1st car

daz90 · 5 Jan 2003, 21:36 (Ref:464801)

everyone can remember there 1st car, even though like mine it may have been a complete dog.

mine was a renault 19 1.4 tr, on an 89 f reg.

thankfully i have moved on from that and have now owned a couple more cars. but what were your 1st cars?

Maisie · 5 Jan 2003, 21:43 (Ref:464805)

Still got it! 1985 Austin Maestro 1.6 Vanden Plas. Would rather sell a relative

**touringlegend** · 5 Jan 2003, 21:59 (Ref:464817)

I'm feeling like that with my Fiesta as well Maisie!

It has it's bad points, like rust round the petrol cap (was common on that model of Fiesta) and rust in many other places, but I'd be sad to see it go, I think we're for getting a newer car and perhaps I will stuff the Fiesta!

coln72 · 5 Jan 2003, 22:44 (Ref:464853)

1975 Toyota Corolla Hardtop. Stock standard with a whole 72HP at the flywheel. Crappy brown color.
After eight years it was red, lowered etc. and a hell of a lot faster

and a whole lot more fun
Wish I still had it

Bluebottle · 5 Jan 2003, 22:54 (Ref:464866)

My first car was a 1982(?) Mk3 Escort Estate 1100- the base version which came complete with not a stereo but a mono!
I bought it when I was 23, I'd used my parents cars until then but they moved away from where I lived so I had to put my short arms into my deep pockets.....
I ran that car for three years until a drummer asked me to move his gear once too often so I part exchanged it for a Dutton- two seats and no luggage space!

**Craig** · 5 Jan 2003, 22:58 (Ref:464871)

First car - and still own it - was a Peugeot 306 D Turbo. R Reg, currently 51,000 miles. Nice runner, two careful owners, FSH. Anyone wanna buy it??

rdjones · 5 Jan 2003, 23:01 (Ref:464874)

an A Reg Ford Fistea - great car.

woodyracing · 5 Jan 2003, 23:05 (Ref:464877)

hmm a mono!, not heard of them before.

my first car was a 1989 F reg Escort XR3i, I broke all the rules of advice about buying a private motor and found out later to my expense. At least it wasn't a stolen one though and once I had fixed everything it was a very nice car.

**Craig** · 5 Jan 2003, 23:08 (Ref:464878)

But no blue indicators?

woodyracing · 5 Jan 2003, 23:13 (Ref:464884)

heh, no not back then. It had some Splitfire spark plugs which I swore give me more MPG.
I didnt drive so fast when I had that car, I just looked after it. an RS Turbo might have turned me into a speed freak though

Bluebottle · 5 Jan 2003, 23:39 (Ref:464912)

Quote:

Originally posted by woodyracing
hmm a mono!, not heard of them before.

I kid you not- there was only one speaker wired to one side of a stereo radio/tape player! That was a car which was 'one short' in several areas- the rear seat was equiped with just one seat belt (fitted by the previous owner) so if I had more than one back seat passenger, I had to decide which one I liked the most

**bella** · 6 Jan 2003, 01:13 (Ref:464962)

first car... well, hopefully it'll be a nice sparkly couple of year old clio.
theoretically, i'm sure i could have claimed squatters rights over the car i drove for a good year and a half after passing my test, my bmw 316i, about h reg on french plates. never was mine but i put tens of thousands of kilometres on it...

DAVID PATERSON · 6 Jan 2003, 09:17 (Ref:465126)

My fist car was a six year old 1982 Toyota KE70 Corolla CS sedan. It was in good nick with 104,000km on the clock. I kept it for four years, it was reliable, economical and easy to drive.

Magical Trevor · 6 Jan 2003, 18:18 (Ref:465541)

I was actually counting on having a 1976 GT Invader kit car as my first (I'm 13). But, three months ago in the midst of a heavy rainstorm, a dead tree fell square on the roof of it. (it had been in "storage"-in my backyard).

Quite a rare car, actually. It has a Beetle chassis and engine, with Pinin Farina bodywork. It had already needed some work on it, though, and a limb from the same tree had fallen onto the windshield a month earlier.

EERO · 6 Jan 2003, 18:36 (Ref:465555)

A sad little Renault 5, (Le Car, here in the States)

It honed my skills at two-wheeled cornering.

Bluebottle · 6 Jan 2003, 20:37 (Ref:465694)

Quote:

Originally posted by RacerGuy2
I was actually counting on having a 1976 GT Invader kit car as my first (I'm 13). But, three months ago in the midst of a heavy rainstorm, a dead tree fell square on the roof of it....

...and a limb from the same tree had fallen onto the windshield a month earlier.

O.K, so now you have a rare convertable with a flyscreen

Magical Trevor · 6 Jan 2003, 21:00 (Ref:465719)

Quote:

Originally posted by Bluebottle
O.K, so now you have a rare convertable with a flyscreen

Yeah, well-I'm still hoping that we can repair it, but the chances are slim.

Bluebottle · 6 Jan 2003, 22:27 (Ref:465775)

Do you have any pics of it (or an unsquashed example!) as I can't find it in any of my kit-car books?

Magical Trevor · 6 Jan 2003, 22:54 (Ref:465800)

Quote:

Originally posted by Bluebottle
Do you have any pics of it (or an unsquashed example!) as I can't find it in any of my kit-car books?

I found a site with a picture and a little bit of information about it-I was wrong about it being a Pinin Farina car.>Invader GT
(Scroll down to find it.)
I think my dad took pictures of it after the windshield was smashed for the insurance company. I'll see if I can find them for you.

Magical Trevor · 6 Jan 2003, 23:12 (Ref:465816)

Before my brother and I were born, it seems my father had somewhat of a knack for finding rare cars. He also had a Bertone-bodied Fiat X-19.Aparrently, they weren't really rare then, but they're rust-buckets, so they are now. (That's why he sold it.)

DAVID PATERSON · 7 Jan 2003, 08:52 (Ref:466061)

Not an ugly car RacerGuy, but i think your backyard needs a visit from Mr Chainsaw.

Bluebottle · 7 Jan 2003, 21:35 (Ref:466696)

There are some wild looking cars on that site! The American kit market had many more VW based kits than we ever did, but then we had plenty of Mk1 and 2 Escorts just asking to be turned into kits like Duttons etc

racingdick · 8 Jan 2003, 13:11 (Ref:467236)

hey daz 90 nout wrong with 19's though my g reg 1.4 gts
was brown...

racingdick · 8 Jan 2003, 13:13 (Ref:467242)

Moderator.... feel free to delete all but one of the above posts.
i had a rather over active finger, cos this flippen computer keeps crashing

woodyracing · 8 Jan 2003, 13:56 (Ref:467294)

done