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Matblack
25-08-2006, 18:37
I was lucky my first car was COOL!
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1553/mgmetro01aj6.jpg
1.3l of throbbing power!
Check out the sports interior :cool:
Red seat belts!
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9047/mgmetro02xx6.jpg
MB
I dont have a pic, but my first car was a 1.3 Golf CL, which I rammed into our garden gate ;D
I have never owned a car :(
I have my bike though :cool:
A 1982 VW PoloC - 1.05l (don't forget the all important 0.05l :p) and very little in the brakes department
a quick piccy from my dad's website (which hopefully is fine with hotlinking)
http://www.hallvw.clara.net/Family/poloc.jpg
Sporty accessories include dual main-beam grill which made it possible to actually see where you were going at night, errr and of course the all important yet quite ironic tow bar :p
Flibster
25-08-2006, 19:26
Ooooh.
A whole 1.3l powerhouse of a VW beetle.
If only it didn't get written off... :( I loved that car.
Simon/~Flibster
Creature
25-08-2006, 19:55
Had the Rover for near 2 years now, though I fear I may be killing it slowly. Too many worrying noises.
Piggymon
25-08-2006, 20:27
C reg Citroen Visa ... *shudders*
http://www.citroenvisaclub.nl/Visa%20GT%20CJ.jpg
Exactly the same as you Matt, but in black :)
Mine was a C reg Fiesta 1.1 Ghia. The body work was in fantastic shape, jsut a shame that the oily bits weren't.
Here's mine....
http://avtomagaz.ru/reviews/peugeot/images_peugeot/peugeot_309_1986-1993_5d.jpg
1.3GL
Awsome.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8b/Astra-mk2-sri.jpg/180px-Astra-mk2-sri.jpg
Thats the best picture i could find. Bought a 1990 Astra Sri MK2 1 week after passing my test at the age of 18. Cost me 1.3k to insure it lol :D.
I was lucky my first car was COOL!
I was unlucky my first car was ****E!
A Mk3 Escort 1.6. Rotten as a pear but it sounded cool. Especially with my sub in the glovebox :embarassed: (think I described that at the BBQ)
Davey_Pitch
25-08-2006, 23:35
I was unlucky my first car was ****E!
A Mk3 Escort 1.6. Rotten as a pear but it sounded cool. Especially with my sub in the glovebox :embarassed: (think I described that at the BBQ)
You did indeed :)
I still own my first car (for another week anyway), a 1.3l Ford Ka. A bit of a girly car admittedly, but it's dirt cheap to run and insure, when the engine isn't breaking or I'm not spinning off motorways at 95MPH thanks to some black ice.
I was unlucky my first car was ****E!
A Mk3 Escort 1.6. Rotten as a pear but it sounded cool. Especially with my sub in the glovebox :embarassed: (think I described that at the BBQ)
Aye, you did. I think it was just a sub, ie, a speaker loose in the glovebox with a couple of wires poking out? Awesome!
Blackstar
25-08-2006, 23:50
I get my first car next week or the week after. M reg mk3 fiesta in red with character (by character i mean rust)
Stan_Lite
25-08-2006, 23:54
My first car was a clapped out Renault 11 - wasn't up to much but it got me from one place to the other.
Stan :)
Here's mine....
http://avtomagaz.ru/reviews/peugeot/images_peugeot/peugeot_309_1986-1993_5d.jpg
1.3GL
Awsome. I concur!
I drove my Mum's F Reg Ming Blue Peugeot 309 GRD SPECIAL EQUIPMENT (that's important), which we'd had from new around for the first few years after passing my test. It eventually got binned because the gearbox gave up.
I then went to Uni. Came home in the first year and bought a D Reg Beige 1.3 GL for £100. It was an absolute shed! It was matt beige when I first bought it and the starter motor was knackered, but with a little help from Leon, we shined it up with t-cut and stuck a starter from the scrappy on it.
