Mine was in 1967 but the car was a little older it was a 1953 Morris Minor split windscreen(Black). It was like a tank to drive. The car did not get very warm very fast. Followed by a custard yellow Ford Anglia 105E.

Mine was a 1947 Jowett Javelin. Bought it in 1960 for 75 pounds, got me from Manor Top to the Wicker before the gearbox went out. Cost another 70 to get it back on the road. Wonderful investment.

1st car.............Mk1 Ford Fiesta, 950cc engine, Registration- ADB 606Y. Half of ton of rust and i loved it! :wink:

Originally posted by desy
Mine was in 1967 but the car was a little older it was a 1953 Morris Minor split windscreen(Black). It was like a tank to drive. The car did not get very warm very fast. Followed by a custard yellow Ford Anglia 105E.

Our first proper car was a Triumph 1500 in custard yellow. Paid £600 for it complete with rust and bodyfiller in 1977, traded my Plastic pig in for it (bad move). Constantly replaced donought drive shaft thingys and drive shaft boots. Brake discs shatttered, Clutch disintegrated half way up Whiston Hill. Rust replicated itself across whole of car quicker than the spread of bubonic plague. Never passed an MOT first time. Finally drove it into the back of a Triumph 2000 at 30 mph at which his towbar punctured the radiator and both wings fell off. Best thing that could have happened to it. Never bought another BL car again.

Originally posted by desy
Mine was in 1967 but the car was a little older it was a 1953 Morris Minor split windscreen(Black). It was like a tank to drive. The car did not get very warm very fast. Followed by a custard yellow Ford Anglia 105E.

JUst for interest when I passed my test I was going down Hollins Lane at Stannington and the brakes went I managed to pump it enough to help me slow down as I crashed through the gears. When I got home the brake cylinder that was aluminium and under the drivers floor pan had split straight down the seem.

If you can call it a car...Mine was a "Reliant supervan three" an upgrade on "Dell Boys" car..I only bought it because I had a motorbike license,and I was told i could class it as a three wheeler combo..
But a Policeman in Durham told me this wasn't so..Does anyone know if this is correct or not ????.

Mine was an MG Midget in british racing green. It was an "R" reg (1977) and I bought it in 1981 as soon as I had passed my test. It cost me £1500...and I called it "Ramillies" :clap:

I don't remember my first car......and I'm doing my hardest to forget the last one!

Originally posted by Timbuck
If you can call it a car...Mine was a "Reliant supervan three" an upgrade on "Dell Boys" car..I only bought it because I had a motorbike license,and I was told i could class it as a three wheeler combo..
But a Policeman in Durham told me this wasn't so..Does anyone know if this is correct or not ????.

The policeman was wrong, You can drive a three wheeler on a full MC Licence. I had mine for three years and my old man was a copper so I think he would have told me.
I think if you look at your licence it should state that you can drive 3 wheelers.

Ours was a Triumph Mayflower bought from a garage at the bottom of Granville Road for the pricely sum of £10.00 in 1963, it was a great little car!

Mine was an HA Viva, pass anything bar a scrap yard, and cost me £100, When i bought it he told me it was rust free, what he really ment was he wasn't charging for the rust, I remember driving past a bus stop and seeing a bird i used fancy at school i pulled up and asked her if she wanted a lift home, i opened the door for her and it fell off and broke her big toe, so that ended that romance.

I think I might win for the oldest.
I bought a 1937 Rover 14 for 40 quid back in the sixties. I had never driven a car, but when it was delivered to me in South Wales I decided to drive it to the local pub to pick up my wife, using my motor cycle skills. Two weeks later on navy leave I drove it to my ma in laws place in Greenhill, where it continued to pollute her driveway for a week or so, and I was driven to sell it NOW, or else. I got 20 for it. Later I bought a brand new Mini 850 for 450 quid. My computer does not have a pound key, sorry!

Originally posted by buck
I think I might win for the oldest.
I bought a 1937 Rover 14 for 40 quid back in the sixties. I had never driven a car, but when it was delivered to me in South Wales I decided to drive it to the local pub to pick up my wife, using my motor cycle skills. Two weeks later on navy leave I drove it to my ma in laws place in Greenhill, where it continued to pollute her driveway for a week or so, and I was driven to sell it NOW, or else. I got 20 for it. Later I bought a brand new Mini 850 for 450 quid. My computer does not have a pound key, sorry!
Try the Shift & Hash you may get the £ sign

Mine was a Rover Maestro and I still have it, under restoration at the moment. Never parting with it.

My first car was a White Ford Fiesta...Reg no CRA 307T it was stolen from the pub car park whilst I was working as a bar maid and discovered wrecked later that night by joyriders....I was only 18 and cried for days!!

:mad:

My first car was a Mk 5 cortina and at Graves park this Sunday they are holding the 'festival of transport' or some such thing which is free to go to and [this is the bad bit] they have in the past amongst their classic cars [therefore old' ] some Mk 5 cortina's

Originally posted by buck
My computer does not have a pound key, sorry!

It's been said here before, but:

For those with keyboards that don't have £ sign key, hold down the alt key and type 156 on the numerical keypad to the right of your keyboard

It's magic!

Mine was a model "T" Ford.
I remember paying my butler 10 shillings to walk in front with a Red flag.

I can't see how brandishing communist propaganda (http://www.tedgrant.org/images/gallery/redflag.jpg) would help mate? :heyhey:

My first car (http://www.memorylane-classics.com/images/Tricycles%20&%20Pedal%20Cars/55%20Cheve%20Red.JPG)

Wish I'd still got it :rolleyes:

Easy, Ford Escort AWB520G. Cost £400, absolute fortune in 1972. 1100 engine with a widebore pipe, sounded like a F1 car and went like a tram!

