ryn004

My first car is a Honda Civic which is tastefully modified. However I'm thinking of selling it as I haven't used it much the past year since I find my Scooby comfortable and reliable (although it drinks more!).

I could do with some extra money, but I think I would regret selling her.

Any wisdom from past experiences?

richardg

kind of. mine was a 1980 suzuki LJ80 (800cc 4x4). underpowered, uncomfortable and generally a bit crappy. i brushed it with MOD green paint but never really did much more than that (apart from a crappy stereo upgrade) as it used to cost so much to fix the problems each time the MOT came round.
having said all that, it would have made a great project with a bigger engine and i wouldn't have worried too much about the odd scrape or car park ding!
EHW418W in case it's still out there!! head gasket went, i fixed it (badly) and then it caught fire. last seen towing a speedboat in southend with a newly fitted bedford roller skate van engine fitted (no idea why i didn't of that at the time - d'oh!)

JackClark

Putrid Green Fiat 127 bought for £40.00, can't say that I'm unhappy it's gone.

ryn004

I used to have an LJ80, lots of fun but it was more thirsty than the subaru!

AndyC_772

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Hell no, my first car was mum's old Fiat Panda - 900cc and 45bhp, a truly hateful machine, but marginally preferable to getting the bus everywhere.

The only car I really regret selling was my 1st scooby, which I'd had from new and customised to my ideal spec. Other cars I've been quite unemotional about, or in some cases, been glad to see the back of.

OllyK

I kind of miss my old Beetle, looked stock but had quite a well tuned engine.

zip106

Glad I sold mine in 1988...powder blue 4 door Vauxhall Chevette 1.3

Clarebabes

No! Mine was a pile of poo sh1te heap Mark I Golf 1.1L. Broke down all the time. Had to go back to the dealer, so not technically sold. He still wouldn't give us all our money back.

Stealers

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

No regrets for mine!

That mini had more plates than a china shop

Even got a scrappy to tow it away for a £10, after I'd stripped it of the LCB, MG metro inlet manifold, wolfrace alloys etc

In fact if I look hard enough I still think there are a few bits in my parents garage

New_scooby_04

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Do I regret selling my first car??

In the same way I regret taking antibiotics to get rid of pnuemonia!

My first car was a 1.3 Escort in a lovely shade of Beige!!

exvaux

iTrader: (1)

my first "own" was a clio rt,it broke down all the time went through exhausts and wheel bearings for fun and emptied my wallet but i loved that car had dimma kit and 18" wheels and all,my first freebie from my tight *** parents was a 1983 datsun cherry 1.5,it was hideous,i left the keys in it and still nobody would take the thing and dad told the scrapyards not to take it from me!!!

spireite

wonder what my orange mk2 escort 1600 sport would be worth today

exvaux

iTrader: (1)

a fortune,id love a mk2 'scort,many many moons ago my mates older brother had an old orange mk2 rs something with netted recaros,what a car

Jamie

Mine was a fiesta i gave it away


I didn't lose my mind it was
Mine to give away
Couldn't stay to watch me cry
You didn't have the time
So I softly slip away...

no regret

MattW

Brown Metro 1.3 HLS, rsprayed in 2pac Red. looked the dogs until i scraped it just before part exing it. Managed to get bonnet and headlight fitted and sprayed in cely red an hour before it was driven up the M6 to part ex garage

Matteeboy

Beige Morris Marina 1.3 1973.

I most certainly do NOT regret selling it - for £100!

***Nemesis***

Absolutely not. It was an ancient Austin 1100- the bodywork was held together by the paint. It eventually collapsed in a pile of rust but even then some one gave me £50 for it!

Mogsi

VW Beetle bought when I was 15, spent 2 years stripping it and rebuilding it. Still miss it to this day and that was over 15 years ago....

Great car, until I crashed it through the lounge :s

MK5

i didn't sell my first car - it was written off

hit by a learner so hard she forced my car under a Renault Master van

car was a 1987 Toyota Supra 3.0i (RIP George)

richardg

blimey - small world eh? i've only ever seen 2 others on the road (in this country at least!). howmany cars have you had whilst still holding onto the civic?

richardg

oh, the shame (says the former LJ80 owner!!)

richardg

OMG looks like the LJ series are almost cult cars these days INFO on the Suzuki LJ80
www.lj10.com :: Index

am i really regretting selling it now



















probably not

GaryK

Yep I had an orange 1300sport, was abit tatty but I drove it everywhere and loved it. HRP 636N where are you now?

Gary

Tam the bam

Me too all though mine was more of maroon/rust colour, I hated it with a passion, twas only 3 year old when I got it, it had bubbles of rust everywhere, rarely started, went through more oil than petrol and the interior mirror always fell off

Still I only kept it for 6 months then traded it for a 1.3 Astra estate, that was a fantastic car, automatic choke and everything!

Jamie

I still have a car in mk Just left that one 2000

DLP

Also had an escort 1300 sport,yellow and black,can,t remember many orange ones around at the time,but after that had an orange sunbeam ti,which was as good on petrol as the scoob.

JTaylor

I wrote my first two cars off, but that's what you get for trying to make 998cc Metros go around corners quickly. The Halfords add-on tail-pipe and MG steering wheel (pilfered from the local scrappies) offered up simply too much added go, and proved a step too far for the young JT!



I really regret selling my gen 4 h22a Prelude. Bought it in near mint condition for £2.5k and sold it 12 months later for the same (having w4anked away about £2k on mods). Looked at having it super charged, changed my mind and bought a UK Impreza.



My old Prelude; reliable with a brilliant engine, great interior, sensible running costs and IMHO good looks. I loved that bladdy car!

EddScott

Don't regret selling my first car but I made a big mistake selling my Impreza.

Now its gone, I'm moving on but had I known how bad I'd feel with it gone it would still be here now.

CrisPDuk

My first car was a 10 year old Mk2 Escort van, it got abused like **** for a year, and taught me everything I needed to know about oversteer

I never sold it though, it just fell apart from all the abuse that was meted out to it

I do regret lending my second car to my best mate though, it was a mint 71 1200 VW beetle with a 1641 engine and a big carb We decided to swap cars for a laugh one night and have a race, he lost mine on a bend, stuck it through a hedgerow with a 6' drop on the other side
I think that engine was jinxed though, I sold it to a mate who then wrote his car off, he then sold it to another guy who ended up crashing thew camper he fitted it in