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[bestseany]

Mine was a H-reg 1.2 Nova. Very unreliable.

[tunnie]

E Reg 1.3 LX Nissan Sunny, dull to look at.

But bullet proof reliability, seats were also very good supprsingly.. interior had no rattles.... but when i started uni it really could not hack the motorways  

[RossPhim]

Mine was a D plate Fiat Regatta 1.6.
It was diabolical if the engine could even smell it was going to rain.
I was 19 at the time and cost me £850ish to insure.

I'll go away and hang my head in shame now!  

[Eddy Matthews]

My first car was a 1959 Morris Minor 2dr saloon with a massive 948cc engine - I adoured it, but it went to the big scrapyard in the sky after about 2 yrs  

Regards
Eddy

[Markjay]

First car was a 1959 Renault Dauphin... it was in 1977 and the car was made in the same year I was born...

Horrible little French car... I was lucky that the seller agreed to take it back after a week albeit at a loss to myself (I was just 18 at the time and I think he took pitty of me)




Again, this is not the actual car, just a piccy from the Internet. Mine was dull grey which for some reason was a very popular colour in the fiftees and sixtees...

[Marks DTM Calib]

First car was a Mk1 Cavalier 2.0GLS......

Second car was a Mk1 Fiesta 1.1.....a right heap of....never could get the tappets quiet and way to low gearing....the shocking thing is that they still used this crock of in the Ka!

Third was a Nova 1.0.....superb little thing, mega cheap and reliable....and a million times better than the Fiesta...

And the list then goes on...

[megaomega123]

C plate Ford Orion 1.6 ghia. I have to say, it was good for my first car. I worked as a travelling salesman with it and never had any problems  

[bob.dent]

1965 Ford Anglia 1.0L Deluxe

Being a youngster in those days, chavved it up a bit with twin choke carbs, 4 branch manifold, semi-straight through exhaust and 5 1/2 J Rostyle wheels. Sounded good but not that quick by todays standards.

[Big Rod]

The first car I had the use of after passing my test was one of my Dad's spare company cars. An '83 Cortina 1.6 GL. For some reason it was extraordinarily fast. The first thing I did after passing the test was to jump in it and drive it at 125 down the nearest stretch of straight road!! Remarkably enough it didn't last long. I passed on the Monday, someone tailended me on the Saturday then I failed to control some very dramatic oversteer the following Wednesday which caused me to take an excursion across two feilds!!

My second car was a Cortina 1.6 Crusader estate. I loved it to bits. Sadly about 18 months after I got it I rear ended five cars on the Forth Road Bridge at 5 o'clock one Friday night and closed the bridge for a while. Boy I was popular!! I still maintain that the car in front's brake lights didn't work. They certainly didn't when I'd finished with it!!  

[Jay]

First car was a Rover 416Ls Special Edition, full cream leather it was decent lookin back now but at 17 it was an old mans car, So I sold it and bought an Astra Sport with an XE  8-) Im now on my 9th car and im only 20! I get bored easily!

Now I love me "old mans" cars  

[Taxi_Driver]

A 1979 Vauxhall chevette 1.3 GL, so it the alloy sports wheel on it  8-)

I seem to remember it had a rust problem even tho only a few years old.....no change there then  

[Markie]

Yugo Zastava......god i hated it....so much i wrote it off and upgraded to a Datsun.

think that was 1992  :-/

[STMO123]

1964 Austin 1100, complete with British Leyland "bowl of jelly" gearbox

[Elite Pete]

My first legal car was a 1973 1.3 Ford Escort Estate. I was into CB radio at the time and at weekends I used to drive up Hope mountain and be on the CB all night sleeping in the back with the seats down.

[bob.dent]

My first legal car was a 1973 1.3 Ford Escort Estate. I was into CB radio at the time and at weekends I used to drive up Hope mountain and be on the CB all night sleeping in the back with the seats down.

Yep, I can associate with those days - parents could never understand why I was always so tired in the mornings!
CB radio has a lot to answer for too........it's how I met ex-Mrs bob.dent!!