What was your first car

[Rocket Man]

My first car was a 100E ford pop, needed restoring but never made the road.
Then a vee dub, customised naturaly but first real car came 12 months later, a lancia fulviasport zagato 1.6. Good fun, just had to brush it off the drive

[Andrew300]

Any new members ,let's see what you first car was

[phil4]

Nissan Almera 1.4Si

[GraemeW]

Mark 1 Ford escort estate.    I was one of the first in my peer group to get a car, so i was usually the taxi driver. 
My mates would throw their empty beer tins over their shoulders into the back.  Thats the thanks I got.  Bastards.

It always had the sound of tins rolling around in the back when i went around corners.

[PeR4]

VW Golf mk1 S, 800 kg, very well balanced: kept me alive at the edge

[Peter255]

Classic 850cc mini in white. 33BHP of pure fun!

It was bought for £500 as an MOT failure due to the usual rear subframe rot. I rebuilt the rear suspension on a new subframe and got it back on the road.

Was lovely fun till it was stolen and written off.

[Andrew300]

I remember having a mini , and telling my mates to lean as we went around the one way system in Watford on two wheels

[Peter255]

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I remember having a mini , and telling my mates to lean as we went around the one way system in Watford on two wheels
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Good work to get one up on 2 wheels!

I managed to jump mine over a hump backed bridge once. Most amusing!

[Andrew300]

Done that in mine, couldn't walk for two days after

[reg]

Mini 999, written off in 3 months...followed by another Mini, written off in 5 months..

I liked Mini's, learnt a lot about understeer and crappy brakes though 

[Andrew300]

Yep  Engine mounts and brakes, to this day I swear I could still change a pair of brakes blindfolded and don't mention wheel bearings...

[IanG]

It was a Vauxhall chevette cheep to insure
Lasted about 8 months reversed in a phone box
Then a fiesta lasted about 4 months
In the Dukes of hazard you could jump over bridges at 70mph and and carry on driving. 
Apparently not 

[autobackup]

  A 1960 MGA Twin-Cam Coupe (606AXF) in BRG

- bought it for £600 from Gold Leaf Motors in the East end of London 2 days after I passed my driving test in 1965 - with the help of a small legacy from a recently deceased relative!

The twin-cam engine usually stayed in tune for about 2 weeks - but was transformed after I fully rebuilt the car (wings and doors were completely rotten!) during 1968/69 while I was at CSE Oxford - during which process I fitted an early version of Lucas's electronic ignition which finally sorted out the twin-cam engine's notorious tuning problems.

My girlfriend (now my wife) and I - over the next 10 years or so - drove on it holiday to Germany, Greece, France, Italy, Spain and annually, for 7 successive years each winter, to Holzgau in Austria to go skiing!

We finally sadly waved goodbye to it in 1979 as it was no longer financially practical to maintain with my family size increasing.

About 8 years ago I attempted to trace this MGA with the idea of possibly re-purchasing and restoring it - but discovered that it was no longer on the DVLA registration database so, despite my best efforts, unfortunately I was unable to trace it.

[911tom]

Some great stories here! Unfortunately my 1st car was not vey interesting. However I do have fond memories of jumping a bridge on the way home from work most days in the works astramax van. The thing was a dog, one that IMO (at the time) needed to be put down!  I do hope the lads I employ do not treat my vans in the same way... (checks trackers to see average speed down notorious road).

[Alex Brandon-Smith]

Beige Mk1 Astra 1.2S. Wing almost see-through due to rust but it was big enough to take a 15 inch sub in the boot which was all I cared about! Lol. It dies not long after...

I do remember pulling into a tiny cul-de-sac in my mum's Citroen AX in the snow and handbraking it for a full 270, narrowly avoiding all the other cars currently sat there also. Given the cuk-de-sac was only about 4 cars wide with cars parked on both sides, that was quite a good effort I thought...