Followed up with another Escort, this one was way upmarket, 1300L model, had wooden trim to the dashboard and black "go faster stripe".

Both of them vitually fell apart with rust.:lol:

I Had A1936 MG PB it was given to me in a very poor state .I spent a lot of time on it ,kept it for a few years then sold it for £100 .
The last I heard of it,it was in the USA. The only one of its kind and worth thousands.

Ford Fiesta, 3 years ago. i passed my test at the grand old age of 35! It cost £3000. My latest car is a newer model American Ford Escort and cost $3000!

My first motorbike was a BSA Bantam 175cc, registration OAL 778F. (That's a Mansfield registration).

My first was a 1969 ford escort 1300,this was in 1984,paid £100 for it,seems wierd looking back,it was only 15 years old when i had it, but it would be 7 years older than my "classic" spitfire which i am currently struggling to return to the road.
Makes me feel old:(

Mine was a frog green coloured Fiat Panda! 1988 I think.:D

A VW Beetle DWA 164? B - lovely to drive but only did about 70mph with the wind and tide behind it on a downhill stretch. Followed that with a Cortina 1600E - very very nice.

I had a red plastic one top speed 5mph the suspension was awful:loopy:

My first car was a Porsche 924 Turbo.

Got it for around a grand.

My first car was a red metro reg F87CKG. It cost me £800 and was my first lesson that cars are costly beasts. Eventually it got written off by an eejit who ploughed into the back of it while it was parked at the side of the road.- oh how I smiled :D

I remember my first car, i bought it off a mate for £400, boy, did he see me coming!!
It was a Ford Escort 1.1L MK 2, 2 door, in metallic burgundy, reg OJX 660T. Bought it back in 1989, had an *ahem* ugraded twin cam 1600 sport engine (i never knew honest guv!) but the air filter kept falling off onto the manifold and melting, couldnt afford a proper air filter back then, so I just cut a square shape from the circle bit in an ordinary air filter.
Ahhhh the good old days, I sold it for £200 about a year after as it had no t&t!

an original G reg vauxhall viva!!:o

My first car was a 1933 MG Midget. I paid 125 pounds for it in 1955. I don't think I could afford today.

i cant drive, never had one, nor did most of my family :P

now after this riveting and most useful bit of information for this thread ill get my coat and leave :)

*gets coat*

Originally posted by Lostrider
The policeman was wrong, You can drive a three wheeler on a full MC Licence. I had mine for three years and my old man was a copper so I think he would have told me.
I think if you look at your licence it should state that you can drive 3 wheelers.
I don't know if it's still the case, but you could drive a 3-wheeler on a motorcycle licence as long as the reverse gear was not connected, (I'm going back to the late 60's/early 70's) . My irst car was a brand new Hillman Imp in 1971. It was a great little car, rear engine and rear wheel drive so no transmission tunnel. I had it for 5 years. It was great to drive in snow cos most cars then were front engine and rear wheel drive, but because the Imp's engine was over the driving wheels the grip was great.

Mine was an 1983 silver Honda Civic. It used to be my Nanny's, she died about two weeks before my driving test and I inherited it. A lovely car, we had lots of adventures together, before I lent it to an ex-girlfriend for the weekend and she drove it into a ditch in Gloucestershire on her way back from a rave.

My next car was a lot older, an Austin Maxi from 1978, I think, one careful owner and it cost me £50. A horrible beast, but it got me from A to B for almost a couple of years before, after servicing the engine myself, the perished fuel pipe which I'd spotted and intended to replace the next day must've burst and squirted petrol on the engine: I was trying to get the car started when I noticed flames licking out of the bottom of the engine and up the side of my door!

My first car was a 1938 Morris eight, I got it in about 1963 as a direct swap for a 9.5 movie camera at the swap shop on Staniforth Rd. We went for a run from Sheffield Lane Top heading for Wyming Brook, but had to stop just before to fill up the radiator as we had a full head of steam!
I messed about with this little motor for about a year before finally scrapping it, happy days!!

My first car was a NSU.

It was so small it feltyou were wearing a metal skirt than sitting in a car.

Even so I had soe good times driving it about.


Happy Days!

Originally posted by PopT
My first car was a NSU.

It was so small it feltyou were wearing a metal skirt than sitting in a car.

Even so I had soe good times driving it about.


Happy Days!

I had an NSU didn't have a happy ending with it. Drove one winter with my coat on all the time as the sill replacement compared with other cars was astronomical and as the ends near rhe front wheels had gone and it also travelled the heat in the car from the engine into the car. Other than that the car was mechanically sound.

Apologies if this has been posted before, but I couldnt find it when doing a search, but im sure if it has then some smartarse will point it out ;)


What was your 1st ever car?

Mine was one of these (http://www.tiscali.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?postid=923855)

Mine was a Vauxhall Nova that my Nan gave me!...it was very bling-bling with cow print seats..handcuffs on the rear view mirror...for the year it was immaculate. I called her " Lola "

Mini Cluman in brown......mmm classy

Mine was a lovely Bug that I called 'Bertie' ... hense the name ... who was registered exactly one year after I was born.

He ( yes he, he moaned too much to be a women) had open heart surgery for a new engine and was never the same. I still see him when I go home but he has changed colour from kit kat red to black but the chrome and wella wheels are still the same.

