What was your first car?

[Pumpkin Becki]

Jasper had very bad compression, he'd conk out while I was driving down the motorway (scarey stuff). There is no way on this earth that he is still on the road!!

[Glutton4...]

My first car was a Morris Marina. It was revolting and I hated it, but it was all I could afford!

[HeyWayne]

Jasper had very bad compression, he'd conk out while I was driving down the motorway (scarey stuff). There is no way on this earth that he is still on the road!!

My old Astra used to do that - as soon as you pressed the clutch the engine died (something to do with a dodgy engine management gizmo). You effectively bump started every time you changed gear.

I only had it a year.

[FionaH]

Mine was a Hillman Imp I bought for £70........First time I went down dual carrageway in it, the b***dy bonnet flew up against the windscreen.........scary........

That happened to me on the middle lane of the M40 very very scarey! That was in my first car an old styl M reg mini. Great car though and really fun to drive

[Pumpkin Becki]

That happened to me on the middle lane of the M40 very very scarey! That was in my first car an old styl M reg mini. Great car though and really fun to drive

Aren't new cars boring!! Jasper's heater broke while I was driving home through freezing fog. I had to have my right hand out of the window scraping a hole in the ice on the windscreen!!

[Comfreyfan]

My first car was a Morris Marina. It was revolting and I hated it, but it was all I could afford!

A mini was my first car, Marina was second when mini collapsed - I hated my Marina too!

Biggest problem used to be finding enough rust free floor to bolt in the anchorage points for the child seats (back in the old days!)

[newbieveggie]

Ah this brings back memories. My first car was a gold coloured simca. The previous owner was a pipe smoker so the inside was as yellow as the outside and I found so many discarded pipes. I loved it and was gutted when it went pop pop bang big bang and died going down a rather steep hill. A sad day...
I would say my most fun car and I would def get another was my citroen dyane. The roof was made out of a plastic tablecloth like you get in France and whenever I opened it I would get showered with rust !

Ahhh the rose tinted memories...bliss...

[Hans Mum]

Mine was a brown Austin Allegro . Many many moons ago.

snap mine was a brown allegro too..

it died trying to go up hill on the M62 during rushhour

[OllieMartin]

Mine is an S-reg VW Polo 1.0. I only passed my test in March so still in my first year of driving.
The great thing is, because work pay 37p a mile petrol costs, and it costs around 15p a mile in petrol to run, after I've taken into account tax, insurance, oil, repairs, a new tyre etc i'm still in profit just over £1 a day! (That excludes the initial £800 outlay for the car).
You can't complain about a car that sort-of earns you money!

[muckdiva]

Datsun Cherry, silver with lots of dents!

[janeyo]

Mine was an orange (although I swore at the time it was red) ausin metro, whith a terrble thirst for oil and called basil monty.

[scarey55]

Mine was a green Triumph Herald (a dream to work on) and my mum "paid" 2 tables and a chest of drawers for her!

[di]

A red Fiat Panda.I used to have to get a friend to fiddle with the heating thing~a~me~jig,the switch had broken so he had to alter it in the engine each winter/Spring.

[HeyWayne]

Mine is an S-reg VW Polo 1.0. I only passed my test in March so still in my first year of driving.
The great thing is, because work pay 37p a mile petrol costs, and it costs around 15p a mile in petrol to run, after I've taken into account tax, insurance, oil, repairs, a new tyre etc i'm still in profit just over £1 a day! (That excludes the initial £800 outlay for the car).
You can't complain about a car that sort-of earns you money!

Indeed - my Fiesta which I bought for £65, I sold for £250 a year later, and the Astra which I bought for £1000, I sold for £1800 a year later.

Benefit of having a mechanic as a dad.

It all went downhill after that, but I started well.

[ginger ninger]

My Mum and Dad bought me my first car, it was a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus on a X plate, I called it Timmy, my little (at the time) Nephew cried buckets when I sold it.