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What make was you first car?
- Thread starter Devon Seagull
- Start date
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
My moggy was a 1958 model. It had the option to use the crank start!
Cost me £65 and £75 to insure TPF&T. Mullery was about to take over at the Albion.
Bladders
Twats everywhere
My first car was a 1979 T Reg Capri 2.0 Ghia. It was blue with a black vinyl roof.
£375 I think it cost.
£375 I think it cost.
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
A MK1 Lotus Cortina,great car,many happy memories.Cost a fortune to get insurance and even more for petrol,but worth every penny.I remember driving from Worthing to Brighton and back and got pulled 5 times by P.C. Plod and given 5 five-day wonders,wish I still had it as probably worth a fortune now.
Southstandfaithful
New member
Austin Maestro D reg.......
Poyetry In Motion
Pooetry Motions
Not got a photo of it, which I regret, but a 1978 ' S ' reg Fiat 128 Berlinetta coupe. I paid £35 for it in 1989. Wish I'd kept it as clean examples now sell for over £3k!
skipper734
Registered ruffian
3000cc of rusting Vauxhall. It's also parked in Coldean on a Saturday!
Muzzatron
Member
dunno
Old Skool
W reg metallic green Fiat Strada with a brown Starsky & Hutch stripe. Bought it in 1985 from The Portland Carriage Company (think they're still there??). Bought it a few days after passing my test and driving it back was the first time I had ever driven on my own!! Could have been nasty!! Gawd, that car was Cooooool (well so I thought!)
Lord Bracknell
On fire
A 1962 Ford Anglia 105E. It was five years old when I bought it for £180. A bit like this one (and the same colour) ...
Daffy Duck
Stop bloody moaning!
A little black Morris Minor (VXW 253 the only car reg I can ever remember).
Had the extending arm indicators and also could crank start it in the cold weather.
Bought from Tony Bloom's dad at Hove motors. Got so excited driving it home that I forgot to take the handbrake off!! Bloody women drivers!
Had the extending arm indicators and also could crank start it in the cold weather.
Bought from Tony Bloom's dad at Hove motors. Got so excited driving it home that I forgot to take the handbrake off!! Bloody women drivers!
jakarta
Well-known member
As my Dad was a Car Dealer I would usually just drive some old heap from stock, then I started doing some buying & selling from his site as well so would be running whatever had some tax on it. Would run whatever shifted fast as second hand stock in those days: Mk2 Escorts, Mk1 Fiestas, Minis, Renault 5s, Chevettes, even had a Fiat 500 at one point!
Bought & sold motorbikes as well, with learners being banned from 250cc down to 125cc there was a plague of Honda Superdreams in the early to mid 1980's so loads passed through my hands, wish I had kept an immaculate RD250LC which I picked up for £150 after owner had a very slight off on it (indicator, clutch lever and an alternator cover later it looked brand new, which seeing as it had less than a thousand miles on it was about right - he was a rich farmers son and his biking career had lasted about 2 months!)
When I finally got a proper job as opposed to wheeling & dealing I bought a sludge green Fiat Strada 75CL (hand built by robots) for around £200 at auction. Low mileage & great mechanically I drove it into the ground - the robots that built it must have had rusty fingers as every panel rotted away within 2 years and I think I sold it for spares or repair....
Bought & sold motorbikes as well, with learners being banned from 250cc down to 125cc there was a plague of Honda Superdreams in the early to mid 1980's so loads passed through my hands, wish I had kept an immaculate RD250LC which I picked up for £150 after owner had a very slight off on it (indicator, clutch lever and an alternator cover later it looked brand new, which seeing as it had less than a thousand miles on it was about right - he was a rich farmers son and his biking career had lasted about 2 months!)
When I finally got a proper job as opposed to wheeling & dealing I bought a sludge green Fiat Strada 75CL (hand built by robots) for around £200 at auction. Low mileage & great mechanically I drove it into the ground - the robots that built it must have had rusty fingers as every panel rotted away within 2 years and I think I sold it for spares or repair....
banjo
GOSBTS
Ford Escort mk 2
Norman Potting
Well-known member
Datsun 100A Cherry SKJ954M -and it was red.
maltaseagull
Well-known member
One like this but mine was older- 1961
Cost me £95 in 1970
Cost me £95 in 1970
Not really into cars and I tend to choose to live in places where I won't need one. I see them as a burden. But, when I did need wheels I bought one of the new VW Beetles. I must admit I did feel a bit sad when I sold it. This is the only car I have owned during my 44 years.
Surrey Seagull
New member
Good taste you have Banjo! My first car was also a 1978 Ford Escort Mk.II but unfortunately wasn't red...it was beige with a brown interior but I loved her anyway. We used to go all round the country to away grounds in it but for some reason the car wouldn't let me visit my Gran in East Preston and broke down everytime we tried to visit. The last time, it broke down within 100 yards or so of her flat. It was ok anywhere else most of the time and never brokedown at away grounds.