The first 3 cars I owned.

[cros]

1962 Ford Zodiac MK3

 

1967 Ford Anglia 1500 Custom

 

1977 Fiat 128

Didn't know doors were extra on the Zodiac.

[stripped fred]

1970 mini clubman, 1100 engine, walnut dash, gearbox from another car that meant it topped out at about 55mph but got there very quickly, hand painted blue, crashed into mates dad's shiny Audi 80 after my first week of driving.

 

Mk1 Vauxhall Cavalier, powder blue colour, 1275cc, was my grandad's that I inherited when he died, shiny on the outside but a bit rotten underneath, blew the engine up as I drove it like I stole it.

 

2cv, thought I was going to die when I went round the first corner on the test drive, regularly drove from hull to London and Leicester to wales as was working away and loved every minute of it, think it failed mot on rust but I loved that car and would like another one day. Sold it for £30.

[D Spares & Tyres]

1978 mk1 Fiesta

 

1978 mk1 Fiesta

 

1983 mk1 Fiesta

 

All within 6 months

 

What can I say? Apart from I liked mk 1 Fiestas and drove like an utter twat....

[AndyW201]

Shit picture of my shit 1982 Metro 1.0,TRM 894X. Pimped up with MG stripes, interior, halfords spotlights and a set of metric rims and tyres I got from a breakers.

 

 

Followed by a 1984 Mk3 Escort 1.1 popular, A247 CJR, in China blue. Being an '84, it was the super-de-luxe popular with the centre dash speaker, cloth seats and front headrests! A bit like this, but with Capri Ghia alloys and Stylistick graphics...

 

 

Then a 1988 Mk2 Fiesta 1.4S, F260 FHH, in Diamond white. Identical to this,

 

[HH-R]

1999 Nissan Micra

2002 Rover 45

then I hit my peak at age 19 and frankly it's been downhill since.

1999 Rover 75 v6.

[Inspector Morose]

1968 Ford R1014 (shortened)

1973 Bristol VRT6G/MCW

1959 Austin A40 mk1

[Lacquer Peel]

1989 VW Polo Coupe S

 

1993 Renault Clio 1.9D

 

1997 Rover 416Si

 

Exciting*.

[2MB]

First 3 legal cars, officially owned and insured:

1987 Rover SD3 213S

1996 Peugeot 306 Dturbo

1989 Volvo 240 GL 2.0

 

 

Sorry, can only find a pic of the Volvo in my half cut state. Loved all 3

[Jerzy Woking]

1963 Ford Consul Cortina (19 KOO) four door with 1200cc of power with a slipping clutch that I never changed

 

Then from age 18 to 26 a succession of company cars from a MKIII Cortina through to a number of Mk II Cavaliers, before owning

 

1975 VW Golf 1.6 GLS (registration not remembered)four door in a burnt orange colour, which in the coruse or 3 months disintegrated into a pile of iron oxide before my very eyes

 

1981 Volvo 244 (AEV 110X) four door in a nice shade of light blue. Should never have sold it - great car.

 

Followed by lots of shite cars I'd rather forget about (such as a 1300cc Capri badermatic in Dulux gloss white)

[xtriple]

1969 Mini Cooper 'S'. First road legal car, customised (lovely paint job, black windows, walnut dash that was a copy of a MK2 Jaguar, Corbeau seats.....) saved for ages to get and sold my bikes to get it.

1973 Triumph Spitfire, red and nice. Ended up having a lie down in a field....

1968 Honda S800 (NAF 5F) ended up very twisted after I lent it to my stepdad and he pulled out on an artic! It did have a pretty severe clutch...

[Junkman]

when was that? Maybe i left you in the dust with a nasty comment about idiots driving these parts of the world in a BMW.

 

1985. It wasn't my idea, honestly (even I am not that daft). Two of my closest friends back then got the Kloster Andechs fuelled idea, that we could travel from Munich to London via Kano in Nigeria. In a typical for mid-80s Munich WGPGW (mia san mia) sort of style, we then settled on my leftover WBoD Bimmer for the trip, because the Unimog was broken and the Munga's roof was missing. I also blatantly refused to use the Eldorado for the trip (although this wasn't exactly unseriously considered), because it was really pristine and I wanted it to remain in that condition.

