first cars?

[BravoCharlie]

evening!

i've done a quick search and the only one i've found was from 2008. my car test is less than a fortnight away, so i've been looking into getting a cheap runaround car, so's i can spend more on buying a new bike in time for summer.

i work in a car dealer, and decided to ask the manager if any semi-decent cars that were too old for sale (thus going to auction) came up, to give's a shout.

today he gave me keys to a Renault Megane, 1.4, 122k miles on the clock, and wanted £600 for it.

the thing was a shed, so many problems with it.

later in the day though, he's approached me with one of these :

https://i1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii639/bravocharlie1/Rover-45-1999-2003-Photo-01_zps862d1611.jpg


1.4 Rover 45, 2003, 55k miles, taxed and tested till november, £500.

it were owned by a Snobby fella who's opted for an insignia now and it's in good nick.


i know it's not the coolest of cars but i may take it.

Anyhow, it's got me asking, what were your first cars, and can you recommend anything to me?
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[yaigi]

Haha my first car was a C reg Escort that my Dad bought from an auction for £50 (I kid you not). He fixed a couple of things on it and said "When you break that I'll get you something else". It was a total rust bucket, still had a manual choke, and leaked in places. So I'd say, your first car looks a whole lot better than mine I did love it though, I didn't break it, but my Dad got me something else anyway once he saw I wasn't going to do what my sister did (write-off her first ever car - a lovely British racing green classic mini )
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[BravoCharlie]

ah man! how can you do that to a mini!

In Fairness, i seem to love old Fords, escorts and Sierra's mainly though.

i'll be happy to drive whatever as long as it's cheap and will last me a year at least!
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[Srengam]

Take it!

first car was a 2litre Sierra Saphire, loved it.
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[Jodie]

Go for it. The insurance should be cheaper than the usual chav magnets, get a few years no claims on your back

My first was a clapped out white Vauxhall Nova.

[MarJay]

https://images.motoring.co.uk/images/car-pictures/mucf-images/500x375/spid1/fe/0a/b6/ford-fiesta-1988-red-hatchback-1-1-ghia-3dr-fe0ab6bfe047cdadfb758057f939157c-m2.jpg

I had one of these bad boys. A whole 1100ccs of raw CVH Ford Power.
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[uberkron]

1987 nissan pulsar exa turbo. In red. First car, bought in 2003 for $350.

It was an ok car. Would reccomend a toyota.
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[johny2bikes]

Vauxhall Viva with boost button (manual choke). Gear box was brilliant and smooth. Twatted it into the back of a MG MGB whilst preoccupied with a michelin man on the front of a truck and wrote it off. Bugger

Go for it....
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[Nb]

My first car was a 1990 vauxhall belmont, 1.6 powah! which was actually the fastest car at college at the time....

Never thought id recommend a rover a but providing its not got overheating issues (yet) they are not too bad cars...
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[Drake]

landrover lightweight

https://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/469439_10151396027886320_877573309_o.jpghttps://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/548842_10151391929666320_123038621_n.jpg
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[BravoCharlie]

wouldn't mind a Land rover!

yeah the megane was a heap of shite, too many problems with the brakes!

i like the look of the rover though, looks good to go!


and i don't mean to offend, but i had to google a few of those cars, showing how young i am!
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[Shaft]

One of these.........

https://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2180/3000eh.jpg

Ford Capri 3000E, bought for 400 quid when it was ten years old and I've still got it.
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[swampy]

An MGB, loved it till it was written of by some tosser in a Vauxhall Viva...


a Renault 18 estate really
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[Clanger]

In the other thread you found, I said my first car was an original J'plate white Beetle 1.6L....it still was...
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[SlimRick]

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2401/2342878021_a72bbb230e_z.jpg

This cheeky little bad boy on the left. Bought in 1989 for £105

[GetawayDj]

1995 Vauxhall Corsa 1.5 TD. Never even got to drive it. My dad gave it to me when I was doing my lessons around September 2009, failed test in November and sold the car to a mate of my dads.....engine blew up 3 weeks later
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[Scouse]

We had two cars around the time I passed my test, a 1.2 fiesta and a Land Rover discovery. If I remember rightly they were both identical priced to insure and both cheap quotes too!.

[pits]

https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d112/pitslayer/fasty/AAAA0026-1.jpg

Then I got bored one day and painted it
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d112/pitslayer/fasty/fastyfront.jpg

Really want it back on the road now, I miss scraping the floor, awesome handling and RWD and of course bendy glass rear windows
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d112/pitslayer/fasty/605E0029.jpg


However this was the first car I ever bought
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d112/pitslayer/47b3d622b3127cce9b932085bd110000001.jpg

Which is currently looking like this and should be done in a few weeks
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d112/pitslayer/IMG_20130409_150023_zpsfc0c33f4.jpg


ETA: I can smell the head gasket on OPs potential Rover from here
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[The Tot]

Mine was an EP2 Civic

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/267781_10150308887040712_5403101_n.jpg

I was actually in the market for an first generation Honda Jazz (ideally wanted an suzuki swift, but there weren't any that were cheap). No Jazzes were under £4000, and considering that I only had my car license 1 week with 3 points outstanding, insurance was going to be expensive.

Settled for the Civic because it was a much better specc'd car than the Jazz. It was just as economical, and more importantly £1500 cheaper! Mileage was only 70k miles in comparison to 80k+ on the Jazzes I was looking at.

I do miss the Civic Sport, but my celica is a totally different tool!
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[Vracktal]

My first car, fresh from the newly independent glorious nation of the Czech Republic... A Skoda Favorit. It had the steering wheel on the proper side though.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Skoda_Favorit_Utrecht_1989.jpg

I miss my little red Eastern European breezeblock sometimes...
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[andym]

I had an x reg ('82) metro I bought from a work mate for £60... I found I could get 7 2x2 slabs and 4 people in it (all wheels rubbing the arches) and it still drove. For some bizarre reason the engine died after 4 days though

[Skudd]

Although I have been driving for 30 years and had a family car for most of that time, the first car that had my name on the log book was only 3 years ago and was a X reg 1.8 Mondeo bought at an auction for £400 and lasted 8 weeks befor going to the great mechanic in the sky.
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[kitty kat]

My first car was a 1974 Renault 12 TL in a shitty brown colour, bought by myself in 1981 from my next door neighbour for £300. That car lasted just over 18months, then I bought a MK1 escort in british racing green for £300, but I managed to write it off in the middle of 5 cars. My favourite car though was my 3rd car, an R reg vauhall Chevette in red - PED 922R and I called him Pedro! Oh how I loved going to scrap yards and scrambling over cars to get some replacement bits for him.