Now after all these years I am still in love with Bugs ( I believe they get into your system) and want one next as my new car.

A Vauxhall Nova.

She was called Susan after Susan Ivanova the Russian 2nd in command of Babylon5.

(Ivanova - I've a Nova!):hihi:

Ive only just got my first car this April, shes a Reanult Clio Dynamique! Beautiful! My sister named her Daisy!!!!!

Got som pics but not as clever as eveyone else being able to put them on!!

Ive only just got my first car this April, shes a Reanult Clio Dynamique! Beautiful! My sister named her Daisy!!!!!

Should have called it Terry 'enry.....Va va voom!!!

This bad boy (http://www.dreamalong.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/LT-4855sh.jpg)

OH MY GOD, I LIE! That was mine too! Oh how much did i love that little beauty!!!

I had half shares on a Morris marina with my mum. It was deeply uncool turning up to school in that thing, but it was way more cool than getting the bus with all the brats. ;) It didn't even have a stereo so I had to shove a ghetto blaster on the passenger seat. Then it got sold to a collector for more than it was bought for! After that I had a Jetta with a Golf engine, which proved a bit too expensive on the insurance. :( It was rancid when i got it and took a whole weekend to clean up all the dog hair and filth from the inside.

My first car was a MK 1 Escort, a magic car I thought until it rained and the water came in through the floor. Found out the inner sills were rotten and bodged up with denso tape which is used to coat steel and stop it going rusty.

Originally posted by spyro2000
Apologies if this has been posted before, but I couldnt find it when doing a search, but im sure if it has then some smartarse will point it out ;)


What was your 1st ever car?

Mine was one of these (http://www.tiscali.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?postid=923855)



some smartarse eh?? lol ................thread here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?threadid=45668&highlight=motor+car+first+one)

:hihi: :clap: :D

mk 2 1600 e Cortina

mine was a triumph vetesse streight 6 twin webbers chassis broke going up hutcliffe-wood road behind millhouses park walked away from from the accident witout a scrach but wrote the car off and a lamp post and some wooden fencing got £25 scrap for it

Originally posted by bladesgirl
some smartarse eh?? lol ................thread here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?threadid=45668&highlight=motor+car+first+one)

:hihi: :clap: :D

Bloody spoilsport :rolleyes:

Mark IV Cortina saloon 1.6L

My first ever car was a 1992 Skoda Favorit LS Estate in lurgy red. Technically, that was my wife's car, but I actually paid for it.

I didn't get my very own, personal, car until some time later due to the excessive insurance costs for young men, but when I did it was a 1989 Ford Fiesta Mk3 in Red.

Back in '71 I became the proud owner of a 1960 Mini. Very basic it was. Starter button on the floor, extremely long gear stick that went right through to the engine, and those funny catches on the windows (no winders in those days!). £25 I paid for it. It had done 165,000 miles and the engine was as sweet as a rusty nail. Top speed 45mph except when going downhill with the wind behind you and in neutral, when it would fly. Unfortunately at such ridiculous speeds it did take about a week to stop the damn thing. Wish I'd still got it as people will pay a fortune for personalised plates these days. 7687 UG
Everyone knows somebody called UG................

Know a few people that talk like that

I can't remember if I have commented in this thread before and I can't be bothered to go check so I may repeat myself ;)

My first car was a J reg Rover Maestro which I still have. I love it to bits and would not consider parting with it.

This car is also rather special as it is the only known surviving ex-police Maestro in the country.

The car is currently under restoration (the years of being in the police force doesn't seem to have done the paintwork anygood), and once finished will be converted back to the way he used to look when in the police force. So in a couple of years time some of you may see him about at shows and such in the local area.

Originally posted by Skatiechik
I can't remember if I have commented in this thread before and I can't be bothered to go check so I may repeat myself ;)

My first car was a J reg Rover Maestro which I still have. I love it to bits and would not consider parting with it.

This car is also rather special as it is the only known surviving ex-police Maestro in the country.

The car is currently under restoration (the years of being in the police force doesn't seem to have done the paintwork anygood), and once finished will be converted back to the way he used to look when in the police force. So in a couple of years time some of you may see him about at shows and such in the local area.

I remember an old police car owned by a pub landlord near Barnard Castle, i can't remember the make but they used it occasionaly to taxi customers home.
I was told they also lease it to film companies as a prop which helps to pay for it's upkeep.
Is yours the turbo model Skatiechik?
any pics?

Originally posted by 40summat
I remember an old police car owned by a pub landlord near Barnard Castle, i can't remember the make but they used it occasionaly to taxi customers home.
I was told they also lease it to film companies as a prop which helps to pay for it's upkeep.
Is yours the turbo model Skatiechik?
any pics?

This one is a 1.3, the police only used 1.3 and Efi's to my knowledge. Plus some more information, there were only 505 turbos made with only about 200 left and very few non-standard ones left.

I will sort some pics out tonight of what it will look like. There used to be a pic on the Police Vehicle Enthusiast Club website but the website seems to have dissapeared.

I am hoping to hire mine out to film companies too when it is finished to recompansate for the restoration.

The turbo model is in my avatar :)

Yes i realised the turbo was rare which is why i asked but i didn't know the police didn't have any, ive seen some pretty exotic police cars about from time to time.
I'll look forward to seeing some pictures then, i know how expensive a restoration project can be, having done a motorbike and a boat in the past.
hope it all goes well
:thumbsup:

Here is what mine will look like eventually,



Police Maestro (http://www.erictheviking.f2s.com/images/policemaestro.jpg)

Nice one Skatiechik.
When i lived in s w scotland i found a really old fashioned petrol station. It had the old esso pumps and had hardly changed since the 60s, he was'nt allowed to dispense petrol from them, just kept the forcourt as a novelty and kept the modern pumps seperate.
I took some brilliant pics of an old motorbike i'd restored infront of the old pumps, you would never guessed it was 1997.
I bet there are some places around the peak district where you could get some great period looking shots of yours.

If you can remember the registration number of your first or any other car or bike you had, you can have a look at the following website: www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/ and click on 'vehicle enquiry', enter the registration number and make and providing they have any details of that car or bike it should give you basic details, ie: last date of change of owner, first date of registration, colour, whether it is now taxed or not.

themill.

First car was a C reg Nova when i was 18 i'm now 24 and had about 10 cars but wish i kept the nova it was the most reliable of them all and only cost me £2.80 in parts to put it through the mot

My first car was a bright yellow mark 1 Fiesta, i could park it in morrisons car park walk round hillsborough and could spot it as soon as i got back ( it stood out a mile) and a £5 worth of petrol would last all week!

In 1960 a guy called Mappin sold me a 1932 J2 MG for £4.10.0. Registration MG 1851. Put it together and towed it home. Did a fair amount of work on it. Fitted hydraulic brakes off a series E Morris 8. Never got it on the road proper. Sold it to a student for £50 in 1963 and bought an ex police force Minor 1000. 8180 WB. The aforementioned Mr Mappin went on to run Mappin Motors somewhere up City Road area.

A bright yellow, ford ecort MK II. Flared wheel arches, I'd burn around HighGreen in 1983 thinking I was the bee knees .......

I don't drive so never had a car of my own but the car I remember my dad first having was a Morris 8 tourer, metallic silver.
My FAVOURITE car as an adult was when I was married and we had an Austin Metropolitan...red and white convertable. Loved that car so much. :love: :love: Never seen one for years.

Mine was a VW Beetle that I bought whilst in Germany in 1969. So old it had a round rear window. Cost about £20 and some fags. Took it for a test drive on airfield next day to see what needed doing to it and rolled it when testing brakes at 40mph. Scrapped it next day. Did 1.5 miles in it. Lovely car.:suspect: :suspect: :huh: :confused:

I don't drive so never had a car of my own but the car I remember my dad first having was a Morris 8 tourer, metallic silver.
My FAVOURITE car as an adult was when I was married and we had an Austin Metropolitan...red and white convertable. Loved that car so much. :love: :love: Never seen one for years.

Knocking on a bit then Joanl? :hihi: I remember them well. The golden age of style - and uncertainty - in British motoring :thumbsup:

I am also knocking on a bit, my first car was a blue & white Riley Elf vandem plas - my dad bought it me for my 17th B/D, I thought it was naff until I got a Hillman Imp, now they were really crap.

I am also knocking on a bit, my first car was a blue & white Riley Elf vandem plas - my dad bought it me for my 17th B/D, I thought it was naff until I got a Hillman Imp, now they were really crap.

I know, I took my test in a red Hillman Imp after I had been taking all my lessons in a blue one and IT made me fail.:(

First car (with my ex) was a 2.0 Ford Capri Ghia. And I loved it! lol. The stereo got nicked one week after getting it. Then the whole thing got nicked but turned up on bricks in Glossop as the wheels were worth more than the car. Lol The insurance was sky high but who cares when you are 19??!!

I've mainly stayed loyal to Ford. Now got a sensible Black fiesta. The boot is not big enough though!

Knocking on a bit then Joanl? :hihi: I remember them well. The golden age of style - and uncertainty - in British motoring :thumbsup:

Yayy at last, someone who actually remembers Austin Metropolitans :clap: Thanks for that and yes, this WAS in the 60's.

I know, I took my test in a red Hillman Imp after I had been taking all my lessons in a blue one and IT made me fail.:(
I bet it was the same blue one that Made me hit the lampost when I was just fetching my mum a packet of cigs- total write off, could have been worse it could have been repairable.

My first car was a reliant regal 3 wheeler. Followed by a Morris Marina after passing my test.

My first "car" was an Austin Minivan, Regd. No. XAK 164, purchased second hand followed in 1965 by a Hillman Imp, a new one, on "tick".

I travelled down to South Wales in the Hillman, and had a calamitous break down on the Heads of the Valley's Road outside Merthyr, in 1967.

After repairs, I bought a pair of Stromberg carburettors and a new manifold and fitted them myself. The original Imp engine, made of aluminium, and a variation of a Coventry Climax Water Pump Engine I seem to remember, went like the clappers with the Stromberg Carbs. It handled, though, like a pig with poorly designed Front to Back weight distribution. Light front end, engine in the back........a nightmare to steer in crosswinds.

Unfortunately, I did not know that stronger Valve Springs should have been fitted, and a Straight Through Exaust. It expired again.........

I followed that with a Corsair Automatic (Used) 3-gears on the Auto box, a lovely car, but a rot-box nonetheless.

In 1972, I bought a Vauxhall Viva 2200cc......now that car really was something else.......the torque from that engine was phenomenal for the weight of the car, and 4th gear, much like modern cars was virtually like having overdrive......

Boy racers......eat your heart out. :hihi:

1977 'S' Reg Fiesta 1100 in metallic gold, wonderful car......and STILL have it, albeit its SORN and in a very sorry state of partially restored rust!

my first few cars i bought when i were about 15/16....you can tell i didnt have much taste the first was a Austin Ambassador (facelifted Princess) then i bought a Vanden Plas 1500 (Allegro with wood trim!) i only bought these cos they were mega cheap (£20 ish)

My first was "Mrs. Peel" - an Avenger, dressed in shiny black.

