Motor car - do you remember your first one?

[okismoki 10]

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.

[buck 11]

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.

[docmel 10]

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

[Roveress 10]

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

[manaman 10]

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.

[flyer 10]

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:

[gizmodeals 10]

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

[flyer 10]

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

[Davekowl 10]

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.

[Angus Prune 10]

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!

[wallyp 10]

mine was green prewar 1939 sold it in 1957 for £100 to get married

[desy 10]

Morris Minor split windscreen  man date 1953