lol nah, I was a new driver and my mind wondered for about 10 seconds to long. remember it quite clearly had nightmares about it for long enough, I loved that car.

 

i can't beleive the amount of hatchbacks in this survey !!!
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my first propper car was a hillman Avenger 1.2 (1.25) super .
i loved it and fitted some big ford wheels , and hand painted the bottom half into two tone.
did about 40K miles in it too , went everywhere for several years, you dont ever see them now. was pretty reliable too , followed by about six motorbikes.
before the avenger i had a beetle that rusted faster than i could fix it , followed by a verymuch raced/rallied (not by me) ford escort mk1 mexico that i was fixing up (took ages) but ended up selling before it got finished (ata profit, i might add) they both never made it back onto the road. i was a naive buyer then. happy days.

 

Bloke across the road from me (when I was a nipper) had one. In a sort of royal-sky blue colour. IIRC, he jacked up the rear suspension a bit and fitted wide tyres/white slotted wheels (or painted the OEMs).

Remember some of the shenanigans in that car.

 

This wasn't my 1st car but the pic is same make/ model & about the same condition minus the interesting seat covers lol.
The days of cross ply tyres. I would imagine only the minority on here remember them

 

Vauxhall Viva?

My brother had a light blue Victor or Viva.

 

1972 Viva 1256cc

 

Yeah I actually meant Viva - see re-edited post above.

 

This thread has got me thinking. It's 30 years next month since i passed my driving test & i have only ever had 7 cars in that time. All red bar one which was a blue ford orion lol.

Still loving my wagon of course which i have owned since new [12+ years now] & it's had it's 26th service today. Thanks Alyn [ASP performance]

 

25yrs for me, come September 12th.

And on my 13th car.

 

We all had to start some were. Mines a little AX GT a little pocket rocket

 

Avenger ,1.3 , was my second cAr

Front ended it , at 5 miles an hour , that was the end of it. ( id taken front bumper off cos it looked better)

 

Great little first car.

"Built like Rocky."

 

That was your first !?

Clear winner so far

 

+1

Certainly the 'coolest'.

Loved the 80s - where slammed Mk.1 & 2 Escort RSs were the hot cars for the youngsters of the day. Complete with big bore red Pecos and cherry bombs.

 

I would have to scan the only picture I have of the old boy, so I found this replica.


It must have been at least 12 years old when I got it and I remember having to put stones in the boot in the winter to stop the rear end sliding everywhere. It was a great fun car and I passed my driving test in it. Sadly it got stolen and when I got it back it was stripped bare and I never drove it again after that. It is probably a little square in some scrapyard now

 

Square, even.

Cuboid even better.

 

Great shape car

 

I loved that car. Not the best to take your test in though One of the hills I was taken up in Gateshead, was so steep, all I could see was the bonnet of the car. Well scarey. Mine was the same colour as the pic.

 

See edit

Cuboid. Cheeky bugger

 

LOL - I was given an old (even then) Austin Maxi 1750 in Mustard by my uncle which had comprehensively failed its MOT. I had it way before I could drive, but that car tought me a lot of stuff (like how to creatively use body filler!), but also a pretty good grounding in car mechanics,

I passed my test in 1987 in my Mum & Dads brand new Seat Ibiza (system porsche don't you know) it was one of the first Seat's in the country, no-one had ever seen or heard of them! (my dad hocked in his MG Midget for that Seat! - I was proper gutted!)
My Maxi was great but embarrasingly shortly after passing my test it was T Boned by a Capri at a set of Traffic Lights (my fault lol). After using the Seat where I could I was by then working & earning a fairly ok wage (still living at home)and bought myself with my own money (and a friendly bank manager)one of these beauties..... a secondhand Isuzu Piazza Turbo.... exactly same as this pic.

I polished that car every goddamn day.... still think of it now. Even now I think its a sweet car, I was 18! It was 1988. I was the mutts nuts in that. I had a white one a couple of years afterwards which was a Lotus Piazza, way way better handling but sadly rusty and mega mileage! I never did re-capture the glory days of my red Piazza.
My red one was sold to fund a round the world back-packing trip.... it was a top car (and a top world trip!)
Seem to remember the insurance was £250! the girl behind the counter thought I was insane!! I feel for young drivers now... wish I had the same level of disposable income now too

 

I feel like a total snob posting this as my first car

My 1989 VW Golf GTI 1.8 8V but badged as a 16v as you do lol


God I wish I still had that car loved it so much sounded amazing with the serbring exhaust.

 

Not my first car but I did have one of these brand new. 1989 F £8k it cost me, do you remember how much yours was? I had to have valve stem oil seal replaced after a couple of months and didn't keep it that long as I traded it for an XR4x4.

 

Super Beetle for me. No pics though. I like Beetles but they are mostly all rotten with rust or wrecked by dubber modders.

 

Here's mine. Fiat Uno 60S

 

Not the one I had but very similar, mine was a 78

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trigger...ff/6273584092/

 

My first car 1967 Vauxhall Victor, bench front seat! Crossplies, column change, I kept it about six months, and moved it on.

 

My parents had a yellow Vauxhall Victor!

 

I bet those daguerreotypes don't scan all that well.

 

It's a cave painting.

 

my first car was identical to this but in mercury grey and worse condition