Followed this with an MGB roadster, 1972 vintage, which I still see around the city centre most days of the week.

1947 Standard eight,cable brakes and a "sunroof" which was actually a Players Please sign, the letters could be seen outlined from the top of a bus.It conked out on Barnsley road and caused ten trams to form a queue because they couldn't get by.I was also driving down Barnsley road in it when one of the back wheels came off. Now you know who was responsible for the introduction of the MOT.

Mine was a 1300 Fiesta Ghia , old X reg. great car.... wish I 'd still got it though no good with 2 kids.

I think I might win for the oldest.
I bought a 1937 Rover 14 for 40 quid back in the sixties. I had never driven a car, but when it was delivered to me in South Wales I decided to drive it to the local pub to pick up my wife, using my motor cycle skills. Two weeks later on navy leave I drove it to my ma in laws place in Greenhill, where it continued to pollute her driveway for a week or so, and I was driven to sell it NOW, or else. I got 20 for it. Later I bought a brand new Mini 850 for 450 quid. My computer does not have a pound key, sorry! Sorry Buck Mine was a Standard big 9 1933 for 60£ cut the body off [aluminum] to make a small truck as i had just started on my own in the building trade

1st Car...1938 Austin 10 Cambridge, £30 from a garage in Fulwwod,I think around 1958.

I bought a 1932 J2 MG from a guy in Broomhill who went on to start and run Mappins Motors. Cost was £4.10.0 and I had to put the thing together and tow it home. Stripped it down and put hydraulic brakes on it off a Series E Morris 8. Got the thing going but it was too much like hard work and I sold it for £50 and bought a Minor 1000. Saw it parked at Sheffield Uni car park one Saturday night around 1965. It looked good. Registration was MG 1851 which I wish I still had as they are my initials but not quite my date of birth.

my dads first car was a hillman imp v12 beat that:thumbsup:

Morris Traveller which cost me £50 in 1978. Gave it away a year later.
Last heard of (1983 ish) rotting in a field just outside Bridlington.

I passed my test in 1978 and bought a 1969 Morris 1100. I loved it, and had an 8 track stereo put in (anyone remember them??), furry dice and of course the furry seat and steering wheel covers. Crazy things you do when you are young !!

Austin Mini van - 1967 - wonderful!
Followed by another Austin Mini van: loved it -
until it was stolen by joy-riders, and smashed up.
Never felt quite so passionate about anything since,
although I now drive a Micra, which is very reliable.

My first car was a vauxhall viva forenza. I remember an uncle having one of those old estate cars with the wooden trim. I can`t remember what they called it. All i can remember is that one day he put the brakes on and the bodywork parted company with the chassis. I don`t think mot`s were as stricked in those days.

My first car was a vauxhall viva forenza. I remember an uncle having one of those old estate cars with the wooden trim. I can`t remember what they called it. All i can remember is that one day he put the brakes on and the bodywork parted company with the chassis. I don`t think mot`s were as stricked in those days.
Was it a Morris Traveller.......:thumbsup:

Mine was a 1948 Anglia . Not exactly original . It had a 1995 General Motor, ( Chevy) 4.3 ltr central port fuel injected 200hp V6 with 4 speed automatic and overdrive . The frame was completely hand made , Aldan coilover shocks , 8" Ford rear axle , hand made independent front suspension .... etc. etc. . All the work was done by myself including paint . I have since sold the car to a policeman in southern California .......worst thing I ever did , miss it like hell now . Check out http:photos.yahoo.com/clockmaker@roger.com . There are a few shots of the car during construction

A 1948 Morris 8 series E bought in 1955 forgot the price, borrowed the cash for it from my dad.

My first car had 16 valves, unfortunatly, 14 were in the radio.

Anyway HERES ME (http://janelaparaorio.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/noddy.jpg)with my first car (Ignore my Whitsuntide clothes)

My first car was a 1952 ford prefect with a slipping clutch that i bought in 1965 for £48 then i failed my test and sold it to my mother and bought a motor bike.

Heres Me in My first car. (http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i159/Doppler1/stilltryingtopass.jpg)

Mine was a 1967 Chrysler Valiant, vc. Bought in 1969. Great car but you had to carry a bag of cement in the boot because they were so light on the back end.

my first car was a 1963 ford consul classic similar design to the ford anglia but a little bigger had no engine to begin with but soon aquired one then i was on my way not bad for free

First vehicle was a 67 ford thames van(anglia shape)everyone had a van then 1974,had an 8track stereo and in the back were a couple of blagged speakers from a record player(huge)took nine of us regular to the marquis friday nights,me and Jed painted it blue with emulsion brushes and we thought it looked great!!!!!had a hole in the back wheelarch and I took a girl in a white trouser suit into town one rainy evening and as I went flying round hole int road roundabout she got covered!!!!!wonderful days!!:hihi:

Heres Me in My first car. (http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i159/Doppler1/stilltryingtopass.jpg)
I see you were taller back then.

