What was the first car you ever wanted?

[LC Torana]

Thanks to a childhood picture-book, I loved the Jaguar Mark 10:

 

 

The front of the car leaning forwards looked so confident and purposeful, there was nothing like it...  ...in my picture book.

[Matt]

The Italian Job. There was a lovely little Primrose Yellow MK3 for sale in my town when I was 15 for something silly by today's standard like £600 and my mother did briefly think about buying it for me for when I passed my test but it didn't happen. Big sadface.

 

[Felly Magic]

Capri again here due to several family members including my dad owning them when i was growing up, came very close to owning a mint mk1 facelift when i was 21, but it sold a few hours before I was due to view it, now the damn things are priced in the stratosphere that unless I get 6 numbers, I won't own one

[Lukas]

A Subaru Leone III Sedan when I was ~ 7 or 8 years old.

 

[LessThanEqual]

FD RX7, Mk 1 MX5, or RX8. Not particularly shite. I still remember having a nightmare when I was 9 or so about being a passenger in an RX7 being driven hard around corners. Shame that mk 1 MX5s are getting a bit pricy and are a bit useless as a daily car, RX8s are a bit expensive too insure, and RX7s are way out of my budget of a £5 roffle ticket.

[Negative Creep]

6 years on, still don't own a Capri, still know it would be pretty shit, still want one anyway.

[Alfamale]

Eighties child = Lotus Carlton. Still want one now, may have to scratch the itch if I can find a decent GSI3000.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

As a smallish child I wanted anything with Ro-styles. Jensen FF ( like my yellow Dinky one) 1600e or Rover P5b. I then wanted a Mk4 Zodiac or Rover P6, in those days just referred to as 2000s in the same way you'd say 'Berts just got a new 1800' or 'Fred nearly got run over by a white 1100' People just knew what you meant even though you could have meant a Triumph, they were always called ' Big Triumphs'

I digress, in the 70's my desires fed by CAR turned to Renault17s, Alfasuds and Fiat 128 3Ps.

My first car was a mk2 Cortina and it had many different wheels on it at different times, but never chrome Ro-styles.

I had 4 Mk4 Executives , the first at 18 and loved and hated them in equal measure.

I've never owned a running. P5 or 6 although I've had a 3 litre salon and 4 different P6es that I stole either the engines or seats from..

Of the others only a purple 17 Gordini, my first injection car and probably the least reliable car I owned until a mk4 Espace.

 

I hope to own either a P6 or Mk4 Zodiac before they get too expensive, well I've waited nearly 50 years for a 2000 another couple won't hurt.

[Jim Bergerac]

 

[Pillock]

First car i can remember having a poster of... Well, an advert cut out of a magazine, was a BX GTI 16v.

[comfysofa]

Talbot Samba...when they were banger fodder in the mid 90's...i was 15 and besotted with them, they were a popular car with the old folk for some reason and you would see plenty of "X" and "Y" GL's around, my Dad went car hunting for himself so we went to Bawtry (i think it was Bawtry) and whilst he perused the Sierras and Cavs, i found a Metallic Blue honey of a GLS on a "X" plate...i begged, BEGGED my parents to buy it for me...we had a huge garden so it could have been stored...i was gutted when they said a firm NO. And even more gutted when i found out it scraped a measly eighty quid when it went through...

 

Then locally one turned up, a "D" plate Trio of all things, in a bluey grey with matching funky stripe wheel trims..£300...i knew i would never have it but it didn't stop me stopping to look at it every day on the way to school.

 

To this day i have never owned one...by the time i passed my test when i was 19 they'd virtually disappeared from the small ads and i made do with a £500 Pug 205 Diesel.

 

What i did get though was this...i'd written a embarassing "i'm 15 and i love Samba's me!" letter to Peugeot and to give whoever it was in Ryton credit, they actually paid attention to my gushings for literature on the Samba if they had any...the 306 had been around a couple of years by this point so surely they wouldn't have anything? They did and a month or so later a large jiffy bag arrived from Coventry with a handbook for a pre-facelift Pug 104, the last revision of Talbot Samba handbook, the 1982 Talbot range brochure, and a cool brochure from the late 1980's for Peugeot commercial vehicles...ta Peugeot UK!

[JohnDeere]

As it's thread resurrection day, I have three.

 

First, inexplicably, was a white Suzuki Carry van, as featured on the Sooty show. I have no idea why. Surely this must be one of the world's most produced vehicle designs? Still going strong with countless Chinese copies.

 

Second was a shabby brown Saab 90 that languished for months on a used car lot I used to walk past every day. I was about 15/16 and yearning to be old enough to drive. The Saab seemed temptingly affordable and utterly desirable. I'm sure it would be been utterly ruinous too.

 

Third was the Peugeot 106 XSi, launched as I was graduating, and hence appealing as a proper car I could potentially buy with real earned moneys. This did not happen.

 

I have never owned or driven any of these cars, the nearest I got was a base spec 106 pool car.

 

[DodgeRover]

As a child I desperately wanted something American after a childhood watching the Dukes of Hazard, nearest I got was a ride to the MOT station in a 70s Chevy Blazer,

Once I passed my test it was anything diesel so I could afford to go further, then I discovered nightclubs, bands and women and wanted a LWB transit with a bed in the back (for sleeping off the effects of a night out in a far away town obviously) the nearest I got was a temporary spell sleeping in the back of a Lwb landrover...

[purplebargeken]

Studebaker Hawk GT in black. It stood slowly festering outside of a small repair/workshop in London Colney in 1986. How I wanted it!

[Ghosty]

Calibra, iirc.

