Now thinking of gettin my first car and wanted to try and get an idea of what other people had when they were in my position.

 

1989 Xr3i cabriolet was my first car! bought it when i was 18, turbo'd before my 19th birthday... engine buggered and car scrapped about 9 months later

 

17 yrs old and all i could afford and run on an apprentice mechanics wage was a V 1980 mini, orange with white wellers, bucket seats and a cage. Just the ticket for a first car

 

A brown 1.0l A reg Vauxhall Nova used to do 100mph and was known at work as the "flying turd"

 

Lambo Countash

 

when i was 17 i had a bright green mk2 1.1 fiesta

 

I used to have a 1.0l red vauxhall nova. I hated that car but it was cheap to insure. tad on the slow side, but I still managed to wrap it round the rear end of a stationary police car on the M1

 

soon as i passed my test i had a renault5GT Turbo, slammed on 15" 5 spokes, 4" zorst, blah blah etc etc

cost 3200quid, 1500bucks to insure the thing TPFT

 

LOL, i know i really need to get something "sensible", and spending so many years watching my brother pump funds into some of his projects i should be dead against getting something out of the ordinary. But id love to have something old and a bit different for my first car, ive got a bit of a thing for Austin A35's

 

I've got a mk5 fiesta black....aint bad for a first car, leather seats, air con, electric windows etc

 

LOL, that would be a replica or scaled model then??

 

I'd see someone about that, not healthy

 

Orion 1.6GL, my old man had it from brand new and the car was mint. Modded it a fair bit, miss that car

 

Didn't have a car until I was 19 as I spent all my wages getting drunk

First car was a champagne gold 5 door A-reg Escort 1.6 Ghia. Fond memories of that car. Colour coded mirrors, XR2 steelies with black painted hubcaps, Huge OAKLEY sticker in the rear window. Ring Spotlamps and green Ford badges. Classy!

 

When I was 17/18 I used to drive my mums old Mk2 Astra, 1.2 litre. 5 door. Not cool.

Wasn't till I was 19 that i bought my own car, a Mk1 Astra GTE. Was £880.

What u should get depends on lots of things, but mainly the amount of dosh you have/wana spend I suppose. If your young and new to driving, get something cheap, easy to work on and cheap to insure. At least for a year or so. And try not to crash it.

steve

 

Dunno but i remember one that used to go to a car show at what used to be Calenders (The Clock Tower) in costessey, it was absolutely rowdy, and ever since ive always wanted one.

 

Had a mk1 Fiesta first, many years ago.

....In Biege.

 

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The guy who originally owned my car had a Porsche 928 at 17, followed by an Escort Cosworth, followed by the white one I now own - oh to be the son of a multi-millionaire .

 

Errrr, 1:18 Had a nice mk 3 escourt 1.3 for me first real car, 30k and mint, for about 6 months

 

i had a mk1 fiesta 950 popular plus, in terracota brown/orange/red whatever you wanted to call it.

that thing had the engine rebuilt by my dad twice, best running fiesta in town

cost me as much to insure as it was to buy off my sister

 

I had a C plate mk2 Xr2!!

 

a B Reg Blue Fiesta 1.1 Ghia with XR2i alloys for about 6 months then a Mk3 XR3i in grey C Plate

 

WEll so far i had the best car, and NO suprise who had the GAYEST one

Fiat X19

suits you sir

 

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WEll so far i had the best car, and NO suprise who had the GAYEST one

Fiat X19

suits you sir
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pmsl

 

I had a Mk3 fiesta flight. Was a 1.4 and went pretty well and came with XR2i alloys etc from new, had electric windows etc and was a cracking little car.

 

Steve,
You'll piss yourself when you know why I bought it .

I had been a fan of "supercars" from the moment I could say "car" and so always wanted a mid-engined exotic 2-seater with pop-up head-lamps (which is what a "super-car" was in my eyes). Unfortunately by the time I was old enough to drive, an X1/9 was the only thing I could afford that met the criteria . It also somewhat lacked the 150mph top speed that "super-cars" were achieving in the day, but hey, it was a foot on the ladder . I thought I was the "bomb" though , as I was also a homotorcyclist (TM J Clarkson ), with a Mk III RG250 Gamma as well .

