hamster Posted 13 April, 2009 Share Posted 13 April, 2009 When and what? Mine was in 1982 and was a Triumph Toledo with a buggered up clutch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 A 1964 Austin Mini, which was ancient when I had it in 1978. I rebuilt it and was going to put a 1300GT engine spec and remote gearbox/change to replace the wand. But I ran out of money. Then I came to my senses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Stimp Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 1992 Vauxhall Nova. What a beauty.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 A 1996 Rover 115 SD. A car that took the best thing about the metro (it's handling and nice engines) and replaced it with the handling of a marshmallow due to the PSA diesel lumps weight and only slightly better fuel economy for the privilage. It hated cold mornings and often left me stranded, the stereo was ****e, it was rusty and the drivers seat had lost it's structural integrity. Yet somehow I miss it........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 When and what? Mine was in 1982 and was a Triumph Toledo with a buggered up clutch. Ah, Coventrys finest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Paul C Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 1977 White Ford Fiesta 1.0L Got it up to 100mph once on a downhill dual-carriage way near Marlow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_bert Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 1.2 n reg Ford Fiesta,ghia. I fookin loved that car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minty Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 1977 White Ford Fiesta 1.0L Got it up to 100mph once on a downhill dual-carriage way near Marlow Same first car, although slightly newer (1982) and red, and I too got it to about 105mph on the A31 from Bournemouth towards Southampton on the way home from a cricket match once...! What I didn't know at the time was that it was a 'cut'n'shut', and so could've disintegrated at any time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Ford Fiesta 1.0 - Sold it after a month as it was ridiculously slow. With a full car i was lucky to get around 15mph going up a hill. Flat out did about 70mph.....and that was absolutely ragging the ******** off of it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 97 Ford Fiesta 1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuRomseySaint Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Bought an E reg Citroen AX in 1996. Sh1te car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintdavey Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 White 1977 Mini 1275GT which was stupidly fast for what it was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Pedro Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 A 1972 "classic" Ford Escort, in red. A veritable rust bucket and the easiest car EVER to break into. I lost count how many times it was broken into - I lost so many cassettes in those days.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 C reg Vauxhall Nova, it was crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Morris Traveller - donkey brown colour My kids used to call it 'Doris'. It regularly used to stop quite out of the blue and the only way to start it again was to wallop the distributor head with my son's cricket bat (although I don't think the fact that it was a cricket bat per se started it up again). It had the wooden window sills and there were mushrooms growing in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Morris Traveller - donkey brown colour My kids used to call it 'Doris'. It regularly used to stop quite out of the blue and the only way to start it again was to wallop the distributor head with my son's cricket bat (although I don't think the fact that it was a cricket bat per se started it up again). It had the wooden window sills and there were mushrooms growing in them. Magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baj Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Peugeot 205 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 84/B plate blue Fiesta 950cc. Awesome little motor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Morris Traveller - donkey brown colour My kids used to call it 'Doris'. It had the wooden window sills and there were mushrooms growing in them. During my University days I had a Suzuki 500 DOHC Four that was so unreliable [and frankly, crap too], that I accepted a lift in a mate's Morris Traveller while doing some research the other side of Whitstable. The springs were shot; he had no back seats, and the passenger seat was taken. I laid in the back while we went over countless sleeping policemen. Every crash, my back got worse, and all I could concentrate on was the mushrooms growing along the wooden frames, and wondering if they were edible or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolution saint Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 '74 mini clubman bought in 1989. Smashing little car and I loved it. I would have liked a mini cooper but that was all I could afford. Wouldn't mind a mini again though I'd prefer one of the older ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skintsaint Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 a Brown Talbot Samba...cost 100 quid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Peugeot 306 1.4 black, back in 2004ish. Although i promptly wrote that off 6 weeks later up the backside of a Volvo, which to make me feel even better did not even have a scratch, much unlike my dented smashed and out of shape 306. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 '97 Nissan Micra, bought in Dec 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 First car I owned was a Vauxhall Chevette, the first car I drove legally was an Austin Allegro, but the first car I bought myself and drove legally was a 1973 Ford Capri XL Mk1 Facelift. I wish I still had it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Morris Traveller - donkey brown colour My kids used to call it 'Doris'. It regularly used to stop quite out of the blue and the only way to start it again was to wallop the distributor head with my son's cricket bat (although I don't think the fact that it was a cricket bat per se started it up again). It had the wooden window sills and there were mushrooms growing in them. Mine was a 1963 'British racing green', model - old enough for me to get away with taking the dodgy seatbelts out and still drive legally. I painted the fairings on the bonnet white, pretending they were racing stipes. The only car I've had where you used Ronseal wood-filler to get it through it's MOT. When I bought it in 1983, for £75, it was missing the rear offside wheelarch; but one day soon after, cycling home from work, ( 13 miles - still hadn't passed my test at that point ), I saw a fibreglass rear offside wheel arch for a moggy traveller lying