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janspeed
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Your first car?
« on: Jun 26th, 2005, 10:53am » |
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So guys what was your first car after passing your test?
Mine i have to say was a Datsun Cherry, in gold. 
1.0 litre, it had more holes in it than the British legal system.(loop holes).
Then i discovered the blue oval. 
Jay
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scorpio_man
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #1 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 11:09am » |
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hi there
mines was a 1.2 cherry coupe with the dog leg gearbox. great wee car, pretty fast for what it was! mine you rust was a issue. nearly lost the rear drivers wheel/wishbone when i hit a pot hole on a downwards bend at speed. when i got it home there was only 2" of metal holding it on 
brings back memories 
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janspeed
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #2 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 11:18am » |
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Hi.
I got 95 mph outta my 1.0 Cherry. down hill. lol 
was a good car, except for the tin worm. i filled the holes with cardboard and filled over them and a tin of gold paint later, hey presto. there was over spray every where. i know it was naughty of me to do that but i was a spotty 17 year old scroat at the time,i sold it on and got what i paid for it.
i`m happy to say i`m not like that now, honest me lod.
Jay
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Ultima_Alan
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #3 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 4:25pm » |
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Im still driving my first car at the minute, 2.0 16v scorpio ultima.
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wayne
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #4 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 5:21pm » |
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Mine was a Triumph 2000 Estate. What a workhorse! Still remember the reg (JUT 7L),, How sad is that!!!
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #5 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 5:31pm » |
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Well I learnt to drive in Ford Consul 2.5 V6 with no power steering (probably why I'm obsessed with Granada's & Scorpio's ) though the first car I actually owned was the good old Mini what FUN !!!
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Dazzer0016
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #6 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 6:02pm » |
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a good old P reg 1.3 escort van for me did my first wheel spin and the leaf springs came apart.....then i had a datsun 120y T reg excellent on the outside , rotten sills and door bottoms on the inside it was the high spec that made me buy it back in 1983 lol (rear reversing lights , intermittent wash wipe, two yes two door mirrors and front headrests and arear window heater) wow i was posh then. only Rolls Royce had most Scorpio spec then.
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Paul B
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #7 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 8:41pm » |
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N-reg Ford Cortina 2000 XL estate for me, which got subtly modified along the way.
This is it at Bromley Pageant of Motoring sometime late 80's / early 90's. And I still have this tucked away.
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Baz
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #8 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 9:13pm » |
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1460 racing mini. (I worked for Howley Racing after leaving school) badged as a mini 1000 in Blaze (orange) it had a mini mayfair interior and loads of new bits from breakers yards (even then I couldn't stay away from them!)
We used to have drivers including Steve Soper who drove our minis and later metros. One of the guys who worked with me went off to Cosworth of all places!!
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #9 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 10:05pm » |
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I passed my test in my first XJ6, 1981 series III 4.2 auto, cost £3,000 to buy the car, £1,100 to insure it !
Wrote it off 18 months later - rolled it into a telegraph pole
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1st real car was a 66 cortina GT, 4 door, white with a lotus stripe, Lotus rims, bumpers. 1500cc pre cross flow, bored 60 thou, piper v62 cam and twin 48 delortos.
Lowered 2 inches, full gt trim, mmm she was a belter. Got pinched and wrecked so I swapped it for a 76 Mk1 grannie 3.0 ghia, that one cost me my licence, got caught and done for a MS50,
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Baz
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #11 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 8:20am » |
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Whats an MS50?
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #12 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 8:55am » |
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MS 50 is racing on the public Highway
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janspeed
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #13 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 10:30am » |
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I got caught for a TS10, the day after i passed my test. Doh
Traffic light violation.
Jay
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LiverpaulH
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #14 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 11:55am » |
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My first car was a 1980 Mk1 957cc Fiesta Festival in metallic silver.
Bought for £800 in 1990 with 38,000 on the clock. Taken to the scrap yard in the sky 10 years later with 138,000 miles on it! Not bad vfm!
Put on pepperpots, a peco exhaust and manifold and used to nav rally it while up in Newcastle on Tyne. Loved the car. That's why I kept it for a further 5 years after I'd finished using it as my only car. My sister had it for 2 years then I kept it Mot'd and taxed and used it on occasions when I could.
Scrapped it when I ran out of space to keep it (and the tin worm was at it's peak).
Paul
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Lee
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #15 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 3:49pm » |
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mk 4 cortina in bright red i loved that car ..put a mk5 drivers seat in and thought that was really cool ,,, i had the best looking mk4 on the road  well i thought it was, looking back it was a bit of a shed really
Lee
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Scorpioen84
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #16 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 8:38pm » |
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Not that interesting, a -97 Escort 1.6TD Stv.
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Mine was an Austin 1100 twin carb that got lots of Mods and went like stink or so I thought.
Lost count of all the others cars I had since then.
Must sit down and think of them all one day and write a list.
Bob
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #18 on: Jun 28th, 2005, 7:18am » |
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Morris Minor Convertable TFY 34, An absolute dream of a car, was my first car as some of the girls did not like my Scott Motor Bike in the wet. ( NOW I wished I had kept that one ... the bike that is)
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nitram
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Re: Your first car?
« Reply #19 on: Jun 30th, 2005, 9:51am » |
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Sorry, but I'm going to swear now...
V***hall Nova 1.2 Merit.. In yellow! It was a great little car, D reg (D864LNA) so 10 years old when I bought it in '96 for £1500 but it only had 34,000 miles on the clock! It ran like an absolute dream, pretty nippy and you could fit 5 people in the back! I put (glued!) a blue GSI style spoiler on the back, but never got round to painting it to match the car! It was stolen and recovered at one point.
Drove it for 2 years and about 25,000 miles without any major problems then some stupid woman in a VW Polo drove into the side and wrote it off 
Up until a couple of years ago I still saw it driving round after a fella bought it off me and made it roadworthy again (Although there was still the dent in the bonnet where my mate sat on it!)
That was followed by a succession of absolute sheds that lasted about 6 months each, 'til I realised owning a 10 year old Escort was costing me more per month than buying a brand new Nissan Micra!
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