Don't have a photo of it, but I found a shining example on google. Beautiful colour, huh? ;D
http://www.roguesgallery.com/boat/309beige.gif
The brake calipers were constantly binding, so the brakes boiled after about 30 mins of driving it, but I never went further than the 20 min journey to work, so it didn't really matter. They used to smoke at the traffic lights though :cool: The cost of new callipers was well over the cost of the vehicle, so I never bothered changing them.
Despite all this, I REALLY liked driving this car. Much more so than my brother's 309 DTurbo.
Unfortunately, the car didn't do too well over the winter, and ended up like this.
http://www.roguesgallery.com/boat/mould1.jpg
http://www.roguesgallery.com/boat/mould2.jpg
http://www.roguesgallery.com/boat/mould3.jpg
So my parents binned it :'( I still miss it now.
1973 MG Midget - the last edition to have the chrome bumpers, but two months off being tax-exempt.
http://www.belmit.co.uk/boatdrinks/pics/midget.jpg
I believe that pic is the '69 version, but it was identical. Loved it to bits but had to get rid of it - didn't have the time or patience to maintain it properly. Almost wrote it off too after the bonnet flew up at 55mph on a dual carriageway and did £1500 of damage; some joker had removed the safety catch and I never even knew it was supposed to have one.
Still have mine. A little silver 1.2 W reg Corsa.
People can knock Corsas as much as they like but it passed the MOT with flying colours, is cheap to insure and gets me from Swansea to Leeds and back for £40.
LeperousDust
26-08-2006, 11:39
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http://www.roguesgallery.com/boat/mould2.jpg[/IMG]
http://www.roguesgallery.com/boat/mould3.jpg[/IMG]
So my parents binned it :'( I still miss it now.
Jesus Kate what were you growing in there!
I'm looking at cars now, i'll probably end up getting one next year i'll class thats one as my first car, because my current one i've just commandeered off my mum who just never drives anymore, i pay for everything done on it tax MOT insurance and the rest, i just never paid for it to begin with. Does that count? :D
My mundano with its bumpers. It's got a 10 year old clutch which isn't breaking the traditional clutch slipping way, the release springs have started to furr up since it's done so many miles and stuck around so long.
That considered its still a brilliant car.
Mine was and still is a 1.2l Renault Clio.
Not the fastest car in the world (ok nowhere near that :p) but it is reliable and it's cheap to run and insure.
I like it :)
I was lucky my first car was COOL!
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1553/mgmetro01aj6.jpg
1.3l of throbbing power!
Check out the sports interior :cool:
Red seat belts!
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9047/mgmetro02xx6.jpg
MB
Mine was brown. It didn't have an MG badge. It didn't have a sports interior. It didn't have red seat belts. It did have a 1.3 in it though :)
I had a 1979 white Mini which was bought for £200 and was in great condition. You can't do that any more! When we (myself and my parents) bought her she had tiger skin seat covers so I kept them in, chucked a load of cuddly tigers in and called her Tiger Mini :)
Matblack
28-08-2006, 14:53
Mine was brown. It didn't have an MG badge. It didn't have a sports interior. It didn't have red seat belts. It did have a 1.3 in it though :)
Ah but the MG edition was fettled by MG with special high lift cams :shocked: making it one of the fastest cars on the road*
MB
*this might not be true
Ah but the MG edition was fettled by MG with special badge on the front and that's about it, :shocked: making it one of the worst cars for hanging on the coat tails of another marque*
MB
*this be true
MG metros were known as Majorly Gutted after my sisters mate slid his into a ditch sideways.
My first car was a spectacularly bad Escort estate which cost me £400 more than it should have, I was desperate for transport at the time. :(
I thought I killed it one night when a breather tube got blocked and blew off half way home. Oil everywhere.
Jesus Kate what were you growing in there!
I concur, looking at that gives me goose bumps.
Flibster
29-08-2006, 20:54
You can't kill Escorts mate. They just WON'T DIE!!!!