on the grass verge, so I picked it up and cycled home with it over my shoulder - true story When I needed some new windscreen washer nozzles, the only ones that fitted were for a Lotus Europa, so that's what asked for when I went into the spares shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint lard Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 1982 Mini "Park Lane" IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Martini Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Mine will be a 2007 Volvo S40, getting lessons from my gf in it at the moment, which is quite interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint137 Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Austin Allegro 1.5l SE. Metallic green with racing stripes c.1989. It was better than the Dagenham Dustbin that replaced it tbh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spades Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Mine was a white Corsa 'trip' in may 2005. Was a good car til i drove up someones back end on the avenue on the way to a saints match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handyman Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 First car? An Austin 10 Litchfield Saloon of before the war vintage, though I had it in the late 1950's. It used to amuse me seeing every one trying to start ther old cars on a bitter winters day, my old bus used to start first time every time on the starting handle ( I couldn't afford a new battery then) Had more fun with that old car than many of the much more modern ones I have owned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNT Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 My ex boyfriends saxo which lasted a week as i wrapped in round a lampost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrollman no2 Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 A Morris 1300 GT. It was a very fast car for its day until i wrapped it around a tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swannymere Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 1981 'W' Ford Fiesta L 957cc in a kind of smoked salmon/orange colour, and in 1994 drove it from Cherbourg to Barcelona and back once as well;) My sisters boyfriend bought it off me and wrote it off a week later, i nearly cried:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaford Saint Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 1967 Morris 1100, nuff said..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 14 April, 2009 Author Share Posted 14 April, 2009 A 1996 Rover 115 SD. A car that took the best thing about the metro (it's handling and nice engines) and replaced it with the handling of a marshmallow due to the PSA diesel lumps weight and only slightly better fuel economy for the privilage. It hated cold mornings and often left me stranded, the stereo was ****e, it was rusty and the drivers seat had lost it's structural integrity. Yet somehow I miss it........ And you bought this car because.....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 14 April, 2009 Author Share Posted 14 April, 2009 C reg Vauxhall Nova, it was crap. I imagine you to still be driving this car, are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 And you bought this car because.....? It was convenient, I liked the idea of buying british and had no idea what I was letting myself in for...... .... and like I said, I still miss the damn thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 14 April, 2009 Author Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Ah some great cars there. The first I actualy drove after passing my test was a Vauxhall Ventora auto, you could honestly see the fuel gauge drop when you were accelerating fast (obviously, within the speed limit). My Da owned it and his first car, and these cars deserve a thread dedicated to them, was a Simca. Even Mum refused to be seen in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonjoe Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 1999 Honda Civic. I'm pleased to say I've never made a mistake when it comes to buying cars and long may it continue. I know my stuff and I'm modest as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 15 April, 2009 Share Posted 15 April, 2009 I imagine you to still be driving this car, are you? No, I have a 2.0i Astra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 15 April, 2009 Share Posted 15 April, 2009 1964 Angle Box, don't make 'em like that anymore...thank god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barfy Posted 16 April, 2009 Share Posted 16 April, 2009 A B reg 1.1 Metro bought in 1994. Had it for about 18 months, and never missed it at all once I got rid, mainly because it liked going wrong at the worst possible moment. i.e. bonnet catch giving up whilst I was doing 70mph on a dual carriageway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 16 April, 2009 Share Posted 16 April, 2009 A 1996 Rover 115 SD. A car that took the best thing about the metro (it's handling and nice engines) and replaced it with the handling of a marshmallow due to the PSA diesel lumps weight and only slightly better fuel economy for the privilage. It hated cold mornings and often left me stranded, the stereo was ****e, it was rusty and the drivers seat had lost it's structural integrity. Yet somehow I miss it........ I had a 114 GSI Baccara for a while, lovely little car, mrs pranged it when the kids were knocking 3 bales of shîte out of each other in the back. First car Austin A35, powder green, called Flossy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted 16 April, 2009 Share Posted 16 April, 2009 A W reg Metro nice car...until it heavily rained and the door seals were crap meaning I had to bail it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 16 April, 2009 Share Posted 16 April, 2009 Datsun Cherry death trap, bought off some northern monkey masquerading as a mate when I started teaching. After that a1974 Vauxhall Chevette bought in 1983. Private purchase from some old bloke in North Baddesley. What I didn't know was that it had spent a good eight years parked on or near a slipway in Warsash. Ended up being rusty as ****. Thinking about it it was even rustier than the Cherry which was saying something. Eventually sold it to my brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVSaint Posted 17 April, 2009 Share Posted 17 April, 2009 C Reg Mini Mayfair in 1994. Smashing little thing. Died of rust 2000. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Bognor Posted 17 April, 2009 Share Posted 17 April, 2009 My first car was a two-seater, mid-engined, Italian sportscar, styled by Bertone (who also styled the Lamorghini Miura, Countach and Diablo in addition to the Ferrari 308 ) ............. ..........OK, OK, it was a 1981 Fiat X1/9 (Oh, and no hairdresser jokes please) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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