14 Nov 2025 09:29:35
Been a bit crazy again this break, away fae the football and espionage we've done biscuits, strips etc running out of ideas but here's one I like.
Your first car, it will give away yer age but as long as no one post a horse and cart, think we can handle that.
Mines was a wee chanky red ford fiesta, with a jelly baby for a sump screw, you knew if i had been driving doon yer street.
had to get back suspension done a couple of times, due to all the action undertaken in the back seat, nudge nudge, wink wink. ?
As usual scroll on bye if not interested.
14 Nov 2025 09:49:04
Austin Cambridge.
14 Nov 2025 09:59:07
Ford Escort, had to park at the top of a hill so I could bump start it each morning, great once it got going.
14 Nov 2025 10:05:14
Ford Escort MK2.
Loved it. Wrote it off! Lesson learned.
14 Nov 2025 10:07:59
Ford Mondeo love that car until the bin lorry reversed into it and wrote it off.
14 Nov 2025 10:26:44
Mini cooper. Loved it. Marriage sadly ended it, tho pulling out infromt of a truck and collapsing the subframe after landing after taking off on a humpback bridge didn't help. ?.
14 Nov 2025 10:28:44
Peugeot 306 D turbo.
Broke my wallet and my heart.
14 Nov 2025 10:31:19
My first car was a green and white mini ( i know, my shame), that I bought off a mate who was selling cars. It was a heap of junk, with a faulty alternator and a clutch pedal that fell off. It never lasted long, wasn't mot'd or insured. I was 18 and a total knob.
14 Nov 2025 10:32:24
Also Ford Escort Mk 2. Was an automatic and was so damp on front passenger floor had mushrooms growing, unfortunately don't think they were magic!
14 Nov 2025 10:39:20
1963 Ford Anglia.
Learnt to drive in it.
Loved that wee car.
14 Nov 2025 10:50:25
Shota, you and your bird cannot be the biggest of the pack to have a lot of action in the back of a fiesta.
14 Nov 2025 10:51:26
Ford mondeo was what I drive 1st company car but first bought was ford fiesta.
14 Nov 2025 10:51:44
Fiesta 1100 supersport also red.
14 Nov 2025 11:03:36
Got my first car in 1980 it was a Vauxhall Cavalier 3 door 1.6 injection German Import, Have had many cars over the years, Currently driving a Ford Ranger 3 Ltr Turbo V6.?????????.
14 Nov 2025 11:09:55
Only passed my test 10 years ago, first car was a volkswagen scirocco. Loved that car. Me2 that reminded me of the bin lorry accident in city centre can anyone remember that?
14 Nov 2025 11:11:19
Another Escort MK 2 Light Blue.
14 Nov 2025 11:49:31
Vauxhall VX490, loved that car, painted it gloss black, furlined on everything. cb radio with 6ft firestick, fixed to the middle of the boot. looked like a crazy dodgem lol.
Then moved on to a Datsun 180b SSS, what a machine that was.
14 Nov 2025 11:21:49
Vauxhall Astra sport, white N reg. spwnt more time in the garage than with me just about.
14 Nov 2025 11:25:18
Kaiser were you practicing for a trip to Turin with Micheal Caine?
Sunshine would have just got the bus if I hung around with you.
Gees, still got the imprints of that ashtray in my buttocks, but tell the burdz it was fae my time in nam.
14 Nov 2025 11:27:01
Honda civic ? (offended by Brenda's comment few months back)
14 Nov 2025 11:28:41
Racing green, Morris Oxford. Used all through university. Great sig piece and drove all over UK. After first residency got pi@@@@ and left under Brighton Pier.
14 Nov 2025 11:34:14
Silver Nissan Micra.
14 Nov 2025 11:41:28
Vauxhall nova Sri with front bumper held on with cable ties.
14 Nov 2025 11:51:31
Cavaliers, escorts, fiestas, etc., all bring back memories. I was absolutely car-daft when I was young and probably still am. Newman I saw a really nice one of those cars a few months ago and remember thinking, "I like that as it's different, and you don't see many.
" Since thinking that, I'm seeing them everywhere. There's a word for that, but I can't remember what it is. Fork will no doubt tell me; he's quite the bright spark, fork?
14 Nov 2025 12:01:53
My first car was a Opel Manta, loved that motor, why i have always stuck with a rear wheel drive.
14 Nov 2025 12:06:31
Vauxhall cavalier 2 ltr engine 1968 reg dark green metallic, ripped the whole side apart on a skip when a bit pissed, not too fussed about the car at the time.
14 Nov 2025 12:06:55
Datsun Sunny 120Y, had everything at the time, heated rear screen, radio cassette, tinted windows. Unfortunately was a horrid mustard/yellow colour, don't know where it came from but she christened it mustard mack?
14 Nov 2025 12:07:26
Shota about the only thing I didn't do to that poor wee car was blow the bloody doors off. ???.
14 Nov 2025 12:09:44
Grey Vauxhall Nova.
14 Nov 2025 12:14:15
1979 morris marina 10 years old 80000 miles rust brown piece of rubbish. hash burns and funny stains on seats. did I buy it off you shota.