1927 morris cowley all brass handles,radiator&headlamps which diped on wires fm a leaver inside.this car was never made to stop you just cruised slow to a halt, lost a lot of sweat on that car

My first car was a green Cortina, coloum change reg no 271 JWA (everyone always remembers their first car's reg)
I passed my test August 1968 @ 2.30 my first accident was 2 hours later showing of.
Next car was a Ford Corsaia, numb until the crossply tyres wer changed to the new radials, fitted with "Solex Wing Mirrors" then to a Riley elf, that didn't last long. Then it was a red Mini Cooper UKU 608, but after 6 months me and the M1 at Tinsley did not agree, they always said you can not turn a cooper, but if you fall asleep at the wheel no chance.
Then it was the Escort great car but it did not like the cold or water. In 1972 a new Company car the Avenger, what a load of rubbish.

Dave

My first car was a green Cortina, coloum change reg no 271 JWA (everyone always remembers their first car's reg)
I passed my test August 1968 @ 2.30 my first accident was 2 hours later showing of.
Next car was a Ford Corsaia, numb until the crossply tyres wer changed to the new radials, fitted with "Solex Wing Mirrors" then to a Riley elf, that didn't last long. Then it was a red Mini Cooper UKU 608, but after 6 months me and the M1 at Tinsley did not agree, they always said you can not turn a cooper, but if you fall asleep at the wheel no chance.
Then it was the Escort great car but it did not like the cold or water. In 1972 a new Company car the Avenger, what a load of rubbish.

Ihave said on this topic mine was a 1933 STANDARD BIG 9 my last [ithink it will be] is a Renault Laguna deisel here in rural France where one can go many klms; before you pass another vehicle, I am restricted to 2yrs now because of age 82 Cheers Arthur.

Old M reg 1974 VW Jeans Beetle.

It had been modified so that the "Jeans" interior had been ripped out, and they had stuck a massive whale tail on the back.

It was in neglected red and bog standard 1300cc engine. The heating pipes had been removed so it was permanently cold.

I had stripped back to metal and resprayed in Battleship grey wings with bright pink bonnet, roof, doors and tail. Add on chrome running boards and it looked awesome!:gag:

The big end went after 2 months, so the engine had a complete rebuild using a campervan engine and parts off a porsche engine! It suddenly became very quick!

On one trip to Rotherham, Iin the middle of winter, I had to pull over at Thorpe Hesley to scrape the ice off the windscreen ....... from the inside!

Great car, happy days.

Jim

Mine was a 1933 Ford 8 Model Y, bought for £15.00. back in 1956.

Mine was a Ford Popular (sit up and beg type)...1957 and Black.
Bought and lovingly cared for by yours truly in 1968 for a whole weeks wage of £5.

Mine was a Frisky Sports.Honest.

This is it.Not me in the photo.http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w303/lazyherbert/frisky.jpg

Lovely little silver boxy Fiat Panda, picked it up on day Blades were promoted to championship at Leicester ??1991?? and others relegated.

Had it for ten hours before load of piggy jacks, who were waiting for us at bottom of Parkway, returning triumphant from Leicester, bottled all us Blades and being made of tin foil, my car took a battering.

Memories, memories...Bought Volvo after that Ha Ha!!!

Our first family car was a Ford KWJ 202 bought from a garage up Burngreave Road in 1959 - our first trip out going up Duke Street it stalled at the traffic lights very embarrassing - but not as embarrassing as our trip to Skegness we set off from Wadsley Bridge very early one morning and got lost down Saville Street - all the men were coming off nightshift wearing their white scarves(as they need in the those days) we were dressed in out Sunday best for the trip.

Hi Imdee, What was the reg of your javelin? My dad had 3 between 1947 and1959.

1926 austin chummy. uy 283.
1932 mg j2 fs 3609.
1933 mg j2 fd 7420. Anyone remember them ? Between 1955¬58.

A 1976 Mini Clubman

So long ago, can't remember the reg. A piece of rubbish it was though, but in my innocence I thought it was the cat's meow.




Hi Imdee, What was the reg of your javelin? My dad had 3 between 1947 and1959.

Going back to a previous post, I once heard that plastic pigs didn`t have reverse gears so you could drive them on a bike licence so in order for you to get them to go backwards there were handles behind the headlights so you could pick it up and push it back. I believed it at the time. well, who wouldn`t ???

Hillman Minx Mark VII reg. no. TNN 652.
Broke its chassis but that was soon fixed with a piece of wood wedged under the body. However, the rear doors would then fly open when rounding a corner so I had to tie them together with a piece of washing line.
Driving's no fun these days.

morris marina estate 1700.cku 899v

Passed my test in 91 and I bought a proper mini from the 1980's, i had it resprayed baby pink.

My first and only car was (don't laugh) a 1969 Reliant 21E van, DWE 562H. I bought it on a Monday and wrote it off on the Saturday. I decided that I wasn't a born motorist, and so ever since then I've been content with buses, trains and the occasional taxi.

But my great-great-uncle, Melville Robinson, had the first motor car in Sheffield. He lived on Harcourt Road, and one day he had just started off when he missed the brake and collided with ... the second motor car in Sheffield.

I bought a 10-year-old Triumph Herald for £60 back in 1973 to learn to drive in. It was olive green and a cracking little motor.

Dad bought our first car when I was 9 - in 1963. He hadn't passed his test so we would all sit in the car yelling out - first gear! third gear! second gear! Reverse! Needless to say he passed on first test!

It was a 1959 Hillman Minx and can still remember the registration plate!

We went on our first holiday in the car - driving to Cornwall and Devon. We stopped overnight somewhere and my legs were revving all night - never had been in a car for that long!


These days - think nothing of driving 500 miles in day!

It was a 1959 Hillman Minx and can still remember the registration plate!

My uncle had a 1959 Hillman Minx, registration number SKY 173 - it would be funny if it were the same one!

