what was your first car?

[st3ph3n]

I was 17 and I got a new Civic hatchback. It was an "illusion" special edition, so it was cheap. It came in supersonic blue, which when clean on a sunny day looked viper-blue, but it was purple any other day of the year. Fantastic little car. The 1.4 didn't really put out a lot of power, but you sat so low, and it was a wide car so handled quite nicely. This was before F+F, so all the Chavs didn't know how easy it was to mod a civic. I didn't to anything other than stereo and replacing the illusion sticker on the boot with a type-r badge, and some mugen ones over the front arches. My brother got it after me and he loved it too.

I can't remember the insurance.

[the squiggle]

1983 Suzuki SJ 410 Convertable.

Top speed of 45mph off the end of a cliff with a tail wind

Throttle pedal tied on with speaker wire through the rust holes in the footwell and it crossed the River Clyde with out the use of a Ferry, Boat or Bridge

Loved it cause the thing would keep on going and going through forests and rivers.

£400 odd for insurance

Grant

[scoobymadburd]

1999 V plate Fiat seceinto sporting!! Bright yellow in colour had it when i was taking my lessons and ran it for about 2 months after i passed my test. Loved that car great wee thing!!! All kitted up with big wheels!! Miss it!!

Claire

[MS S6CUB]

<< All kitted up with big wheels!! >>

how big can u get on a seicento? - 15" lol

[jamie_wood]

Suzuki Sj 410 with 20" spinners

[jacqui_robb]

Aged 17, 1984 Ford Fiesta Popular Plus (that Plus made all the differance lol!)

<< On really cold mornings I had to scrape the frost off the inside of the windows... and push her off numerous roundabouts - she didn't like the rain too much, typical woman >>

Yep, me too. When it was cold had to keep the revs up all the time, even when braking!

Least i dont have that cr~p to deal with now! .....yet i still seem to spend a fortune day-to-day on the scoob

[the squiggle]

<< Suzuki Sj 410 with 20" spinners >>

Well it did have 17's with big fook off BF Goodrich mud tyres and a flamer kit, well the petrol that went in the exhaust occasionally built up and KER_BOOM out the back end.

Grant

[wilky]

Jes, I really loved that cooper s! wish I had a scanner it was a beast. Wish ide kept it now............(And cue violins,,,,,,,,,)

Callum W

[sma01]

saxo vtr, was 18 when I got it and managed to get a deal on insurance, fully comp for only £400

[Gumball]

CAR- PUG 205 1.9 GTI charcoal grey/black

SPEED- REASONABLY QUICK

INSURANCE- all the best

LICENSE- NONE

CRASHED- YES INTO SOME PLATOON SERGEANTS CAR. £1500 DAMAGE.

Oh sorry Sergeant, it was dark, i hadnt turned my lights on. Insurance? eh no, do you take cash?

[fai17]

Car:VX Nova SR H REG

Age:18ish

Insurance:£550

Had a GSI kit fitted and got a respray in blue by Shovels . 16"Speedlines.Got it feature MAX POWER, can anyone remember,as i am chinese just like on the radio.It was about 10 years ago.

[coulty]

Um i have to admit that my first car is my scooby.

320 horses and a ton to insure

[dave_morgan]

<< (Eyes glaze over...) It was a 1966 mini cooper s, in the days before minis took off again in the early 90s. It would be worth a fortune if I had kept it, but it was well worn by 1987 anyway. I smashed the front end the second day I had it and my dad leathered me within an inch of my life! He put a glass fibre front end on it and connected the wiring by way of a caravan power socket so I could take the front end off completely. The 1275 block was replaced by a 1380 with omega pistons, and I used the cooper s steel rods and steel crankshaft.

By the time I sold it she had a Jack Knight staight cut gearbox, kent 276 cam, 1.5 highlift roller rockers and a Longman stage 3 head. The carb was a single 45 webber and I cut an airbox into the bulkhead and made it out of a steel drawer from a filing cabinet. Janspeed 3-1 manifold, janspeed exhaust and an aldon dizzy with luminition. about 98bhp @ the wheels so 108 at the flywheel through a comp clutch and the JK box.

Callum W >>

Sounds a bit like my 2nd car !! 1978 1275 GT. Started off completely standard (as I was a skint student) and ended up as a 1400 (74mm omega pistons), s/c box and drop gears, 1.5 rockers, mental cam, stg3 head, lightened flywheel and backplate, 45dcoe carb (with battery box in bulkhead) rc40, lcb manifold, luminition, hi-los, detatchable front end and a nice set of 13" Alley Cats fitted with rubberband Pirelli P7f's! Ah, those were the days. Nothing beats the induction roar from a side draft weber pointing straight at your ear drums or the whine from them straight cuts !!

End result - a very quick wee beast, and an even more skint student !!

[Don Mega]

First car was a 1991 pug 205 1.1, was 17 and under dads name for insurance.. still 480 quid for 3rd party F+T. great fun to drive though, think i had the back wheel off the ground a couple of times flying round the corners lol. Put a set of gti alloys on it and some sounds. Had it for 2 years, then got my scooby sport when i was 19 now i'm after my third car.. which of course is gonna be another scooby

Don Mega.

[Grovit]

Aged 17 - Ford Fiesta Mk1 1300 Ghia (T reg - the old T reg btw) - twin choke weber carb and Alleycat alloys.

Insurance £375 - TPFT

[Johnny50]

All this talk about Minis/Metros..

Here's how my second MG ended up.... also...it's replacement in the background..Chavalier Sri130.

[Guest]

jesus your a lucky boy johnny! i should have ask the question HOW MANY PEOPLE ALSO CRASHED THEIR FIRST CAR?????

im one into a roundabout the day before i sold it best thing it must be the only rounabout within 100sq/miles of my house anyway ran over front bumper and bent the wing. so straightened it dodgyed up the front bumper and sold it the next day for £800 more than i paid 4 it!!!

[DOPEY]

CAR  skoda favorit 1.3

was a grass auto test car never got to one as it got nicked!! who wants to nick a skoda

had some good times in that car like hitting the house when reversing,and ripping the runway appart

before it was mine at got the fastest lap round the grass auto track but it was driven by a rall driver Gordan Alexander i think

[jcscoob]

v reg orange MINI (old v)

£500

Past my test in it and i wrote it off upside down through a ditch, dike, then feild, wot a car !!!

[Guest]

my first car was a mini clubman, 1973 model .... for those who are too young.

great car learned to drive in it, bought for 250, sold it 2 yrs later with 23 phone calls in one day!!

[dan_osbourne]

Mg Metro Turbo (E Reg) in white

17 years old and tpft was over a grand with a 500 squid excess,

blew up every 5 minutes

[allan_thorne]

Mini Clubman SMS 835P cost me £350.00 to insure tpft and that was back in 1981.

[Iaing]

I had a 4 door Rover Metro Gta !!

Ace car till the hydrostatic suspension blew on one side on the way to college and cost me £300 to fix. I managed to limp the car to college and parked, all the young boys that walked past it thought it was ace that low. Ha ha

Iain

[Johnny50]

I used to do that too....

Best handling mod on the Metros was to have seperate hydroelastic tanks at the back, rather than use the one that split between the two sides, so that when cornering, the car stayed flat, rather than tilting when the fluid moved from one side to another...

Great fun !