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I forget dates but here goes:

Mk 1 ford escort.  Great first car.

Mk 2 ford Capri. Great to drive, but was not very practical. I found I was needing to move stuff and tow stuff.

Series 2A Landrover. Great fun if you don't mind being deafened and shaken to bits. Only the second car that I ever sold for as much as I bought it for

Mk1 classic Range Rover.  Absolutely brilliant to drive, loved the V8. Towed and carried anything you cared to show it. But needed constant tinkering, and oh the fuel consumption.

Rover SD1 Old clapped out banger (had to realise some capital to buy my first house) Brilliant to drive, cr@p in every other respect.

Ford Cortina. The least said the better. What was I thinking.

Ford Transit Mk1 camper van.  Great camper but it proved no good as a normal car, and I couldn't afford to run two vehicles.

Another slightly newer Mk1 Range Rover.  Great to drive as before, but just confirmed it was too expensive on fuel.

Subaru L series estate.  At last I have found a 4 wheel drive car that can tow and carry everything I want, but doesn't drink fuel like it's going out of fashion, and they cost no more to buy than any other ordinary 2wd car. Great Japanese reliability.

Subaru Legacy, Same as the L series but this time full time 4WD.

Subaru Legacy, a bit newer same reliability and ability.

Subaru Forrester. A slightly different shape, but just the same, reliable, tows and carries anything you show it. Still my present car.

And finally 1972 Landrover.  Yes in spite of being noisy and a rough ride, I have a soft spot for them, and this is my "classic car" not used much, so fuel consumption not a problem. Such simple mechanics that anything that goes wrong you can fix. NO electronics anywhere. Has been rebuilt by PO on galvanised chassis. Free historic vehicle road tax, <£100 comprehensive classic car insurance.

I have it in my mind that when I retire, we will only need one good car between us, and I might then use the Landrover as my only car.

 
68 mini

74 capri

A reg Escort Mk II

Montego estate

D reg sierra GLX

landy Discovery

mitsi Shogun....still got

VW golf estate......died, council burial

K reg mini van.....first time round letter at end of plate

L reg Escort van "..............ditto

V reg escort van

Not in any order

Kia sedona

10 plate custom built horse box .....suppose it is the wifes really

 
Here's my list from memory;

1. 1980 Landrover 109 ex Navy, great fun but ruinous on fuel.

2. '87 Orion 1.6i Ghia, like a rocket ship compared to the Landy but not very practical in the forest.

3. Went to Australia and bought a Ford Falcon Estate, 4litre 6cyl. Drove all around oz and only needed 1 tyre.

4. Came back from a year in oz and was broke so bought a B reg Fiesta 950. Surprisingly nippy.

5. Wanted somthing bigger so got a Rover 820i. Crashed one night and had to dive it home with no lights!

6. M reg Mondeo 1.8, dull and slow.

7. K reg Astra 1.4, had this for longer than any other car.

8. Same time as the Astra I got a '87 Porsche 928 S4. I always liked the styling but turned out to be a bit too slow for me. Written off when someone pulled out when I was overtaking them.

9. Replaced Porsche with a TVR Chimera 4.2. Best car I've ever owned. Had to sell when fatherhood beckoned.

10. LDV hightop van. The most gutless thing I've ever driven. Couldn't get 8x4 sheets flat in the back because of the twin wheels but useful for sleeping in after the pub!

11. Terrano 2.7td. Basic but reliable.

12. Fiesta van. Noisy and lacking in a turbo. Engine went in the end.

13. Fiat Cinquecento. Enough said.

14. Astra 1.6i. Head gasket failed.

15. Jaguar S Type.

16. Mitsubishi Galant 2.5 V6 estate. 2nd best car I've had. Written off in the end by an old dear who left her handbrake off.

17. Another Terrano. Bucket of rust and the immobilizer killed it one day which turned out to be uneconomic to fix.

18. Currently have a Frontera 2.2 petrol. More comfortable than the Terrano but fuel is a ******.

That's it so far!

 
Theres some great lists coming up but the title of the thread is ......"Your first car

"Was it any good ?

Did you name it ?

Could I expand it to include your first van when embarking upon Self-Employdom   ( I just changed my van ...did I ever mention that ?)

Did you proudly have your name emblazend upon it ?

