First Car.

[melv16]

What was your first car and how much did you pay for it?

[Arksided]

Mine was a Ford Cortina MK4 back in the late eighties, it was a little bit of an antique but I loved it although she was a little temperamental and cranky at times.

[Arksided]

... forgot to add it cost me £125.00 but a lot more in expenses to fix her up.

[tamborine]

Vw beetle....had a mind of its own. Start out and 5miles away it would skid round & try to return. Dad said it was coz the engine was in the rear.

[Togo]

Here you go twix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnS9M03F-fA

[bhg481]

Togo - did your P4 have the freewheel on it or was it one of the later ones?

[grasscarp]

A ford popular with running boards and a can of oil and a duster on a shelf in the engine compartment. Present from my father.

[Togo]

Early one. Big brown leather bench seat. Steering wheel made from what looked like ivory and at night the speedo etc. lit by unicorn eyes glowing luminous green. Pulled like a train. I once drove it up Etruria bank in S.O.T. with 8 people in it in top. Only possessed it for about 3/4 months melv but it has possessed me ever since.

[mikey4444]

Mine was an early 1960's Mini Van, in about 1973. It was an ex-Royal Mail vehicle. It was still pillar box red on the inside, but someone had painted it a horrible bilious green on the outside, with what appeared to have been a decorating roller.

It cost me £50, and I loved it to death ! It was like driving a go-kart.

[Islay]

Fiat 126 still remember the number plate!

It was a present for 17th Birthday.

[derekpara]

Cop this, you lot. Mine was a 1933 Morris Minor. Metal encased wooden frame - suffered from dry rot leading to dropped hinges ( screws loosened by the rot !)

Throttle in centre, Stretchy wire brakes tightened through a hatch in the floor between driver's feet whilst on the move. So square in shape that I was overtaken by my own rear wheel when all three studs sheared off ! All true ! When ? 1955. Happy days.

[woofgang]

Mini Traveller, bright grass green no wood. I loved it. Can’t remember what we paid, it won’t have been a lot.

[paddywak]

An M.G.B roadster CVO 64 D wire wheels,chrome bumpers in pale ivory, got it for £200 from a friend who was emigrating and wanted it to go to a good home.

[brainiac]

Mine was also a P4 Rover 100; black with red leather bench seats. More admiring glances than if I'd been driving a Ferrari, and everyone I gave a lift to said they had a relation that had one! Bought it for £500 from an old Polish man: I used to walk past it on the way to my then girlfriend's, then one day there was a 'For Sale' notice in its window. He cried when I drove it away.

[Paul22118]

Riley one & a half litre 1952 model. (RM) Bought in 1967 for £29. 10 shillings. Wish I had it now NXA 388.