My first car was...

A Hillman Avenger in a sort of metallic brown. Was good for hiding the rust.

Toyota Corolla 1973 same as this one, (wifes car when we married,)kept for a few years and replaced with a Maxi 1500 for versatile family use.

1960 Ford Anglia 105e WNV 511 Sunburst Yellow with a white roof. Bought in August 1972 when I was 17. I've still got the log book somewhere.

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Vector wrote: A Hillman Avenger in a sort of metallic brown. Was good for hiding the rust.

LOL I had one of those too - are you sure the colour code was not DS Brown? As in Dog...

An Austin A35 van and it was in a far, far worse condition than this fine example. In fact the Chassis snapped in 1/2 and you could push without leaving the driving seat.

alanrt54 wrote: 1960 Ford Anglia 105e WNV 511 Sunburst Yellow with a white roof. Bought in August 1972 when I was 17. I've still got the log book somewhere.

I've still got this one

My first car had an all aluminium OHC engine behind the seats driving the rear wheels. It had all round independant suspension.

It was made in Scotland in 1963 (a Mk1) although I didn't buy it until 1972 (£120).

One of these (but not this one sadly)





Richard

Sticking with the above 'Hillman' theme...

My first car was one of these:


MK1, with bare metal door tops that glued your arm to the door if it had been sunny.

Black Leatherette seats, freezing & slidey in the cold, burny & sticky in the summer and a steering wheel as big as a bus!

The only car I ever made money on though...Cost £225 - sold for £250 :drive:

Vauxhall nova 1.2 merit in turd brown.

like this

MG 1300 MK 2. Brill' car.

A mini 1000 HL in Russet (turd) brown, which I bought from my father.
Wrote it off within a year by losing control racing friends around a car park. Hit a large dirt median in the middle of the car-park, flew about 10ft :omg: and came down heavily on one side, bending the toe-board, and breaking a sub-frame mount.
A friend helped me fix it over a weekend. Front sub-frame and engine came out and we set about the toe-board with a sledge hammer :bat:. We got it all back together, with a few bolts spare. How does that happen
Anyway that's how I go into doing stuff on cars. That and the fact that you never seem to have any money when you are student!

A 1.2L MK2-PH2 Clio which I got off my mother. 75bhp of 16V power! 0-62 in a blistering 13 seconds.

Used as my daily drive for over 3 years. Fitted 16" alloys and started getting into cars from there.

No real dilemmas, didn't write it off or anything!