My First Car...

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  • MoojorMoojor
    edited March 2016
    How the other half live!

    (Payet's) First car was a Merc SLK 200 Convertable. hahaha
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Mine was a MK1 escort with a missing passenger door.
  • SwissironSwissiron
    edited March 2016
    deehammer - maybe he bought Marco's caravan ;lol
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Mine was an HA Viva with doors that didn't open. Had to climb in and out of the windows. Vicar's face was a picture when we turned up to discuss our wedding arrangements.
  • Pearces_Left_FootPearces_Left_Foot
    My mate had a mini where you had to hold the choke out with a peg, only the drivers windscreen wiper worked and there was a hole in the floor that you could see the road through . Bombing down the A12 in that was an experience !
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    Mine was a Smart. First Smart in the entire region.
  • Expat_HammerExpat_Hammer
    I started off with a MK1 Escort too.

    I must have been rich, it came with two doors ;lol
  • Pearces_Left_FootPearces_Left_Foot
    My first car was a 5 door renault 5 its was a nightmare in winter, with ice on the inside of the windscreen I had to scrape the inside and outside then it misted up when the heater got going
  • ammerinaberdeenammerinaberdeen
    Not saying I'm getting on a bit but was a Mk 1 consul, column change as as well
  • MoojorMoojor
    Pearces_Left_Foot said:

    My mate had a mini where you had to hold the choke out with a peg, only the drivers windscreen wiper worked and there was a hole in the floor that you could see the road through . Bombing down the A12 in that was an experience !

    hahaha, I swear all mini's had to have a peg to hold the choke out!
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Mk II Ford Cortina from a work mate.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    I do love those Fords ;carew

    I went out with a lad once just because he had an orange Capri ;biggrin
  • Expat_HammerExpat_Hammer
    Aaaaaaaaaaah Suze, the 3000E *sigh*
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    edited March 2016
    SuzanneClaret said:


    I went out with a lad once just because he had an orange Capri ;biggrin

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    ;nonono
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Went well with vodka I understand
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    I'm sure I don't know what you mean ;whistle
  • MoojorMoojor
    MrsGrey

    ;lol ;clap ;lol
  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    Snap dimi my first car was also a merc

    Got to love company cars, especially as I had an accident in the first few days of having it and didn't have to pay repair costs....
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Oooo a car thread ;wahoo

    After the Mk1 I had 2 mini's and 2 Renault's [16 & 5] before I was 25.

    Not all of them died at my hand... ;biggrin
  • ThamesIronWorksThamesIronWorks
    Mini. Like pretty much everyone I know of a similar age. Mine was 15 years old when I bought it in 1981. And yes, clothes peg assisted choke. Plus constantly failing heater tap resulting in billowing steam on a regular basis. I loved that car.
  • Ravel49Ravel49
    All hail the Capri Sun

    ;bowdown
  • Ravel49Ravel49
    Only bettered by Um Bongo

    ;bowdown ;bowdown

    ;hippo
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    ThamesIronWorks said:

    Mini. Like pretty much everyone I know of a similar age. Mine was 15 years old when I bought it in 1981. And yes, clothes peg assisted choke. Plus constantly failing heater tap resulting in billowing steam on a regular basis. I loved that car.

    ;lol I had forgotten about that.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    I had one car [not sure what one it was] where I pulled on the choke and the cable just kept coming, more cable than I thought possible!!

    I think it might have been the Capri ;hmm
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Never had a car.


    ;yercoat
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Did you never want one?
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    No, not really. Never needed one.

    Always lived in cities, so used public transport, walked and (occasionally) cycled.

  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    edited March 2016
    ;hmm I can still remember our first family car, back when I was about 5. It was a green one. ;biggrin
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    ;biggrin

    I couldn't wait to learn to drive, had lessons on my 17th birthday...
  • NEoldironNEoldiron
    My first was a Vauxhall Victor 101 two-tone blue, 3-gear column shift, front bench seat. Bought it in 1971 for £200 to drive to near Barcelona for a camping holiday (in a tent ;wink) with girlfriend and a mate and his girlfriend.
    Put an 8 track in it (remember those) because mate said he could borrow a bunch of tapes. Ended up that he couldn't so we had to make do with Led Zeppelin 2 and Steely Dan Pretzel Logic - pretty eclectic eh!
    I played them all the way there and all the way back to the point that the other 3 threatened to rip the 8 track out if I didn't give them a break!
    Oh, nearly forgot - done the big ends in on the way back, but it got us home.
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