"What was your first car?
I had a capri 1600 gt auto with a load of miles and a load of rust"
Ah my Dad had a metallic green capri in the 70s. I loved that car 🥰
My first was a Peugeot 106 and it was great. Never a problem with it apart from me driving into things. |
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Austin 1300. Cost me £60. Lasted me 18 months me being green not knowing what warning lights on the dash meant. Oil warning light didn't realise . Engine seized. Learnt a lot in 40 years driving havnt made that mistake again.  |
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By *entleman.kMan 6 days ago
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1971 white fiat 500 with the canvas roof open it above 15 mile an hour and it would just flip open, and the best bit was when you closed it you just stretch back in the drivers seat to pull it closed. |
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"What was your first car?
I had a capri 1600 gt auto with a load of miles and a load of rust"
Still with all that rust dam sight better than that poor excuse of a new version hey. Ps mk1 Astra for me |
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Went through car's like water back then, you could buy a drivable car for £50 drive it for a week or two then scrap it, no internet or camera's so you could get away with not registering it.
Most insurance was 3rd party for new drivers ,very few did monthly payment plans so you had to stump up the cash in advance for the year so you had lot's of uninsured drivers on the road,but as people actually learned to drive properly probably fewer accidents.
My first first car legal and that was a monster of a thing.
1.3l mk11 cortina slow and heavy built like a tank. |
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There's clearly a lot of people who were spoilt as fuck.
I started driving in in the middle 80's  and the general rule most new drivers couldn't afford anything over a 1.3 engine size and a basic model, apart from the odd mate who was a spoilt brat who's mummy and daddy paid if for them like my mate who had a 2.0 ltr cortina Ghia, flash git |
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1990 toyota corolla 1.8 diesel
Best car I've ever owned, and so light on fuel. It had over 200k miles on the clock when I bought it and had for about 5 years until head gasket went with about 400k on the clock.
Until then it only ever needed standard service, brakes etc |
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"2002? I think, silver Ford Fiesta finest or ghia. Plenty of miles on it. Had been used as a first car for about 4 people so was on its last legs. Did great to be fair to it."
Along with the old Jags they were a favourite down at the banger racing ovals. Built like tanks and probably weighed as much. |
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