Mine was a Triumph Dolomite Sprint Like this , unfortunately I have no pics of it. It cost me £1100 back in 82 . I used it for work when I was learning ,I'd take the L plates off , my old girl never knew as it was parked up the road and I'd set off on my pusher , he he. Sad demise though coz I wrote it off going too fast round a right hander on the way to a social club. I pushed it to a grass verge and walked, got pissed and cried into my beer. Oh those were the days. lol. Anyway what did you have.
Fiat 126. Loved that car. Bought it for £1050 when it was a year old and sold it for £1250 a year later. It remains the only car I have ever made money on.
Mine was a 1600cc MKII Cortina. I can't remember exactly what I paid for it but it was around £300. The biggest problem I had was that I didn't drive at all for 3 years after passing my test then my company sent me out to Johannesburg for a year and I decided I'd better get a car. I think the Cortina lasted a couple of months before I wrote it off so it could have been worse.
Renault 4 Gordini, rear engine, air cooled (maybe, I forget), 1100 cc. £140 in 1975 from a guy on a building site I worked at. It cornered like it was on rails. Lasted eighteen months then both drop arms rotted through and the clutch went, all in about a year. Traded it in and got a Honda CB175. That was the start.
Mk3 Ford Cortina 2 litre GT. Daytona Yellow with a black vinyl roof. I was 18 just learning to drive. I'd only had it three weeks and my mate who had already passed his test rolled it at 70mph with five of us in it. We climbed out without a scratch on us, rolled it back on to its wheels and drove it 2 miles to a friends house. We ragged it round his field for a while then broke it for spares. I got 50 more than I paid for it .
A chocolate brown Austin allegro lol! Cost me £300 and sold it for £400 12 months later. The buyer was not pleased a week later as the passenger seat collapsed through the floor (it had just passed its MOT). After that I moved onto the big boys cars, a 1600cc ford capri lol!
Polo Classic - B245 MBY. 900cc of freedom, four gears, top speed of 88mph (really) solid plastic dash, £100 stereo, horrid Bush speakers on the rear shelf. Mars Red, or orange to the rest of us. Would love to have it back, but I think its in a landfill somewhere
Harvest Gold Morris Marina, awful car but at 17 the girls loved me having a car, this was followed by a lovely alfasud till the cam belt went and totalled the engine!!!
Mini Cooper s 1275 with sport pack was the first car I owned when I finished working for Mercedes ( up till then all company cars) went from a c230k to the mini and loved it.
A white 1977 Triumph TR7, I think I paid £400 for it. Funny enough when the big ends went I put a dolly sprint motor in it!
Mine was a sludge brown Mini whose previous owner was Nigella Lawson. It ultimately got nicked from outside my girlfriend's flat in Streatham. It was found by the Police a few weeks later in Brixton minus its leather steering wheel (the most valuable part) but somehow, by the time I arrived to recover it a couple of days later, it had been nicked again never to re-appear!
1978 Mini 1000 in Pea green. LBV 32T mini lite wheels and one bucket seat (Could not afford 2) Like this
hand painted mini black and white. free bird album cover painted on the roof and naked saxaphone player on the bonnet.
1976 Hillman Avenger 1500GL, cost me NZ$3200.00, it was shit brown, and by the time my mates girlfriend rolled it, there was no 3rd gear, diff was shagged, and only run on 3 1/2 cylinders, insurance paid out NZ$3500.00 after excess removed, RESULT!!!
Mk 1 escort, full grey primer and furry dash sold it to a fella for next to nothing, told him the issues with it and a couple of weeks later we got scrapping in a local night club!! turned out he had done that kind of thing a few times. Happy days lol
