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1.9 Opel Manta
Gearbox fell off driving it home from the dealer.
Hillman Imp in many shades of blue.
breadcrumb - Member
Surely that's not the correct reg, that would make it a 1994ish!
Your so right, my memory must be going, it was
MGM 969M
#idiot
Same as captainsasquatch - 1982 Renault 5TL, I think it was 1178cc and about 6 bhp
Had my 1st car when I was 14, an old Ford Popular, (this was about 1970) we lived next to a disused quarry, which was handy for ragging round. A succession of bangers (& motorbikes) followed till I passed my test in 1973 & rose to the dizzy heights of being a Mini owner! (probably circa 1968 model)
1986 Nissan Bluebird, 1.6lx.
Far bigger, faster and cheaper than the little 1.0 things friends had and well known for having an interior like a 3 piece suite, well comfy.
Also near identical to the one owned by the police man at the bottom of our lane, so didn't attract any attention locally, handy for a new driver.
A 1977 "R" reg Mini 1000.
Cute but full of rust.
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1986 Volvo 240 estate with a 2.3 litre engine, it was great I could finally get to races, even when far away as the back was perfectly flat, stand the bike up and sleep alongside it.
Mini 1000. OKT146G
I thought the handbrake was to turn round if you'd left your fags, and my sister fell out going round a sharp right hander cos the A pillar was corroded and the door didn't shut.
A 1981 Pontiac Le Mans, for those who didn't grow up in North America.
My third car was a 70's pontiac lemans sport coupe, not this but its the closest photo I can find
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Cost a sodding fortune to run and insure at 19
Mk1 Ford Escort Mexico ,didn't last long after an encounter with a humpback bridge and the Dukes of Hazard theme tune ,
Followed up with a replacement soon after a 2.8 Capri
1986 Nissan Bluebird, 1.6lx.
Far bigger, faster and cheaper than the little 1.0 things friends had
I'm pretty sure they weren't faster than anything. They were truly awesome cars for the time though. I had two.
An ex- St Helens Council MK3 transit in what would now be called 'Enduro Yellow'. If I parked it outside your house and the sun came out it would change the colour of your living room walls.
A 1996 Peugeot 106. 954cc producing 54 raging horses connected to 145 section pram wheels, via a 4 speed gearbox. Simultaneously absolutely crap and fantastic fun. I loved it.
1985 Fiesta 950cc
Transpired it was s prope bodge job repair from rear end smash.
Taught mrs_oab to drive in it, drove to Wales and lakes every weekend.
Sold it a year later for what we paid for it....
JYD 277K - Vauxhall Viva S. Loved that car, 2 door, bright yellow, shiny chrome, Rosstyle wheels.
All good until the day it burst into flames... 🙄
1934 Singer Le Mans Special Speed.
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1994 Honda Civic 1.5 LSi
Epicyclo wins thread
67 Mustang.
A gold T reg Mazda 323, got me through my car driving lessons and test (with tape on the rear window to help with the reversing part of the test).
Great old car which I sold too quickly to get my hands on an A plate Renault 5 Gordini Turbo, a real money pit of a car.
Vauxhall Cavalier Gls
Another one here who started in Mini's 😀 B132 BNY, maroon with 12" steel wheels and a ginormous steering wheel.
An '82 Mini 1000 City I inherited off my aunt when she died. It had laid buried in undergrowth for years at the bottom of her garden so needed a lot of work to get it roadworthy again (but was bizarrely rust-free!) as most moving stuff had seized. It had only done 31k miles in it's 15 years which was it's downfall unfortunately. Between '87 and '91 it had only ever done 3 miles between MOT's, it was 3 miles to the garage and back! The engine block cracked after 3 months as it had spent years only ever doing short runs.
Put it in my garage for 6 years with the intention of rebuilding it but sold it on to an old school mate as a project when I lost interest. Wish I hadn't now, really want it back!! Saw it around a few years ago so it did get saved but the MOT test check site says it's currently not taxed or SORN'ed so I fear the worst 😥
First car at 17 after passing test was a Fiat 124 Sport Coupe same colour and model as this. Cost me £90 from one of my old teachers.
