What was your first car?

[bishop]

mine was a blue and rust vauxhall viva closely followed by a marina

[Luci]

Mine was a mini clubman, which I learnt to drive in.
The fastest it went was when it got driven to the scrapyard

[Hilary B]

First car I drove much (and used for a while after passing driving test) was a Beetle, but my first MY car was a Mini Clubman with the wooden bits on.
The Beetle was OK (I did most of my learning to drive in it) but the Mini was the one I wanted. Had it a couple of years, then some prat in a lorry (small, as lorroes go) assumed I was pulling out onto the roundabout when I was being cautious (33 years later, I still hate that particular roundabout, it's DANGEROUS), and the repair bill was more than the value....

[mrdinkle]

Mine was a white J plate VW Golf 1.4 CL. No gadgets, no power steering. Was a great trouble free car to be fair and I regret selling it as soon as I did (even though I sold it for the same as I paid for it).

[rustylady]

A Mini Cooper S bought by my then husband in a bit of a state. He and his mate were going to do it up for me to drive, then realised it was a Cooper S and renovated and sold it. Technically it was mine but I never did get to drive. My first very own car, bought with my own money, was a VW Polo (oldie but goodie)

[jacob marley]

My first motor was a 1951 ford 8 van with windows in the side in 1961 that used to belong to a chip shop owner and he used to use it to fetch his fish from the fish market in B'ham and it took me 6 months to get rid of the smell....jacob

[PAULW]

Mazda 323 estate old P reg bought in scotland where I was working got it a couple of days before I went on holiday back home to dorset and did a thousand miles the first week I had it.

[rustylady]

I was given a VW Polo by my MIL when she got a new car. If I dropped the kids off somewhere they'd duck so they were'nt seen in it, I couldn't wair to get rid but the bladdy thing just kept on going.

They do unless your son borrows it to go to the local carboot, forgets to lock the bonnet down, catches the wind going down the bypass and the bonnet flies up, bending said bonnet and ruining windscreen, therefore making car more expensive to repair than scrap. (Me and grandson in car with him at the time - quite scary - you try looking through the grille to navigate to the side of the road while the bonnet is right up against the windscreen. Glad he was driving and not me.

[bubblewrap]

A little red one with two peddles linked to the back wheels.





I was 5

[Jeanied]

I had a little British racing green Mini - bought by parents to stop me hitchhiking everywhere to get to Uni! Extremely second had when I got it but it worked for a couple of years - with a bit of tlc and tights used as fanbelt etc!

[bobleponge]

A 1972 wedgewood blue Escort, PRO 940K, known as The Pig. paid £45 for it, and taught myself to drive as I drove it back home.
Hand painted with some army red lead paint and sold it for £75 quid.
Then bought a Marina with no reverse gear which I kept for 2 years, followed by an all aggro. Happy days.

[DarkCrow]

A Rover 216 SE, Gold with a with a white front bumper, Skoda alloys (cause they were cheap) Reg E45 YGG (easy GG) I Thought i was soooo cool.. but no one else did... can't understand why?? :-)

[zazen999]

A yellow Avenger with only 3 out of the 4 thingys working [pistons? the things that the spark plugs fire I think] - gosh it was so long ago; I just remember the noise as it misfired. Given to me by my bf [at the time]'s mum.

After that they gave me a blue marina estate with a picture of a German Shepherd in the back window and every day [every day] the guys in the other laboratory would call down and tell me 'your dog's looking a bit thin, what are you feeding him these days; should I give him some water' ad infinitum.....until I got a Gold Capri - which was the first car I actually bought YAY!!!

[coreopsis]

Citroen Saxo-still driving it

[Rhona]

My first car WOULD have been a really nice Audi. The firm I was with at the time gave all it's fee-earning people one, but I couldn't drive . I lived with my sis at the time and she was beside herself with annoyance at me for ' not just getting it anyway' (she could drive, so could have had it); but meh, just seemed greedy.