What would be your equivalent first shite now

[cort16]

On my way to work this morning I was think about all the knackered old shite boxes I used to rattle around in back in the my 20's and started wonder if I went through a Tom Hanks in BIG like transformation what I'd be getting these days.

 

First car 1980 Ford Cortina 1.6L (14 years old)

 

The Cortina was an old Ford so it's got to be a Mondeo. My Cortina was an early mk5 so rather than going for a late mk1 Mondeo I think I'll plump for an early mk2. I was going to go for a 1.6 Verona but that's the ultim8 povo spec Mondeo with the most miserable engine and the 1.6L wasn't the most misery based Cortina thanks to the 1.3 base, which clogged the slow lane of the 80's. The result of all of is this I think I can treat myself to a 1.8LX.

 

 

Next up. 1984 Car Volvo 360GLS. (14 years old)

This 360 really was hateful and cost 100 quid so I need to pick carefully here. I was going to go for a s40 but I don't think there's one yet awful enough to match my 360 so I need to plump for a late 440. It's also a hatch and I've seen the odd one for sale for £100-£200. I think it needs to be a 2 litre GLE as there's not a GLS and the 440 GLT runs the risk of being pleasant to drive.

 

Next. 1984 Citroen BX 1.9 GT (13 years old)

A bit of a tough one this as my BX was an early carb GT with the batshitmental interior and no current 13 year old Citroen can really match indicators as switches on the dash and a 1st gear that wouldn't engage if the passenger seat was forward.

The XM is about mental enough and of the the right age but it's too big so I think I need to go for a Xantia. My BX was a GT so no turbodizzler for me so I recon I need to go for a 2litre Activa as at least it's a bit sporty and has that big ball thing in the middle full of porridge to try to stop body roll.

[Timewaster]

Good question! I was talking to a guy at work who is a similar age to me, it turns out we both had E reg mk2 Cavaliers when they were about 5 years old.

Can you imagine 2 20 year old hoodlums running around in 54 plate Vectras?

 

My first car was a five year old mini, so would it be:

 

Modern equivalent is probably more like:

[warren t claim]

I think we need to be careful with our age calculations here.

 

In 1985 a ten year old car would of been worn smooth in a way similar to say, a 16 year old car is today.

 

A year in Cortinas age is the equivalent to a 19 months in Mondeo time.

[seth]

First car was a 34 year old 2 door Austin A35 in 1993. So...

 

 

?

[Albert Ross]

First car (on the road, not actual first car pulled to bits in the garden of a classy suburban semi in a nice road nuch to the annoyance of my parents, the neighbours etc) was a 1965 Hillman Super Minx.... in 1984. Therefore 19 years old.

Identical to this.

 

 

 

Therefore, it would be a 19 year old Peugeot... (made at Ryton I guess for some of the time, but flexibility is the thing.)

 

[Lord Sterling]

My 'first' car in 2005 (technically with a licence) was a 1989 Sierra Sapphire Ghia, like this one:

 

 

It would have been about 16 years old then, so today, it would have to be a 1995 mk1 Mondeo Ghia saloon:

 

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

That 405's been on eBay for about 2 years!

 

 

15 year old Polo in 2004

 

 

15 year old Polo in 2011.

 

Depressingly I have a 15 year old VW Golf now.

[Louise2cv]

I had a 13 year old 2cv in 2001, so maybe a Saxo? Or would a Berlingo Multispace be more comparable?

[scruff]

2003 was my first, this high performance weapon from 1975

 

 

So in age terms it would be another Series III from '83/'84

[Albert Ross]

I had a 13 year old 2cv in 2001, so maybe a Saxo? Or would a Berlingo Multispace be more comparable?

 

Rewrite this thread when the Pluriel hits it's 13th Birthday!

[eddyramrod]

The first car I could drive on the road was a 1960 Austin A40 Farina, in 1978. It was free...

(This is an identical model belonging to my neighbour here in Cyprus!)

So let's see, small and British, built in 1993. I guess that would be a Rover 100. Sadly not the P4, but the facelifted Metro. Or were they still making Metros then?

It would probably look like this...

After the A40 came a Mini and an Anglia. Mini, ok, no problem; can even still be a proper one as it was 15 years old. Anglia, hmmm, a 12 year old small Ford: that would be a 99 Fiesta, or possibly even a Ka. Oh dear.

[Nervy Si]

Interesting thread.

 

Can you imagine 2 20 year old hoodlums running around in 54 plate Vectras?

No! It's funny to think back to how the local young blades often used to favour Cavs and Sierras, often with Halfords shelf-mounted speakers wired in. My first vee-hicle was an 84 Nova saloon, like this

 

It was 11 years old then, which nowadays roughly translates as this, which depresses me in a way I can't really describe.

[scaryoldcortina]

My first car on the road was a 1981 cortina 2.0 ghia automatic that my uncle gave me for nothing because he got a company senator and couldn't be bothered trying to sell the 'tina. This was 1989. He was a salesman for Sperry! Assuming that today I'm 18 and have an uncle who works for Apple I'd be looking at a 2002 mondeo titanium ghia X

 

I never thought of itt like that before.

