Who Hates The Pretentious Term 'Reaching Out' ?

[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.

[jmdee]

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.

[vidster]

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

[Lostrider]

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.

[desy]

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.

[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 ????.

[Scutts]

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"

[redrobbo]

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

[Lostrider]

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.

[Applegrim]

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!

[coyleys]

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.

[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!