Lets keep it realistic here but as a kid or whatever what was the first car that you seen/went in that changed the way you viewed cars forever?

For me, it was my mates Dads Ford Sierra 3dr Cosworth in white. One day he just turned up out the back in this car that changed something with me more so than my mate. We all loved the car as much as each other but that car got me hooked on sports cars, my mate isnt interested in them anymore but even he says that car was special to us all.

We used to pester the life out of my mates dadto just take us out in the car for drives round the country lanes giving it pedal to the metal and we loved every second of it!



What was heartbreaking was that it failed an MOT and he then just discarded it outside his house for a couple of years before sending it to the scrappers, i was heart broken i would have bought that car in an absolute instant today.

 

Wen i was about 6 going in my bros phase 1 r5 gt turbo
Heres a few more of his cars that got me into the scene now long gone years ago.

 

Late night watching telly when I was a teenager the new sports channel here in Canada showed touring car racing one night.

I saw all these cars just SLAYING the competition with giant wings on the back of them. A few days later I saw my first Sierra (Merkur). they were too pricey for me at the time but once they dropped in price and I was working I bought one.

I still own it.

 

black rs 500 loved them since they first come out!bloke had one across the road from me,i used to stare at it for hours!

 

MK3 escort xr3 that used to be round my way, red, slammed, mint and on 17 oz mulitspokes iirc.

 

I was 8 years old and saw my first Escort Cosworth on the way to Ilford on the A406

 

Black S2 RS Turbo...about 14/15

Morettes, Azev's, 4" Scorpion, bleed valve in the dash , SLAMMED, Cossie T3

Was super laggy but when it kicked in I've never forgot the feeling lol...

 

Ah ... Has to be the Astra GTE valver ....

My RS love came when I saw the Escort Cosworth launch at the NEC ...

Also .. Jimmy Nail has a Saff in Spender ...

 

When the Escort Cosworth was first launched, my dad took me to the motorshow at NEC,cant remember what year it was but iirc i was 11. had a sit in it and loved it, since that moment i've always said i WILL own one.

 

a few of the cars that made me a fan of motors and motorsport were these

i absoloutley love this car and always have since first seeing it funny as its just a renault laguna lol


and the first time i seen an escos i had a trouser accident



and 1 day i will own 1 of these even if its just an mr2 with the kit as its my all time fave car
ever since i was about 5

 

my friends cousins boyfriend had a black series two rs with NOS and he took us to maxpower meet in it we thought we were the bomb

i was only young then and loved the attention the RST got when the dump valve let off in my local village

 

4 years ago... my uncle got an Evo 8..... took me out in it and been into cars since then..... cant wait till i can afford an evo though like RS's since about the same time...... like the escort cossie since i first saw one and liked the FRS since it was launched. but didnt properly get into cars till my uncles Evo, and more so now that i can drive lol

 

my uncles mk1 mex then mk2 2 litre pinto stripped and caged harnesses etc never forget them sideways times.

 

Uncles rs1600i, had it for longer than i can remember. I had a go at him when he scrapped it and bought a boring focus

 

A 3DR Cossie when i was 8. went to my local ford dealers with my dad to get some parts, went in the show room to get some brochures, and there was a brand new 3DR, as a kid who liked cars to start with, seeing a whaletail was breathtaking, didnt have a clue what is was as an 8 year old obviously, but all i knew was it looked awesome. ive been the same since, hence why a moonstone 500 is my dream car.

 

No car really as such, but at school you either talked about cars or football, and football is fucking shit so I chose cars

 

17 years old flying round in an es cos as passenger was what did it for me

 

My love of car's started when i was a baby, literally. My dad had a 2wd Saph, and he used to take me out in it as a baby when i couldn't sleep, and the cossie apparently used to make me sleepy.