I'll take you up on that... :D
Killed 2 in my time. Managed to sieze an engine at 70ish in one and the other well... the engine mounts rusted away. Guess what happened. ;)
Simon/~Flibster
Not the MG Metro but almost - linkage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzO3LXX_8sw)
:D
Not the MG Metro but almost - linkage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzO3LXX_8sw)
:D
;D
Matblack
30-08-2006, 17:24
*bows at the feet of the great Escort destroyer*
Sadly I can only manage to kill Minis. And I never wanted to, it just sort of happened.
[makes note]
MB
Admiral Huddy
31-08-2006, 16:52
Mine was the All agro Austin "Allegro"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/hardhuddy/Misc%202006/std_1975_austin_allegro.jpg
I havn't got a picture of mine anywhere :(
It was a 1.1 but i put a 1.5 vanden plas badge on it I got from a scrap yard.. and I told the insurance company that it was a plas just to be cool lol..
It's end came when i was playing some music through a PA system I attached to the front wing as i was looking at some girls at a bus stop.. I collided into a car turning right into a petrol station.. The girls rushed over and laughed as they helped .. haha :)
I thought that only happened in Carry On films!
I thought that only happened in Carry On films!
Huddy's whole life is one long Carry On film.;D
Hyuk hyuk hyuk.
/Sid James
Von Smallhausen
31-08-2006, 22:11
My first car was either a Ferrari Daytona or a Peugeot 205 1.1. I can't remember.
Blackstar
31-08-2006, 23:36
I just got my first insurance for my first car (big moment for me) £472.50 \o/ not half bad i think?
What car is it? :)
My insurance was £550ish last year for a Clio 1.2l.
Matblack
31-08-2006, 23:45
What car is it? :)
My insurance was £550ish last year for a Clio 1.2l.
Thats approximately how much I pay for a group 19 car :D
MB
Thats approximately how much I pay for a group 19 car :D
MB
Shush :p
They don't trust me yet :( Goes down to £350ish if I can reach 1 year's NCB.
Blackstar
31-08-2006, 23:54
1.1 Ford Fiesta :)
I just got my first insurance for my first car (big moment for me) £472.50 \o/ not half bad i think?
What car is it? :)
My insurance was £550ish last year for a Clio 1.2l.
I knew girls paid less but those prices are criminally cheap compared to the quotes the young lads in OcUKs motors forum mention when they first start out.
Admiral Huddy
01-09-2006, 10:30
Huddy's whole life is one long Carry On film.;D
haha ;D
I told the insurance company that I was looking at how much petrol had gone up.. I think it was about 90p.... a gallon :D . I thought that would be better than saying eyeing up totty at the bus stop..
I loved that car.. every time I got it past 50mph.. the front wing used to shake like mad where I fitted the PA on the inside.. I didn't think about fixing a longer screw..
I knew girls paid less but those prices are criminally cheap compared to the quotes the young lads in OcUKs motors forum mention when they first start out.
I know but thank god. I'm pushing it to afford it right now as it is, I'd be priced out of the market for a few years if I was getting quotes like them. :(
leowyatt
01-09-2006, 11:28
My first car was a 1.3GL B reg Nissan Sunny. My car had a blue exterior and grey interior and it was great. My mate had the same make and model but his was green with a brown interior. Here some photos of the model not the actual car.
http://www.badasszebedee.com/photos/82Sunny.jpg
http://www.badasszebedee.com/photos/82Sunny2.jpg
LeperousDust
01-09-2006, 12:54
I just got my first insurance for my first car (big moment for me) £472.50 \o/ not half bad i think?
PM the car details, and i'll run a quote through elephant and we can have a laugh when i manage a >1k quote :cool: ;D
LeperousDust
01-09-2006, 18:05
Go me:
http://www.twobeds.com/upload/userfiles/LeperousDust/quote.png
I may have possibly cheated though, since i said my full time job is student living away from home and that i store it in a car park, but still :p.
:eek:
**** me! Does that quote come with a pre-purchased replacement car?
LeperousDust
01-09-2006, 19:20
No thats a 19 y.o. male with 0NCB and a crash on his record.
*weeps*
I'm giving up the car thing when my renewal comes through, it's totally uneconomical, I'll just have to wait until I've finished uni or at least a few years. Paula can drive me round by the looks of things so no worries :D.