14 Nov 2025 12:16:37
A frequency illusion boy blue or in my case flashbacks fae too many mushrooms.
14 Nov 2025 12:26:55
Bader Meinhof phenomenon or Frequency Illusion BB??.
14 Nov 2025 12:31:06
After I wrote off the Escort, I went to look at an Opel Manta, MyStar.
But only had enough money to buy the car but not enough for the insurance so was gutted.
Ended up with another Escort but always class the Manta as the one that got away.
14 Nov 2025 12:33:42
Navy blue Rover 25, piece of junk. Was only 4 years old when bought it, needed a new engine within 12 months amongst many other problems. Haven't used Arnold Clark since.
14 Nov 2025 12:35:19
Showing my age now, year was 1971, and car was a grey Morris 1000 Traveller!
14 Nov 2025 12:43:08
Green Singer Gazelle 1967. £200 bank loan. Shoved it more than I drove it ?.
14 Nov 2025 13:07:10
Won't tell you my first car, ill tell you my favourite that I had, Ford Capri. Most comfortable car ever and so powerful. Unfortunately it rusted terribly. Only time I've ever been sorry to lose a car.
14 Nov 2025 13:09:58
Silver Astra, belter at the time!
14 Nov 2025 13:12:28
Raleigh Chopper. I couldn't afford a car. ?.
14 Nov 2025 13:19:18
BB4 only had it 3 months. Got written off in a crash My fault, Me Trying to change a cassette whilst driving down the A8,Hit a kerb and rolled 4 times, Very lucky to survive. ?????????.
14 Nov 2025 13:24:05
Wee black Renault Clio 1.2, done me well for about a year until I started racing along the mate and the engine dropped out of it.
14 Nov 2025 13:27:33
A White Triumph Toledo back in 1976, it was a bit of a rust bucket but I had it for a couple of years and passed it on to my brother.
14 Nov 2025 13:34:31
A chopper windy, right posh I had a budgie till I was 15, looked ridiculous.
14 Nov 2025 13:46:48
Rover Metro, bright red, actually a decent little car although all the window seals were awful so grew a nice moss lined finish.
14 Nov 2025 13:53:00
Geezo Newman, lucky boy!
Fork/shota that was annoying me for ages there, I knew the word began with b and was German sounding word, just couldn't get it over the line ?
Cheers lads can always count on the bright ones to help out the not so bright ?.
14 Nov 2025 14:03:14
Isn't that a pair of trainers, Seeker?.
14 Nov 2025 14:03:53
Always wanted an Escort RS2000, Or Mk4 Rs1600i, had a 309gti, had a shot in a Sunbeam Lotus only had 3 gears too f n powerful. Had to get a sensible car when the sprogs came along.
14 Nov 2025 14:07:56
Mind a Grifter n a Raleigh Bomber and the auld Tomohawk.
14 Nov 2025 14:10:06
JFM09 won't tell us your 1st car? Why the secrecy? What could possibly stop u from saying what it was? Now I need to know. Aargh.
14 Nov 2025 14:12:58
The year was 1971, it was a 1960 Morris 1000 Traveller, grey, ( Showing my age ) £90 cash!
14 Nov 2025 14:26:29
Shota- great discussion.
Passed test April 94, few days after my cousin got killed falling from train down at Tamworth. Old manual train doors. Remember it like it was yesterday.
Bought green Vauxhall Cavalier 1983 (A Reg). Green interior. It basically had a green carpet around the doors and dash.
If you tried to wind down the windows, the handle fell off.
Windscreen wiper flew off in torrential rain crossing Kingston Bridge.
Great memories.
14 Nov 2025 14:50:46
Hillman Minx, there was a lot of firsts in that old car ???.
14 Nov 2025 15:15:02
Blue Morris Marina TC - car ended up like Steve Austin (bionic) as I replace that many parts - blue velour seats comfy and warm but murder to remove those teenage stains when entertaining ??.
14 Nov 2025 15:55:33
Am curious to kaiser.
Fork escort rs what a car mate, i actually saw one last year first time in a long time, it was absolutely mint condition, guy told me he paid 52k for it, i knew they were expensive but didn't realise how expensive, suppose there more a collectors item now.
The car i dream of owning now would be an audi rs6, there something else, ill get there one day, I hope ?.
14 Nov 2025 16:00:51
Brilliant stuff, Scirocco bb4,thats quality.
My first was a vw polo, my dad once had a Rover Maestro, what an ugly car!
They really looked bad.
14 Nov 2025 17:01:08
A maestro Wilkins agree they were ugly mate. Polo is a decent first one. The old shape scirocco was one of my favourite cars growing up Wilkins, i had the newer shape one, just stopped making them 2 years ago there. when I passed my test I had came in to a decent bit of money, so treated myself.
14 Nov 2025 18:30:09
Loved them BB, just couldn't afford one as a lad, couple of my better off mates had them, also liked the Nissan Sunny Pulsar, powerful cars.
14 Nov 2025 19:31:19
Fork, I loved my big red grifter, Rangers tracksuit, Gola trainers and mitre delta 2000 for christmas. aw the memories. first car btw. purple astra, 1998. Great discussion.
14 Nov 2025 21:15:37
Lol memories of a bygone era MFO??.