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My 1st Car :)
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Looks tidy enough for a first car, i remember my first car, and remember when first cars were old things that you had to work on yourself to keep on the road :) taught you to learn about stuff that would eventually help you out at some point in your motoring lifetime.

Now first cars tend to be new with small engines and insurance subsidised by the manufacturer to get you to buy a new car from them, and all that happens then is the inexperienced drivers have no idea what it feels like to drive a car with no power steering or abs and as such don't always learn the respect for braking skills etc that they probably would have by driving an older car for a while.
 
Not always, my first car was a 1.3 Escort with no power steering or ABS but it failed me in the mechanical aspect, in that it never failed me so I never got my hands dirty.
 
Janesy B said:
Not always, my first car was a 1.3 Escort with no power steering or ABS but it failed me in the mechanical aspect, in that it never failed me so I never got my hands dirty.
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My first car was a Ford Cortina and that gave me invaluable mechanical knowledge in that i realised at 17 i was ****ing useless with fixing cars :D
 
LOL those old escorts were fine workhorses and cheap to repair if they did go wrong, and at least back then we had proper scrap yards we could go to and strip parts off the breakers, now it's all off the shelf and you have no idea of the condition of the car the parts came off (oh and stuff costs 3 times as much !)
 
DiamondMark said:
My first car was a Ford Cortina and that gave me invaluable mechanical knowledge in that i realised at 17 i was ****ing useless with fixing cars :D
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I miss my Dad's Cortina, it wasn't just any Ford Cortina, oh no it was a MK2 Series 2 1600E, wood trim and all :D We're on the hunt for a nice MK1 now, 10k just for a good 2 door GT! That's where the easy money is selling classic Fords, they only appreciate in value.
 
Janesy B said:
I miss my Dad's Cortina, it wasn't just any Ford Cortina, oh no it was a MK2 Series 2 1600E, wood trim and all :D We're on the hunt for a nice MK1 now, 10k just for a good 2 door GT! That's where the easy money is selling classic Fords, they only appreciate in value.
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Thats exactly what i had a mk2 1600E with the wood dash, it was like a dark purple colour but oddly it had a bronze bonnet :)
 
The sealant on the bonnets of the MK2s always gave way after a while and you could lift the bonnet and twist it with no effort at, maybe that was why it was changed, that or it was crashed :p Aubergine is the best colour for the E, suits it to the ground, preferably not with a saluki bronze bonnet ;)
 
Those wheels are a darn sight better than Vauxhall's VXR 2 tone wheel design that's for sure! Watch those curbs though :p
 
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