Pics of your first car

[Gill ZB]

ok - so who has pics of their first car?! Some of us older dudes didn't have mobile phones to take pics with ....so historical footage obtained by 'proper ' and disposable cameras (remember those dodgy things?! ) is hard to come by ....here's my contribution ....dodgy 80s fashions and a Datsun sunny estate - passed my test the morning after my 21st - in the afternoon I got this motor - via a scrappy! Never been without a set of wheels since!!! Though this was my first car - my real truly loved first car was my Mk 5 Cortina - bought 2 months later.

 

[45bvtc]

OK, not me but RS3copilot in 1967 (not telling how old she was then but it was 12-months later we got married and still are ) with our 1959 Rover 60; paid £50 for the car, a lot of money in 1966 - had to give up smoking just to save the money...



Kept the car for 12-months before moving on to a 1964 Triumph Spitfire, Frogeye Sprite, GT6, and so on...

And here's what the rest of the car (not mine) would have looked like:



A lot of motor car for £50 with full leather upholstery, bench seat in the front so you didn't need to get in the back...

Sorry, too much information

 

[45bvtc]

Some of us older dudes didn't have mobile phones

Some of us older dudes still can't be bothered with a mobile phone...

 

[jojo]

This was my first car that was in my name.

It was only a poxy 1.3, but tarted up to look like a GTI, with big bore exhaust and booming bass box in the boot! I was living the dream through university in this, and I met my GF, now wife, driving this beast! Ahh the memories.

I loved this car, I sold it to my cousin for 500 quid as a run about, as it was just parked up, and he got 2 years out of it before selling it to a guy up the road for £450! £50 depreciation over 2 years!! I saw it a few more times, running chrome window tints, and a bent front wing for a year or so, then it just disappeared... probably to the scrappers!

 

[Gill ZB]

OK, not me but RS3copilot in 1967 (not telling how old she was then but it was 12-months later we got married and still are ) with our 1959 Rover 60; paid £50 for the car, a lot of money in 1966 - had to give up smoking just to save the money...

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Kept the car for 12-months before moving on to a 1964 Triumph Spitfire, Frogeye Sprite, GT6, and so on...

And here's what the rest of the car (not mine) would have looked like:

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A lot of motor car for £50 with full leather upholstery, bench seat in the front so you didn't need to get in the back...

Sorry, too much information

Wow!! Thankyou for sharing ! What amazing pics !! Lovely to see old pics and hear the story behind them - how lovely ...fantastic

 

[Gill ZB]

Some of us older dudes still can't be bothered with a mobile phone...

Must have a laptop though! Lol

 

[Gill ZB]

This was my first car that was in my name.

It was only a poxy 1.3, but tarted up to look like a GTI, with big bore exhaust and booming bass box in the boot! I was living the dream through university in this, and I met my GF, now wife, driving this beast! Ahh the memories.

I loved this car, I sold it to my cousin for 500 quid as a run about, as it was just parked up, and he got 2 years out of it before selling it to a guy up the road for £450! £50 depreciation over 2 years!! I saw it a few more times, running chrome window tints, and a bent front wing for a year or so, then it just disappeared... probably to the scrappers!

Hahaha!!! Awesome!! Love it crying laughing at the big boom box and bean can exhaust !! Kid up my road has a Subaru - similar thing going on haha!!! And I bet your wife was dead impressed - happy ending all round apart from the GTi wannabe - gone to the big scrappy in the sky - great pic !!

 

[Bristle Hound]

Chryser Avenger 3 door 1300cc was my first car

Exactly like this, but alas not mine. Camera's weren't invented then lol

 

[Gill ZB]

Chryser Avenger 3 door 1300cc was my first car

Exactly like this, but alas not mine. Camera's weren't invented then lol

wow !! Haven't cars changed!!! In our lifetimes ! - wonder what the cars in 20 yrs time will look like!!!

 

[Gill ZB]

The Datsun sunny was my first car but it never meant as much to me as my Mk5 Cortina - 1.6L - nothing fancy and as solid as a brick (apart from the wheel arches and sills that rusted like mad!) I adored that car - spent hours messing about under the bonnet with a Haynes manual doing more damage than good! And he polished up a treat - everything went wrong that could - head gasket, water pump, alternator, starter motor ....I learned so much from the AA guys who were on first name breaking down terms with me!!! But I loved that Cortina - pics attached - my ex with Cortina at Marsden Rock car park - and my first wedding (same guy) - with Cortina appropriately decorated!!! My poor dad was mortified - my mam thought it was a hoot!! Miss my mam and dad and Cortina so much .....in the scrapyard in the sky now I imagine ...happy days

 

[mehtaman]

My First Car + Boy Racer mindset = Questionable decisions >

Older more wiser me wishes I saved more of my money

 

[Gill ZB]

My First Car + Boy Racer mindset = Questionable decisions >

Older more wiser me wishes I saved more of my money

Oh we've all been there! Hindsight is a wonderful thing!! Bet you loved it at the time and felt great revving the engine at traffic lights haha!Back in the day it was the XR3i and XR2i that all us boy/girl racers wanted! I had an XR3i (or rather ex hubby wanted it and I stupidly part exed my beloved Cortina) - got it on the Friday and it was nicked on the Saturday ! The dodgy garage had a hand in that i think ....I have pics of all my cars apart from that awful XR3i....it was like being in a go-cart and you could feel every bump in the road!