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what was your first car ?

#1 Post by joecrx » Tue May 08, 2012 6:29 pm

mine was a ford mk4 , been on bikes since i left scool not that it did me any good :smt003 at 25 i bought one of these
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#2 Post by Falcorob » Tue May 08, 2012 7:03 pm

Datsun 100A Cherry. Don't have a pic of my car but it was just like this one. Except mine was rusty.

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#3 Post by Willopotomas » Tue May 08, 2012 7:39 pm

Not only my first foray into the intrepid world of Reliant's, but also the first time I'd driven anything with a roof and a steering wheel. Went everywhere in that thing. The thing with Reliant though, is it's difficult to only keep one. I had at one point 5 of the things. I now only have the one.. I hope to restore it to it's former glory one year.

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Bought it for £200 off a mate. Drove it around on my motorcycle licence at the time. (The B1 entitlement covers them) :smt003
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#4 Post by BikerGran » Tue May 08, 2012 7:55 pm

Falcorob wrote:Datsun 100A Cherry. Don't have a pic of my car but it was just like this one. Except mine was rusty.[/img]
They were all rusty! When I had to part with mine the MOT tester wouldn't finish the test cos he thought the rear suspension hangers might collapse on the rolling road. Then I tried to give it to a bloke who did stock car racing but he said there wasn't anything sound enough to weld to!


My first car was a Ford Anglia. No, not the one with the odd rear window but one of these......

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#5 Post by HisNibbs » Tue May 08, 2012 8:11 pm

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I was so cool.
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#6 Post by fatboy » Tue May 08, 2012 8:13 pm

My first car wasnt my own but a 'company' car, a Morriss Traveller ( on Marina running gear )
It had wide wheels and instead of a horn it had an Air Raid siren, that made the old uns run !
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#7 Post by flatlander » Tue May 08, 2012 8:52 pm

Ford escort mk 2 jacked up suspension sunroof (looked homemade but worked) blue and with an alarm like anyone would want to steal it!
And the best bit the Starsky and Hutch white stripe loved that car though the ford guy did say I was the first person who had heard of asking for the suspension to be put back to standard
To which I replied no I said I don't give a rats what you do as long as the back starts following the front
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#8 Post by mangocrazy » Tue May 08, 2012 9:35 pm

Vauxhall Viva HA in rust red with a blue driver's door. £25. Bargain...

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The caravan wasn't included in the price (and it's not mine). Neither is/was the car. But that's sort of what it looked like...

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#9 Post by D-Rider » Tue May 08, 2012 9:38 pm

My own first car was a Sunbeam Imp Sport - bought as I knew Imps were easy to work on and I had plenty of experience of them. The flaw in my theory was that although they were easy to work on .... they needed to be easy to work on as they were shite!
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The car I learned to drive in was my dad's Volvo 145
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Before getting my own car I also drove other cars my dad had.
One was my Grandad's Hillman Imp Husky (it was offered to me when my grandad gave up driving but I preferred to stick to bikes - not being able to afford running both)
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Another was a Renault4
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After my Sunbeam Imp, I bought a 3yr old Toyota Corolla - which I ran for 15 years (like this one but mine was a 2-door)
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#10 Post by Aladinsaneuk » Tue May 08, 2012 10:36 pm

hillman hunter

I passed my test after a crash course - 5 days instruction and then my test... I already had a full bike licence but my parents wanted me to have a car for uni....

my dad met a man in the pub - 50 quid changed hands and i had a hillman hunter

http://www.hillmanhunter.co.uk/

mine was a posh car - it had real vinyl seats LOL

it lasted for 9 months - and considering i rolled it the day I passed my test - i reckon that was pretty good


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#11 Post by blinkey501 » Wed May 09, 2012 5:02 am

I had one of these http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/2012/02 ... astra-mk1/
It was a 1.3l went like stink and the reg number was HBB170W
It was a crap beige colour and the fuel guage did'nt work so i had to carry a spare gallon in the boot.
Oh yes and the sun roof leaked :smt005

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#12 Post by Kwackerz » Wed May 09, 2012 7:01 am

First car was an ageing Toyota Starlet 1.2 had that for 30 minutes before the previous owner wrote it off when he borrowed it to pick his GF up..
Then I had a Mk4 Ford Cortina 1.3.. then a 1.6 Ford Capri... then about 195 cars of varying makes later I have a Transit Van. I do like Fords :smt003

Just trying to find a pic of the type i had..

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... e=1#984940

That shape, but rustier. and no 2.1 pinto... (had an auto capri with a 2.1, that was one beautiful engine. NOT to be confused with the standard 2 litre ford lump)
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#13 Post by D-Rider » Wed May 09, 2012 8:01 am

Kwackerz wrote: I do like Fords :smt003
That's good - Gio will be pleased :smt003
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#14 Post by Samray » Wed May 09, 2012 8:13 am

Learnt to drive in dad's Jowett Bradford van. Two cylinders and about 11hp. First bike had twice as many cylinders and about 100 more hp.
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#15 Post by MartDude » Wed May 09, 2012 8:24 am

Lada 1600 ES.

Don't laugh. It was cool - had a vinyl roof! And the most comprehensive tool kit I've ever come across - stirrup pump (no, for the tyres), inspection lamp with its own socket, really good selection of proper ring spanners, some of which I still have.

It had a Weber twin-choke downdraught carburettor. Original fell apart - crap casting - local Lada dealer had the Webers on special offer. Made quite a difference - it'd see off a contemporary Cortina (mark 4?5?) with ease. They were also offering turbo kits - was quite tempted, but couldn't afford it

It also helped me pull, once - the interpreter for a party of Latvian students on an exchange visit. After a tour round the museum, she came back - said she'd never seen a Lada in such good condition back home. And she came out with one of the most direct come-on lines I've ever heard -"in the Soviet Union, we also have contraception". Fond memories of Soviet thighs . . .
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