My First Car...

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  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Led Zeppelin 2 and Steely Dan Pretzel Logic
    ;lol

    My Renault 16 had a column shift and front bench seat, I loved it.
  • NEoldironNEoldiron
    Suze are you impressed with my taste in music? ;biggrin
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Most certainly ;biggrin
  • NEoldironNEoldiron
    Still can't tell if you're serious ;lol
  • HammerexHammerex
    Bet I know what Suz favourite was in those days. Neil Diamond singing
    Red Red Wine, ;biggrin
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    edited March 2016
    Hammerex, in 1971 - the year of NEold's trip I was 4.

    Much more concerned with Andy Pandy, the Herb Garden and Hectors House.

    I passed my test in 1984 and played nothing but Duran Duran and Wham.
  • MoojorMoojor
    SuzanneClaret said:

    Hammerex, in 1971 - the year of NEold's trip I was 4.

    Much more concerned with Andy Pandy, the Herb Garden and Hectors House.

    I passed my test in 1984 and played nothing but Duran Duran and Wham.

    I was 3 years old when you passed your test :)
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
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  • eskimokingeskimoking
    I wasn't born ;wink Is this a competition? Did I win?
  • Expat_HammerExpat_Hammer
    eskimoking said:

    I wasn't born ;wink Is this a competition? Did I win?

    No, you weren't around to enter ;lol
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    ;biggrin
  • Brother_SledgeBrother_Sledge
    Sledge's first motor was a Mk I Escort and he gave it to me when I rolled my Mini 1275GT in 1982 - The number plate was 'SHY' something and it is still hanging on his garage wall. ;poppy
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    ;hug ;poppy
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Brother_Sledge

    That must have been some accident if all that was left was the number plate ;biggrin
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    When I moved house from Colchester to Bristol my old HA Viva kept overheating. Between stops at petrol stations or motorway services I had to carry extra water in containers and even called the AA to fill up the radiator and containers.
    The journey took 14 hours 45 min.
    A week later I bought a mk2 escort from a local garage and pranged it parking underneath the flat we were temporarily staying in.
  • HamstewHamstew
    edited March 2016
    Citroën Saxo Desire 1.1 black. I thought i was cool when in fact looking back I don't think I was.
  • Brother_SledgeBrother_Sledge
    IronHerb ;lol
    I had spent all of my spare time and money on my Mini rebuilding the engine sorting bodywork and a brand new respray in British Racing Green - I rolled on the first bend 150 yards from home - only me, my mate, and the bootlid survived undamaged so I bought a second hand bodyshell and we swapped all the mechanicals electrics and interior. I had Sledge's escort to get about until we got it back on the road.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    MJ

    Is the photo before or after the conversion? ;lol
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Mark 1 Escort for me as well, two tone it was, white and rust. Cost me £100 from the bloke next door (had been his late father's car and had sat around for ages not being used, amazingly went pretty much straight through an MOT).
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Buffy brakes failed did they.
  • SwissironSwissiron
    Mine was a Mini Clubman with real wood, already 8 years old in 1976, cost £150 and came with a big blue bow around it, twas a present from my parents, it lasted about 8 months
  • CleverTrevorCleverTrevor
    Mine was a red Mini 1000. Paid £30 to my sister for it in 1978 and I still remember the reg number - it was XGN 375B ! I too was just 17.
  • OutcastLondonerOutcastLondoner
    A VW Polo and I still have it. It has all its doors and there's no hole in the floor but my younger cousins don't understand what the manual wind-down windows or the cassete player are ;biggrin

    We're trying to rent one of these for the office

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  • HammerwombatHammerwombat
    1959 Hillman imp. Red. Floor leaked, windscreen leaked, ran most of the time on 3 cylinders, brakes were rubbish, suspension was non existent, and the bonnet popped up every time you went over a bump. Cost, £55. Got a fiver for it scrap when it finally died.

    I loved that wonderful car. ;biggrin
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Those were the days when you got a Haynes manual from the library and went down the scrapyard to buy a part from a totally wrecked car and fitted it yourself onto your own motor. What you couldn't do with a hammer, a Halfords socket set and that manual wasn't worth doing.

    Aahh, happy days.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    edited March 2016
    Popped on new wing mirrors with a Philips screwdriver and zero mechanical knowledge.
  • CleverTrevorCleverTrevor
    Does anyone remember those 'stick on' heated rear windows?
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    I don't.

    And why don't I as it sounds like something I would have had?

    I loved cars then, you never see one any more with a different colour door or bonnet.

  • IronHerbIronHerb
    State of the art they were. You could partially see out of about a quarter of the window.
  • SwissironSwissiron
    IronHerb said:

    What you couldn't do with a hammer, wasn't worth doing.

    Aahh, happy days.

    fixed it for ya!
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