 

this was my first car which i still own and proberly wont sell ever

was a 1.2 8v
then a 136 bhp 1.4 16v
now a 1.6 16v

 

i might be getting a mk2 fiesta 1.1. Free, cnt knock it

 

Jr,
Think McDonalds .

 

PMSL, class mike

My mate was obsessed with owning a "supercar" too so bought a Poker 928 V8 auto when he was 20, it had 180k on the clock, was slow as shit too His Reno5Turbo was way faster
Then he put a aftermaket exhaust on it that made it sound like some big old V8 yank tank and really daft

So we laughed at him a lot
So he sold it

Doubt it was his first car, but i remember Ian (Racetek) saying when he was well young him n his mate used to own 6series bimmers and Jag XJSs with CAR PHONES (which new new as fuck back then ) and used to drive around thinking they were pimps or summat

 

JR- Fucking ace mate

 

mike and itsmeagain cheers lads, was waiting to be shot down for still having my corsa

owned a few cars inbetween but cant bare to get rid of it

 

That guys going fooking downhill with his standard of cars... whats he got now a Mk1 Brown and Gold Fiesta?????

That was my first car by the way

 

nova SR

ideal tho for my first car.. 15inch alpines and lowered.. and a decent sterio.. All that was needed

 

mine was a xr3i, reg E622YNO, drove that into a lampost drunk then i bought i orion which i got turboed and never even ran right, the mechanic who was test driving it to find the problem and "sorted" it never done the valve collet on right and the fooker droped a valve on the M1 20mins after i handed over 500 quid for the job

then i bought a turbo van that was fookign rapid, that needed a new water pumop as was messed about with antoehr garage for ages till when i was going to luton to rop me mate off i seen a turbo van lookign the same as mine witha strange plate on it FLY past me on the M1 as a million miles a hour, my mate said it was deffo mine ( due to the orange beacon light on the roof ) adn as i was near the garage in luton who was working on it i thought i would prove it wasnt my car that done it for a 10 quid bet, went there and got told the guy was just test driving it now, i refused to leave justincase it was my car, 30 mins later the fooker turns up with my car with the funny paltes on it ( trade plates as the tax had expired they had it soo fooking long) and he was using it as a delivery van , i took the van back and never fooking payed , i should have burn the place down

ahhhh the good old days, getting screwed by mechanics for all my money as i was young and never new what a alternator was , roa water pump ect

 

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My first car is my current car.
Series 2 rs turbo
Passed my test 2 years ago.
As soon as i passed went to see nearly every series 1&2 out there, so many dogs.
Ended up with a completely standard series 2 in Radiant Red, Mint 73kon the clock full service history 1 owner from new. Didn't stay standard fro long 57i, Scorpian 4" exhaust, Dumpvalve and stage 1 at tune all within the first day of owning it. Insurance was a killer at £2500. Worth it though

 

Mk4 Escort Bonus 1.3

Was Magenta (Same colour as on teh Sap Cossie) Had XR3 Colver leaf alloys, Twin Carbs and a straight through exhaust

Was Pretty Quick as it goes

 

Lee,
After the Escort he has had (in order):

M3 Evo (yellow) - modified with Schnitzer wheels, induction kit, exhaust and suspension.
Audi S3 (yellow) - modified with 18" split rims and H&R coilovers.
Evo VI RSX (silver) - full "Extreme" (wheels, APs etc) mods to 350bhp.
Then he went for a periodof no car (mooching about in his Dad's Bently - the £250k one , AMG Merc, Range Rover / Mum's Boxter S and brother's 911 GT2 ).
He then got another Evo VI - this time the full Extreme version (with the horrible stickers etc ).
Finally, he got rid of that, as he wasn't using it enough and has gone back to mooching in the other cars again before he gets his dream car - Gemballa Porsche .

Envious - yes, jealous no, as the bastard is a top bloke as well, so you can't even hate him for being so rich .

 

i had a white ax gt lowered with white 15" compo mo's, cobra buckets and a nice 2 1/2" exhaust. I was going to put a vts motor in it but came to my senses and bought a series1 instead.