Your First Car

[Canary42]

What was the coulor ?

Tell us a bit about it.

(Note: This question has been put previousy a few years ago, but heyho we've probably got a different population here since it was last done.)

Mine was a Fiat 500 (499.5cc, not the modern version). It was pale blue. Here is a picture taken in 1966, my young step-brother and friend inside, Fido in front. Scanned from transparency, hence the blemish on the bonnet which is not on the car but comes from the transparency.

https://ibb.co/YbPVpYF

[davebro]

I swapped a motorbike for a white Ford Anglia side valve which I scrapped almost immediately as the chassis was rusted out.

2nd car which I kept for a couple of years - Cambridge green Mk1 Ford Consul. Bench seat/column change, £50.

[Bazile]

Vauxhall Cavalier .

White with red vinyl roof

[ToraToraTora]

Ford Anglebox, Blue, cost £30!

[ferlew]

A beautiful Jowett Javelin, probably first made circa 1950 isj.

[ferlew]

I hit enter too soon, I was saying circa 1950 ish, metallic bronze, number plate was something like RPL xxx ?
Leather bench seats front and back, and a walnut dashboard and picnic table on the back sill which you could remove and fasten onto the back of the front seat.

[Hazlinny]

Dark Green Morris Minor. Was surprised to see it (among others) on a calendar picture - must have been taken while parked in the street!

[DTCwordfan]

Austin-Morris 1100 in tht mid-pale blue/green that thery made zillions in. Bought it in my gap year and took it to Uni....

[rockyracoon]

A silver Renault 5 Le Car. I loved it. I booted that thing all over London. Even when the gear box started to go a bit dodgy, the mechanic next door got a strong elastic band and fixed it for me. Lord knows how, but it lasted for another year or so. I have very fond memories of that car. Thank you for reminding me.

[Canary42]

Unless it's a complete disaster, I guess all "first cars" get the fond memories sobriquet, later ones have to earn it on merit :-)

[237SJ]

A red Ford Escort that I bought from my sister who tried to charge me more because it had a new tyre. I remember driving it for the first time and Pressure On by Spandau Ballet came on the radio and I whacked the sound up - that's when I realised the stereo was better than the car.

[Canary42]

/// the stereo was better than the car. ///

LOL

[rockyracoon]

'Unless it's a complete disaster, I guess all "first cars" get the fond memories sobriquet, later ones have to earn it on merit :-)'

Very true. The car that I drive now is a world apart from that Renault, and a much nicer car to drive, but.....

[melv16]

Hillman super minx estate, cost me £45-00. You got wet feet when it rained.

[Tilly2]

A red Triumph Herald convertible which stank of musky damp when the roof was on, which wasn't very often as the windows had become almost opaque!

[Togo]

I think I sold that car Tills. You would never believe how the windows were permanently "steamed" up; I never noticed the smell. (^_*)

[Atheist]

Ford Anglia (before they got that backward-sloping rear window). It was pale bluish, and got us down to Marseille in c 1964. It had a bonnet and a boot, so you couldn't tell which way was pointing forward. Half-way down France it blew a radiator hose outside a police station in Paris. We managed to trace a spare 'tuyau' and then the local cops let us into the station to fetch bottles of water to top up the rad. We had to pass the cage for the night's drunks and ne'er do wells and down a row of cells to reach the tap.
Later on the trip, we picked up some hitch-hikers and then had a puncture; we had no jack, so I got the passengers to hold up the car while I mentally changed the tyre. They seemed capable of holding it up quite well, so I said "Excellent! Now, let's do it for real." It worked.

[Atheist]

It also had a weird gear change lever, which had a horizontal axis.

[ToraToraTora]

I asked err indoors what her first car was, she said: "Green one"!

[-SharonA-]

My first car at aged 18 was believe it or not was an automatic Daf!!! Navy blue.
I loved that little run around.

[Togo]

Drove other cars before it but the first car that was mine was a Rover 90(P4 I think). It was a chocolate brown and cream two tone with bench front seat (some had two front seats) that had a drop-down arm rest. I did a week's work for a coalman who had a bad back when I was 17/18 years old. On the Friday he could not pay me. I told him money in my hand or his motor, or I was getting serious. He gave me the keys. I drove it all over S.o.T. with passengers aplenty for a few months and sold it for about £40. It was tremendous thing and would pull up Etruria bank in top with about 8 of us in it. I wish I had it now. Happy daze. I got my driving licence 2 years later when I move to Wales where for some reason it was a requirement to drive.