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what was it?
mine was an old w reg 1.3 ford escort that i paid £200 for off a work mate.it lasted a couple of months.

Mine was a 1984 B Fiat Uno 55s, i got if off my grandad for nothing as he couldn't drive anymore.

It was mint, he owned it from new and despite it being old, even when i acquired it (it had 20k on the clock, fsh and smelt new), I'd trashed it before it even had 55k on the clock. If it wasn't for the fact i was 17, i think i would've felt very bad. I'm pretty ashamed of myself in hindsight.

a 3 year old V Reg Fiat Strada 1.6 twin cam 105tc Abarth back in 84, fast as fudge and dirt cheap insurance, no rust whatsoever back in the day when you could insure a sporty car cheaply as an 18 year old.

Kept it 3 years and swapped it for a MK 2 RS2000....nice.

Datsun 120Y.

Class.

1999 T reg Suzuki Swift 1.3

Went like stink and I loved it.

Austin Allegro 1.5 Special (with a square steering wheel!)

NMH

Triumph Dolomite Sprint!

Wicked Car!

i inheirited my mother's renault clio, m reg 1.1 litre. it was in pretty good nick and is still going now with 140k on the clock. my dad drives it to get to and from work now.

My first car that i actually owned is my current 53 plate Ibiza, however I spent my student summer holidays in a L reg fiesta 1.1L driving to and from building sites with the seats down and using it like a van, the poor car was a heap once I'd done with it.

A Peugeot 106, lasted a while until I rolled it into a ditch. Was a scary experience i tell thee!

I never 'owned' a car in England.

The first one that I did was an old BMW, it looked good but it was old and heavy, so heavy that the misses could not drive it: No power steering, I think that my biceps got a tad larger through driving the tank.

I had two crashes in it, not serious as nobody was injuired, but both times the brakes failed, and by failed I mean they where just kaput.

The second crash resulted in me driving from Cambodia to Bangkok with a fucked radiator.

To cut a long one short I got rid and bought a Toyota from new which has never let me down once (Touches wood)

a 1 litre nova, the day after I sold it, it was found burnt out on leeds! I got questioned by the police, they thought I'd done an insurance job!!

I had a 1.2 fiesta, until my little brother put it on it's roof at 60mph.

Silver 1.0 litre F reg Fiesta. It was shit.

S-reg (the old S-reg so I guess late 70s/early 80s, can't be bothered to check) Capri. It was the business! Sadly being young and fickle I ragged the arse off it and ran it into the ground

1995 Vauxhall Corsa 1.2

I ragged the shit out of it

 8)

D-reg 1.2 Ford Orion

1.1 X reg Peugeot 106.  :mrgreen:

an old ambassador. it was built like a fucking tank, crashed it on m4 on way to sunderland play off final, wrote other car off, mine not a scratch  :D

An old V plate Ford Escort something or other. It were shite.....

The old Aggro, my first call as well - what a pile of crap.

Second car was a Cortina, then a 1600E now they were pulling machines.

Hace you passed yet Nath?

a BMW X3, have a X5 now although i didnt pay for either, mummy and daddy did,  computers earn cash  8)

in case u think im a spoilt brat the cars were bout through my parents business which i had a big input into setting up for them so i deserved it  :)

You're still a spoilt cunt end of chat.

My first car was a P-reg Pug 106 that I wrote off, it was skillfully recovered by another forum member's firm ironically.

plus im a only child

so dmr is right then.

Do I need to set up a direct debit for £2 a month to help you out?

nah i do ok

I saw one of those adverts on Sky this afternoon for donkeys today, told through the eyes of a donkey.

"My feet hurt and I get ever so hot and thirsty"

I nearly wept, where's me debit card?

is there anyone on here who didn't rag their first car to an early grave? other than me

i didnt, im quite a sensible driver

nope. My S-reg Toyota Starlet was in great condition when it was sold....

Only had 46k on the clock and had only been into the garage for work to be done on it once....

Got £1000 for it as well

apart from DV and i then - seeing as we're the two sensible youngsters on here

oh i see, its like that is it  :D

land of bo had a tidy motor.i'll let him explain it

Which one?

The 1.2 litre D reg Nova I crashed about 3 times?

Proper Rave-mobile that was, got us to many a party mate.

1970 ford fiesta 1.1, vinyal seats, 4 gears but 4th was called E "or enough speed". I was 17 the car was 25!!!I put in back 6 by 9's a sub woofer that took up the boot and 6 by 9's in the front door pannels. The back window used to shake when I had the music on.

I turned up to footy training with my strero on wheels all beaming and full of myself and what did mr bushey do took the piss so much I went home nearly in tears cheers mate! still brilliant car!!!!!

E = enough speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i crashed it on my 18th birthday. Crashed it in asda carpark doing a wheel spin didn't see the wall. My mate hit is head on the dashboard. Said he felt sick but fair play he still came out on the piss despite clearly being concussed!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't remember the model, but it was a plastic police car which you could pedal around in! It also had a horn! It was well cool!