My uncle had a 1959 Hillman Minx, registration number SKY 173 - it would be funny if it were the same one!

No -OKG 901 !!

I passed my test 4 years ago and still have the same car. I love my little car and use personification when i talk about 'him' i replaced his wing mirror a while back so now he has a new ear . I really need to get a bigger one but i dread parting with 'him' After all that rambling my first car is a Fiat seicento!

1949 A40 Devon cost £50 had mechanical brakes which seized up at the front Easter Monday on hill going down to Ladybower. My wife was pregnant with our 2nd and father in law in the other car let me take the womenfolk back home whilst he secured mine and went to callAA. When I got back I couldn,t find my car but met F.I.L coming back up the hill. Where's the car I asked, where we left it he said. He had locked it up but not put it in reverse and as brakes cooled off it ran off the road into a ditch. Hillsborough garage couldn't pull it out til following day, when it did it 2nd time i got a Morris Isis which was a terrific motor but did about 15mpg.

MK1 Escort for me in purple eek didn't even have carpets as standard,our son wanted to play at driving so sat him on my knee and he brummed away then promptly snapped the indicator stalk off......happy days.

mine was a 1958 austin camebridge the round one.two bench seats that served as a bed when I was courtin bought for £25 in 1967 sold It in 68 for £2
to buy a ford consul 1959 holes in floor bald tyres and It sailed through the test [stevie wonder must have been the tester]did all mi courtin in cars ,too old now and cars don't have the room,oh happy times!!!

Mine was a 1957 Morris Minor 4 door with red leather seats, Reg No. 3404 WB. I paid £85 for her in 1971 from a car lot in Chesterfield.
I think I kept the car for maybe 3 years during which time she was treated to wide wheels, a radio, bucket seat covers, various gauges, a couple of engine and gearbox changes, fibre glass wings .......................... ! (most of the bolt on ancilliaries, and my "trendy" quilted Rally Jacket were purchased from Fred Hartleys on Queens Road - happy days)
Me and that car went all over the place from Cornwall to Scotland but the greates claim I make is of being the only person to drive a Morris Minor down the green lane from Summerley to Callywhite lane, Dronfield circa 1974.
I ripped a wing off in the process ! This wasn't too long after damaging the sump and clutch lever on a stone section driving across the Roman Road from Fox House to Roundhouse and getting home with the crankshaft clattering the bent sump cover and no clutch.

Passed my test in 91 and I bought a proper mini from the 1980's, i had it resprayed baby pink.

I always dreamed of owning an original mini but when i tried one out my legs were too long . I was told i could get a gear stick extention but it meant no one could use the back seat behind me .I was gutted :(

First was a Ford "Pop" bought from Intake Motor Auctions about 1967, cost all of £8:00. Fan belt used to fail frequently, very often used the girlfriend's stockings/tights to get from Owler Bar to Beauchief then Meersbrook, had to use starting handle many mornings, had to park on a hill to be able to "jump start". Next was an Austin A35, registration number 880 BTC, powder blue followed by many more bought from said auction. Weekends were always spent under the car, greased up to the eyeballs with rant from girlfriend, "We never go anywhere", we never could as the damned things always broke down!

Now drive 35,000+ miles a year in a BMW in the course of my job just to get to work. I look under the bonnet and can just about find where to fill the washers! Former girlfriend (now wife) sits there with rear end warming on seat heater in absolute comfort, no signs of stockings, tights coming off now!

I don't know if it's still the case, but you could drive a 3-wheeler on a motorcycle licence as long as the reverse gear was not connected, (I'm going back to the late 60's/early 70's) . My irst car was a brand new Hillman Imp in 1971. It was a great little car, rear engine and rear wheel drive so no transmission tunnel. I had it for 5 years. It was great to drive in snow cos most cars then were front engine and rear wheel drive, but because the Imp's engine was over the driving wheels the grip was great.

The reverse gear rule was changed in the 1960's and I think that I know why. I lived near to a very steep hill and noticed this guy parking a bubble car on the grass verge. He drove to within 6 inches of a lamp post and switched off the engine, as it had an outward opening door at the front of the 'car' he was trapped in it. Me and another guy managed to push it up hill so that he could get out, "bloody dangerous in an accident", I said.

a 1.2L opel cadette

My first and only car was (don't laugh) a 1969 Reliant 21E van, DWE 562H. I bought it on a Monday and wrote it off on the Saturday. ... But my great-great-uncle, Melville Robinson, had the first motor car in Sheffield. He lived on Harcourt Road, and one day he had just started off when he missed the brake and collided with ... the second motor car in Sheffield.

:hihi:.:hihi:.:hihi:.Well, maybe your family just ain't cut out for motoring!.;)

Hi, mine was a Silver Jubilie Beetle, last ones they made, I still have her she is still
getting me round and my hubby fitted a new 1600 engine last year for my 60th birthday pressie, paid £2400 from Gilders for her and have just had her re-valued at £3400.
not bad, for a couple of 'old girls'. Laughter

My first one was a '57 A35 van that my dad bought for me in '67 a couple of weeks after I passed my test. But the one that brings back more memories is my dads first 'car', bought when my brother and I were nippers. It was one of these! ( http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nick.wotherspoon/site/Minicar%20Mk%20D.htm). I'm sure my mom spent more time pushing the damn thing than she ever spent riding in it!

