discussion Your First car and those that came later

[Guest]

OK Bikes are now done let us go on to cars.

What was you first and then later ? Go on show off.

Ok I will. My first a Grey A35. Is she not a little beauty. Yes she was pride and a lot of joy. Got to be first car at the age of 23.

This is not mine but the owner has painted the wheels white as I did.

Laurie

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[Paul Davies]

First car fiat cinquecento sporting in yellow. Then Peugeot 106 cos the fiat died. Then mk6 fiesta ST followed by mk2 focus ST

 

[john i am]

1st Datsun Cherry 100a (love machine)next 120y sunny marina van another Datsun 140 mini 850 about 5 cavaliers saloons and hatchbacks ford probe calibra about 5 transit vans 1 fiesta van Peugeot partner latest rides citreon relay van and double decker bus

 

[Guest]

1st Mk 3 Ford Escort 1.1

2nd Ford Sierra 1.6

3rd Y reg Mk 1 VW Golf Gti

4th C reg Mk 2 VW Golf Gti

5th D reg BMW M5

6th G reg Lancia Delta Integrale 16v

7th G reg Mk 2 VW Golf Gti

8th J reg Peugeot Mi16

9th M reg Mk 3 VW Golf VR6

10th P reg VW Corrado VR6

11th T reg VW Mk 4 Golf Gti

12th Big Red Bus!

 

[spanner570]

Young and carefree!

Ford E93A

Morris 1000

Green A35 van

Ford 100E

Morris Oxford

Mini Cooper 'S'

Married!

Mini Clubman Estate

VW 21 windows...for children

VW camper (elevating roof).......... "

Vauxhall Astra GT

Vauxhall Astra

Allegro Estate

Ford Granada 2.8 estate....for caravan + family

Vauxhall Astra van.....for diving gear and towing boat.

Another Astra van.

Children left home!

Corsa

Panther Kallista 2.8i V6...My treat - Still got it! Dry roads only....

Using right now!

Fiat Panda

Renault Kangoo van

Roller Team Ducato 2.8 Motorhome.

 

[PaulTRose]

had to do some probing of the memory banks to remember these in the right order

1st car was in 1980.........1973 Datsun Cherry 100a.....great little car

1967 triumph herald....bought to make a kit car (dutton phaeton) but hated driving it (and got put off the dutton after having a really really good look at one) so sold it after a few weeks

escort mk2 1100 popular

jago geep.......escort based kit car

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escort mk 2 1300 ghia

jago geep

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mini......great little motor

nissan cherry F2

jago geep......not got a pic handy of the last and best one

ford granada mk3

Nissan Cherry Euro

Fiat Panda

Peugeot 309

Toyota Avensis

Toyota Corolla

Nissan Primera

Renault Clio.......owned from new for 9 years and loved it

and currently...............Citroen C3 Picasso

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[Peej]

1st car I bought was a Renault Laguna. Had loads since then, various Peugeots, Citroen Picasso, Sierra, Scirocco, Focus, Megane.

One day would love a Morris minor with split screen.

 

[Guest]

Mine was the Morris version of this, and smaller:

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[Guest]

1st Ford Cortina mk5 2.0 GL estate

2nd Mini 1.0 cooper look alike

3rd Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 GL mk2 hatchback

4th Rover 2.6 sdi

5th Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 GL mk3 hatchback

6th Vauxhall Astra 1.6 van

7th Opel Senator 2.5

8th Toyota Liteace van

9th Volvo 740 GL

10th 2nd Toyota Liteace van

11th 2nd Volvo 740 GL

12th Volvo 940 Wentworth

13th Saab 900cse

14th And present vehicle is a Fiat Scudo van for my dogs and scooters

 

[Guest]

This was my first car. I saved two years for it in 1979. Not my photo, but mine was the same color/stripe combination. 1968 Dodge R/T Charger. Mine did not have a Hemi!

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[flyjoe180]

Well, my first car was a 1979 Talbot-badged Hillman Avenger station wagon. Great first car, I learned to drive in it (picture not of my actual car). Also had my first accident in it being a dick.