I never thrashed it and it lasted for about two years before I grew out of it :(

I miss it..................................................

Hang on, I'll fetch your pipe and slippers for you as a reward. Bet you wear driving gloves as well don't you? And you have a special flat cap for driving in

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Sonic out for a burn

Oh i had one of those, kept falling out of it dont know how :?

You know you used to get those ace little toy cars that you'd sort of wind up by pulling them back loads, and then they'd zip off into the distance? Well I had one that was was basically a big lego block on wheels which could do the same (well not that big, about the size of the little cars you'd get). You could then build up the lego on top making a crazy car and make it go off tables and stuff, crashing into a heap of bit's on the floor. Mental fun when you're about 7. Actually it still sounds like mental fun now.

I used to build a small arena and make the car battle my hamster. Or try and make my hamster ride the little car, despite the hamster being slightly bigger.

Good old Frodo the hamster. Frodo is dead now  :( .

Using pets as ramps/jumps was always fun :D

I'm calling the RSPCA.

All dead and buried now :(

Frodo was ace. He lived for about 5 years. Which I believe is pretty good for hamsters. Especially as his eye fell out at some point.

I had a string of hamsters as a kid. When I was  really young apparently we had two different types which broke the hamster living solitary rule by sort of loving it up as a gay couple. Until the bigger one ate too much and sort of exploded, and my mum discovered the little one eating the contents of it's insides.

I wish I'd been old enough to have remembered that. Would have been fucking awesome. Not too old though, I reckon between 5 and 8 would be the optimum age range to fully appreciate a hamster cannibalising it's gay ex-lover.

it's not often you hear of that. thankfully.

yeah that one!
decent first motor that

It was decent 'til I got my hands on it, cost about £1200 if I remember rightly, in '93.

Caned it up and down the M4 to various raves and footy before jump starting it to use as a trade in a couple of years later.

Remember the night coming back from Brunel with about 8 people in there? Think there was 2 on the front passenger seat, me driving, 4 in the back and 1 in boot and the police went past the other way and I had the main beam on...blinded them. Saw the reverse lights and blues light up and we caned it down the farmers lane round the corner, I killed the lights and drove into some bushes. The old bill went flying past, we waited 5 mins and continued our journey to the session.  :o

remember club kinetic in stoke when i got us some rather stong e's and we didn't think we were going to get home?

you came down ok and did the job in the end :D

this coming from the man who drives a Kia

Always managed to get home in the end...fuck knows how sometimes!

Oh yes! Sold mine before I passed my test and bought a Fiat Strada, which rusted everytime you looked at it!

NMH

I had a 1.25 Ford Fiesta T Reg which coincidentally blew up on the M5 southbound as I was unaware of putting engine oil in.  I was in the fast lane as well surrounded by smoke.  The car now has a new engine and is still going however I have a new car now anyway!

Sorry but  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Citreon AX TGI was a lush car to be fair

Fuck off tans  :mrgreen:

TGI?

yeap, speacial addition 1991 model chicargo.  It was my mums car, brotehr and sister had use of it for free but when it was my turn I had to pay her £1,000 for it! Harsh

I had a 1981 Y reg Mark one Fiesta - dark Blue
 It cost £500 and was ace - It had a sticker on the back saying caution driver applying make up!

until a taxi driver jumped a read light and wrote it off  :cry:

A white D reg Nova, with grey and yellow interior. Only 38k on the clock though... i loved that car

that because it had already gone round the clock once and was going round again! either that or it was clocked!

i had an Astra 1.3
reg D114 KKR

was a nail but i loved it  8)

Same here ,except mine was the C reg with the letter after the numbers! so 1983?

K798 GRB was a 1.2 nova, merit+. 5 door, proper little trooper it was. ragged the shit out of it, had a small shunt in it, and jumped over the humped-back bridge between kingsdown and south marston many, many times with a car full of mates in it (it was much more fun before they shaved the top of the hump off, much better for launching!) loved it, shouldn't have got rid of it, the car i got to replace it was utter shite, a pineapple yellow vauxhall astra  :|

It was my aunties from brand new. She only ever drove it from Cheney Manor to Allied Dunbar/Zurich/Threadneedle

1.1 M-reg fiesta azure, £1300, navy blue. lasted for 4/5 years until i sold it for £50 on the day of its MOT expiry. had done about 18k when i got it, and 70k when sold. servicing was getting a bit silly by the end, due to the cost. did serve me well though, doing trips to cornwall/norwich/oxford and a number of away matches all over the country. i used to rag it about, being so small and light it drove alright.

am now looking at a £300 clio automatic to hopefully last me a few months, or perhaps a scooter/ped.

an old old Y Reg Mini, 1 litre sky blue, broke down everytime it rained.  Still loved it  :D

1965 ('C' reg)  Austin A40. (Light blue, with a black roof)  Met its demise, spookily, on the A40

Not intending to buy a BMW M3 or M5 anytime soon