Sphyncter

So, what was your first car then ?

You know, when you first passed your test, and you couldn't afford a pukka car. You bought a cheapo and made the mods you could afford, like a stainless steel end pipe to your exhaust. Little slide on hands that went on your tailgate, the old webber-twin choke, that made fekk all difference, cheapy alloys etc

My first car was a Mark 1 Astra. Reed Green. Cost me £500. Cost £150 for choke kit. Couldn't afford new wheels, so spent all week-end rubbing the old ones down, and getting some "silver wheels"

The interior was kack, but was the dogs, after I had sprayed it with "new car" spray. 0-60 in approx 12 seconds. Was fekkin heavy, especially after I had pushed the bugger to start it (battery and alternator bust, but I couldn't afford to fix em)£ engines, and 25 to the gallon.

That WAS a crap car, but I have more memories from that car than any other car I have had since.

Any tales of nostalgia ?

hawkeye

My first vehicle was given to me by my dad for passing my test, a 1979 T reg morris marina? (Van I passed my test in 1986.) dark blue with my dad's company painted all over it. I promptly backed it into a low wall the first day because I couldn't see out the back properly!!


Ah those were the days.


Hawkeye

normarker

You call that a crap car? Try a Ford Pop. Black (only colour they did, cart springs all round, front beam axle, 900cc side valve engine, you name it, it didn't have it. Turned it over at less than 30mph and wore off the door handles.
My next car was a Vauxhall Victor...
The second model Victor was called the FB, mine was the one before. Work it out.

RB5-Black

Nissan micra with naff all mods , was a poor student cause I spent all my money on booze

Big Goon

rooofl hawkeye,

my dad bought me a Morris Ital van for my 17th birthday, and now we both have black sti7's

My Ital would burn off your Marina easily

hawkeye

Big Goon

It's a small world,do you realise they only sold 1 of each and we got them, boy collectors pieces now.

withour a doubt your Ital was condiderably faster than my marina, but mine had the LOOKS to kill at 30 paces. Usually due to my drivin with the optional paper bag on.

hawkeye

ps Hope to see you in your sti7 sometime.

dnb

I had a Ford Fiesta van - on permanant loan from Dad.

Spent loads of time finding luxuries for it - like a glove box door and a stereo that played tapes!

And the best mod was, of course the salvaged RS bodykit. Didn't look bad when I got it painted....

Big Goon

Dont tell me you had a mattress in the back of your van too ?

I blew the engine about 2 weeks after I got it, so my dad went round my aunts house while she was on holiday, and nicked the engine out of her 1700 Marina, that was real power, none of this hi-tech jap malarkey.

Any Ital van drivers want to swap for my new STi7 when it arrives ?

millband

Oh dear, looks like we might have a rival Morris spin-off group on our hands! Oh, how I miss the power and handling of this old lady, my scoob can't hold a candle to it!

My first car -



Morris Ital 1.3 SL no less!

Steve

Big Goon

rooofl

What a beauty

millband

Oh yes. Many a happy hour up to my knees in **** in scrapyards keeping that one on the road, I can tell you. Used as much oil per mile and an STi uses petrol

Richard Askew

Nissan Bluebird ZX Turbo...boost wound right up...

...snapped the car in half having hit a tree head on at 90mph+.....oh and bust a bone in me neck whilst doing so...

The Crushinator

Mine was a 1988 Mk2 golf 1.3 i bought it on christmas eve 2years ago for 400 quid. And shunted another car shortly after i got it fixed up tho, and looking pretty good but it failed it's MOT on about 15 points So i bought an Impreza instead, and never looked back although i have to admit, it was quite sad to see it go, even tho it was almost a deathtrap it had a lot of character

Crush.

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

Ahhhhhh B113XTT, my 1.4 pug205 gr in red, lovely car, never dented it but did me well for the first 2 yrs

Tony

ak47mh

Peugeot 205GTI 1.6.

An absolute classic, that did me for 3 years!

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

F*rd Escort mk1 1100 "Deluxe" (ie: bog standard, not even a radio!) By the time I sold it, it looked like a rally car--lights, interior, bucket seats , instruments, switches etc. The kids where I taught (at the time i was mad enough to teach), nearly cried when I sold it for a mk1 Mexico!!!
BTW: isn't a "Sphyncter" another name for a dump valve?????????????????

[Edited by alcazar - 6/26/2002 2:06:22 PM]

dogmaul

1986 fiesta xr2 in white wasnt bad for a first car this was in 98

TBMeech

1983 Fiat Panda 1.0 with twin sunroofs

DominicA

TOBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there is no excuse for buying a PANDA!!!!!!!!!

Jen

N-reg Vauxhall Corsa...sparkly-est car you've ever seen! Quoted 0-60 in 18 seconds if I recall correctly...eventaully got wipped out on the M1 by a portugesse lorry driver who couldn't be a*sed to check his mirrors, bounced off the crash barrier after being pushed along by the lorry apparently if I hadn't had a tow bar it would have exploded!! Still, I had no worse an injury than whiplash - he even started up again when i can to a halt in the middle lane so I could drive onto the hard shoulder with 3 wheels...Corsas are quality cars

...replaced with...P reg Corsa - same colour tow bar fitted before it left the garage Well...if you're onto a good thing - his still our shopping car to save scoob from the dinks.

Jen

appologies for all the spelling mistakes - been in the sun too long!

555-Shaggy

Gotta go with RB5-Black I'm afraid.. a Nissan Micra - again a poor, but very drunk, student..
Millband - are you still canoeing / kayaking? They look like a pair of Perception Dancers to me..

hail-hail

MG Metro on an old X plate. I got in '90. Twin spots sunk into grill and addional two spots. Prezzie for passing my test. Seen it kicking around my old house about three years ago. And who said they didn't last.

Olly

Fiesta 950 Van. Felled a telegraph pole with it 6 weeks after passing my test, and cut off most of the phones in the village.

elondan

a 205 GTI

LG John

Saxo VTS, quality first car I thought Technically speaking I was exlusively using my parents Polo CL for a while but I never registered it to me so that doesn't count.

Attu

Ford Escort 1600 sport with full RS2000 interior and wheels
OH and janspeed exhaust and K&N air filter.
I used to have real fun in this car in the days before speed cameras and petrol less than £1 a gallon ...ahhh those were the days.
After I crashed it I bought a flat nose RS2000 with a blue printed engine and twin 40 webbers, damn that thing shifted

Andy

hawkeye

Millband,

be they a couple of dancers? (perception kayaks) on the roof of your car.

hawkeye

SwinYE5

Vauxhall Corsa, of the 1.2i Merit variety! Brand new it was too, L reg..... I remember trying to race my mate, who had an XR2 and he absolutely embarassed me, even by the time I was up to about 25mph, he had gone! How slow was that thing! Slightly moved up in performance since and currently have an Evo V.....

555-Shaggy

Hawkeye,

Are you a paddler too then?

Shaggy..