TBH if I put a proper job down, and say its parked in a garage which is usually would be at home, and throw my mum and dad on as named drivers (55 and 65 year olds with full NCB) then I generally halve the quotes. But I just thought I'd let you all have a chuckle :D
Paula is that with just you as a driver? Is it only me who has to use his parents to keep costs down?
//Edit: 1 year 6 months to go though untill i don't have to mention previous accidents \o/.
I just got a quote for my new car - £500 fully comp which for a group 20 car I'm rather pleased with. That's for a 27 year old with 1 claim, no points and 3 years NCB on a shiny new £31K VW Golf R32.
Blackstar
01-09-2006, 19:37
Yup i'm the only driver on mine :D woo *dances*. I have 0 NCB having only just got my licence but i do have pass plus.
The car is costing me £300 to buy.
Roll on better car...
I've got pass plus but Tesco insurance don't really care :/ But it was a fun course anyway.
LeperousDust
01-09-2006, 19:44
Oh, P.S. I wish i'd done pass plus :(
Blackstar
01-09-2006, 19:53
I've got pass plus but Tesco insurance don't really care :/ But it was a fun course anyway.
Direct line care.
Kell_ee001
01-09-2006, 20:26
I didn't do the Pass Plus course but my insurance is £20 a month anyway - and it's only that because it cost me to put my Mum on :huh:
Direct line care.
Yeah but they gave me a rubbish quote, Tesco were somehow cheapest even without talking PP into account.
Doesn't really matter once I get to November and hopefully the 1 year NCB :)
PeterNem
08-09-2006, 00:28
I learnt on a private airfield in my parents Omega, but when it came to driving on the road they decided it was a bit too big for a new driver (most likely rightly so) and traded it in from a 1.4 Mk4 Astra for mum and I to share.
It was then swapped for a 1.6 Corolla when I went to Uni which I still made use of when home for Easter/Summer.
My first actual car to call my own was my 2.0 1998 Mondeo Which I bought during my 2nd year of Uni (Nov 2003). Traded that in Dec 2005 for my 2nd and current car (2002 2.5 Mondeo).
Definately want something non-Ford next, but for the timebeing they're cheap and a lot of car for the cash.
I'd like to think maybe I'll keep this car for a year or so, and then get something with a bit more Kudos (BMW 5'er wouldn't go amiss...).
TinkerBell
08-09-2006, 08:40
I've got pass plus but Tesco insurance don't really care :/ But it was a fun course anyway.
Yeah i took pass plus and I am with Tesco insurance, didn't really mind though as it was the cheapest by far for me and I wanted to do the motorway driving as i had done the rest!:p
Yeah i took pass plus and I am with Tesco insurance, didn't really mind though as it was the cheapest by far for me and I wanted to do the motorway driving as i had done the rest!:p
Same :) The motorway driving was very helpful I found. If nothing else it made me feel a bit more confident when I was on the motorway for the first time on my own.
TinkerBell
08-09-2006, 12:26
Same :) The motorway driving was very helpful I found. If nothing else it made me feel a bit more confident when I was on the motorway for the first time on my own.
Yeah i was quite worried about going on the motorway for the first time, so i wanted to do it in the car i was used to driving and with the extra controls on his side:)
Fiat Uno 60s - a raging 1136cc engine of sheer italian powah! Actually it had around 60bhp so it was rather nippy for a D reg yoghurt pot on wheels. I think the word to describe it would be "character". ;)
Though I started driving at 12 at my grandmother's house in France - she had over 40 acres of land and lots of crappy run arounds to get her around the fields etc... It was a great way to learn - and to be naughty! :evil:
Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 Automatic, L reg.. meet peeps will probably have seen it. I know Desmo and Piggy got a good view of it on the way back from Oakwood, what with them being stuck behind the poor thing struggling to go uphill with 5 adults in it.
First years insurance, whilst 24 with 0 years NCB came to £670 with Business cover on it too.
This years insurance, whilst 25 with 1 years NCB.... £420, without business cover.
Soo much cheaper :)
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