What you drove at 20

[jumpingjehovahs]

Last week lots of people were tweeting pictures of themselves ages 20 under the hashtag #MeAt20. This weekend car twitter have started tweeting their wheels from when they were 20 under #DroveAt20 - so I thought it could be a bit of lockdown distraction here 

Here’s mine,

 

 

I loved that car, seeing it trailered away was pretty sad. But, looking back leasing a car for £99 a month probably wasn’t the best use of my money back then. Still, it was great fun and I went everywhere at ten tenths. 
 

What were yours?

[lesapandre]

1954 Austin A30 - cost £75.  Replaced by a 1964 Sunbeam Alpine GT - £75 again! But all that was in '77-'78...I can't remember the registrations so no idea if they survived. Both sold on as runners to enthusiasts - but who knows. But the Sunbeam at 14yo was very rusty - I spent a lot getting it welded.

[tooSavvy]

Morris 1000 Van, yellow ex gpo. Banded steels 6x14r / 5.5x13f. Mk1 Ford Capri rear lights (vertical) wobbed into the rear panel. Square numberplate at the back. VW Scirocco 'rear' stainless bumper at front.

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*photojobbie - lookalike sortof...

Auctioned it away..... to get married [BIG mistake!]

*marriage btw

[meggersdog]

One of these, this colour

 It was great and me and my mates went everywhere in it. The driver's top door hinge came away from the pillar and I was forever trying to glue it back together with the Oxy Acetylene torch, unsuccessfully .It was a long time ago.

[danthecapriman]

This,

Although that pic was taken years after I was 20! But it looked more or less the same. I bought this at the age of 16 the day before the twin towers were destroyed.

 

And this,

Also taken some years after I was 20 but it didn’t change much. I got this one when I was 18.

[Richard_FM]

My Mum's 1995 Fiesta, which died in December 2006 due to a little end failure after an oil leak.

[4wheeledstool]

No car licence until I was 23 - at 20 this was my main transportation. 

These were extra transportation for when main transportation shat something. 

Still have the first one. ?

[sutty2006]

when I was 20....hmmm.... saw three cars at that age. First up was a 2001 mondeo LX..... which I had for 12 months. Was a good car. infact, its where my love of mk3s started. I put zetec alloys on. ST half leather interior. Ghia X dash parts and leather steering wheel. Loved it. the 2008 recession and hike in fuel prices saw this 2.0 petrol go. And was replaced with a 2.3 TD carlton but the turbo didnt work. So was sloooooooooooow. Got scrapped.

 

 

[HMC]

I had a 3 speed triumph bicycle. 
 

 

[Snipes]

Not mine, but you get the idea though mine was on 14" BMW bottletop wheels. I was talked out of an N13 Sunny. #liferegrets.

[808 Estate]

Suzuki GS1145.

 

 

[Dan the van]

Opel Manta 1900 SR, PMU 430R.My first decent car(it was only 5 years old and v low miles).I loved it.No longer about,died In 1992 according to DVLA.

[anonymous user]

This, I think I was 19 when I bought it. My father talked me out of swapping it for a Bristol 405, ended up getting a Capri to replace it

[dave j]

I traded in my 1987 Skoda Rapid for a 1990 Nova SR. Both cars I would happily own today

[Amishtat]

I was the lucky* recipient of a ban when I was 19 so didn't drive anything until I was 21. Fortunately I had bought the A99 shortly before the incident and 21 years later, it's still mine. 

[Tamworthbay]

Will have to dig some pics out, car wise it was a boring but ultra reliable Mk3 escort, but I also had a CBR600F, cannot even begin to imagine what that would cost a 20 year old student to insure now, at 22 I had a GSXR1100R

[Shite Ron]

I was driving MkV Cortina’s, an 80 2.3GL, 81 2.0 GhiaS and 82 2.0GLS,  Still had Cortina’s as daily drivers well into my 30’s also but sadly out of the 3, I only have the GLS still.

[Alan Prost]

Alfa 33 veloce, nice together pedals and a red carpet with black roof lining, loved it..... it had the worst demisters I have ever experienced in winter!

Also had an alpine cassette that you could stop on individual tracks!

