What was your first car ??

[tufty7]

To start everyone off mine was a really bad "L" reg Hillman Avenger which was written off in a head on pre seat belts law , ouch .......

[Loosehead]

Ford Anglebox, paid �30, turned out to be one of my more reliable cars too!

[sddsddean]

Vauxhall Victor 1800FE Estate affectionately known as 'The Tank', as no one dared pull out in front of it!

[bigboots]

The first car i owned in my name wias a 1978 marina and amongs my fleet i own a 1974 victor fe 1800 ^^^^^ definatly built like a tank

[derekpara]

Because my dad didn't want me to have a motorbike he bought me a twenty year old 1933 Morris Minor which had cable brakes that you could adjust whilst moving by lifting a hatch beneath the driver's feet and tightening a wing nut !

It also had a wooden metal-covered body and one night I nearly got nicked by telling a copper that the reason the doors were saging was due to dry rot ! (True !)

Now you may not believe this but late one night in 1954 I was nearing Cobham in Surrey when I was overtaken by a familiar looking wire wheel. Yes, it was mine ! Wheels on that model were held on by three bolts which seemed to have sheared. The car was so square in shape that it remained upright until I reached 5 mph before flopping to one side. I retrieved the offending wheel from the ditch and got it fixed back on again next day. A night to remember.

Now beat that one.

[blu3wave]

A honda... it exploded after a month

[kujawski]

a sexy white datsun cherry 100a

[jg96]

1967 Vauxhall Viva HB SL 90 used to be quick on acceleration but only 85 mph flat out

[Bewlay Bros]

A brand spanking new G reg Golf GTi. A very nice car for my 17th birthday present!!!!! I seem to recall the insurance was over 2K then!!!!!

[fredpuli47]

A Reliant three-wheeler. I was sixteen.In those days (1963) that Reliant car was counted as a motorcycle and could be driven on a motorcycle licence.The 'logic' was that it was a tricycle just as a motorbike with a sidecar was. And you could have that licence at sixteen even though this vehicle's engine was something like 875 cc. At the time there had been a strange rule that the car had to have its reverse gear blanked off, so you couldn't engage reverse, if you were to drive it on a motorbike licence, but I think that rule about reverse was changed.

[fredpuli47]

PS for Derekpara: In cars of the 1930s (and for a couple of decades on) wheel loss like you described was not very unusual. My father, a motor dealer, once bought a Rover which was overtaken by its rear wheel when he was driving it. He repaired that. Next time he was out in it, he suddenly felt no friction in the steering wheel. In the course of use the wheel had gradually unscrewed itself from the steering column and so was 'turning' nothing but thin air.He was so surprised that he calmly screwed it back by hand without stopping, only to break out in a cold sweat later when he realised what could have happened!

[Doc Spock]

Bond mini car circa 1953.

Reg DRN 31


this was a Preston reg as the Bond factory was in preston

passed my test at 16 in 1962.

[Cockney_si]

1.3 1983 Nissan Cherry, Had welds on welds, handled like a barge especially in the wet and used to squeel the tires if you steered early into bends at speed.

Loved it to bits !

[busno808]

MK 1 ford escort 1300 4 door in blue ahhh fond memories

[cazzz1975]

was that a bond bug doc??

they are very cool

[Pippa68]

I had my dads J registered Vauxhall Viva.

I still have several photos of it..I later sold it to Mr Pippa who blew up the engine trying to race it down the A23 to Brighton every weekend :o(

[tillyfloss]

Vauxhall nova in poo brown!... ran it into a lampost, snapped half a rusty door off it, dragged the side of it down another parked car, and even had beaded seat covers - what a car! :-)

[cazzz1975]

I had a h reg red montego

[Pippa68]

My mum had a boyfriend with a Bond Bug.

Oh, and my dad had a mark one escort. In fact he had two..the front was from one car and the back from another!

[flip_flop]

1979 2000cc Ford Cortina Estate.

You could see the road through the floor and the gear stick use to come off in my hand.

Happy days.