Your first car...

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Lukas73 said:
probably been done to death on here, but always an interesting read...

In 1993 my folks got me a 1979 VW Golf, sky blue...1.1 engine.
The seatbelts were the old school loop jobbies...the body work was 'ok' my dad had stuck some decent second hand wheels on it...the engine was suberb though...great little car...
Let's have 'em...
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1975 1.1 VW Golf
 
Orange V reg mk 2 escort popular. Would never start. In the end I put two batteries on it wired parallel. Had no carpet in it and the dash was just plain metal painted black. I made a centre console out of plywood and fitted an oil pressure guage and tach. Before I fitted the second battery I had it in the boot but it tipped over and all the acid spilled out and took off the paint in the tyre well. Fortunately I knew a lad whose dad was a chemist and he got me a big bottle of sulphuric to refill it. When I got the car it it only had one key and the shaft had been snapped off then riveted to a two pence piece. I went to Cowies to see if I could get a spare. The lad behind the counter looked at it, gave it back to me then opened a drawer and took out a key which he handed to me. How do know which one I said. Ford only made six different ones he replied. He knew them all by sight!
 
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Bright Red MkII Escort - JBR 760N
Apparently it was registered on the day in 1975 that the first MkIIs were sold in the UK so may have been worth a few quid in later years if it hadn't been such a bucket of shite that ended up in the scrappy by 1987
 
Passed me test in March 1990. Me Mam and Dad bought me a V Reg Mini Clubman Estate in mint green for Easter. Probably did as many miles attached to a tow rope than it did under its own steam. Great fun though still and smoked shit loads of hashish in it. Ended up scrapping it after a year for 30 quid after the engine block cracked.
 
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I thought I was a bit of a hippy type at the time. Horrible car but I loved it at the time. Wrote it off though.
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I used to import these things from Holland in 1974-5, 'cos they were cheap there and hippies and students would buy them here. I once drove one from London to Durham in a northerly gale and it took 9 hours. Going back, with the wind still blowing, it took just over 4!
 
1971 mini with no brakes apart from a hole in the floor where the passenger could literally put both feet to the road.
Reading some of the first cars on here make me smile
Back in the day we all started off with a scrapper
 
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