How old were you when you got your first car?

[capsuleboy]

As a car mad 16 and a half year old back in the dark days of the late 70's my mum, bless her, talked me out of the Ford Classic I always wanted and into a Corsair. This turned out to be a tale of woe, partly due to the rubbish design that is the 1700cc V4 wedge wonder and partly due to it being a clocked ex-taxi, you live and learn.

 

Now I am so much older and wiser, with 150+ cars under my belt I felt it was the time to start my youngest of on the road to ruin with his first wheels, not letting the fact that he is not 15 until July get in the way. Elder daughter still shows no interest at all, such a disappointment.

 

Could someone post a link from this ebay number 230930237948. Ta.

 

At least that gives us 2 years or so to get it sorted. Turns out to be in great shape, low miles, couple of owners, history and no rust at all...So basic it does without head rests and rear wiper...

[catsinthewelder]

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1989-PEUGEOT- ... 7675.l2557

 

There you go

 

My dad never really found out about the first car I bought (an E reg panda in 3 different colours from the scrapyard) because I fibbed and said it was a friends

[dollywobbler]

Me and a school friend owned a Fiat 500 for a time. I say owned. He got it for £20 as a scrapper and I bought some paint for it. We sat in it a bit but nothing came of it.

[garbaldy]

My first car was a vauxhall viva and I bought it with my weekend shoes sales job when I was 14 for £20, this was then traded for a datsun 140 coupe which I drove about the back roads naughty I know,

Prior to that at 13 I had part shares in a Datsun 120y and a Dyane, I was into bikes and had 5 before even thinking about cars, I was a naughty lad

[Station]

Just turned 16, Ford Escort for £150! Couldn't drive for a couple of years though.

[Mash]

I was 18, and didn't pass my test until later that year. 1967 Triumph 1300.

 

I'm nearly 38 now and I've still got it

[fordperv]

my dad was into shite motors and taught me everything about motors growing up, when i was 13 back in 1995 i had my first shite motor to work on and call my own it was a 1979 e21 bmw 316 in light metallic blue i would love that car now

[davidfowler2000]

I was rather a slow starter. I was 18 and I had my license for 6 months before getting my first motor transport.

 

It was W239SGE, a poverty spec 1.0 Envoy Corsa B facelift in pin...ehhh red. It wasn't the quickest thing in the world but it could still outrun the 2.0TD Primera my dad had at the time. I loved it dearly however due to lack of funds, I couldn't afford to keep it when the mechanicals started to get a bit....loose....after 6 months of doing 44 miles on the motorway 5 days a week. I've never felt so much backlash in a motor vehicle in my life. The engine was still good though. My mate who works in a scrappie says said "Aye, they burst oil seals and generally go !!!BANG!!! around 75k miles". Mines had 85k on it but I drove it everywhere no more than 60mph so it was still quite happy. I replaced it with a black Golf SE 1.9TDI, AD04PBU, which was more economical, more powerful, bigger, more practical, more comfortable, had more equipment but was immeasurably more boring.

[beko1987]

22, Pug 206 2.0HdI which got me 3 points within 2 months of passing, got span into a crash barrier, off-roaded, christened , 17k of turbo'd miles for 11 months...

 

Loved it! Only on my 4th car now, feel like I'm lacking!

[Spiny Norman]

17 in April, test passed on August 28th, car parked outside within the week. It was always going to be that way, I was born to have a car and in the 30 years since then I've never been without a set of wheels. (haven't always been wheels capable of independent movement, but there have always been wheels)

 

Well I say 'car', it was the most hopelessly shagged out VW Beetle ever, clinging to dear life to what must have been a highly dubious MOT certificate. I had it about 6 weeks and traded it in for an old Audi 80, from back in the days when Audis were seen as slightly odd German cars, not really worth bothering with. All my mates had Mk2 Escorts and Mk3 Cortinas.

..and never went anywhere because they were always in bits, or getting the big holes filled with Isopon....

[hennabm]

I was 16 when I bought my first car - 1968 Triumph Herald estate in dark green, GTK 547F.

I then rebuilt the chassis and outriggers as well as sorting the headgasket.

 

Once it was road ready my father then used it to keep it running until I was ready to go.

He found it better than his own - a Regal van with side windows LVL 937J.

 

At 17 and a half I passed my test and drove it from that point.

[Angrydicky]

15 and an Austin A35. My dad owned it from 1986-2002 when he sold it to buy a bigger Austin. The guy who bought it was a local farmer who only used it once before parking it in his barn where it stayed until Christmas 2006 when my parents bought it back from him for me to have as my first car. I had a very large box under the tree which contained a small pack of documents, a V5 and a set of car keys

 

My dad and I got it back on the road and I had it as my first car aged 17 in 2008. This was in the days before Footman James stopped insuring under 25's on classic policies, and my first insurance policy cost £456.60.

 

Now aged 22 I still have the car, recently resurrected and back providing frontline transport.

 

1959 Austin A35 by angrydicky, on Flickr

[Minimad5]

First car at the age of 13, it was a blue Mini City E which costs £50 !

Sadly at the time i didn't have the cash or skills to complete what was required, so Ye Old Man sold it on me

(Thanks Dad !)

[ProgRocker]

The 1979 Mini was picked up on my 17th birthday!

