Your first car!

PrzemoF

No1J wrote: »

My first car was and to this day the best car I ever owned. It was a 1954 Mercedes Benz 300SL, silver with red leather interior, absolutely beautiful and my pride and joy. My father bought it for me in 1968 as a birthday present but by the end of the party some little sh1t had stuck it in his pocket and I never seen it again.

Like that one???? :eek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_300SL

Pictures or it never happened

OldGoat

katopyrgos

Stained Class wrote: »

Hi all.

I've an interest in classic cars & reckon some of the motors you've owned here might be coming into that category now.

Me?

I bought my first car in '93. It was an '81 Golf 1.1 Formel E. (The economy model.:() Paid £350 for it!

Crashed it into a house 6 months later!

So, what was your first?:)

I bought my first car in 1969, a Ford Anglia 1962 model. A right banger it was, still it got me on the road. The drivers door used to open if you hit a pot-hole. I used to have to keep my right little finger around the catch for the Fly- window. ( no more fly windows anymore but still an odd pothole)

visual

Mini 850 bought in in early 80's it was 11 years old back then but I loved it so much I pained it inside and out with brush and tins of paint (rust was a problem will motors back then)

steamengine

katopyrgos wrote: »

I bought my first car in 1969, a Ford Anglia 1962 model. A right banger it was, still it got me on the road. The drivers door used to open if you hit a pot-hole. I used to have to keep my right little finger around the catch for the Fly- window. ( no more fly windows anymore but still an odd pothole)

My first car too, early 70's can't remember exactly when. Lost the keys of it down Dollymount strand and had to make my way back home to find some keys to open it. In my dad's garage he had old keys lying about, a mixture of padlock and old house keys. Filled my pocket up and went back down to the beach and an old house key opened it, started it also

Poor Uncle Tom

Austin A40

But the most memorable car was called Hitlers revenge, it was a split screen VW beatle with a mind of its own, on two seperate occasions I remember it started up on it's own, once in the middle of the night and another time I was standing looking at it with a friend when he put his hand on the front wing.....:D...frightened the sh...life out of him.

muffler

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Austin A40

But the most memorable car was called Hitlers revenge, it was a split screen VW beatle with a mind of its own, on two seperate occasions I remember it started up on it's own, once in the middle of the night and another time I was standing looking at it with a friend when he put his hand on the front wing.....:D...frightened the sh...life out of him.

Yeah, too much of this probably

Poor Uncle Tom

Probably, but what about the car......:D

Rubecula

Found this picture and I have been staring at it for ages but I can't see OldGoat in the shot anywhere.:pac:

(it is a Stanley Steamer by the way)

golden virginia

My first car had Silver Cross wheels.
The chassis was of timber.
The steering was made from the finest natural fibre rope.
it took 4 of us to push it to the top of the Hill.
The best thing, was that it had no brakes!

Stained Class

katopyrgos wrote: »

I bought my first car in 1969, a Ford Anglia 1962 model. A right banger it was, still it got me on the road. The drivers door used to open if you hit a pot-hole. I used to have to keep my right little finger around the catch for the Fly- window. ( no more fly windows anymore but still an odd pothole)

Ah yes, Fly Windows!

Perfect for flicking the ash off your fag whilst on the move.:cool:

Rubecula

Isn't strange how some of the worse wrecks on the road, gave us some of the fondest and best memories?

Not my first car, and not the best really (in mechanical and reliability terms) but most certainly the car I loved the most and remember with a tear in my eye, was my Ford Capri. Hand painted in Smoothrite Matt Black, and with a broken drivers seat, but what memories.:)

Stained Class

Rubecula wrote: »

Not my first car, and not the best really (in mechanical and reliability terms) but most certainly the car I loved the most and remember with a tear in my eye, was my Ford Capri. Hand painted in Smoothrite Matt Black, and with a broken drivers seat, but what memories.:)

Ah yes, the Capri!

Had a couple of them in my time.

Went on my honeymoon in one!

Great car with loadsa character.:D

muffler

They dont make "multi-task" cars like this any more.

EGAR

1984 I bought my first car, a 1968 VW Beetle and I wish I still had it...

Mollywolly

My first car was a 1969 Ford Escort, bought when I passed my test all the way back in 1977. It was white with red faux-leather (ahem, plastic) seats and was a total rust bucket, but I was so proud of it. Couldn't have cost me more than £100 - about four weeks wages back then :eek:

Still driving a Ford too, though obviously not the same one. I vaguely recall that it went to the big car park in the sky because the rust got so bad it couldn't be repaired.

Stained Class

Mollywolly wrote: »

My first car was a 1969 Ford Escort, bought when I passed my test all the way back in 1977. It was white with red faux-leather (ahem, plastic) seats and was a total rust bucket, but I was so proud of it. Couldn't have cost me more than £100 - about four weeks wages back then :eek:

Still driving a Ford too, though obviously not the same one. I vaguely recall that it went to the big car park in the sky because the rust got so bad it couldn't be repaired.

That was the thing about cars in those days.

