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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Austin Allegro..sold it and got my first decent Hi-Fi ! The bus was preferable to that piece of shit 
Lol that bad
The Mini I replaced it with a few years later was far better !"
I loved my minis I has 2 sticks to the road like glue I wrote my first one off bright orange it was  |
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Vauxhall viva SL......... bottle shape.....thought I had a sports car till someone told me my exhaust was blowing..(David)
Sue had a Hillman imp......which she accidentally ran over with a tractor....(really) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Vauxhall Viva 1.3 HC. Metallic green with a black vinyl roof. KPD 14P
Pile of shit, but your first car is like your first girlfriend, you will always have a place in your heart for it! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My first car was a Vauxhall chevette "
Don't worry. There's a therapy group available for you. It's just along the corridor from the TR7 owners therapy group... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My first was a 1954 Austin A30, which I bought for about seven quid (!!) when I was 10. It was 'supposed' to be for me to leave on my Dad's mates farm for me to drive around off-road and learn some car control.
But my Dad thought it was such a good little car that he got it back to roadworthy condition, put it back on the road and we took it to Cornwall twice for holiday! About three years later I/Dad sold it to a young guy as hist first car, and he wrote it off a week later.. I nearly cried... And I never got me £7 back from my Dad, even though he sold it on for £30!!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Had a mini...alloy wheels ,deseemed it full bodyskirt re-sprayed it mondeo yellow...sold it and brought a ford escort what a pile of crap ....still live and learn... |
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"Ford Capri 2.0 s loved it so much had another 9 of them various engine sizes from 3.0 to 2.8i still mad for them.  "
We are Capri fans too. We had our mark 3 from new and kept it for 7 years. Fabulous car, very versatile. Four up @ 107mph on a German autobahn. Family car, also picked up a three seater settee with it poking out of the tailgate. Would still love one. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I had an Austin Metro 1L, suspension was shot, had to rebuild the engine before I could use it, but my it was a wicked little thing, until I used it to write off a polo...oops
Still the silver lining was I bought another one but upped the power to 1.3 and a sunroof  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1.1c metro. Followed by a 114 gta rover 100, and then a gti metro. Then a lotus engined metro gti. Then a metro turbo.
Then a 200sx turbo . (Just so you know I eventually tried something else.) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Escort cosworth still have the baby now lovely car and driveryour 1st car was an escort cossie really? wht was the insurance on that then as most wouldnt touch u "
Back in the day insurance wasn't an issue. Lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Opel Kadet 1.2 in bright lime green (the German Chevette basically), only took me about 6months of idiocy to write it off
after that was an Escort 1.1 hatchback, also written off when someone ploughed into the back while it was parked outside a shop! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I learned in my dads Escort Cosworth!
After passing my test and spending a year driving round in a knackered Sierra I bought it off him.
I spose technically the Sierra was my first car, but I drove the Cossie first...lol |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Vauxhall viva SL......... bottle shape.....thought I had a sports car till someone told me my exhaust was blowing..(David)
Sue had a Hillman imp......which she accidentally ran over with a tractor....(really)"
How did she run over it with a tractor |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My first car was a Vauxhall chevette
My Dad had one back back when I was a kid, called it a shoveit, cos thats what he did, more often than not "
That's what we called it too but my one was fine the engine was rebuilt from scratch by my stepdad and painted the engine blue it have a primer Gray wing and burgundy was the rest of the car |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A Renault 19, what a pile of.... lasted 4 weeks of weekly commutes between brum and south Wales before dying on the motorway on my way to Sussex.
Horrible thing. |
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"Fiesta 1.1 mk3 which was written off in a rear end shunt by a Porsche Carrera.
He couldn't over take you so decided to ram you  "
It felt like it at the time. I think he'd just forgotten his specs. |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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I had all sorts of cars whilst learning to drive, whatever was free in Dad's 2nd hand car showroom was what I got to run round in whenever I could persuade someone to sit in with me so I had all sorts up to 3ltr Cortinas as a learner. Once I passed my test I ended up with a converted 1.1 white fiesta van with a dodgy starter motor - I always carried a hammer in the glovebox and when the engine conked out I'd open the bonnet and tap the starter with a hammer a coupla times and it would work again - nowadays I wouldn't be able to find the fecking starter and would probably be arrested for carrying a hammer in the car! GBV 71W was the car reg and I called him Gilbert |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I had all sorts of cars whilst learning to drive, whatever was free in Dad's 2nd hand car showroom was what I got to run round in whenever I could persuade someone to sit in with me so I had all sorts up to 3ltr Cortinas as a learner. Once I passed my test I ended up with a converted 1.1 white fiesta van with a dodgy starter motor - I always carried a hammer in the glovebox and when the engine conked out I'd open the bonnet and tap the starter with a hammer a coupla times and it would work again - nowadays I wouldn't be able to find the fecking starter and would probably be arrested for carrying a hammer in the car! GBV 71W was the car reg and I called him Gilbert "
I had a festa like that once I had to push it up a big hill on my own and jump in to start it in gear down the other side lol |
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"Vauxhall viva SL......... bottle shape.....thought I had a sports car till someone told me my exhaust was blowing..(David)
Sue had a Hillman imp......which she accidentally ran over with a tractor....(really)
How did she run over it with a tractor "
It was parked by a farm gate... The farm was owned by a friend... Sooze asked for a go of a nearby tractor... The rest writes itself.....
Everyone was horrified... Sooze laughed for 2 days... She will still laugh now.....and this is about 25 years ago |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Austin metro and may I also say I passed at 17 years old and got stopped around 100 times when I passed, one night I got pulled over 3 times and never had breathalyzer tested until I was 21. I must of looked like a criminal driving round in a blue b reg Austin metro lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A drophead coupe Riley 1 1/2 litre twin overhead cam, leather seats, Registration number FVM 227 called Belinda, cost me £70 from a Russian bloke at the shipyard in Barrow in Furness, about 1961 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had a vauxhall astra mk1 for my first car what a pile of crap that was still kept it for a year thou then got a 2.0L s ford capri i really loved that car i wished they would make them again i would buy one xx |
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) mini. I then had mini's for years until one blew up on me on the motorway.