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[BMH]

1983 2.0 Austin Ambassador i bought off my english teacher for £50

Bryan

[smev]

Grandad special Rover 214...k series actually had fair amount of poke! Only got rid of it because it had a mystery squeak and parents convinced me to buy the neighbour's utterly gutless Astra

[mk1leg]

a 1966 morris mini 850 in OE/W..............cost back in 1980   £56

 

[GenLightening]

A 1965 Chevy Corvair Corsa 140. After a few years I swapped the hardtop for a convertible body. A really fun car to drive hard in the wet!

[Angusdog]

Peugeot 504. It stopped on day for some reason and in the weeks that follow outside my flat, someone stole the headlights and a wheel. The council then towed it away and sent me a bill I never paid on the basis the motor alone was worth more...

[skinnyminny]

Peugeot 207 (shared with Dad) which I promptly wrote off 2 months later & bought the Perc-meister (Dad refused to put me on his insurance again....!)

[Barman]

VOY 832S A 1973 Austin 1300 that I bought 36 years ago!

 

How come I can remember the registration of that but not... um..... what was I saying....?

[joshw]

1990 mayfair

Edited by joshw, 26 October 2013 - 02:55 PM.

[firstforward]

BTP 803B, 1964 Mini 850 Super Deluxe

[classicminidriver]

Orange 70's Mini clubman...loved it cost about £50! Funny a classic mini is quite a lot of peoples first car :)

Edited by classicminidriver, 26 October 2013 - 04:43 PM.

[ANON]

68 S, 27 yers ago, think it was about £120? still got it tucked away  

[surfblue]

A 1976 Mk3 Mini 1000 in Tahiti blue, bought in 1985 for the princely sum of £50 for my 11th birthday present (luck me!). I got bought that, an mot failure, to learn to drive in on a private lane to stop me ruining my mums Mk2 Escort.

Two more Minis, a green clubman (£20 - result!) and another, coincidentally, Tahiti blue 1976 1000 (£50) followed, along with a Vauxhall Chevette and a Hillman Avenger all before I passed my test 5 weeks after my 17th birthday and bought a 1978 Russet Brown Clubman estate as my first legal road car, £500, and not a great deal better than the £50 ones that preceeded it!.

Edited by surfblue, 26 October 2013 - 09:02 PM.

[l_jonez]

My mini, bought it for my 18th birthday as a present to myself and i still drive it daily 10 years later 

Edited by l_jonez, 26 October 2013 - 10:01 PM.

[Ryan n Angela]

JNH 575Y a black Austin Rover Mini 1000 HLE. affectionately know as... wait for it... JNH! loved her to bits, we had many plans for her until she was taken from us by a drunk driver who drove straight into the side of us on an island 2 days after xmas. She is doubly special to me as not only my first car but according to the police accident inspdctor she also saved my then girlfriends (now my wife) life that fateful evening too. he told me that based on his experience had we been in a nova, fiesta, 205, metro etc he very much doubted my girlfriend would have suvived the crash. as he explained it the minis unique monocoque tub design with the heavy duty front bulkhead and rear seat structure allows the mini to withstand suprisingly well a side impact,  he explained that because everything on a mini is structural impact load is spread through the shell. he said of the minis he had seen over the years that have been involved in a side impact collision not one had been a fatal crash to the mini driver or passangers. he did further say though that in a front impact crash, the mini didnt quite fare so well... but he said estimating the damage on my car had it been a fiesta or particularly a metro he doubted a passanger would have survived. To give you an idea how hard he hit us the ps front wheel was only connected by the flexy pipe, ps inner wing was crushed into the rad onto the engine, the engine and sub were twisted to the point of the grill being pushed out, front bulkhead was distorted dash rail had a kink that almost made the bottom rail touch the top rail  scuttle and screen frame had same buckle. passanger footwell was convexed as was the seat cross member, ps rear 1/4 had closed the rear bin and the force whole force of thd impact going through my car sent the boot lid skidding about 40yds down the road. only in the cold light of day did we further notice the boot floor was creased and the lip under the boot lid was too... and he knocked us 16ft across the island and up a lamp post... and then blamed me... still get the shivers now when I think about it... but thanks to that litte car we are still here and still together some 20 odd yrs later, very happily too I might add... lol

[(philip)]

A very early Renault 5, about 1973 I think although I got it in 89. I loved it! Gorgeous little car. Wrote it off after having it a couple of months 

 

Would love to get another one.