Just reminding .

 
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short list for me compared to the old people here...

04-05    V reg micra

05-    04 vauxhall astra

07-   57 iveco daily

13-    T reg isuzu trooper (more of big toy, really)

 
Yamaha FS1E 50cc

Suzuki RG125 - blew the piston the first day I had it and the last day I had it - passed test 3 days later and bought...

Mini 900 - pile of #$%# - rotten

MG Metro 1300 - rebuilt the engine then wrote it off a month or two later - did a 180 from the outside lane of a dual carriageway and across a bus layby into a railing

Maxi 1700 - loaned off parents

Allegro estate 1700 auto - omg!!!

Capri 1300 - omg!!! There was room for a family under the bonnet

Escort mk3 1300

Sierra 1600 - wrote off when someone pulled out on me on a dual carriageway- span them across the opposite carriageway

Astra 1600 (d Reg)

Escort saloon mk5 1600 -decent car

Volvo 440 - wrote it off - almost killed wife in the process

Volvo 440

Mondeo 1.9td -

Micra 1l - bought it for £80 as it wouldn't go into reverse.. changed the shift linkage and it was a great car

Peugeot 205 1.9td - great little car but there was something a little off with the front suspension

Grand scenic 1.6 - was a great car

Golf 1.9tdi (150) - fast car but didn't keep it long

Vectra 1.6 - cambelt snapped 3 miles down the road after buying it

Rover 214 - omg. Drank fuel

Rover 214 - still drank fuel

Vectra 1.9td - great car (cam chain) towed and carried anything although there was a sensor problem which would put it in limp now and then

Qashqai - for a 1.5td this is a fantastic car

vans

kangoo - had it 8 years and abused it terribly - cambelt snapped

Peugeot expert - biggest pile of dodo I ever bought... 1 careful owner,, just shame about the others... Fuel pump failed, needed new clutch, needed new wishbone - scrapped after owning it for 11 months

Escort van - great considering I got if foc

 
Evans Electric said:
Theres some great lists coming up but the title of the thread is ......"Your first car

"Was it any good ?

Did you name it ?

Could I expand it to include your first van when embarking upon Self-Employdom   ( I just changed my van ...did I ever mention that ?)

Did you proudly have your name emblazend upon it ?

Just reminding .
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OK...  Dekerington....

just for you  keeping to the point...

My first car was my dads old car.. (bought off him for a knock down price when he was replacing the family motor)

Can't remember the year.. 

but it was an "S" reg, in the era when car regs changed once a year in August...

and the year Prefix was at the end of the reg No.

and he would have changed it before MOT needed!

Reg No 'WWD 51S'...

it was Red...

it had a 1600 engine...  (actually 1590 something engine but a 1600 badge on the back!!)  :D

it was a Chrysler... :eek:

Sounds sporty and exciting doesn't it??????  ]:)

BUT

Reality it was a Hillman..  after Chrysler bought them out

AND it was an Avenger ESTATE!!!    :coat

looked something like this..

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysler_Avenger_Estate_UL.jpg

Now some of you may say...

That is not a very cool babe magnet......?

which is true...

BUT...

By this time I was already in a relationship with girlfriend who later became wife..

who still IS wife...

been with her since she was sweet 16...

so the Babe magnet aspect of car selection was NOT needed!!!

it motored along quite ok....

I could fit a fair few speakers..  stereo tape player and graphic equalizer in it..

so I could play all my bangin tunes loud enough...

I stuck some extra driving and fog lamps on the front so I could see what I wanted and dazzle every body else...

So all in all I enjoyed it as a first car..

Guinness

:^O

 
first van in FORCED Self Employedom was the golf estate that has just had to be shot

bought with 160K on the clock.....over 5 years i put another 80k on it......engine is still ok  it just has an uneven number of functional half shafts

neither that one or the new one has any sign writing on, totally plain.

I am like an electrical stealth Ninja, seamlessly entering....doing the biz....and leaving. well thats how the wife described me

just being covert

 
My first company van as an employee was a MK1..  or was it MK2..? 

Escort van..   1100cc

'EBU 620T'

This was also the first vehicle I got a speeding ticket in....

54mph in a 30mph limit.....

3 points & £36 fine!

