What was your first car
I was 17, just passed my test and just assumed I’d go and find a mini
My old fella tells me he knew somebody selling a car which would be ok so I bought it
An Austin maxi and orange. Had more holes in it than Swiss cheese. I felt like the ant hill mob from wacky races
It put me on whilst I saved some money up to buy a ‘better’ car
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It would have been 1978, the car was a 1971 MK1 Ford Escort, great driver, gearchange was silky smooth’
A 1957 morris minor, lasted me two years
A Dinky… (actually belonged to my brother)
A 1976 Ford Escort Mk 2 Estate
I learned in my dad’s big Ford Zypher, with bench seats and steering column gear change. My very own first car was a wee red VW Golf, but I struggled as it had floor gear change, 
Soon got the hang of it though on a quiet, very straight country road, where I drove up n down through the gears for a while. But it certainly threw me after the Zypher.
I drove different cars on the farm and my dad’s car on the road when I was still under age. The first car I had when I was of legal age was a Hillman Imp.
1954 Ford Anglia 100e reg 842 CMU used cost £125 bought in 1962
The previous model was the 93a , the sit up and beg as it was known
Dad bought my first - Fiat Uno, when I passed my test at 19 years.
A 1969 mini, bought for £320 in 1980…
Nice, one of my mates had a signal green RS Mexico (his second car). Then he later had a yellow RS2000
Great cars
My mates dad had a zephyr. I remember a wheel coming lose/off when his dad was taking us to a boys brigade footy match:)
Was that an mg sports car?
I wanted a bigger motor bike, passed my test on a Honda 50. Dad though I would kill myself on a big bike so lent me £60 to buy a 1964 mini van after I passed my test for a car in 1967 at 17.
It had been owned by the mechanic at the Bus garage where my Mum worked as a clippie.
It was in great nick, and he even came down to help me with the servicing and brakes.
Since then I’ve taken more engines out of vehicles for big ends, piston rings, clutches etc than most people have had hot dinners.
My first car was a Fiat 131 Miafiori, the biggest pile of 
ever to have four wheels. I only bought it because I was desperate to own one at the time (having had a motorbike for ages) and it was going cheap, not helped by my own naivety when it came to cars . This thing was the worst and I had the displeasure of watching it dissolve into rust before my very eyes.
