| First cars then 07:47 - Dec 1 with 899 views | Keno |
Mine was a powder blue Triumph Herald, Paid £90 for it
Lovely motor, easy to work on but prone to rust
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| First cars then on 10:14 - Dec 1 with 208 views | Zx1988 |
A three-door Suzuki Ignis:
Bought it the day I passed my driving test, as I was desperate to get off my moped. Bought it after dark, from a chap flipping cars from his home address. The 'test drive' was being allowed to accompany him in the passenger seat as he took it on a sedate drive around residential streets.
I'm amazed that I got the nine months out of it that I did! Ended up selling it for what I paid for it (£500...) and 'upgraded' to this:
One careful (now 90-year-old) owner from new, and only 25,000 miles on the clock. |  |
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| First cars then on 10:14 - Dec 1 with 208 views | Keno |
| First cars then on 10:10 - Dec 1 by gainsboroughblue |
A 1982 Triumph Acclaim in 1994-ish three months after passing my test.
Purchased privately from a guy in Sproughton. £200 quid cash.
Not the flashiest car but had electric windows (which in 1982 I'm guessing wasn't all that common?)
Reliable enough but certainly needed that choke on first start in the morning. [Post edited 1 Dec 10:11]
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Have you ever tried explaining the choke to your kids?
see also double declucthing, with my son in law thinks was my attempt to wind him up [Post edited 1 Dec 10:15]
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| First cars then on 10:26 - Dec 1 with 184 views | Lakenheath_Blue |
| First cars then on 10:10 - Dec 1 by gainsboroughblue |
A 1982 Triumph Acclaim in 1994-ish three months after passing my test.
Purchased privately from a guy in Sproughton. £200 quid cash.
Not the flashiest car but had electric windows (which in 1982 I'm guessing wasn't all that common?)
Reliable enough but certainly needed that choke on first start in the morning. [Post edited 1 Dec 10:11]
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Ford Escort mk1, olive green.
Pull out choke that you had to have it pulled out just right for it to start. |  |
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| First cars then on 10:43 - Dec 1 with 165 views | Wicksy |
A maroon 850 mini, 1965, GLF235C.
Paid £150 when I got it in Feb 1975.
Took the cylinder head off and re-seated the valves more times than I care to remember, trying to get a bit more power out of it. Strobe timing light, 4 degrees before top dead centre and all that. Simpler times.
Sold it to a mate after about 18 months and, a year after that, a wheel came off. Apparently it was my fault. |  |
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| First cars then on 11:17 - Dec 1 with 141 views | FBI |
1977 Fiat 127 - not the tiny 126, the bigger one.
If anyone knows the bottom road between Stanstead and Boxted, near Glemsford, there's a hump in the road where I could get all four wheels off the ground :-D |  |
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| First cars then on 11:25 - Dec 1 with 132 views | Epiphone |
Black Mk1 Golf GLS [Post edited 1 Dec 11:27]
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| First cars then on 12:00 - Dec 1 with 103 views | mellowblue |
I think mine was a clapped out red Vauxhall Chevette estate. Totally rubbish car with acceleration on par with a 2CV, but good to learn to drive in. Had a fantastically small turning circle. Got told off by my firm's transport manager after I broke a couple of springs rallying it around a field. Wondered why it was driving funny on the way to work that day ! Ah, the follies of youth. | | | |
| First cars then on 12:06 - Dec 1 with 92 views | BasingstokeBlue |
Bond Bug 700E.
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| First cars then on 12:10 - Dec 1 with 90 views | SaleAway |
'94 Citroen ZX. Navy blue....
dull as **** but reasonably reliable. replaced with a 306 Gti which was a lot more fun until meeting an untimely end on the front of a Polish artic.... | |
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| First cars then on 12:26 - Dec 1 with 63 views | WeWereZombies |
| First cars then on 09:01 - Dec 1 by Basuco |
Ford Cortina MK3, 1972 1.3 litre, not very powerful and very slow. |
I had one of those as my second car, Daytona Yellow - looked awful but drove OK, perhaps mine was a 1.6. Paid £450 for it. A step up from the £200 I paid for my first, a Morris 1300 which I managed to keep going for a couple of years. |  |
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| First cars then on 13:20 - Dec 1 with 25 views | Ftnfwest |
1974 VW Golf. 1st year available in this country i think. Golf ball gearstick knob. |  | | |
| First cars then on 13:59 - Dec 1 with 4 views | bluester |
My grandfather gave me his bright orange late 80s mini. Got in August, was written off by December.
It was an incredibly wet autumn/winter so it spent an awful lot of time conked out on the side of the road after driving through a puddle. | | | |
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