Your first car
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First car to own :
1956 Stuttgart Edition Volkswagen Beetle
Was a complete basket case that I did a full ground-up restoration on. Bought it for $100 (with an extra engine and gearbox, extra 4 studded bias ply snow tyres mounted on rims, full set of extra chrome including bumpers, and an extra set of seats).
First car to drive :
1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass S 260CID V-8
Cost me $700. It was an okay car, but definately could have done with something a little better for a first drive. My brother's 1974 Ford Pinto would out do it in every category you care to mention except for boot capacity.
1956 Stuttgart Edition Volkswagen Beetle
Was a complete basket case that I did a full ground-up restoration on. Bought it for $100 (with an extra engine and gearbox, extra 4 studded bias ply snow tyres mounted on rims, full set of extra chrome including bumpers, and an extra set of seats).
First car to drive :
1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass S 260CID V-8
Cost me $700. It was an okay car, but definately could have done with something a little better for a first drive. My brother's 1974 Ford Pinto would out do it in every category you care to mention except for boot capacity.
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Make: Ford
Model: Fiesta 1.8D Encore (1998 R)
Price: £650
Good first car lasted me a year before I sold it on for £800. Slow and noisy, wind up windows and no power steering but gave great mpg.
Model: Fiesta 1.8D Encore (1998 R)
Price: £650
Good first car lasted me a year before I sold it on for £800. Slow and noisy, wind up windows and no power steering but gave great mpg.
I feel very old all of a sudden. First car was:
Mini 1275GT
1977 R Reg
£800 iirc
It was a street racer. It had twin 40 SU carbs, full Janspeed exhaust, Kent cam, stage 2 head, full rollcage and a fibreglass flip forward bonnet. Oh and I added basic ICE and found some original Mini Cooper S seats
Mini 1275GT
1977 R Reg
£800 iirc
It was a street racer. It had twin 40 SU carbs, full Janspeed exhaust, Kent cam, stage 2 head, full rollcage and a fibreglass flip forward bonnet. Oh and I added basic ICE and found some original Mini Cooper S seats
First car I've owned:
Make: Honda
Model: Civic 1.8 VTI
Price: £3300 (with part ex on the Micra for my nan)
Before that I drove my nans old 1.0 K11 Micra.
When I first picked up the Civic I found the power a bit of a handful but as with anything you get used to it and become sensible.
Make: Honda
Model: Civic 1.8 VTI
Price: £3300 (with part ex on the Micra for my nan)
Before that I drove my nans old 1.0 K11 Micra.
When I first picked up the Civic I found the power a bit of a handful but as with anything you get used to it and become sensible.
Hyundai
Pony 1.5 GLS
£Free
Donated to me by my grandad when he became too ill to drive it. I loved it, hated it, thought it was the best thing ever and got let down by it all at the same time!
Mamouth amounts of understeer kept me safe during my yobbish "Tyre squeel is cool and makes my willy bigger" stage. I never pulled away without lighting the tyres up in it
Threw it into the greenery twice in the time I had it and both times I just drove it back onto the road.
For a big chunck of the 4 and a half years I had it I near enough lived in it. Spent numerous hours just sitting in it chatting with mates, used to use it as a sanctuary and would go and sit in it just to listen to some music and escape the world. I slept in it a few times, and my self and my gf spent more than a few hours tucked up in the back of it up deserted country lanes
I had a new exhaust fitted which despite me just asking for a standard one ended up being a bigger diameter and sounded awesome (in my opinion at the time) I thought I was the dogs danglies blipping the throttle giving nice little farts and pops from the raspy exhaust
I had plans for it but the financial constraints of keeping a car on the road whilst studying for your a-levels meant that nothing ever came of them
Whilst I hope i'll never own a car as crap as that again, I doubt I will ever own another car that means as much to me as that one did. I'm not one to normally get attached to inanimate objects but I really do feel sad at the fact that I scrapped it
EDIT:
Rust in peace old buddy
Pony 1.5 GLS
£Free
Donated to me by my grandad when he became too ill to drive it. I loved it, hated it, thought it was the best thing ever and got let down by it all at the same time!
