What make was you first car?

[banjo]

Good taste you have Banjo! My first car was also a 1978 Ford Escort Mk.II but unfortunately wasn't red...it was beige with a brown interior but I loved her anyway. We used to go all round the country to away grounds in it but for some reason the car wouldn't let me visit my Gran in East Preston and broke down everytime we tried to visit. The last time, it broke down within 100 yards or so of her flat. It was ok anywhere else most of the time and never brokedown at away grounds.

Maybe the car was trying to tell you something. I loved My little red Escort it even had a cassette tape player.

 

[scooter1]

Mk3 escort 1.3 L. Totally standard except for a 3 spoke Mountney steering wheel - when some scrote stole the car, the steering wheel was the only thing they took after abandoning it somewhere off London Rd. the police contacted me to tell me where it had been found, could I retrieve it, "oh and by the way you'll need to take a steering wheel with you"

 

[portslade seagull]

Chrysler for me £25 was a heap but was my 1st car so any knocks didn't matter. Sold it to my sisters then boyfriend for £100 who was stationed in Germany and he drove it there and back 3-times but it was stolen from camp and stripped on its 4th visit. This was followed by a sickly orange morris marina

 

[Lord Bracknell]

In the mid seventies, I owned a MkI Cortina. My main recollection of driving it - apart from the time that the wiring to the heated rear windscreen caught fire - is that the police in Brighton seemed to work on the principle that merely driving a MkI Cortina was, in itself, evidence of criminal activity. I used to get pulled into the side of the road for a document check (or whatever) regularly - on one occasion, three times in one day.

 

[The Modfather]

mini metro

 

[whitelion]

I bought a Mini 1000cc in 1973. The reg was PMT 4F and was bought with a severance payment of £150 from the Alliance Building Society where I as working as a computer programmer.

 

[Surrey Seagull]

Maybe the car was trying to tell you something. I loved My little red Escort it even had a cassette tape player.

Mine didn't have the cassette tape option but it did have an AM\LW radio except it would only tune in to certain stations but thankfully radio 5 was 1 of them.

I remember going up to Bolton when they played at their old ground in the early 90s. We stopped off at the services somewhere near Birmingham when some boy scouts came up to us offering to clean the windscreen. They did an absolutely lovely job, right up to the time the whole windscreen went white about 10 minutes later on the motorway...the little darlings.

 

[Box of Frogs]

A 1973 Ford Cortina MkIII 2.0 GXL - metallic brown with a black vinyl roof, like the one in Life on Mars.

Reg UPO430K

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Mk 1 Ford Escort Estate, light blue with plenty of rust, beautiful lime green hard wearing carpet laid in the back, carpet burns just added to the lady's experience of this wonderful motor and when they got lucky a man in blue would knock on the side window just to add to their excitement.

 

[Telscombe Seagull]

old S reg mini for me, may she Rust in pieces...

 

[Superphil]

A red Simca 1100, 1974 model. Had it for 9 months till its MOT failure meant it had to be scrapped.

 

[Beach Hut]

Escort Mk 1

 

[Blazing Apostle]

A sky blue Morris Minor with no front passenger seat

 

[bravohotelalpha]

citroen dyanne - simply the best

 

[BensGrandad]

When stationed in Germany in 1960 my first was a 1950 Mercedes 180 my first in this country was a 1948, I think it was, Morris 8

 

[Devon Seagull]

In the mid seventies, I owned a MkI Cortina. My main recollection of driving it - apart from the time that the wiring to the heated rear windscreen caught fire - is that the police in Brighton seemed to work on the principle that merely driving a MkI Cortina was, in itself, evidence of criminal activity. I used to get pulled into the side of the road for a document check (or whatever) regularly - on one occasion, three times in one day.

I knew a policeman who on a quiet night patrolling the streets and environs of Haywards Heath would often play Car Snooker with his colleague. First you would need to stop a white car, once you had the white you would need to stop a red car. then you could stop a coloured car. Black would be the highest points etc. So if you had a red car or black car you were more likely to be pulled over. Pink cars obviously scored 6 points but not too many of them around!

 

[ofco8]

Mine was a British racing green mini. Loved it until a ****ing great lorry loaded with steel hit us up the arse, going west, at the King Alfred. We were stopped at red at traffic lights and he didn't stop and knocked us 50 feet along the road. Wife, naturally, had whiplash. The strange thing was that although the road was busy nobody would be a witness. Anyway, the lorry driver got done in court.

 

[16 bit 44.1]

1965 Hillman Imp - Purchased just before I passed my test in 1983 for £100

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Vauhall Viva

 

[honey boy zimba]

TR7 drophead in british racing green paid 2.5k spent loads upgrading engine to sd1 3.5 webber carbs ect went like the wind traded in for golf gti wish i still had it i loved that car.