Your first car ??

[Treewolf]

A 1966 Triumph 2000 Mk1 estate - bought in 1978 and a very nice car despite the tin-worm. Leather seats, 4-speed manual with Laycock overdrive, and very comfortable. However it leaked like a seive, stank of rotting carpet as a result, and the only time I turned the heater on the car filled with smoke, and when it finally suffered terminal rust about a year later, I broke it for parts and doubled my money. It also helped that petrol was less than 50p a gallon then!

 

Spent the proceeds of the Triumph on a 15-seat 2-litre twin-wheel Transit minibus with an auto transmission, probably the worst engine/gearbox combination ever made. Dreadful engine design (it was the V4 that was so unbalanced it had to have a balance shaft driven off the crank) but fortunately mine had had a new engine about 3 months before I bought it, with an awful gearbox which would not change from 1st to 2nd unless you came right off the pedal and counted to five. But it was dirt cheap, not in bad nick, and at that time I went potholing every weekend and it was ideal for carrying about 4 people plus gear.

 

Eventually I sold the Transit (again for a profit) and used the proceeds to buy my first Land-Rover, and 1953 Series 1 80" which I then ran for about ten years until he chassis fell apart, but I still have the remains to this day and one day I might get round to rebuilding it.

 

Since then various other wierd and wonderful vehicles had been through my hands, including a 1949 Fordson E27N TVO tractor, a 1953 Bedford OLBD lorry, and a 1961 Iron Fairy 6 mobile crane.

[18 stoner]

Think this thread is great, you can get an idea how old the poster is by the age of the first car!

 

Mine was a MkIII cortina, followed quickly by an Austin 1100, then two vauxhall vivas, then two chevettes.

 

Then i became a real man at 18 and bought the first of 7 Ford Capris:blushing:

 

Cant even guess how many in total ive had now, must be over 30:scared1:

[Dean Lofthouse]

Cortina followed quickly by an Austin 1100, then two vauxhall vivas, then two chevettes.

 

 

Have had all of them except the austin was a Maxi, I also had an allegro, was it the allegro that had hydroelastic suspension or something that was like a sailing ship round corners

[Hannah]

heres mine, will drive it till it dies. Mk2 Golf GTI

[Steve Bullman]

people my age would have killed for one of those at your age hannah!

[18 stoner]

Have had all of them except the austin was a Maxi, I also had an allegro, was it the allegro that had hydroelastic suspension or something that was like a sailing ship round corners

 

Thats the one Dean, bought one myself but never drove it. Only got it for the gearbox to go into a mini and sat a 1380cc motor on the box, now that thing went:scared1:

[skyhuck]

Citroen 2CV6 "Club" in yellow.

[tractor dave]

My first car was an Austin Healey Sprite Mk3, british racing green, proper nice motor although not that practical! Cheap insurance and tax mind!

[combined tree services]

heres mine, will drive it till it dies. Mk2 Golf GTI

 

did anyone see the vw golf that chop shop did foy jonney vagas ???

[Pommie]

Ashamed to say Hillman Avenger:driver: