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:

What it actually looked like:

With the mandatory sack of potatoes in the boot all winter.

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.

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

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?

’66 Anglia Super on a quiet evening you could hear the rust falling off it.

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 😀

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.

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!! 😳

Mine was a 1989 Citroen AX GT. Great little thing but developed a hole in the chassis and bits regularly fell off. Went like stink though.

1968 Morris Traveler, still have the original log book.

1979 T reg mini in 1992.

Customised by myself with bucket seats, carb, inlet manifold, exhaust etc. It went pretty good.
Orange pool ball gear knob to match colour “borrowed” from local bar.
Go faster stripes & spot lights.
Went lots of places in that car. Including windsurfing.

Like this

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Quite fancy another one for fun.

XT Falcon wagon. Straight six, three on the tree. My dad had bought it as a labourers hack for his pool business and he gave it to me when turned 17 in 1982. It was battered to say the least. Brakes didnt work and it flooded 2/3 times I tried to start it. I didnt like the colour so took to it with a can of Dulux – two inch brush for the fine detail and a six incher for the panel work. Despite all this I was the only one with a car and it ferried me and my mates between Brisbane and Gold Coast every weekend for two years. It died properly one morning so I pushed it onto the footpath at the end of our street and left the keys in it. It stayed there for six weeks and then one morning, it was gone. Like this one same windshield sun shade and everything.

Mk1 Escort 1300e, In my head it looked like this:

In reality it was probably closer to this:

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Had some great times in that car 🙂

mini clubman – still got the front numberplate in my garage 30 years after killing it 🙁

as per peteimpreza, it was a Citroen GSA, with roll-back canvas sunroof.

FAS 248 X. Bought (through dealer) from local head teacher -not mine, thankfully.

It was a hoot, 1300cc I think, air cooled hydraulic suspension. Good capacity, could be hand started with the wheel brace, mental controls. Why I swapped it for my dad’s BX I’ll never know and always regret.

Like this, in white –

Series IIA SWB petrol Land Rover.