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1st Car You Ever Drove

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  • 29-07-2008 6:13pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭


    Not to be confused with what was your 1st car.

    Mine

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    Up in Co.Down, and yes i did go straight sideways.

    But not from trying to do so:eek:

    I was 11


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Saab 96 around the backstrand car park Tramore.

    Mike


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    An '86 black Opel Kadett around the local Dunnes Stores carpark when I was about 11. God I hated that car!


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,602 ✭✭✭ShayK1


    a blue Mini 850, I too was 11


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭alexmcred


    a mini 800 think I was around 11 around a garage forecourt (it was closed)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Well, the first car was my parent's '93 Ford Sierra diesel. Learned how to drive in a field on my uncle's farm. I was 15. This was it:

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    However, as for the first overall vehicle I ever drove, it was my uncle's 1950's Fordson Major Diesel tractor when I was 8.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    87 Fiesta Ghia, but the first proper on the road drive was in my dad's 95 Vectra.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Volvoboy wrote: »
    Not to be confused with what was your 1st car.

    why not? Cus mine was both.

    Fiat Punto.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 daithismith


    A red Opel Kadett. I think it was from the 70s. Crashed it into a bush at very low speed. No damage done. It was a long time ago...around 1994 or so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    quarryman wrote: »
    why not? Cus mine was both.

    Fiat Punto.

    For most the 1st time you drive is in your mothers/fathers/aunts/uncles/cousin.. you get the gist.


    Not in the 1st car you ever bought/owned.:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,146 ✭✭✭Morrisseeee


    In the 80's I had my 1st drive via my parents Ford Escort, then a few weeks later I got caught by the guards for driving on my own with no licence or insurance, but I got off with a 'stern warning', phew.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    In the 80's I had my 1st drive via my parents Ford Escort, then a few weeks later I got caught by the guards for driving on my own with no licence or insurance, but I got off with a 'stern warning', phew.

    The good ol' days, eh!? :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,568 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    A 98 Suzuki Grand Vitara.
    My dads work jeep, nearly drove us off Killybegs pier.


    No idea why my dad though a pier would be a good place to show me how to drive...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,423 ✭✭✭pburns


    Chrysler Hunter 1.7HS complete with vinyl top, fake wood, quad headlights and chintzy alloy(-ish) wheels. It was the run-out Hunter model, specially prepared for Ireland where they were very popular (the Octavia/Jetta of it's day) and was about 10 years old by the time I got my hands on it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    First car I drove was my father's '95 Opel Vectra 1.6. It felt like a rocket :D Only took it around an empty car park in first gear. I was about 13 or 14 at the time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


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    Dad's car (same colour even :eek:) on some quiet backroad. I was just 17, dreaming about getting driving lessons and constantly dropping hints about letting me have a go.

    So, one day, out of the blue he did stop the car and said ..."now you drive, son" ....being my dad, he of course stopped it right on a steep hill :rolleyes:

    So my first ever car driving experience was a hill start ...eventually :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    Ford Escort 1.4 Ghia


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,995 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    A green Hillman Avenger around my Granny's farmyard! :)

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    (EDIT: The first actual vehicle that I drove was a Fordson Super Dexta tractor!)


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,920 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Ford Galaxy, around an abandoned go kart track in Spain. I was 13, and Dad figured it was time I learned to drive! :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,442 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    :D
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    Toots85 wrote: »
    Ford Galaxy, around an abandoned go kart track in Spain. I was 13, and Dad figured it was time I learned to drive! :)

    Could he not think of anything smaller


    :pac:

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,853 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    A Renault 4 van !

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    On a deserted beach when I was 8 I drove my dad's 1981 Mazda 323, I could barely see over the wheel


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    One of these (1981 vw jetta)in a wine colour,1.6 non turbo diesel,on the beach,id say i was around 11!!
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    Car fell apart around 1996!!:D


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,417 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    no pics but is was an old old shape toyota hiace when i was 15!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭farva


    Back in 1999 I was 13 and my mom let me drive my dad's brand new Lexus IS200 Sport on Dollymount strand. He freaked when he found out!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭stratos


    Yep dollyer here too, dads mk4 cortina 1.6 gl, ah the gl how we had moved up. excellent thread had forgotten about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    :o:o:o:o Aha cough Ahem :eek::eek: going to show my age now,

    it was morris minor 1000

    I was about 10/11


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,010 ✭✭✭Barr


    my dads 1986 Audi 100 ..felt as big has a house because of the lenght of the car


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭Balfa


    I woulda been three when my dad let me drive his fourth generation corolla around Bull Island. Of course, he still controlled the pedals while I sat on his lap :D And every time he gave me control, I drove straight at Dublin Bay, and he'd have to stop me, line me up parallel to the coast, and let me go again :)

    The next time after that, I was probably 12 or 13 in me ma's '88 Domino, on Rosnowlagh beach.

    Good thread.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,332 ✭✭✭blackbox


    picture.php?albumid=63&pictureid=276
    in a field near Brittas Bay


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