My first car

[steveo]

I had one of these when I was 13. It was lethal. If you turned too sharply, it fell over on to its side.

When I came back from a holiday, my dad had sawn it in half and given it to the junk man

[TheCat]

When I was a kid, my best mate's dad was a junk man's son. He had one of these with a big weld around the middle:)

[red devil]

Classic White Mini 850...

http://us.123rf.com/450wm/pjirawat/pjirawat1305/pjirawat130500012/19835078-old-vintage-classic-mini-taken-at-penang-malaysia.jpg?ver=6

Ahead of it's time, had an early speed limit restrictor system...started rattling when you hit 70mph :)

[jacks09]

Ford Escort sport with spoiler. Got 3 points on my second day of having a licence.

[malumbu]

What the first one? Reliant, Messerschmitt , Bond car?

Austin 1100 BTW and motorbike was a single cylinder 2 stroke Yamaha RS125 (almost bought an MZ150).

?225 for the car, ?150 for the bike.

[ruffers]

Fiat 131 Supermirafiori.

[LadyNorwood]

Ford Cortina Mk1 - navy with red leather seats.....

[peckham_ryu]

I was old before my time?

[GSJ57]

Austin 1100 for me too. White with black pleather interior :)

[Loz]

1968 Toyota Corolla. Of course, it was over 15 years old when I got it. And it was red... or at least it was after I painted it.

[Ellem86]

LadyNorwood Wrote:

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> Ford Cortina Mk1 - navy with red leather

> seats.....

My first thought was "that's from an Arctic Monkey's song"!

[Loz]

steveo Wrote:

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> I had one of these when I was 13. It was lethal.

> If you turned too sharply, it fell over on to its side.

That reminds me of this...

 

[TheArtfulDogger]

After over 30 years I still own my first car, it is still taxed and mot'd just can't make it over speed bumps because I lowered it too much when I wa younger.

Sigh

[Salsaboy]

Oh bloody hell - I had a Morris Marina as a first car when I was 18. *Hangs head in shame*

[miga]

I was 19, it was 3 years old, 3.6L V6, and it fucken burrrrrrned.

[Jeremy]

One of these...

Thought it was OK at the time... looks pretty embarrassing now....

[Townleygreen]

Austin 1300. White. H reg. Bought it 2nd hand in 1974. ?360 I think!

[rupert45]

Ford Anglia 100E

[malumbu]

Salsaboy Wrote:

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> Oh bloody hell - I had a Morris Marina as a first

> car when I was 18. *Hangs head in shame*

Totally underated car. Very simple if sligtly agriculutral. If it could have broken the Cortina's monopoly on the company car who knows how successful it could have been.

So it is 1987. My mate has an 1800 green metalic coupe. Some one pulls out of a side road into him. Mate says insurance details please. Scally says 'no insurance wack' (It was genuinely Liverpool). Mate says either we call the police or you pay me the value of the car (maybe ?500 on a good day). Scally says OK I'll pay. ?1000? No ?950. Deal. And mate gets the cash a few days later, expecting a cosh over the head not cash in his hand.

Malumbu gets the car for ?50. A few trips to the scrap yard, some paint from Halfords and bobs your uncle.

Sadly three years later another mate ploughs it into the back of a pile up on the M1. 8 other cars drive away, one dead Marina.

Fine car.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Mea culpa: mine was a Reliant Supervan Mark III. ?15.

[BrandNewGuy]

1985 Volvo 360 hatchback. Piece of crap that my father gifted me when he bought himself a proper car. It did have a sunroof, though ? until a troop of monkeys at West Midlands Safari Park painstakingly stripped it and the windscreen of all of its rubber seals.

[DulwichFox]

Wolseley 1500 with a wooden back quarter light.. It cost ?30.00 and I recently found the receipt for the insurance.

Dated 2-12-1970 ?17.00. Seventeen pounds.

Skidded on sharp bend in Broad Oak near Rye and broke half shaft trying to get it out.

Cost ?5.00 to fix.

Foxy (on the right)

[ed_pete]

VW Derby - about as dull as it comes

 

[Pickle]

Mine was a 1976 Toyota Starlet, in a fetching shade of orange. I loved it, got it just as I was leaving secondary school and starting uni (lived in NZ, a car was necessary).

[KidKruger]

First car - a Type II VW