What was your first car?

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Not So Special One
Location
North Yorkshire
Prompted by my 22 year old daughter who picked up her first car yesterday (photo below) a very lovely Mini Cooper Convertible I was wondering ....what was your first car?

I’ll start off, mine was a 1976 Mini 1100 Clubman which cost £600 when I bought it in 1983. It was Pageant blue with a hand painted (and you could tell!) silver roof. It had blue velour type interior and I fitted a Sharp stereo system with Graphic equaliser and Goodmans rear shelf speakers. I had a few music tapes including Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, ABC, Spandau Ballet and Human League, I really thought it was the business!

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1978 Mini 1000. An absolute joy to drive.
 

JtB

Prepare a way for the Lord
Location
North Hampshire
1973 Austin Alegro (Super 1500). An absolute pain to drive. Cost me £600 when I bought in in 1979 and by then there was a considerable amount of rust.
 

Slick

Guru
In true Hazzard County style, me and some friends bought a Mk1 Ford Escort every other Sunday then took it with permission to an old race track on a farmers field and race it till we wrecked it. 30 quid if memory serves was the average price, then splashed our 60 quid on an old mini, but this will give you a clue as to how long ago this was as it ended up burnt out and the standing joke at the time was that the Yanks missed Gaddafi and hit my mini. I reckon I was 14 or 15 at the time so around 85.
 

numbnuts

Legendary Member
1960 Ford Anglia like this
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13 rider

Guru
Location
leicester
1984 MK3 escort estate bought in 1989 can still remember the reg
Six months after I trading it in I was amazed to find in parked next to my new car 20 miles from home
 
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