[155V6]

Mk 3 Cortina,a friend's Dad had a new 2000E & it was so different to the Renault Dauphines & 8s that my Dad had at the time.A bit later,2 other friend's Dads had a 2.0 XL auto in daytona yellow,& a facelift 2.0 GT in a pale yellow with a vinyl roof.I missed out on a facelift 2-door 2.0 GT just before I passed my test,but got a pre-facelift 2-door GT after I had a Mini for a bit.Probably the rustiest Cortina I had out of about 10,but I loved that car 

[AndyW201]

Mk2 Escort RS2000. Yes, purely because of a certain programme on the telly!. When I passed my test, they could still just about to be had for abut the £1-2 grand mark but there was no way I could have insured one.

Now with prices as they are, owning one will stay a pipe dream I think!

[AlabamaShrimp]

I have e absolutely no idea what I wanted probably something stupid like Airwolf or KITT then when I could drive it was everything and anything I could get

[trigger]

I can't remember, i think it was everything though! I do remember my dad picking me up from Beavers when i was about 12 in his mates Mk2 RS2000 and doing a fuck off big wheel spin through Kelvedon high street, that car was a particular favorite of mine.

[xtriple]

When I was 3 I was taken out in a Bentley. I sat in the middle and watched all the gauges move and smelled the smells and loved every ounce of the experience, I have wanted one ever since. As a 12 year old I desperately tried to raise the money to buy a white S3 Bentley that was stolen/recovered and had been liberated of all its brightwork. Strangely, no one seemed keen on lending me the money.

 

Where I lived as a kid was quite well to do (Kew) and the amount of desirable motors about was fantastic to a car obsessed kid: Jenson Interceptor SP, Lotus Elan plus 2, RR Silver Shadows, and Jaguars by the tonne, I was aprticularly taken with a white 420G with 'Sebring' mirrors and wanted one badly... That was just our carpark where I lived. I talked my Mother into buying a Jaguar 420 with chrome wires and it was fantastic but she ended up hating it... and me.

 

As I got older, I wanted a Lotus Cortina and have nearly had two, both got sold out from under meand I ended up knowing both of the new owners - both cars went 'BANG!' within weeks, I was glad I didn't own them then!

 

But then it was bikes and cars are for pussies that can't do corners so my tastes changed

 

So I had a MK10 that was wonderful but tried to kill me when it fell on my head due to rampant rot letting pukka stands go right through the bodywork but got restored and was lovely and now I have my Bentley, that though it has tried (successfully) to bankrupt me, is now lovely and everything I dreamed of.

[Pillock]

I can't remember, i think it was everything though! I do remember my dad picking me up from Beavers when i was about 12 in his mates Mk2 RS2000 and doing a fuck off big wheel spin through Kelvedon high street, that car was a particular favorite of mine.

Beavers is ages 6 to 8, how long did they keep you back?

[Station]

Lusted after a mk1 MR2, closest I got was the matchbox version:

 

 

I now have one in the same colour woo!

[Junkman]

I can't tell for sure whether it really is the first one, but it is definitely the first one I can remember.

 

 

I was still a toddler at the time. Much later in life I test drove one that was for sale and walked away.

[trigger]

Beavers is ages 6 to 8, how long did they keep you back?

Maybe it was Brownies?

[Tamworthbay]

6 years on, still don't own a Capri, still know it would be pretty shit, still want one anyway.

They aren't, they are automotive perfection, a long bonnet, sweet fa rear grip and borderline lethal in the wet if the you have a heavy right foot. What more could any man want?

[MiniMort]

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I liked Minis when I was young and foolish* and have had all sorts of cars from V12 Jaguars to M3's, 140 Mercs etc. But the one car I really ached to own was an Alfasud. I had several and loved all of them. I can still feel the excitement of collecting my first, a 1977 1200Ti. GRP wings, a shiny black paint job  that was about an inch thick but not quite thick enough to completely hide the rivet witness marks in the filler around the rear arches, a bit rattly on start up and the whiff of damp carpets and a Feu Orange air freshener.

 

£150 iirc.  I still have the V5 in my name.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Thanks to a childhood picture-book, I loved the Jaguar Mark 10:

 

 

The front of the car leaning forwards looked so confident and purposeful, there was nothing like it...  ...in my picture book.

 

 

3.8 or early 4.2 with no side strips and the early hubcaps. Far too big and nowhere near as good as the XJ6, but..............

 

They spoilt it with the 420G imo. But I prefer the Jaguar Mark 1 to the Mark 2. Hey ho.

[scruff]

SWB Land Rover in bronze green... ideally a Series 2. I never shut up about what I'd do when I got my Landy. I worked my ass off the first summer after leaving school, borrowed a few quid from my folks and bought one - first car, what a magic feeling, never forget picking it up. 

[eddyramrod]

As it's thread resurrection day, I have three.

 

First, inexplicably, was a white Suzuki Carry van, as featured on the Sooty show. I have no idea why. Surely this must be one of the world's most produced vehicle designs? Still going strong with countless Chinese copies.

 

Second was a shabby brown Saab 90 that languished for months on a used car lot I used to walk past every day. I was about 15/16 and yearning to be old enough to drive. The Saab seemed temptingly affordable and utterly desirable. I'm sure it would be been utterly ruinous too.

 

Third was the Peugeot 106 XSi, launched as I was graduating, and hence appealing as a proper car I could potentially buy with real earned moneys. This did not happen.

 

I have never owned or driven any of these cars, the nearest I got was a base spec 106 pool car.

 

That "Suzuki Carry" is a Honda Acty.  I used to drive one identical for a local bakery (hmm, how things change!).