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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
A battered Renault 12 estate. Perfect! I loved it so much. When the rust got worrying it was repainted, by brush and hand, in silver grey Hammerite, which seemed to halt the rot. Once I left it in a busy car-park in Halifax on a Saturday and accidentally left my keys on the bonnet - no-one stole it. :(
A Mini for £200, with less than 2,000 miles on it, bought from a friend of my Nan's who never took it out if it was raining.
It got destroyed by a drunk driver who hit it so hard it went thirty feet up the road, across the pavement and into a wall.
My next car was a Mini as well, a real nail!
My youngest daughter and I used to drive to school in it, and in the winter, we used to joke about opening the windows to let some warm air in!!
It got destroyed by a drunk driver who hit it so hard it went thirty feet up the road, across the pavement and into a wall.
My next car was a Mini as well, a real nail!
My youngest daughter and I used to drive to school in it, and in the winter, we used to joke about opening the windows to let some warm air in!!
A35 van, we paid £25 for it and had to junk it after a month as we found there was hardly any floor, broke my heart to have spent so much money for nothing.
Later we had a sit up and beg Ford, we actually changed the engine on that, lifting it with a strong rope and a wooden beam. Unfortunately the clutch plate got damaged and it wouldn't start from stop on a slope, which living in Yorkshire was a problem.
Later still we had a Messerschmidt (or Heinkel) bubble car, the pasenger had to hold the battery terminals on as it was behind the driver's seat! It conked out and OH left it in the middle of Keighley, unlocked, it didn't get pinched but his WW2 flying jacket did that was inside. He never listened to me!
Cars were much more fun in th'olden days! Before modern alternators we had one where the lights were brighter the faster you drove.
Later we had a sit up and beg Ford, we actually changed the engine on that, lifting it with a strong rope and a wooden beam. Unfortunately the clutch plate got damaged and it wouldn't start from stop on a slope, which living in Yorkshire was a problem.
Later still we had a Messerschmidt (or Heinkel) bubble car, the pasenger had to hold the battery terminals on as it was behind the driver's seat! It conked out and OH left it in the middle of Keighley, unlocked, it didn't get pinched but his WW2 flying jacket did that was inside. He never listened to me!
Cars were much more fun in th'olden days! Before modern alternators we had one where the lights were brighter the faster you drove.
A mini - needed it because my first job was not accessible by public transport. It was a nightmare (years old when I bought it). It had a shoe print on the inside roof (?). It cut out in wet weather because a design fault meant the distributor got wet (I spent a fortune on WD40 trying to keep it dry). The battery started to fall through the boot. It was written off when an uninsured idiot decided to execute a right turn on an unlimited speed road without indicating. I exchanged the cost of scrap for the rescue and storage costs :-(
A 1961 black Rover 100, red leather seats, cost me £500 from an aged Polish guy who cried when I drove it away. Everyone who got in it loved it, and always 'knew someone who used to have one.' It had an overdrive on a stalk by the steering wheel, with a kick-down under the accelerator pedal. I always smile when I see one.
Sold it for £100.
Sold it for £100.
