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What Was Your First Car?
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How much was it?
do you have an amusing anecdote?
I had a Ford Anglia 1200 cost £30. The battery was knackered so it often would not start but It would start so easily I could bump start it on my own!
do you have an amusing anecdote?
I had a Ford Anglia 1200 cost £30. The battery was knackered so it often would not start but It would start so easily I could bump start it on my own!
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Austin A40, I bought a write-off. Had the chasis straightened and several "new" parts from the scrap merchants, including a boot lid. It eventually had 3 replacement boot lids before I sold it as scrap, they always rusted out under the "Austin" chrome flash. Lovely little 2-door car with quarter light windows - an absolute must for smokers! Very economical...
17:00 Thu 28th Apr 2022
TTT; Snap! I managed to take it down to the south of France in 1963. Bottom rad hose popped outside a Gendarmerie in the middle of Paris, and when we managed to get a replacement hose the flics let us in through the bad boys' holding cage to fill up our water bottle at a tap in the yard so we could refill the rad. French crims banging on the bars asking us for fags. Those were the days.
We had a puncture when we were full of hitch-hikers and we had to change a wheel without a jack. They all lifted the car off the wheel and I mimed a wheel change and counted while they held it, to see if they could hold it up long enough. They could, so I said, "Well done! That was the rehearsal; now let's do it for real."
We had a puncture when we were full of hitch-hikers and we had to change a wheel without a jack. They all lifted the car off the wheel and I mimed a wheel change and counted while they held it, to see if they could hold it up long enough. They could, so I said, "Well done! That was the rehearsal; now let's do it for real."
No idea what it was but it was off white and cost £30 at the car auction in 1979. I had L plates on it and my friends and family would sit with me while I learnt to drive. It was a proper old banger with a dodgy clutch; double declutching and parking on a hill to jump start it set me up as a confident motorist! I think it conked out before I passed my test.
TYL133M ...a Vauxhall Victor 1800 FE estate, metallic blue with a vinyl roof...cost £350 which my Mum lent me! Choke cable was a piece of string (until I fixed it) and you could almost climb inside the bonnet to do maintenance. You could pull out in front of anything, 'cos no one wanted to tangle with it, but its probably a bit small by modern standards. Got written off on an icy day when a bloke in a BMW (surprise!) came tanking round a bend and couldn't stop. Only good thing, it wrote his car off too!
Split screen 1958 Morris Minor. It failed seven consecutive MOT tests. On the sixth fail the mechanic handed me the handbrake lever that came off in his hand and said I won’t charge you for this one. After failing seventh time, and having spent all my money, I sold it for two pounds to the mechanic and got a bus home. I never even got to drive the wretched thing either. Purchased on the suggestion of my father.
Ford 100E van with side windows cut out, hand brush painted in pillar box red. An old London Bus seat was placed horizontally in the rear for the passengers. Bought from a ‘mate’ for £40 - I say a mate and should have smelled a rat when he’d thrown in for free 10 gallons of reclaimed engine oil. Insurance was £45, so nothing much changes.
I grew up in a car mad family both my actual dad and step dad were radio rental! So from an early age I have experiences that make me laugh! one I remember was my step dad bought an NSU prince (no it's not an STD!) anyway it was cheap because it had no reverse! PMSL! I was reverse! I had to get out and push it back! I never realised at the time but it set me in good stead to be a prop at rugby!