Mamouth amounts of understeer kept me safe during my yobbish "Tyre squeel is cool and makes my willy bigger" stage. I never pulled away without lighting the tyres up in it
Threw it into the greenery twice in the time I had it and both times I just drove it back onto the road.For a big chunck of the 4 and a half years I had it I near enough lived in it. Spent numerous hours just sitting in it chatting with mates, used to use it as a sanctuary and would go and sit in it just to listen to some music and escape the world. I slept in it a few times, and my self and my gf spent more than a few hours tucked up in the back of it up deserted country lanes
I had a new exhaust fitted which despite me just asking for a standard one ended up being a bigger diameter and sounded awesome (in my opinion at the time) I thought I was the dogs danglies blipping the throttle giving nice little farts and pops from the raspy exhaust
I had plans for it but the financial constraints of keeping a car on the road whilst studying for your a-levels meant that nothing ever came of them
Whilst I hope i'll never own a car as crap as that again, I doubt I will ever own another car that means as much to me as that one did. I'm not one to normally get attached to inanimate objects but I really do feel sad at the fact that I scrapped it
EDIT:
Rust in peace old buddy
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First car I've owned:
Make: Ford Fiesta
Model: 1.3 Flight
Year: 2001
Price: £2400
This is a good car, if you get one with the right engine, NOT the 1.3! (OMG its crap)
First car I've driven (mum's)
Make: Citroen Xsara
Model: 1.4LX
Year: 2001
Price: no idea
This has a horrible gearbox and interior, fiesta is more fun to drive even though it has a terrible engine.
Make: Ford Fiesta
Model: 1.3 Flight
Year: 2001
Price: £2400
This is a good car, if you get one with the right engine, NOT the 1.3! (OMG its crap)
First car I've driven (mum's)
Make: Citroen Xsara
Model: 1.4LX
Year: 2001
Price: no idea
This has a horrible gearbox and interior, fiesta is more fun to drive even though it has a terrible engine.
Peugeot 205 1.1 Trio
£795 - paid by parents
Bloody fun first car, as soon as i passed a dashed home and picked it up, didn't get home for 3 days
Had some fantastic times in it, i still miss it, even though it was slow, unrefined and made of empty coke cans
£795 - paid by parents
Bloody fun first car, as soon as i passed a dashed home and picked it up, didn't get home for 3 days
Had some fantastic times in it, i still miss it, even though it was slow, unrefined and made of empty coke cans
Make: Renault
Model: 5 Campus
Cost: £2000
It was slow, had no creature comforts and was noisy on the motorway. I ****ing loved that car. Was gutted when an old biddy drove into the side of me on a roundabout writing it off
Model: 5 Campus
Cost: £2000
It was slow, had no creature comforts and was noisy on the motorway. I ****ing loved that car. Was gutted when an old biddy drove into the side of me on a roundabout writing it off
Vauxhall
Viva HB Estate http://www.motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/1038/
£100 with a year's MOT.
It was completely horrible by today's standards, but taught me an awful lot. One of my fondest memories of it was driving along one day only to find that the steering wheel was no longer attached. Luckily, I was only going slowly at the time (or any other time) and was able to stop safely.
Bill
Viva HB Estate http://www.motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/1038/
£100 with a year's MOT.
It was completely horrible by today's standards, but taught me an awful lot. One of my fondest memories of it was driving along one day only to find that the steering wheel was no longer attached. Luckily, I was only going slowly at the time (or any other time) and was able to stop safely.
Bill
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Make: Renault
Model: 1989 (G) 5 TL
Price: £0
the car was given to me buy my brother with a full MOT and a years worth of tax, given the year and half i owned it, it caused me very little problem apart from a flat tyre and the other usual niggles, i put 14K on it in that time and i driven it like i stole it.
It was a dangerous car at high speed, rattled even over the smoothest of road surfaces, it was dog slow 47bhp anyone
bodyroll was dangerous took a roundabout to quickly it could have well have flipped over, was hoot to drive tho and i cant fault it for being free it died of a HGF unfortunatley it will be sorely missed one day maybe i will revisit those first years of driving and invest in a 5 GTT
thedazman
Model: 1989 (G) 5 TL
Price: £0
the car was given to me buy my brother with a full MOT and a years worth of tax, given the year and half i owned it, it caused me very little problem apart from a flat tyre and the other usual niggles, i put 14K on it in that time and i driven it like i stole it.
It was a dangerous car at high speed, rattled even over the smoothest of road surfaces, it was dog slow 47bhp anyone
bodyroll was dangerous took a roundabout to quickly it could have well have flipped over, was hoot to drive tho and i cant fault it for being free it died of a HGF unfortunatley it will be sorely missed one day maybe i will revisit those first years of driving and invest in a 5 GTT thedazman