at some lights next to Jasper Carrot in his Lexus. You should have seen the expression on my face as I was left in his dust. (Stupid boy, at my age, and in a Skoda!)

 

[Guest]

My favourite 3. All great and exciting cars to drive. You can have your sports cars Lotus, Ferrari and Porche. The LR's are all go any were in any weather cars. Put a caravan on the back and they are all as steady as a rock. The Landrover is in charge of the caravan. On the Discovery with a caravan on the back we had 4 bikes on the rear door and a dinghy and outboard in the boot. Jack of all trades.

Not my photos but same model same colour.

Laurie

 

[eddiesolo]

1st: Opal Manta GTE. Fix up or insure, couldn't afford both...so it went.

2nd: Lada Riva-rough and ready but loads of room.

3rd: Fiat Uno-horrid little thing.

4th: Nissan-something or other.

5th: Skoda Favorit-again a really comfy car and always ran.

6th: Skoda Felicia-liked this car but my disability had started to show up and I found this car difficult to drive due to having no power-steering.

7th: Rover 25 S2-half leather seats, alloys etc etc. Lovely car and my went like stink.

8th: Mazda Bongo, superb day/van, kitchen unit, pop up tent in the roof, loads of room and also a rare manual gearbox type type, full 4x4 with limited slip-diff-superb vehicle.

9th: Vauxhall Meriva MK2, motability vehicle, very nice.

Si