Your very first car

[Ancient Citizen]

My first two company cars...

Fiat 127, one of the very first hatchbacks, drove really well, like most Fiats, luckily I only had it around 6 months,
before it started to fall to bits.

Then they gave me one of these, Morris Marina fastback in hearing aid beige, mine had a vinyl roof, which meant
you were cool as fuck...

1300 cc engine developed about 200 years ago, gearbox was like stirring porridge, all in all, a complete abortion of a car.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Fuck me Chippy your car history makes Rob Brydon's ( see Top Gear some time ago ) look exotic - sign of the times I suppose. Company cars? I worked at a place where the choice was stuff like this or take the money and get your own..........always took the money - a BX or a 405 was always a better bet than these.

Yes, company cars. I could never get my shit together enough to actually buy a car myself back then. Spent everything I had in the pub every night, and piss up holidays with my mates. So the first cars I got were company cars. This was back in 1984. The Cavalier was ridiculously underpowered. Most people didn't even realise they made them with the 1.3l engine mine had. Genuinely I think it was about 50 hp. Appalling.

The Montego was worse.

 

[Blueles61]

Triumph Spitfire. Paid around £200 pounds for it in 1978.
It was so bad, I sold it after a few weeks for a small loss.
Probably worth a fortune now!

 

[Turks Head Again]

Triumph Toledo on a 72 K plate.
It had a lovely walnut dashboard.
Apart from that it was a rust bucket and a terrible vehicle.

 

[Beswick Prize Bands Big Drum]

A 1935 morris 8 tourer, I bought it from the garage I worked at, I looked cool as fuck with the top down in the summer, I used to go round corners and the suicide doors would fly open, sold it when my Dad gave me his ford Anglia.

 

[pirate]

903cc fiat panda

as well as the rust the gear linkage was fucked and every so often the gear stick had a little lie down in the passenger footwell, not at all scary while driving down the m56

 

[mosssideblue]

1971 Mk3 Cortina 1300L. 0-60 eventually :)

 

[Tuearts right boot]

A 1935 morris 8 tourer, I bought it from the garage I worked at, I looked cool as fuck with the top down in the summer, I used to go round corners and the suicide doors would fly open, sold it when my Dad gave me his ford Anglia.

That would make you at least 95 year old, well done that man.

 

[sir baconface]

That would make you at least 95 year old, well done that man.

I assume you’ve never heard of second hand cars? ;)

 

[Tuearts right boot]

I assume you’ve never heard of second hand cars? ;)

I was allowing for that and being generous....