[shedvan]

A pillarbox red Austin miniMetro L FIB 6016 I was given for Christmas when I was 13, 998ccs of wheezy power! ..well at least until I rolled down a bank

[brickwall]

White 1.0l Rover MEtro when I was 17 that was called the U.N. vehicle due to it's colour. The car was gutless, but it got you around and I always enjoyed using the choke. This car was replaced with a brown and cream 2286cc S3 Land-Rover.

[Mr Lobster]

Passed my test in 1992 when I was 17 and within a couple of months the grand sum of around £700 bought a 1984 Renault 5 Le Car 2 in red. It stayed with me whilst many others came and went but at the end of 2004 I finally realised that the work it needed was beyond both my abilities and those of my wallet and it was sold to an enthusiast to provide spares for his collection.

 

 

Obviously now I wish I'd kept it as it could have been fixed and had a mountain of new panels and mechanicals with it. C'est la vie I suppose...

[Shep Shepherd]

I bought my first car - a 1989 Fiesta 1.1LX three-door - in March 2000, when I was 22. However, I'd been driving and maintaining it since I was 18, as it previously belonged to my father

[AndyW201]

Technically, I was 16. I was a YTS trainee at a Rover dealer in 1991. The mechanics often hoovered up the best of the older part exes and one day a Nissan Sunny, CKK 517Y, came in. No on else wanted it (most of the mechanics were Ford boys and dismissed it as 'jap shite') so it was auction bound. A lot of persuasion towards ma and pa W201 and it was mine for trade price - 500 notes. Totally mint, in that nice metallic green that most of them came in, one elderly owner and 50,000 miles. Sadly once it was home, ma and pa decided to sell it on my behalf to my sister, who had just passed her test, and gave me the £500 back that I paid for it. Naturally I was a tad miffed as I could have stuck it in the local rag for £900 if I wanted to sell the bastard!

 

Six months later, I passed my test. My weapon of choice then was a Vermillion red Metro 1.0. With MG interior and, eventually, a set of pepperpot alloys. Seemed to spend every weekend I had it either fixing or replacing something on it.

[Lord Sterling]

Another slow starter. Passed my test at 21, I was given my first car when I was about 22, it was a Black Ford Sierra Sapphire Ghia which provided me with my first taste of fast, comfortable cruising in a big car (bigger than the Micra at least, which was the only car I'd driven uo until I got the Sierra)

 

It had tax and MOT, it was insured and I was entitled to drive as this was the days when even being a second named driver on Ma's insurance I was entitled to drive any other insured car.

 

Sadly, after a couple of months, engines problems started to rear its ugly head (seems to be a theme with me, 3 cars so far) overheating in traffic slightly scared the sh*t out of me, and being rather wet behind the ears alomg with having no money and the tax, insurance and MOT running out, I felt I had no choice but to scrap it

[SambaS]

If me or my collegues catch you on the roads again we will come down on you like a tonne of bricks

Said the nice Policeman sat in my livingroom. I was 15, it was a Rover 213S. Edit. Crikes my memory doesn't serve me well, I had a Volvo 240 Estate, a Fiesta MK2 Pop Plus and a Talbot Horizon before that, only the Horizon was smashed up prior to me liberating it from the scrapyard and the Fizzle never ran

[jonny69]

Not until I was nearly 19. Being a Londoner, I didn't really need a car until I left home when I was 18 and I was working in Essex. It was a 1960 Ford Prefect, early 1997.

[skattrd]

34 - that's when I learnt to drive.

[Negative Creep]

19, sa I couldn't afford one before that. Bought a £200 Nova 1.0 that kept breaking down and only lasted 6 weeks before I stuffed it into the back of a 4x4. Still had some great memories, but infuriatingly I only ever used opne roll of film to take picutres of it, which my Mum double exposed. So the only evidence I now have of it are two ghostly photos

[Junkman]

19.

We were living in Germany at the time and there you can make your driving license when you are 18.

It took another year for me to be able to buy the object of my desire - a 1960 Buick LeSabre convertible.

I rather walked than drive something else.

[danthecapriman]

I was 16, the car was a 1974, M reg, Capri mk2 (A very early one!), 1.6L. Cost me £100! (try doing that now!).

It was rotten though, but I repaired it and still have it now!

[eddyramrod]

18, and still on L plates.

I never got to drive this on the road, which will always be a regret. But then it did have no MoT or tax, dodgy brakes and a dodgy auto box. I probably did myself a favour letting the pikeys have it some years later.

What wouldn't I do to have one now!

[stilo_active]

Passed my test at the age of 17. It had to be a Fiat and wanted a Cinquecento at the time, but funds would never stretch that far. Instead, found this at my local Fiat dealer as a trade in against a brand new Punto.

 

 

1987 Uno 45S. Bought it for £450 with twelve months ticket on it. Had it twelve months, did nearly 15,000 miles in it with only one breakdown. Used it, abused it, folded down the rear seats and slept in it. Started my first job as a junior web designer, and after 12 months had replaced it with a Cinquecento Sporting.

[very tall brad]

Renault 10 at age 17.

 

My son had his first, a Rover Metro, at age 8. He lost interest pretty quickly, though, and the car was sold a year later for scrap.

[stuboy]

18.... back in 1993