 

are you pair sure ???


i was at ford motorsport boreham rsoc essex day when ford motorsport unveiled the escort cosworth to the public,i remember the day it was hot and sunny and the essex countryside was magnificent. we travelled all the way down from sunny cheshire in my mates mk1 astra gte and the pics of the car were in fast ford +the rsoc . the car was a pusher and did not drive but you could take pictures.
it was a group a car left hand drive rally car and because it was very early it looked slightly different to the actual car ford sold in the showrooms

 

I've always loved motors since i was a little boy sitting on my dads knee sterring the car(cant get away with that now days can ya).

But the moment i knew i was hooked on motors was my first ever trips out in one of my older mates Mk1 RS 2000.

Going sideways round a roundabout in the wet flat out with those lovely twin 40's screaming.

Oh to be 15 again.

Not a care in the world.

 

Aye well it was the MK2 GTE for me ..

My mam was still wiping my nose when I went to the Motor show all them years ago so ..

I remember the Ford Probe was still a proto-type and it was in a huge globe thingy in the middle of the Ford stand.

Also the XJ220 was there at launch and so was a Redish Mclaren F1 ..

Didnt spend much time looking at Fords with Pram Handles when them bad boys where on display

 

the car that got me hooked was problery the first escort cosworth i saw when i was about 8 years old.

when it raced passed i saw it and thought ' thats ace ' at the time i jut thought it was a very nice escort with a 'big spolier' but i soon learned what car it really was

 

i loved cars since i was little as my dad had company cars for many years.. mk2 escorts then cortinas, transits etc etc

 

I remember seeing a Lotus Carlton shoot past when i was about 7. Not sure how fast it was going (it was REALLY shifting) but i'd swear to a million mph.

The thundering noise sending shivers down my spine is what did it, and still does it to this day.

 

When I was a kid our neighbour had a black XR3, my dad had a Morris Ital

Second car I bought was a black MK3 XR3i, had a couple of sporty Peugeots after that, never owned a car newer than 1990, wouldn't part from Ford now, never had a breakdown in one

 

you watch, next time you go out init it will blow up lol

 

+1!!!

 

Minis, the proper ones not the modern crap, specifically a 1380!!
tabetha

 

growing up watching the btcc in its heyday (late 80's and early 90's) mixed with a little bit of days of thunder lol

 

when i was a kid a lad i hung with his dad was in to cars he had a audi quattro a saph cosworth and a old shape supra this was in the late 80s they got me hooked amazin cars

 

a black saff that used to live round the corner,ringed on standard rims,loved its low and long look

 

Since i was a kid, my brothers and cousin have had lancia's intergralis (spelling), rsturbo's, cosworths, etc etc

 

See my username!

 

for me it was the next door neighbours mk2 granada 2.8i ghia. I was only 10yr old an he used to give me some pocket money to wash it for him, he paid well, suppose thats why i have a love of granada's and having them as clean as possible

 

Mk1 golf gti, my first car! Then my love of rs's started with the s1 turbo.....

Smudge

 

Good topic this one!
It would have too be the the first and Original Schanche Endean Escort Xtrac stunning car awesome peformance took on the might of the Audis in Rallycross led to me ultimatly buying a gorgeous XR3i which I prompltly crashed since then my future cars were influenced by Rallycross Citroen BX and Xantia and Xara a Volvo Bmw 3's currently driving a Laguna lol maybe Wallfridsson will follow my lead

 

When I was a little boy I started watching the BTCC on Eurosport. There were some cars wich looked like this:

 

1978 3.0s capri i thought they where the bollocks when i was only 8 at the time,later went on and bought one scared the shit out of me after a dick pulled out of the petrol station i swerved round him spun twice and ended up on a bush but what a rush car survived as well

 

Always been mad about cars, had a huge toybox full of them, watched TV shows on them, read books on them, etc etc.. When I was around 7-8 my mum had a White 90-Spec MK4 XR3i at the time which I thought was mega cool and one day I got taken home from school by a friends dad in his wifes brand new White 90-Spec Series 2 and after that feeling of accelaration, I wanted one.


Cheers,
Grant

 

My dads saph cossie, way back in 90/91. I was only 4 but I remember it making me feel sick when he put his foot down, i was hooked on speed since then.

he's had everything going and loves his cars too, but he still has a soft spot for it.