Your first car??

[Fiona]

Been scanning some old photos and here's mine; 1965 Austin Healey Sprite


Me at the tender age of 23 and my bro. Fording a river in the new forest.
This car was stolen the day after I bought it, recovered and the pretty much restored on the insurance.

......and my second car


1971 Austin Mini. Here at Castle Coombe Circuit with my other bro. I resprayed this one myself and then won all the new chrome in a competition

[verysideways]

Thankfully i don't have a picture of my first car, a 1985 Nissan Micra 1.0

[Dan H]

First one -

Pic removed posted below

A Peugeot 405 GTXi 1.9 thingy. Bought it at 19, would have loved a 309 GTi but the insurance would have killed me! This was basically a bigger "family" version so insurance was sensible

Followed by this -

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325i SE - loved it, bought when I was 21, insurance was, erm, not too friendly, but never mind

[Fiona]

can't see your photo's Dan

Nothing wrong with Micra's Pete. They make great banger rally cars!! Which model was it?

This one?





or this one?

[verysideways]

It was a Mk1, like your bottom picture. With a 1.0 litre four speed. And 50bhp. In red!!

[Fiona]

It was a Mk1, like your bottom picture. With a 1.0 litre four speed. And 50bhp. In red!!

Hehe, Perfect, stick a horsey badge on the bonnet, scuderia stripes and you have the perfect car to drive across Mongolia. Might even fool a few of the nomad's.

Seriously though, the Micra's were superb on that trip. Both were mega-reliable. I was in the one with the posh B&Q airfilter snorkel

[Harsh]

I learned in a mk1 Micra...

moved straight into a Mk1 Astra SR
then a Mk2 GTE and on to a celica, then a GT4 and then just kept buying cars!

[NWVT]

Need to find pics but
1988 Mini Mayfair £100 ebay speshal and completly rotten beyound repair scrapped it but salvage all the good bits like mg metro turbo lump .

1980 Mini Clubman Van started to learn to drive in it then rebuilt it with the turbo lump and a guy in the states wanted it so converted to left hooker with original incenti mini parts .

1975 Mini 1000 £250 from behind my garage never got to learn to drive in it as insurance wouldnt insure me on a classic (Still Got now waiting for some metal work)

1996 Mini Cooper TPI £3500 purchased from a mini mate who built the original mr bean mini's now parked in my garage waiting for major metal work

1996 106 Gti was to be a track car but new car means she got to go

see a theme lol.
then got my shake bum megane 1.4 dynamique which was my main daily driver then got C4

[Boris]

Toyota Yaris (03) 1.01 for 2 years
Saab 95 (W) 2ltr Turbo estate for 2 months (temp car)
Hyundai coupe (w) 1.6 for 1 year 2 months
Mazda MX5 3 weeks

[sebhaque]

I had a 2004 MG ZS, lovely old motor:





0-60 in 7.8 seconds isn't bad for a 120bhp motor! Oh and yes the second pic does have my short-lived private plates on. I miss those too...

Edit: Resized pictures.

[Dan H]

can't see your photo's Dan

Can anyone see them?

I'll get around to hosting elsewhere at point soon if people can't see.

Or even just for Fiona......

[jumplead]

No worky Dan

[Dan H]

Try again then. . . .

Pug -



BMW -



Worky?

[Fiona]

Yep, worky

[jumplead]

worky