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1986 mini city e 998cc. C212 VBC. I loved that car. Gutless in standard form but the exhaust soon fell off while driving home from work one night so the only option was to fit a stage one tuning kit from mini spares. Ditched the points for an Aldon Ignitor and it drove like a totally different car. It was faster than most of the 1275s in the mini club I joined.
I'd love to know what happened to it.
MK4 Ford Cortina - it was written off when a fool decided to overtake as I was turning right = nasty smack.
There is a direct connection between these two cars-anyone know what it is? (Apart from the fact I owned both I mean)
@jimw Both designed by Giugiaro
Great thread btw
Mk2 escort 1.3 when I was 12.
At the time, my mums friend had a farm so I learned to drive around there, fixed up the engine fitted a radio, sorted the electrics etc. All good fun but it was bought out of the scrapyard so was rotten as pear. Once I put threw a spare wheel in the boot and it fell straight through onto the ground.
I hand painted it white with a brush and it didn't look too bad from a distance. My schoolmates didn't believe I had a car so, instead of taking them to the car, I took the car to them parking it up on the estate near school and showing them it at lunchtime 😯 I was stupid as a 15 year old.
X reg Renault 5 'Le Car'. 1.1 beast. Loved it. Think it cost my dad £50 to buy. He did a little work on it and I ran it for 2 years and it was faultless during that time. Scrapped it for £50 (which I regret as it deserved better) to make way for a G plate Pug 205 GTi.
Give the baron a cigar! Yup, both designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. I wish I had kept the Alfa
Talbot Sunbeam.
What it looked like in my head:
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What it actually looked like:
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With the mandatory sack of potatoes in the boot all winter.
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Paid £50 and it had £50 worth of "road tax" left.
You couldn't get a closer colour to diarrhea if you pebble-dashed it yourself, could you.
I had an MkII Astra GTE as the next car but it seemed like an eternity before that day. After that I went off cars and the money they drained...
A mint condition one owner 1981 Mk1 Polo in Monaco blue, which belonged to some friends of my parents. 40bhp, which got me into the bad habit of driving it everywhere flat out. Hardly any still exist sadly. It was my pride and joy. Looked just like this, but on steelies.
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Ford Anglia Estate - hand painted post office red with free CND and Nuclear Power no thanks stickers - had an excellent twin carb engine stuffed in it but the rest of the car fell to pieces
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think the car in front is a Wartburg? - housemates - recall trying to sort the timing and had a distributor with three sets of contacts?
Wartburg's were 3cylinder 2strokes-perhaps a set of contacts for each cylinder?
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Mk1 Toyota Yaris 1.0L quite a peppy little thing but the early ones had a dangerous lack of ABS which i found out to my cost with 2 accidents the 2nd of which was a write off.
I learned to drive in an Austin Metro.... My first car was a S2 Land Rover
1955 Morris 1000 Traveller.
Mine was a Honda Accord hatchback 1.6 in silver. Cost £326.00 had to wait another 2 months before I could afford the £800.00 insurance though 😳 After driving land rovers and tractors at work it felt like a rocket ship 😀
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VW Scirocco GTI one of the originals. Bought it for £300 week after passing myntest and drove not to Barcelona for New Year via a quick snowboard trip in Andorra where I knocked myself out on the first day. Great trip. Mate blew the engine 4 months later near Fort William.
This my first car which I bought via finance (did not pay all when I sold it so strictly speaking finance company still owed part of it).
This one 650cc Daihatsu in the far east.
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Prior to that I drove my father's 1964 VW beetle for several years.
My second car (fully own by me and paid for in full) is my current 2005 Toyota Corolla 1.6 automatic.
Mk2 escort 1.6 with a 1.3 gearbox.......unfortunately 10mins after buying and taking out for spin ...I got pulled by the 5O
The traffic ones, and was given 1 week to sort out about £500 worth of probs for a car I only £100 for
So a week later I got a MK1 escort and transferred the parts on to it and scrapped the mk2
Ahh those were the days!!.....god I feel old now!! 😳