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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2018, 18:48:55 PM »
Ford Escort - it didn't end well  :o






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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2018, 18:54:22 PM »
A souped up Mini. White with black roof. Wide wheels, big bore exhaust. Jumped out of fourth gear. Bonnet latch dodgy and bonnet would fly up randomly.

Bought it for £75 and ran it a couple of years. Sold it for £35 but the alternator went the day he was due to collect it so I knocked him £2.50 off. He fixed the gears for a fiver as it was a simple link.
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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2018, 18:59:27 PM »
My first car that I actually owned was a tiny little Fiat 500. It must have been one of the smallest cars ever produced but once I had five people and camping equipment in it that we went camping with for a weekend in Norfolk.   :)Thankfully the weather must have been good!

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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2018, 19:55:56 PM »
1959 Morris 1000 grey. 6242D cost 100 Quid in 1968. Went mad after that wih mini cooper, Lotus Cortina.  3 Litre Capri.  Those were the days. Have to put up with a quashai these days.
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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2018, 22:11:12 PM »
That'll be quashai Number 3 then...

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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #15 on: April 08, 2018, 01:07:29 AM »
A red Hillman Hunter estate.


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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #16 on: April 08, 2018, 09:36:56 AM »
1959 Morris 1000 grey. 6242D cost 100 Quid in 1968. Went mad after that wih mini cooper, Lotus Cortina.  3 Litre Capri.  Those were the days. Have to put up with a quashai these days.
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Wow-Spotted a classic Lotus Cortina for sale on the web £90.000!
Doubt it is a standard model as there was another one for a bargain £42,000   :)

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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #17 on: April 08, 2018, 09:49:21 AM »
I bought an old mini 850 as a first car at 16, completely re built it and fitted a cooper engine, big exhaust, roll cage etc ready for when I passed my test at 17. Then did it all again with a Triumph Spitfire. Wish I had bought a couple of Mk 1 escorts and stashed them away they are worth a fortune now.

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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #18 on: April 08, 2018, 14:41:43 PM »
I learned to drive in 1988 in a 1967 Triumph Herald. Still got it but it is passed its best so it will be broken as a organ donor for my other 1964 Triumph Herald.

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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #19 on: April 08, 2018, 15:05:02 PM »
I had a Herald of that vintage. It had an interesting habit of "tramping" - i.e. when you pushed it a bit fast through corners the back end would break away and jump across the road, in one or two bounds, for a couple of feet in an attempt to escape the corner. Quite invigorating.







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