 

By the way, the tina was an unreliable, rusty, wallowy, oil-leaking pos and I crashed it. Then it was stolen.

[Pete-M]

First proper car, on the road etc was a '77 Mk4 Cortina so 11 years old in '88.

 

Equivalent now would be a Mondeo I suppose.

 

Next was a Mk2 Escort. No equivalent for that.

[mk1_4dr]

My first car was a '91 mk2 Golf Ryder. I passed in '02

 

So an 11y/o mk4 Golf, probably a 1.6SE. In reflection, quite awful.

[Rod/b]

My first car, in 1995, was an 11 year old MG Metro, so I guess my car now would have to be a 1990 Rover Metro GTa, which as luck would have it, was my second car.

 

Edit** Actually, i'm a spacker that can't add up. it would be a yr 2000 Rover 25 GTi, I suppose. Pah.

[Mr Lobster]

Well, I started off with a Mk1 R5 that was about 10 / 11 years old in 1993 when I bought it, so on that basis I'd be driving this -

 

 

Not too unhappy with that, I had an X reg Clio 1.4 Si a few years back and really liked it.

[nigel bickle]

My first car was a 64 6 door Cadillac -bought off the Chilean ambassador (my dads neighbour).

Once mended/legalised, I painted it candy apple green, quickly sold on cos I couldnt aford the fuel.

[dieselnutjob]

My first car cost £125 in 1991. It was thirteen years old then.

1.5 diesel

348,000 miles

49 bhp (42 with the cooling fan on)

 

I'm thinking the modern equivalent

[kinkersaab]

this

becomes this

 

 

next was this

which would become this

 

so, the above all goes to prove, what a winnar i waz!

[tysonian]

first was a 1974 Mazda 808 with a boot full of hay

 

Followed by a Ford Corsair (nissan pintara)

 

Then Nissan Pulsar as the Corsair was a bit thirsty with its 2.4 four cylinder

 

then following a move to the UK this:

 

And not looked back since!

[cort16]

Next up for me was a rusty Silvia 1.8 Turbo. Another 1984 car (a fine year) although this one hadn't faired all that well as looked like someone had turned it into the ultim8 gr8 for driftin drift slag. In actual fact I had no knowledge of drifting in 1996 and it was just a genuine 100% organic knackered old banger.

 

I think the s12 Silvia was the last one to be official sold in the UK so getting a more modern one for a replacement is going to be too hard to find or too expensive so I guess I need to plump for a Nissan 200sx. You still see the odd one of these for decent money that hasn't had it's diff welded solid or it's carpet and seats torn out.

 

[richardthestag]

i started out with a 20 year old ford anglia 105e so now I'd be looking at shite 1990's scorts, or mk3 cavs. At a push I could even have an orion and live that dream

[tonedepear]

Hmm, first cars of note were a 1986 Capri, and a 1972 Spitfire in 1998/99. (Actual first car was a brand new MY97 saxo which doesn't count, but I spose it'd be whatever's available now with free insurance that makes it cheaper to buy a brand new car if you're a 17-year-old scrote than buying and insuring a £200 shitter)

 

So, what:

 

For the spitfire, I spose?

mebbe? It's about 10 years too new.

[retro80sboy]

My first car was an 1986/87 (D) MG Metro, that was back in 2000.

 

Best pic of one like it is probably this earlier one -

 

 

pretty hard to compare it to anything 14 years old now, maybe a Rover 200 si?

 

[ProgRocker]

Mine was a 15 year old 1979 Mini 1000 so I guess mine would be one of the later 1275cc Mini Sprites on a P reg.

 

EDIT - Just realised, as classic Minis hold their money a lot more than they one did, I think one of these would be out of the question so it might have to be a Fiat Seicento or Punto 1.1.

[Shep Shepherd]

When fist passed my test in 1995, I had a 1988 Fiesta Festival II identical to the one in the picture (courtesy of Trigger's Flickr account):

 

 

Its modern equivalent would be:

 

 

[retro80sboy]

When fist passed my test in 1995, I had a 1988 Fiesta Festival II identical to the one in the picture (courtesy of Trigger's Flickr account):

 

 

My auntie had a white 'festival'. she had it from new in 1989 to bout 2004.

 

She died about 3 years ago, and last year I came across the very car in the local scrapyard. brought back a lot of memories.

[Shep Shepherd]

 

 

My auntie had a white 'festival'. she had it from new in 1989 to bout 2004.

She died about 3 years ago, and last year I came across the very car in the local scrapyard. brought back a lot of memories.

About three years ago, I came across my late unlamented grandfather's B-reg Mistral Blue Escort 1.3L 5-door in a Kent scrapyard, which had presumably been dumped by the person he sold it to after he got a Wagon-R on Motability. I liked the car much more than I liked him.

Sadly, my Festival met its end in 1996, after I hit a Volvo 440 head-on in it. The irony.

[carlo]

First car was a Wartburg Knight in 1982, which was 7 years old. Suppose a modern equivalent would be a Proton Gen-2 saloon?