Your first car. Seen one for sale anywhere?

[Tim203]

Fair shout, my Dad's saloon was replaced with a 1600 coupe which was a lovely car. That lasted a long time, my brother bought it off Dad and had it a few more years!

 

[Deleted96908]

Fair shout, my Dad's saloon was replaced with a 1600 coupe which was a lovely car. That lasted a long time, my brother bought it off Dad and had it a few more years!

I had a powder blue Monte Carlo. Totally adored it. Still the best car I have owned even if it did have the odd hissy fit.

 

[Deleted member 113659]

OK setting myself up for much ridicule here:

RETRO CLASSIC For Sale (1983) on Car And Classic UK [C676647]

However, my car was Black. It cost £950. It cost the same to insure. I was 17 and doing a hairdressing course.

Look at those MASSIVE 13" alloys!!!

I fear this lovey example has the clock wound forward. 93,300 miles, really?

Ant.

 

[flango]

OK setting myself up for much ridicule here:

RETRO CLASSIC For Sale (1983) on Car And Classic UK [C676647]

However, my car was Black. It cost £950. It cost the same to insure. I was 17 and doing a hairdressing course.

Look at those MASSIVE 13" alloys!!!

I fear this lovey example has the clock wound forward. 93,300 miles, really?

Ant.

SWMBO had one of these in fire engine red until she redesigned it under the back end of an 8 wheeler tipper truck :-(

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Hope she was not hurt Ian.

I did love mine. A pile of rubbish but honestly I looked after it more than I have any car since. At that time I really wanted the super fast MG Maestro (0-60 6.7secs) fast in those days.

I never got one.

Ant.

 

[AMGeed]

Here is a remaining example of my first car

A Swinging Ford Anglia 105E Deluxe in Phenomenal Condition For Sale (1962) on Car And Classic UK [C690378]

Very optimistic pricing on this website. I think I paid somewhere around £300 in 1970 for my 10 yr old Ford Anglia 105E.

I though it was the business and even went to the extremes of modding it!
An Ian Piper high lift race cam and 4 branch Cortina 1500GT exhaust manifold gave it all of 85mph top speed.
The father of the girl I was seeing was a paint sprayer for Bluebird caravans and I decided to have a new colour scheme. Chocolate brown with a yellow stripe:fail I thought it looked great until I took it to London and 60 miles into the journey it dumped all the oil on the road.
That car gave way to a mighty Triumph Herald 12/50 with a sunroof. Heady days!

 

[Deleted member 65149]

Mine was a 1954 Morris Minor, fitted with three 14" wheels and one 13" wheel with a higher profile tyre!! It had a habit of cutting out when pulling out of side turnings (eventually solved by a three inch nail in the top of the HT coil), and had little in the way of brakes. The brake issue was best illustrated by a return trip from the West End late one night - 5 up - along the A4. Approaching a set of lights the car in front anticipated the change to red and slammed on his brakes. We had no chance of stopping which required me to pull into the offside lane , foot hard down on the brake pedal, eventually coming to a halt facing the oncoming traffic at the lights (now red). When the lights changed to green the driver of the Taxi facing me, laughing his head off, waved me across to 'my' lane and we carried on back home with three of the four passengers looking distinctly white faced It also served as a perfect double bed by tilting the front seats forward, taking the back of the rear seat and placing it between the tilted front seats and the base of the rear seat. Feet in the boot, double sleeping bag and the perfect solution for weekends down in Dorset - much better than a tent anyway

Ah, the mighty Series II Moggy. I had one for about a year in the late 60's, covering around 20,000 miles until sending a con rod through the side of the block on the A12. The acceleration wasn't exactly neck-breaking (0 - 60 in a little over 50 seconds!) but it stuck to the road like a limpet, so I could have replaced the throttle pedal with a switch! Ford Anglias and the like left it for dead on the straights, but I was able to keep my right foot firmly planted on most bends where it made mincemeat of the competition.

 

[flango]

Hope she was not hurt Ian.

I did love mine. A pile of rubbish but honestly I looked after it more than I have any car since. At that time I really wanted the super fast MG Maestro (0-60 6.7secs) fast in those days.

I never got one.

Ant.

A little shook up but ok thanks, car was a write off looked like a sardine can with the roof peeled off. Replaced with a Cavalier SRI

 

[Mrhanky]

A little shook up but ok thanks, car was a write off looked like a sardine can with the roof peeled off. Replaced with a Cavalier SRI

Cav Sri a classic, I had an Asta GTE back in the day.

 

[flango]

Cav Sri a classic, I had an Asta GTE back in the day.

I rallied an Astra GTE Mk2 great car and thankfully easy to repair. It met it's demise on the lanark rally though when following a Sierra cosworth which flicked up a stone which went through the oil cooler I lost oil pressure decided to press on until the end of the stage but two minutes later it went up in flames :-(

 

[ASnowman]

1.3 L Ford Fiesta Sport. 1982 modell.
Not the same as on picture, but stil a few out there

 

[Darrell]

A black mk1 Golf GTI.

It was the 1800 rather than the 1600. I bought it when I was 20, a month after passing my test and 2 months after finishing my apprenticeship and going self employed.

I adored it but chopped it in for an Escort RS Turbo soon after.

 

[Darrell]

Cav Sri a classic, I had an Asta GTE back in the day.

My dad had a GTE in white. I de-badged it for him and stuck a Level 42 tour 1983 sticker in the back window.

 

[E55BOF]

My first car was a 1959 Renault Dauphine; I paid £29 for it to a Corporal in the MT Section(and I wuz robbed...). New MoT, of course; failed the next and was scrapped. The heater didn't work, and I froze in (its only) winter until I took a look underneath, and found that the rubberized sacking tube bringing the warmed air to the front had dropped off its spigot.

It first introduced me to an incompetent main stealer, too. The clutch was slipping, so I took it to the Renault dealer in Northallerton. They fitted a brand new clutch, but a week later it was slipping again. A friend lubricated the cable with WD40, or something similar, and it stopped slipping.

God, I was green! I never went back to the dealer to complain...

 

[s500colin]

Another Triumph 1300 first car, exactly the same colour combination as this one

1968 TRIUMPH 1300 for sale | Classic Cars For Sale, UK

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Cav Sri a classic, I had an Asta GTE back in the day.

I always drooled over the later Astra 2000GSi. My Dad had one in White before white cars were in fashion.

Ant.