 

Did I tell you guys, that I then traded that 12,000 mile original peach of an Eldorado for a shonky 1960 Dodge Dart Phoenix hardtop with quartic translucent glitter steering wheel, because it had a quartic translucent glitter steering wheel?

[colino]

I didn't realise that cars (and we) actually had to be legally on the road, I had cars in my DNA so it was preposterous that I was as old as 16 before being hooked by the buying and selling bug.

I do think that STUNO encapsulated earlier the stubbornness of real petrol heads in their approach to persevering with rot on wheels as actual transport with the Autoshite phrase, "only caught fire once."

[MrBiscuits]

1983 Mini Mayfair, Zircon Blue. Great little car that's still on SORN somewhere out there.

 

1988 Peugeot 309 1.6GL. Horrible thing that never ran right thanks to it's overcomplicated Solex carb. Crashed, repaired, then crashed again.

 

1985 Mini City E, Red. Mechanically perfect but completely rotten (due in no small part to having spent the majority of its life as a runaround at Esso's Fawley Ocean Terminal). Never saw another MOT after I sold it in 2001. I wouldn't be suprised if the drivers door actually fell off.

[pshome]

1985. It wasn't my idea, honestly (even I am not that daft). Two of my closest friends back then got the Kloster Andechs fuelled idea, that we could travel from Munich to London via Kano in Nigeria. In a typical for mid-80s Munich WGPGW (mia san mia) sort of style, we then settled on my leftover WBoD Bimmer for the trip, because the Unimog was broken and the Munga's roof was missing. I also blatantly refused to use the Eldorado for the trip (although this wasn't exactly unseriously considered), because it was really pristine and I wanted it to remain in that condition.

 

that was two years later then, ... and you came back, i stayed in Benin for 20 years..

 

Did I tell you guys, that I then traded that 12,000 mile original peach of an Eldorado for a shonky 1960 Dodge Dart Phoenix hardtop with quartic translucent glitter steering wheel,

because it had a quartic translucent glitter steering wheel?

sounds like a perfectly reasonable decision.

[fatharris]

1993 Nissan Sunny 1.4 LX - Lovely little runner, carb/Cat model meant the MOT was fun* for emissions. Sold to my brother for his first car.

 

1996 Peugeot 406 1.8LX - Horrible, hateful thing. Kept going wrong, culminating in the engine shitting out a conrod five days out of a three month warranty.

 

Didn't even use the car for the first month.

 

Bought the Sunny back for a while, then traded it in with the MOT duration in hours for...

 

1993 Nissan Primera 2.0 SGX 4dr.

 

Another brilliant Nissan. Water pump was ballbagged when I bought it, which was changed and the clutch blew in an extraordinary manner shortly after, but it was quick, comfortable, and handled like it was on rails.

 

However, it also rusted like nothing else I'd ever seen. Eventually, I had to take it off the road when I was giving my old man a lift, and he said he can actually feel the car flexing at the back end.

 

So my first three cars never made it past me.

 

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[cros]

 

1.1 GL Mk1 Fista - LPA843W

Sold to a bloke who said he wanted a good example to make 100%. It was on the fiesta Mk1 owners club 2 weeks later lowered to winthin an inch of its life with gash alloys and roof rack on.

SORN'd and last MOTd in 2013 again.

 

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Waste.

[DSdriver]

 

So my first three cars never made it past me.

 

 

Good point, neither did mine (A30 failed MOT and scrapped, Corsair caught fire).

[forddeliveryboy]

Large, shiny and newish didn't figure then, as it doesn't now.

 

 

Late 70s Polo (rebadged Audi 50) with the 1100cc engine. Deeply uncool in 1988. Written off by rich woman driving a Mercedes coupe.

 

Stuck without a car and awaiting an insurance payout, I bought a Dolomite 1300 for £150, with almost a year's test.