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Then I bought a 1985 Holden Commodore VK straight-six sedan. Loved it, a heavy beast that only got about 350km per 80 litre tank. That would be frowned upon now days for sure. My pride and joy until it was stolen and never recovered (again not my actual car):

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I then became more sensible and bought a 199-somehting Ford Telstar diesel. Had a nice stereo but overall it was a complete piece of c**p, and I have never touched another Ford since.

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It blew itself up on a country road. I patched a broken coolant pipe up with a bag strap and drove it straight to a car dealer to get a Toyota.

This is my Toyota before I traded it in for my current car. I drove this for 13 years, it never missed a beat, was economical and I still miss it despite its age and lack of safety features. When I sold it it had 250000km on the clock or thereabouts, and I'd done 220k of them. I believe it's still running, and last time I heard it'd done close to 400k.

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And this is what I traded it for, and my current car. Holden VE Commodore. Great car, love it and will hang on to it. A shame that GM are forcing Holden to shut down production of the Commodore in about 2017/8. A blow to the Australian car industry. They are awesome vehicles, you get a lot of bang for your buck and they have power to spare. In Europe they are marketed as Vauxhall I believe and are popular in North America as Chevrolet (formerly badged as Pontiac).

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[Ian M]

Ford Sierra 1,6 burned the electronics box out...

Mitsubishi gallant 1,8 petrol pump in the tank rotted at the welds.

Mitsubishi colt 1,3 chipped and sunk went like stink..

Suzuki Grand Vitara 2,0. Stil the work horse

Suzuki Swift 1,3. Our daily car great fun to drive.

 

[rickoshea52]

I bought a mk3 Escort for £280 from a WAAF I worked with. The passenger door hinge was broken and when I took a Doris out in it she thought I was being gallant by opening the door for her to get in, the truth was I didn't want it to fall on her foot. The driver side window would go down but not up without taking the trim off so whenever I got to the main gate I had to open the door to give the guard my id and car pass. My mum borrowed it one time and wound the window for a fag and couldn't get it to go back up and cursed me when she got a soaking driving to Inverness and back in the rain.

The boot floor was rotten with corrosion and repaired with biscuit tin lids! Then on one journey up the A9 the fan belt went leaving me driving through Pitlochry in the pitch dark with no lights.

I traded up for a 1973 VW bay window camper....and blew an inlet valve on the A9....again. After I got it fixed the main bearing went....on the A9!

I've got terrible luck with cars, usually red ones. Another blown engine the day before my posting to Kinloss, dodgy fuel controllers in Massif Centrale, loose spark plugs near Hockenheim and another blown engine on a 1972 VW bay window camper but this time on the M6 on the way to Glastonbury.

Does anyone want to buy a (red) car from me?

 

[Guest]

Mine was the Morris version of this, and smaller:View attachment 100150

I now run:

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What do you now run Steve Kir

That looks remarkably like the model you completed a while back.

Laurie

 

[flyjoe180]

1968 Dodge R/T Charger. Mine did not have a Hemi!

Awesome car Tom! Did you have a Dukes of Hazzard horn?

 

[PaulTRose]

Does anyone want to buy a (red) car from me?

no!

 

[rickoshea52]

I had another mk3 escort actually. Me and a two others bought one in a syndicate for us to share when we were in Northern Ireland, what a heap. It had a rotten boot as well but this one was repaired with flattened OM-15 tins. I'll never forget the look on the WAAF coppers face when I lifted the bonnet at the security checkpoint after going out to Belfast for the day, someone had written on the air filter, "I hate Fords!". We were "advised" to get rid of it by the RAF Police.

 

[rickoshea52]

no!

What's with the RAF Reg, meat & two veg crest?

 

[PaulTRose]

What's with the RAF Reg, meat & two veg crest?

im an ex-Rock

 

[Guest]

My first car was a Suzuki SJ413 Hard Top......what a great moments

Nissan Patrol (Black Edition)

Nissan Patrol (Polaris Edition)

Renault Twingo (just for three months, need a small car to move during this time)

Ford Connect (Like the Renault, it was for moving and working for a year aprox)

Peugeot 106 Sport Yellow (very funny )

Land Rover 110 Station Wagon Tdi

Land Rover 90 Station Wagon Td5

Land Rover 110 Station Wagon Td5

Mercedes Benz Vito Year 2014