First car ?

[Noah]

Hillman Imp - red with a black stripe

 

[photography_bloke]

Fiesta 1.2 - had it since I passed my test just over a year ago, still going well - lacks a bit of power on the hills though...

 

[Helen Goff]

Hillman Imp - red with a black stripe

Was my mums first car too.(back in the day when they were brand new)
I was very nearly born in (a blue) one...


Sure i have a photo of it somewhere but can't seem to find the scanned copy

 

[Jonah]

My mum had a green Imp but it got written off when she was hit by a Jaguar when going over the railway bridge at the bottom of School Lane. She ended up with her arm in a sling for a few weeks after the accident.

 

[Trumpet]

Mini van, cost £35.00 ran it for over a year including a holiday in Cornwall and various weekends away.
Sold it for £35.00.
Result!

 

[LeeA]

Mini Van now? 3000 quid upwards for a good one...

My first car when I was 17? Triumph Dolomite 1850HL, still one of the best cars Ive owned. Back in the 80s us young drivers could still insure cars like that. Now they cant insure anything with more power than a fart.

 

[staffordjas]

A Black 1963 mini and I loved that car. When I first bought it and drove it home I kept hearing someone peeping at me. Realised later that it was set up to sound the horn every time it went around a corner. Soon got that sorted!

 

[proactive]

Mini Van now? 3000 quid upwards for a good one...

My first car when I was 17? Triumph Dolomite 1850HL, still one of the best cars Ive owned. Back in the 80s us young drivers could still insure cars like that. Now they cant insure anything with more power than a fart.

Had a Dolly Sprint, back in the day. Was the best car I'd had up until the point that the passenger seat fell through the rusty floor.

With my then girlfriend sitting in it.

Angry does not begin to describe... how I felt at the loss of the seat...

 

[Trumpet]

Mini Van now? 3000 quid upwards for a good one...

Believe me, it was far from 'a good one'. Side windows cut into the back using ordinary household window glass perhaps give an idea of the previous owner's thought processes.

 

[Trumpet]

I was very lucky in that a mate's dad was a bit of a 'dealer' and we used to 'borrow' whatever was lying around on his drive or various friends drives / farmyards which constituted his 'business' premises. We were as likely to turn up at the Top of The World in a Roller or a sheep truck. Remember various class motors though, Jags, a crackin' Aston DB5 Superleggera, blower 3000 Healey. Having had the sack from a job and turning up on the last Friday in a drophead Roller. Cheap petrol + happy days.

 

[cometcycle]

A VW Beetle (A proper one).

 

[Helen Goff]

A VW Beetle (A proper one).

Excellent first car.

I nearly bought a very early beetle (split rear screen) a couple of years ago

 

[cometcycle]

Excellent first car.

I nearly bought a very early beetle (split rear screen) a couple of years ago

It was until the front suspension collapsed whilst heading downhill to a roundabout, ended up neatly beached on a traffic island. Fortunately no other vehicles were about at the time.

 

[Gramaisc]

First thing, with an engine and more than two wheels, that I ever drove. Nice chap let me have a go in it - I would have been fourteen, I think.

 

[Helen Goff]

First thing, with an engine and more than two wheels, that I ever drove. Nice chap let me have a go in it - I would have been fourteen, I think.

Now that looks like fun.
And loads of room for the shopping too

 

[Gramaisc]

Now that looks like fun.
And loads of room for the shopping too

No trouble getting a parking space, either...

 

[Helen Goff]

Maybe a seperate thread for the weirdest or most fun vehicle you've driven??

 

[John Marwood]

A work of art.

 

[Catabatic]

.... 1600 Hillman Minx.....

 

[Gadget]

This was my first and only car, I can't actually drive lol.