age 18 parents bought me my first car a suzuki sc 100 (whizz kid ) rear engine rear wheel drive shite brakes damn lethal most of my mates had mini's never forget when a mate jumped in and took it for a spin round a gravel car park and did a hand brake turn when it eventually stopped spinning he got out white as a sheet lol
don't laugh!...I should never of sold it.. rebuilt it at least three times before the age of 20...such fun though! And worth a penny now..damn! - it was based upon a 1952!! chassis...an original from the sixties...deep metalflake paint!
Hillman Imp for me. It overheated (common problem) on the way back from Toon. Mismatched rear brake shoes explained lack of handbrake. Big patch underneath covered in black underseal. Htf it had an mot no idea. Dodgy, very dodgy. Top spead was limited by width of the road. Over 65mph needed the M1 due to the death weave
1st gen Audi A3 1.8, absolute shite. If anything could’ve broken or fallen off, it did. I’ll never own another VAG car in my life, even makes me think twice about a Ducati
If you were trying to out-do Advikazm you failed im afraid, even though you had the Metro as your ace card.
Mk 3 Cortina 1983 month after passing my driving test. I was hoping for a nice Escort Mexico (that came later), buying Auto Trader avidly, circling cars in the £2k price bracket, little did i know dad had other ideas. On his way back from work he pooped into the local car auction, picked up a MOT failure Cortina 1600 GXL, with a dodgy diff. Cost all of £50, dad picked up a complete rear axle for £15 from local scrapyard, paid the mechanic in beers at the local pub, £10. All in it cost him £75. He taught me a very valuable lesson, first car should be cheap as chips, if it gets scraped/bashed its negligible in old cheap banger. Drove it around for a year without spending a penny on it. Loved that car. Registration no MAB947K. I was responsible for my own cars after that, buying and servicing.
Mine was a 1977 Sherpa van. Bought it to haul my bikes to MX meetings in the early 80’s. Used to race Berks & Hants and Reading schoolboys before a season or two with a Reading spin-off club in adult class. Those were the days! Wish I still had my Maico 250 Alpha 1.
Passed car test in 1991 but didn't bother with cars till doing the 96/97 winter commuting around M25 on gsxr750L. Neighbour flogged me a pale blue C reg Astra, best £300 I've ever spent. Did 18000 miles in a year or so before blowing engine up (using oil for printing machines probably didn't help) but still got £150 scrap for it. Think other than fuel & a couple of tryes I spent zero on it.
I was always destined for Italian. Mine was a Fiat Amigo. A scaled down Combi with a 900cc engine. Top speed about 63 miles an hour. Spent many a night with my mates in pub car parks. Waking up early and kicking a football around before finding a greasy spoon for breakfast. A total contrast to my Moto Guzzi Lemans. Happy days!
The Hillman Hunter. In no small part responsible for the demise of the British motor industry. When riding through Iran twenty years ago the roads were full of the damn things. The Iranians brought the tooling and turned out the Revolution Special.
First car? A van of course to cart the Ducati race bike around. CF Bedford. Slow and gutless doesn’t begin to describe it.
Born in ‘79 as my dad was a big car fan, I was too, saved money from the 2 jobs I had and when I passed the exam at 18, I drove away in my 205 1.9 GTI, that I bought 6 months before. I was in love and it gave me like George M. says “Freedom”.
I blame my first car on my parents. As a teenager my Dad and I were having a real father/son bike-off, racing with the CRMC and going to the IoM. Then I passed my test and he funded the part-ex of my Superdream for a Le Mans Mk II. Quite an upgrade. Strangely my Mum was not pleased and told my Dad she would leave him if he didn't get rid of the Le Mans and replace it with a car. He did. A canary yellow Porsche 911 E with four colour coded frog-eye fogs up the bonnet. Some years later history is repeating itself with my son......
Sadly no pics from 1979, but this is as close as I could find........ http://car-from-uk.com/ebay/carphotos/full/ebay65493.jpg
