What was your first car?

Seanie M · 07-02-2006 3:02pm

A 1997 Citroen ZX Elyssee 1.4i. Brilliant car.

PaulieC · 07-02-2006 3:40pm

1986 Nissan Laurel, with 180k miles on the clock, bought off a taxi driver on the way home from a drunken day out. Cost 400 punts and I spent about 1k on it afterwards.
My favourite feature on it was the way I had to lock the steering to the right under braking to counter the pull to the left in order to keep it in a straight line. Kept it for about 6 months and then someone bought it off me for parts.

It even had a theme song, which was losely based on 'How Bizarre' by OMC

fjon · 07-02-2006 5:04pm

Seat Ibiza. Great little car, never gave me any trouble except for that time the clutch cable snapped

Kermitt · 07-02-2006 5:16pm

BnA wrote:

What I learned to drive on : A 20 year old 1965 Fordson Super Dexta (That's a tractor for all ye Palers...) when I was 8 years old.

SNAP!! Learned to drive on a 62 dexta in the bog with my uncle back the way. She had tyres from a round baler on the front!! I believe it was nicknamed daisy!!!

My first car was a 94 clio.. it fell to bits after 6 months fan belt, back shocks clutch which was always dodgy. was a bad buy.. Then bought a 98 VW polo.. a fantastic car and i was sorry to see it go... Now I gots a 02 Golf Comfortline.

richardson2525 · 07-02-2006 5:28pm

First Car 1995 Honda Civic 1.5l saloon -great car drove for 6 months and sold with 1000 euro profit!
Only been driving for 2 years so heres what i've had in those two years!
Then got a Mercedes Benz 190E 2.0l for a couple of months before I gave it to a friend cause it was too much of a gas guzzler.
Then got a 1992 Nissan Sunny carvan cause it was so cheap to tax and insure (still have it as a backup car!)
Then got a 1991 Toyota Carina II 2.0l which I got cause wanted something with back seats again, drove it for about 3 months before selling it cause I found the car I always wanted as a kid.
It was a 1990 Nissan Bluebird ZX Turbo Executive which was my dream car before it was stolen after only one month of ownership.
Currently drive a 1995 Mazda 626 Estate 1.8l, which is fine although i'm thinking of going back to the sunny van cause it is such a great little car!

SouperComputer · 07-02-2006 6:20pm

When I was 14 I bought a 1978 Audi 80 off a Gard!

Great car, the dampers were non-existant so we'd be big-pimpin down the road! Used it to "misappropiate" sand for a soundproof room we were building, ah those were the days.

[true story] About a week before I sold it on, I stopped to get petrol and the lock in the cap broke. I had to borrow a crowbar from the guy behind the counter (dont ask!)to pull it off. Picture the scene: 14year old with crowbar in Finglas ripping the crap out of a "banger"

So, the gards pull into the petrol station while im doing this. Naturally I though I was fecked. They saw me, and the situation looked unfavourable for me to say the least.

Not quite, a bangarda litterally went into the shop, bought a bottle of instant coffee and the squad card drove off! [/true story]

My first legal car was a 93 Nissan Sunny.

dogg_r_69 · 07-02-2006 6:58pm

Fisrt car on the road was a Opel Astra First car I bought was a 1983 Ford Escort for messing with

mike65 · 07-02-2006 7:04pm

My first car to drive regularly was ahem...a Fiat 127

in spectacular orange. The first car I actually bought was a Citroen BX RD17.

Mike.

ciarsd · 07-02-2006 7:15pm

First car was a brand new Citroen Saxo.

Learned to drive in a whole host of cars, on and off the road

but had my first insurance on my mothers old car - a Nissan Micra.

Now onto my 4th car - well I will be tomorrow all going to plan

Alun · 07-02-2006 7:15pm

Showing my age here ... first car I drove, and learnt to drive in was a 1964 Ford Anglia. First car I owned was a 1962 Mk I Ford Cortina. It cost me £125 to buy, and £100 to insure TPFT in 1977

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 07-02-2006 7:29pm

Haven't bought my first car yet, but am on the lookout for one at the moment seeing as the car loan came through!

It's either going to be a 1.4 civic, or a 1.4 or 1.6 mark iv golf

Max_Damage · 07-02-2006 7:45pm

1990 Micra, and I still have it.

scuba steve · 07-02-2006 8:26pm

Fiat Punto Sporting, only after getting it

byte · 07-02-2006 9:00pm

First car was a 1995 Opel 1.2L Corsa. It still is my car, 3 years later though it's due to be side-shifted in favour of something newer.

In fairness to it, it never let me down, and with a 6 speaker system, the sound wasn't bad either (though I did replace the rear speakers with something more ample)!

Just hope whatever car I buy next will be as bother-free as Kimi the Corsa!

rsta · 07-02-2006 10:13pm

byte wrote:

Kimi the Corsa!

cool name!

Well i probably should have put more cars on the poll options, loads of you have selected 'other'

and no one has had a starlet as their first car... i thought that wud have been one of the popular ones. i took my first lesson in a toyota starlet, it was the instructers car, it was a nice little car to drive, i dont think they make them anymore though?

Glad to read all your posts, lovin our cars !

rsta · 07-02-2006 10:17pm

Ooops! i see some did pick the starlet on the poll....

Anan1 · 08-02-2006 12:45am

A 1969 Lancia Fulvia Sport

tapest · 08-02-2006 9:10am

Alun ..... a 1964 Ford Anglia.

I hit one of them in the ar*e with a Honda 50cc in the middle of O'Connell street once..and once was enough..didn't even scratch the chrome bumper...I was carted off in ambulance.

Keyser Soze 5........Nineteen Dickity two

Saying nought... Soze 5 sounds like he's 5 lol

blastman..........We had two new Hillman Avengers when I was a kid, so I'm going to guess at around 1972 or thereabouts. By the way, it was Jinksy in Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks that used to say "I hate all meeces to pieces!"

Is he old enough to remember the exact cartoon quote and character names or is he a history student?? But there was no need to rub salt into the wounds"when I was a kid"..bl**dy cheek

Answer: 1973 reg was 7**7 ZH
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pontovic · 08-02-2006 10:28am

My very first car was a stone runner. It went quite fast provided your feet could keep up. I think Fred Flintstone had one too

Interceptor · 08-02-2006 11:53am

Ex-ESB Renault 4 van with kool kustom spray job and spotlights on the roof and carpet in the back for smoooching with gurls. Not that any ever got into it - they had more sense back then...

'cptr

doc... · 08-02-2006 5:19pm

Mitzi Colt (1.3 in tax book) 2.0 turbo under hood!:eek:

Kermitt · 08-02-2006 5:34pm

doc... wrote:

Mitzi Colt (1.3 in tax book) 2.0 turbo under hood!:eek:

Tax/Insurance dodging fool...Hope your car gets struck down with some sort of chronic seat defect causing you to have an itchy a$$ everywhere you go. Dispicable. (And hope you get caught)

t5pwr · 08-02-2006 6:41pm

My first car was a 1.6L Ford Orion '93. Slow as hell...
Bought it for £500 and had it for almost 5 years

Timing belt broke so got rid of it and now onto bigger and better things now

t5pwr · 08-02-2006 6:43pm

Kermitt wrote:

Tax/Insurance dodging fool...Hope your car gets struck down with some sort of chronic seat defect causing you to have an itchy a$$ everywhere you go. Dispicable. (And hope you get caught)

I have to agree...