cars you have owned and loved

[ethandron]

we were having a conversation about seatbelts and breathalysers earlier and got talking about the cars we've owned.
i saved up like mad and bought a 10 year old red mini when i passed my test at 18. i paid £100 for it and sold it two years later for £110! that car was wonderful, took me everywhere and on one occasion, my best friends hen night, there were nine of us squeezed into it. the wipers never worked properly, the gear stick was huge, i had to keep a hammer in the boot to bash the battery contacts now and again, and rain leaked in through the sliding windows. but i loved it.

[redcrx]

the one that i really loved (apart from my herald, which is still not on the road) was my CRX.
It was nippy and fun, drove pretty well in all weathers. I was mad to get rid of it, not that i could have a 2 seater now. :(

[ummmm]

My first car was an Astra. I think it was a G reg. Then a ford escort....by this time I was confident driver and OH bought me another Astra (6 months old) ...I loved that car.

[MarkRae]

My first MG: http://www.mgf.org/
(not actually mine, obviously, but the same model and colour).

The look on my face was priceless, apparently, when the dealer advised me to try and keep it below 50mph for the first 500 miles...

[LoftyLottie]

I have never formed any particular attachment to a car eth. Mind you I am very happy with what I have now and will happily use it until I stop driving. It never lets me down. A Toyota Starlet in a wonderful shade of Dark Salmon Pink!! Can't say I'm attached to it though.

I do remember driving down from Bedfordshire to Dorset in my first car - An old Standard 10. The windscreen wipers didn't work and it poured with rain all the way. That had a funny system where you had no foot clutch and just pressed a button on the gear lever when you changed gear!!!

[LoftyLottie]

I presume it was a Red CRX Red!!??

[craft1948]

My first Beetle that I got in 1975....it was bright yellow and was nicknamed Custard.

[Sqad]

"Loved a car?".....NEVER

Women...........many.

[LoftyLottie]

My Standard 10 was really old when I got it in 1971!!! But then I am really old too.

[ummmm]

My Astra was yellow. Bloody handy finding it in car parks...

[LoftyLottie]

Actually it wasn't my first car. My first car was a Morris Oxford with a split front windscreen given to me by my grandad when he gave up driving in 1967!! I sold it to a welshman who fell in love with it!!

[redcrx]

of course, lottie, just like this one http://www.google.co....=8&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

[douglas9401]

Mine was a Vauxhall VX4/90 with overdrive. I got it in a swap for a 2300 Viva estate (yes, I know). Many a happy mile was driven and I got £100 for the engine and gearbox from a local taxi driver when it failed an MOT.

[andy-hughes]

i have only been attatched to one car - a burnt orage Fiat Punto which I had as a courtesy car when my wife'sthen car was being repaired. I loved it so much I bought it, and loved looking at it, and driving it, until when turning right one day, I was smashed by a National Express coach and my car was destroyed. i still miss it.

[jackthehat]

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PRP 527G.............I loved that car :o(

[ethandron]

cars do very little for me now too, but that very first mini was wonderful. my dad encouraged both my sister and i to learn to drive but he would never let us use his car so we each bought our own. tell you what though, any opportunity and he'd hop into one of our minis!!
i never learned to use 5th gear so have been known to whizz up the motorway doing 80 in 4th gear. last year we bought an automatic corsa, so much better :o)

[craft1948]

What's that Jack.....it looks very similar to my first car which was an Austin Wolseley 1100.

[oranger]

I bought a two litre saab from where i worked some years ago, it was the head reps car , top of the range with all the extras . The transport manager was bragging ive bid two seven and its mine, so i bid three grand, half the list price and won it. Every time the md saw me after, he used to say you didnt buy that car you stole it you bastard. had many years of luxury till it got stolen.Putting up with a polo now

[Count-A-Strong]

Craft - anyone with a plastic car is not allowed to join in on this thread by default.

[sophie_1003]

My first car was my P reg Rover Knightsbridge that I bought for £200 and the brand new CD player in it was included in the price. It took me to uni and back (25ish miles each way) for 2 1/2 years before it gave up the ghost and I had to sell it to the scrappy last October. Didn't love it as such but was very defensive of it because it served me pretty well for the price I got it! Love my new car (Fiesta) just because everything in it actually works like it should!