A 1947 Ford Anglia, black, boxy type, 3 gears with the reverse gear in what is now in most cars the 1st gear position. A little dangerous? Used to start it with a starting handle. Sometimes to start it I'd park it on a hill and slam it into second gear while coasting downhill in neutral. Bought for 20 quid, scrapped following an unfortunate incident with a bus, which left the car in "unroadworthy condition." In hindsight, that car was never roadworthy. :)

Apart from the Hillman Minx - (father's car - previous post) my first drive-car was another of my father's Hillmans! Still obsessed with the idea that Hillman was the way to go, he ordered a brand new Hillman estate car. It was the biggest lemon of all time! Moving on from that - my first purchase was a Mazda 626 2 door with sun roof (not much call for that in the UK I guess) and since then have enjoyed 2 wonderful Hondas - although I understand Japanese cars are not popular in the UK - best bang for buck! low maintenance, minimal problems - run on the smell of an oily rag!

no signs of stockings, tights coming off now!

That's a shame for you :hihi:

My hubby has had a Honda Civic for the last 6 years and it is nearly as good
as my Beetle 'Silver Lady' good, but not that good that I would swap.
Laughter.

Would have been about 1957 - Dad got a Standard Vanguard - looked like something from an American Gangster movie.

Caused great amusement with us kids cus it had a push button radio!!!

My dad also had a Standard Vanguard, Pale blu and it was really comfy.
took to S.France and on the way back the exhaust fell off, we drove home with it on the roof rack, much to the amusement of customs.

My dad also had a Standard Vanguard, Pale blu and it was really comfy.

Maybe it looked like this: http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/StandardVanguard.jpg

They were lovely cars; my uncle had one until he swopped it for a Jowett Javelin. As docmel wrote, you could imagine a car like that in an American gangster movie, maybe with old Edward G. and Bette Davis.

an escort mk2,a real rust bucket,my brother ripped me off royally with it,although he maintains i got it 4 a good price,then he had the cheek to ask me to lend him the difference(£1300)for his new mk 3 escort.

Mine was a 1937 Rover 14, which I paid forty quid for. It did 9 miles to a gallon till I cleaned out a ton of sand from its SU carburetter then it did fifteen. It had a crash gearbox so I had to double declutch it, a practise I never gave up after I started driving sync boxes. The rear floor was made of plywood, which had rotted away, so it got pretty wet inside on rainy days. I drove it from my air base in Pembrokeshire to Sheffield on leave, and my mother in law, who could have been called Hyacinth but wasn't, kicked up such a fuss as it sat outside her Greenhill mansion spewing oil all over her driveway, that I sold it to some dealer for 20.

Maybe it looked like this: http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/StandardVanguard.jpg

They were lovely cars; my uncle had one until he swopped it for a Jowett Javelin. As docmel wrote, you could imagine a car like that in an American gangster movie, maybe with old Edward G. and Bette Davis.

Thats the one!!! - ours was in black (what else?) but that pic has brought back memories

i had 2 cars as my first car,both had my little touches to personalise them

a 1972 mk1 escort ,blue, swa268l

a 1962 smoke grey mini .814cwe,which i still have the remains of

the mk 1 escort was fab,but let water in and the strut tiops eventually came thru

replaced it with another mk1 1300e which i still have and still immaculate

My first car was a 1960 Ford Zodiac Mk 2 Lowline.
It was duotone sky blue over powder blue (original special order factory colours). The brightwork was chrome plating or stainless steel. It had, a 2553cc straight six engine and a three speed column change gearbox; vacuum windscreen wipers (operating speed ranging from frenetic to virtually nil, dependant upon engine speed); spot light and a fog light; radio; front bench seat and fixed seatbelts for the driver and one front seat passenger. I bought it in 1987 from a family member.

I instantly became very popular with members of the opposite sex, and one of them eventually became my wife.:thumbsup:

Mine was a 1937 Rover 14, which I paid forty quid for. It did 9 miles to a gallon till I cleaned out a ton of sand from its SU carburetter then it did fifteen. It had a crash gearbox so I had to double declutch it, a practise I never gave up after I started driving sync boxes. The rear floor was made of plywood, which had rotted away, so it got pretty wet inside on rainy days. I drove it from my air base in Pembrokeshire to Sheffield on leave, and my mother in law, who could have been called Hyacinth but wasn't, kicked up such a fuss as it sat outside her Greenhill mansion spewing oil all over her driveway, that I sold it to some dealer for 20.
sure it was made of plywood ,1937 it must have been a reto I had to take one of these apart in1952 and all the floor was Canadian Maple all nailed to solid wood frame built like a tank:cool::cool::cool:

my first car was a Vandan Plas 1100 based on austin 1100 but with posh bits like full leather then escort 1100,triumph spitfire 1300, morris marina, talbot sunbeam 1300, cortina 2000, ford P100, Golf GTI, now Clio 1400 I also have a 246Dino which more of an orniment than transport

My 1st car other than the one's the army gave to me on loan,was 1st 1927 box Ford it only lasted one week and the back end crashed ,but my mother had 1927 Morris Cowley all brass ,1934 baby Rolls,and a40s something Essex Terraplane(two tanks one filled with paraffin NO TAX),looking back, like all of us I dearly wish I'd kept all of my doz' or so car's be a rich man today

My first car was a rust and white Vauxhall Viva HB.It was a real wreck but I thought it was a Rolls Royce.However the gear lever kept coming loose in my hand so I thought it best to get shut.

My first car - Saab 900XS. Only learned to drive earlier this year (finally, at the age of 35) so I'm still driving it. Bit of a culture shock at first after having learnt in a Corsa, but a lovely motor nonetheless and I intend to drive it until it falls to bits!