[Floatylight]

I'll have to see if I can find a picture, mine was in 1993 and I had an F plate Astra 1.3L, 5 speed box and sunroof.

Great car, many happy memories..

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[New POD]

18 Spitfire.

19 z500

20 RD350LC 

21 mini 1000 hl 

22 escort mk3 1.6 gl

23 metro turdo 

24 1.1 fiesta mk2 car derived van with side Windows

25 cavalier mk2 1.6 gl 

 

[Vantman]

1952 Austin A40 pick up--daily driver from when i was 19 to 21--

[wuvvum]

I had this.

I also had a B reg Mini Mayfair, a Y reg Opel Manta GT/J, a B reg Citroën Visa 14TRS and a D reg Saab 9000 Turbo.  I don't have photos of those, not in digital format anyway.

[greengartside]

A rather tastefully* modified Mk3 Astra 1.4 LS. Superb machine.

[Jikovron]

By 20 I had a severely rotten skoda estelle 2 120L that I had replaced the sills,floor,A pillars, front boot floor on and also had swapped the swing axle suspension for a rapid 136 semi trailing setup with a felicia mpi engine with double solex 36 side draughts giving it the required levels of  shove, latterly before it was sold it had recieved a 2002 fabia 1.4 mpi engine which is essentially the same  ohv architecture going back to the 1950s so only needed minor work to make the later vag flywheel work with the transaxle, that car is long gone now as after being sold it was stripped for parts and weighed in 

My dolomite 1500 was purchased at 19 and was in a bad way mechanically by the time I was 20 so recieved a rebuilt spitfire engine which also had a cracked block unbeknownst to me so preparation was being made to covert to v8 power by then, it's currently awaiting loads of welding and a new power plant 11 years on!

[AndyW201]

I was 20 in 1994. I started the year with a white MK2 Fiesta 1.4S, F260 FHH.

(Not this one, but identical)

I loved it, back then where I live, you were nothing if you didn't have a sporty '70s or '80s Ford, especially one with front spotlights and red bumper strips.

However, one day I was nosing around the local Rover dealer (South Cleveland Garages, Skippers Lane), with my dad (he had an R8 Rover 214 at the time), and the facelifted R6 Rover Metros were in, with a few special editions in stock in some jazzy colours.

I was doing 2 jobs at the time, and worked out that I could pretty much afford a new Metro on finance. They had a Metro Rio in the showroom for £5995 which looked good in Kingfisher Blue. However, for £6995, I could have a Rio Grande, which added useful extras like remote central locking, 5 speed gearbox, colour coded bumpers, radio cassette, sunroof and rear wash wipe, extras which seemed well worth an extra grand.

So in June 1994, L551 JVN was my first brand new car, at the age of 20. It felt great, it was a bit less powerful than the Fezza, but I loved the colour and the extra toys it had. Being 20, and 1994 being at the rise of the Max Power/Fast Car era, I did pimp it up a bit with a set of KN softspoke alloys. I also removed the Rio Grande logos, de-badged the bootlid and put some green tape stripes under the rubbing strips, to match the bumper strips. I was going for a bit of a GTa/GTi replica. And yes, that is a Max Power sticker in the windscreen...

[omegod]

Obviously I was cool as f*ck, I actually used "I've got a Montego" as a chat up line and it was successful 

[MT606]

I had this for 11yrs, was my first car at 19. alas I don't have her any more    ?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

February 1984.

I was a year into my first chauffeur job, I commuted from Milton Keynes to Barnes on one of these;
OYE 92Y.

To drive round CentralLondon all day in one of these;

UPD 26X

At home for weekends, when it was raining or for impressing* the ladies , I had;

KVB 204K.

I really was living my best life.

 

 

[CortinaDave]

My beloved mk3 GXL in Daytona yellow. Paid 900 quid for it in beautiful condition age 19 in 1999, had it for a decade apart from a year when I sold it only to buy it back again.

Last I heard of it was about 2012 by which time it was terminally rotten and being broken for parts in Dublin 

[captain_70s]

The dream fleet.

2008 Toyota Yaris 1.0 T2 - Infinitely reliable, peanuts to run.

1977 Triumph Dolomite 1300 - Broke down so much it rarely left town, most of the time it wouldn't even start...