My first car - with pics
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As a first car that is 
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You need to be blasting out buddy holly heartbeat as you drive around!
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You need to be blasting out buddy holly heartbeat as you drive around!
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trying out multi-quoting...
Nor can I
Jimi Hendrix and The Meters have been my weapon of choice so far, but I think Buddy Holly sounds like a good idea!
Nice, not many people can say their first car had a
Fibreglass flip front
Nor can I
As a first car that is
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You need to be blasting out buddy holly heartbeat as you drive around!
Jimi Hendrix and The Meters have been my weapon of choice so far, but I think Buddy Holly sounds like a good idea!
That is all.
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trying out multi-quoting...
Nor can I
Jimi Hendrix and The Meters have been my weapon of choice so far, but I think Buddy Holly sounds like a good idea!
Are you sure, I can see the big latches at the bottom, unless it isn't fibreglass..
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it is a flip front, but it isn't fibreglass, it's steel like the rest of the car, and is a standard feature.
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That is possibly the coolest first car I've ever seen. Kudos
thank you
and thanks to everyone else who has made comments Welcome to the forums by the way
hehe, thanks
Do people always reply this quickly on here? It's hard to keep up lol.Its a bag-o-weed, nobody would ever suspect a thing
Superb original choice for a first car, looks very tidy. Should also be an easy way of getting into car maintainance if anything goes wrong it cant be that hard to fix or diagnose. Enjoy!
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For a split second i thought you had bought a Nissan Figaro... was preparing fail pics Good job happy motoring!
Good job happy motoring!
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What a corking way to start out. Cheap car, cheap insurance, no tax and very cool. EPIC win on all counts, Biggles approves.
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Thanks
My girl friend wants a Figaro I'm trying to dissuade her! But there cute apparently, and you can't really argue with that.
The only really disadvantage of the car so far is long motorway journeys, due to only having 4 gears, it's pretty damn noisy at 70mph+ lol. But I expected that so I don't really mind, but my passengers sometimes do, and it means you have to shout more or less to talk.
My girl friend wants a Figaro I'm trying to dissuade her! But there cute apparently, and you can't really argue with that.
The only really disadvantage of the car so far is long motorway journeys, due to only having 4 gears, it's pretty damn noisy at 70mph+ lol. But I expected that so I don't really mind, but my passengers sometimes do, and it means you have to shout more or less to talk.
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No power steering :O
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or seat belts, or air bags, or rear disc brakes, and the accelerator pedal just clips to a cable which opens a flap on the carb....
Nice Herald, pretty much the ideal first classic.
Steel flip front means you can literally sit in the engine bay with a cuppa when you need to work on it, the vast majority of parts are readily available, reasonably rot-resistant too considering it's built in what, 1966 being a D-plate?
I've always preferred classics too, my dad owning a Mk1 Cortina when I was a kid had a lot to do with it.
People often bang on about the lack of equipment but it isn't something that's ever really concerned me, and reliability is never as much of a problem as people who drive new cars would like everyone to think it is
Enjoy it
Steel flip front means you can literally sit in the engine bay with a cuppa when you need to work on it, the vast majority of parts are readily available, reasonably rot-resistant too considering it's built in what, 1966 being a D-plate?
I've always preferred classics too, my dad owning a Mk1 Cortina when I was a kid had a lot to do with it.
People often bang on about the lack of equipment but it isn't something that's ever really concerned me, and reliability is never as much of a problem as people who drive new cars would like everyone to think it is
Enjoy it
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My girl friend wants a Figaro I'm trying to dissuade her! But there cute apparently, and you can't really argue with that.
The only really disadvantage of the car so far is long motorway journeys, due to only having 4 gears, it's pretty damn noisy at 70mph+ lol. But I expected that so I don't really mind, but my passengers sometimes do, and it means you have to shout more or less to talk.
If you think of it as a K10 in a frock, it's very expensive, but if you say reliable 1991 open top car with leather seats and air-con. It's only slightly expensive.
Also, for such a rare car you don't half see a lot of them about.
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Indeed, it is a 1966.
Yep you can sit in the engine bay, on either of the front wheels if you wish, here's a pic to illustrate...
and the car has been 100% reliable so far, and I haven't missed or wanted any extra equipment, the heater is sufficient, I prefer having the windows open to air con myself anyway, and I've fitted a CD player with an auxiliary input so it's all good
Yep you can sit in the engine bay, on either of the front wheels if you wish, here's a pic to illustrate...
and the car has been 100% reliable so far, and I haven't missed or wanted any extra equipment, the heater is sufficient, I prefer having the windows open to air con myself anyway, and I've fitted a CD player with an auxiliary input so it's all good
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