An 8 year old Escort already suffering serious rust issues!:eek:

Fords weren't all that bad at the time, in comparison to other cars, such as Mazda 818s, Datsun 120ys, Fiats, Renaults & the like.

Young people buying old cars hardly think about rust these days.

I'm now running a 17 year old Mazda & rust is just not an issue with it, as with most cars of it's vintage.

btb

my first car was a 79 Renault 5 Gordini, bought it in 1985 from a friends brother, seriously fast motor back then. More sense now drive a sedate family car, but would love another one.

1012594711

The Fiat 126 seemed to take over the limelight in rear-engine Fiats. I didn't know anyone who had a Fiat 850 since moving house in 1978, there was one a few doors down upto the time I moved. I only saw nosthalgia merchandise for Fiat 500's. A few years after the last Fiat 850 Leyland launched the Mini 850. This made me forget about the Fiat 850 until I saw it on the 1960's film screened in the early 1980's on TV. I haven't seen any at vintage car shows yet, but there must be some, especially at the really extensive vintage car shows

Nekarsulm

My first car was a mini 850. Bought in 1985 for 850 euro. Bright yellow
Done all the usual things, sports steering wheel, Madadash fitted with extra guages, fitted a casette player as well.
The boot floor was mainly fibreglass. Battery once fell through the boot floor and was destroyed on the road.
Removed the bumpers, smoothed the seams and sprayed it Guards Red, then fitted a 1000 engine.
Great fun, and had it 2 years before upgraded to a Mk2 Fiesta, bought in Enniskillen. 82 CN 1.

garancafan

1012594711 wrote: »

The Fiat 126 seemed to take over the limelight in rear-engine Fiats. I didn't know anyone who had a Fiat 850 since moving house in 1978, there was one a few doors down upto the time I moved. I only saw nosthalgia merchandise for Fiat 500's. A few years after the last Fiat 850 Leyland launched the Mini 850. This made me forget about the Fiat 850 until I saw it on the 1960's film screened in the early 1980's on TV. I haven't seen any at vintage car shows yet, but there must be some, especially at the really extensive vintage car shows

Ah Fiat.
My own first car was a Fiat 600D (750 cc engine), bought 1969 for £250 and sold a year later for £235 - motoring was expensive in those days.
Completely trouble-free other than a snapped throttle cable (car brought home with a piece of string attached to the throttle and led to the driver along the side of the car and in through the driver's window and operated by hand).
I have fond memories of the a Fiat 500 owned by a lady friend, in the rear seat of which we managed to consummate our mutual regard. Bodies in those days might have been prone to rust, but they were adequately flexible.

Wedgie

A '76 Fiat 127, bought for the sum of £250 in '87, and costing £633.75 to insure! It was dark green in colour, hand painted by someone prior to me acquiring it.

I remember getting a rear wheel blowout in it on the Naas Road about 10 o'clock one night, flat out in 4th gear, six people in total in the car! It gave everyone on board a good laugh.

I kept it for about a year, then traded up to a '80 Renault 5.

1012594711

Some older cars I travelled in had holes in the floor pan. Also I note that older cars' engine compartments have no 'floors', everything is bolted onto the frame, so I could see how a battery, presumably bolted in the rear engine compartment, could fall onto the road if there's a problem with the bolts and the battery comes away from its mount. Interestingly, the Leyland Mini's were front engined but the battery was in the rear. Presumably the Fiat 850 battery was in the same place as the engine, like in most cars
The only rear engined cars made nowadays seem to be expensive sports cars

smokingman

Austin Allegro....was probably a classic when I had it back in the early nineties.

JuliusCaesar

I had a VW Beetle for a while. The engine would cut out if you took your foot off the accellerator so used have to brake by putting foot crossways on both pedals and push in the clutch... dunno how I drove around Dublin like that. That was in the early 80s.

The next car was a new Skoda. It was that or a Panda. It had no radio and so I used have to bring my battery driven cassette player with me. The handling on motorways was atrocious, it couldn't handle wind. I remember driving on the M1 in England overtaking a lorry, and a coach overtook me on the other side - I thought my last days had come, it would NOT go in a straight line in the slipstreams.

But my absolute favourite was a Mitsubishi Colt I had in the early 90s. Stolen, and the price of car insurance increased so much I was broke for years. It wasn't my blinkin' fault it was stolen!!I had the yellow steering lock on it and all!

JillyQ

Got my first car around 1991 it's was an 88 VW golf gold in colour. I had it for about 7 years. Had a few bumps in it. Including being hit by an uninsured driver he went straight into the drivers side door which ended up bent had to tie it closed with string

cobham

1973 white fiat 127 needed for work , bought in 1977 with Bank motor loan .... 1500 at 15%... it was deemed a luxery and foreign import so would not let me have cheaper overdraft. Great car just had to get decent seatbelts!l

Graces7

Blue Mini in 1964..

Now I am working on what my LAST car might be...

Nekarsulm

Graces7 wrote: »

Blue Mini in 1964..

Now I am working on what my LAST car might be...

Mercedes Hearse, for a lot of us!

Graces7

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Mercedes Hearse, for a lot of us!

Funny guy! Hoping for one more before that, thank you!