:C

 
well if we are on original works vehicles NOT self employed versions then mine was my liitle blue Mini Van

OTF 254K I think

Axminster carpet in the back cushioning my Barn Door tool box

gear lever was made of elastic and the reverse gear was somewhere near the vans back doors, with first gear just above the nearside headlight

not sure if it had sliding or winder windows.....mind it was 40 years ago

 
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1st  supercharged Lancia Beta coupe. (px'd for number 2 car)

2nd Ford Capri 2.3 in silver with body kit. (still in a field up Evesham way, after I loaned it to my room mate to come home on leave and somebody dumped sugar in the tank when it was parked outside the Vauxhall pub).

3rd Ford Capri 3ltr in gold (sold it for £600 when leaving Germany)

4th Leyland mini (holes in the floor and conked out every 70 miles, but was all we could afford ...........we were given it)

5th Vauxhall viva (this one  was killed by cousin  he dumped it in a ditch after ploughing through a hedge & a fence, glad he paid me for it first)

6th 1600 Mk3 Ford Escort (eeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyuuck in cream & brown, chopped it in for number 7)

7th  1600 Mk 3 Escort eclipse (metalic blue)

8th Vauxhall cavalier SRI (px for number 9)

9th Vauxhall vectra 2ltr SRI jet black tinted windows the works

10th Kia sedona

11th Kia sedona + berlingo van

12th Berlingo chopped in for Renault Trafic

12th car current brand new Kia sedona.

 
chrisg1979 said:
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Ended up going for scrap after I crashed into my sisters boyfriend as he left our house.

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I trust that you did not hurt his legs or anything, I realised that a Corsa had "impact" zones to reduce the severity of an impact, but, I did not realise that it was soo well engineered that it would not hurt a pedestrian! ;)

 
Not my first car ever but the first car I owned in the UK was an MGBGT V8. I was still at uni and I bought it from a guy who was emigrating for not very much money. It was purple and fairly rusty and it wanted to kill me from the first moment it set eyes on me. I drove it for a year, had more than my fair share of frights and sold to to someone else with less will to live than me. It was okayish when it was on dry roads and going in a straight line but as soon as it rained (which was just about every day) or you had a road with bends to navigate the back of the car just spent most of its time trying to overtake the front. I could go on about how the floor leaked, the windows leaked and the soft-top leaked and how the windows were constantly misted up but all that paled into insignificance compared to the death-wish you need to have to drive a car that was fast and handled that badly..

 
Sidewinder said:
I trust that you did not hurt his legs or anything, I realised that a Corsa had "impact" zones to reduce the severity of an impact, but, I did not realise that it was soo well engineered that it would not hurt a pedestrian! ;)
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In hindsight I might have been doing mankind a favour if I had in fact hit him, and not the Cavalier he was driving!

 
M107 said:
1st  supercharged Lancia Beta coupe. (px'd for number 2 car)

2nd Ford Capri 2.3 in silver with body kit. (still in a field up Evesham way, after I loaned it to my room mate to come home on leave and somebody dumped sugar in the tank when it was parked outside the Vauxhall pub).

3rd Ford Capri 3ltr in gold (sold it for £600 when leaving Germany)

4th Leyland mini (holes in the floor and conked out every 70 miles, but was all we could afford ...........we were given it)

5th Vauxhall viva (this one  was killed by cousin  he dumped it in a ditch after ploughing through a hedge & a fence, glad he paid me for it first)

6th 1600 Mk3 Ford Escort (eeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyuuck in cream & brown, chopped it in for number 7)

7th  1600 Mk 3 Escort eclipse (metalic blue)

8th Vauxhall cavalier SRI (px for number 9)

9th Vauxhall vectra 2ltr SRI jet black tinted windows the works

10th Kia sedona

11th Kia sedona + berlingo van

12th Berlingo chopped in for Renault Trafic

12th car current brand new Kia sedona

How did you come by a 2.3 Capri then over here? That wasn't standard or even a dealer option to my knowledge. Pretty common in Europe as a V6 and in the States there was the 2.3 4-cyl in the Mercury "Federale" Capri. Easy mod though here to drop a 2300 V6 into the Capri from say a Granny.

EDIT: Just seen the Germany ref, were you BAOR or working out there and brought it back?

EDIT 2: Should have looked at your pic!  :coat  
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