 

 

 

 

Hooked on autoshite and prevented from spending the insurance payout+earnings on an SM (insurance company blindspot*), I tried one of these and discovered what good brakes are - and that they let you go faster, good suspension also allows you to go faster, boxer engines are bloody smooth and was more surprised that although an official top speed was 75mph, any journey under 250 miles was covered as quickly or more so than in either of the previous big-engined motors. Plus I learnt motoring could be fun.

 

[cyruspower]

1991 - 1986 Mk4 Escort 1.4L - Cream/Latte

1993 - 1975 Beetle 1200 - Peppermint Green/Red

1994 - 1981 Volvo 345GL CVT - Met Brown/Beige

[martybabes]

1st

bought in 1970/1 for £50, a blue 1959 Ford Anglia 100E - Reg No: 6740 E

 

2nd

bought 1973 ish for £240, a white (with a red stripe) Singer Chamois - Reg No: CCJ 894 B

 

3rd

bought 1974 for £can't remember, a green Vauxhall Vive DL90 - Reg No: MTK (or X) 342 E.

 

I may be wrong about the cars,

Or the colours.

Or the prices,

Or the dates,

Or the registration numbers.

 

It might not even have been me!

[UmBongo]

Triumph Spitfire which was sold literally days later. It needed 'work'.

 

Mk1 Fiesta with an engine that promptly seized up days later. I think it was re-auctioned.

 

MG Metro which lasted some months.

I quite liked it, despite the leaking sunroof, dodgy brakes and something something dark side.

[LessThanEqual]

2015 - 1996 Polo GL 1.6

Uh, that's it so far. Might replace it with a more modern diesel.

I think I'm on the wrong forum.

[cros]

^^^Right forum, about to make a wrong turn.

[PiperCub]

1975 Mini 1000 (age 16 when bought)

1978 Fiat 128 (age 17)

1980 Ezcort van (age 18)

 

All long time dead.

 

For cred - fouth car was an Alfasud 1300 when I turned 19 and could just afford the insurance. I put this in as many of you had way better cars than me as a kid and I'm jealous!!!

[Ben_O]

I didn't take any pictures of mine but i can list them in an ultimate hopeless fashion.

Ill even give the reg numbers for extra points.

 

F215PJH - AX 11TRE 5 door

 

Rover Metro Rio - actually i can't remember the reg no....

 

G454SWD Vaux Cav Chav in 1.4 'L' spec

[anonymous user]

My first car technically an 1959 A35, but as it never saw the road, we'll forget that one, it got sold to a chap with a Frogeye who wanted bits off it, so long dead.

 

So first car 1968 Truimph 1300 FWD which must have been about ten years old at the time-  no pics.

 

then a 1975 Triumph Spitfire which was originally sold in Ireland so was classed as an import and on a 1978 plate when I had it

 

I saw it still around a few years ago, but it was looking quite ropey at the time.

 

I sold it and went back to the Triumph 1300 for a bit, but then traded that in against a 1974 Mk2 Capri, which I suppose makes that my third car, no pics of that either.

[fordperv]

My first 3 legal for me to drive were

 

1988 1.6 5 door sierra hatch

1984 1.6 3 door sierra

1990 1.6I orion ghia

 

I still have my 1984 3 door

[Zantimisfit]

1979 Mini 1000 in Sandglow (different shades of sandglow as you got nearer the bottom of the doors!). Loved this one

 

 

Followed by, of course, another Mini. An 83 Mayfair with the high economy but ultra slow A+ Metro engine. Less good. I had very nice jumpers in those days!

 

 

Going upmarket to a Metro Studio 2. Drove this to Italy. Confined to a wheelchair for the following two weeks but also loved this one

 

 

After this I went through a French phase. Clio, ZX, BX and eventually a 406. I had arrived!

 

 

 

 

[R9UKE]

2000 Clio 1.2 MTV.

2003 Mégane II 2.0 16v Dynamique

2003 Vel Satis dV6 Initiale.

 

I never stood a chance.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

1982:

 

Illegal shitters - no licence, MOT, tax, insurance etc.

 

Austin 1300 VUO488J

Rapier TFX400

Marina 1.3 KPB495K

 

1984 on - fully legal yo.

 

Mini Van FLS577S

Mini Minor VSV605

Alfasud Ti RYL243R