What was your first car?

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  1. Lor

    Lordtyke Well-Known Member

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    Just to get away from football for a sec, I passed my test in 1976 and bought a purple VW beetle, 1971 vintage.
    Loved that car until the cills fell off.
    After that I had a Vauxhall Viva HB , fabulous drive, memory stirred because I was driving through Rotherham this afternoon and saw a mint HC Viva
    Real cars!

    In those days as an18 year old, a Haynes Manual was compulsory!

    Don't think todays 18 year olds have any clue as to how a car works because of the computer chips etc.

    Dad..what is a carbuerettor?
     
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    Vauxhall nova 1.0 A717NHG did more miles on the back of a tow truck than actually driven
     
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    A silver Ford Ka. I passed my test ten years ago at 21 as I was sick of lugging boxes of marking home on the bus during teaching placements. My mates were going on holiday for a week to Crete and wanted everyone to take £500 spending money. I decided for that money I’d rather learn to drive so they went to Crete and I did an intensive course and took my test, best decision I ever made!
     
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    Vauxhall Cavalier. My brother gave me it when I passed my test. It was a right rust heap and was green with a red wing from the scrappers.

    Spent some time trying to get it tidied up but all to on avail, as the rear axle parted company with the chassis. - it was like driving a bouncy castle

    I eventually sold it for spare parts at a profit.
     
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    A red Skoda cost £500. I loved her!
     
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  6. Lor

    Lordtyke Well-Known Member

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    who remembers "gun gum" the grey paste to seal a leaking exhaust which lasted about 2 hours?
    Or the "redex" petrol additive which had absolutely no effect except on your wallet?
     
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    Got both in my shed
     
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    Did it have the heated rear screen to keep yer hands warm whilst ur pushing it
     
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    from Russia with love.
     
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    Ah, those days, lying on my back under a Morris Marina with a gearbox on my chest and the pages of a Haynes manual fluttering in the wind. Luxury.
     
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    Ford Fiesta Mark 2, 1979. I say Mark 2, I think looking back it was a cut and shut because the front looked like a mark 1 and the back like a mark 2.

    I had it 3 years during university and in that time must have got through 6 or 7 clutch cables. They seemed to be as fragile as a piece of string. Luckily they were only a tenner to replace. Oh, and it hated damp weather. From November to March I spent as much time on the bus as I did in the car because the bloody thing refused to start if they was a whiff of moisture in the air.
     
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    Renault 14 - it was rubbish
     
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    Datsun Sunny 1987. It had everything in, even a tape cassette player and a electronic aerial. Meatloaf and Level 42 got smashed in.
     
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    That reminds me, it appeared our Ford Fiesta’s clutch went after the pedal depressed and wouldn’t come back up again. I did some googling, attached a cable tie and drove around no bother for the next 2 years we had the car.
     
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    One of those red and yellow cars, little tykes I think it was.
     
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    What? one of those ariels that extended on demand?
     
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    950cc 86/C Reg Fiesta in Beige. Fighting with the choke was such fun.
     
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    An electric aerial. I could only dream of such decadence.
     
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    On the ignition, It's the future ! I thought I was in outer space .
     
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    Ha! I had one of them. Blew it up driving to Grimsby away.
     
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