The first car you ever drove?

qz

Note: this is partly a thread in which I can show off, but I'd still like to know what you guys drove first.

E39 M5

kittenkiller

My boyfriends mothers Yaris!
1st & last time driving!
(if i were to learn in either of my parents cars, i'd have trouble deciding which to wreck 1st, the bmw or the merc!)

De Hipster

Mine was a '94 Mini Cooper...go-kart with attitude!

Robbo

E30 320i and I would have been 11 or 12 at the time.

qz

kittenkiller wrote:

My boyfriends mothers Yaris!
1st & last time driving!
(if i were to learn in either of my parents cars, i'd have trouble deciding which to wreck 1st, the bmw or the merc!)

The Merc! Save the Beamer!

kittenkiller

But the merc's newer & an automatic.

drdre

a 02 volvo S80 T6(twin turbo) and i'm only 20:D i drove this when i was 18

qz

kittenkiller wrote:

But the merc's newer & an automatic.

This may be my motoring fanboy-ism coming through, but here goes: **** the Merc, Beamers are better!

That is all.

kittenkiller

GOD NO!

The mercs are so much smoother!
They're a real luxury.
Even the old battered taxis going round are smooth in most cases.

BMWs are nice n all, but there's no real comparison with the merc at all!

BMW's got the label but Mercedes've got the quality.

Sorry, back on topic now!
Sorry!

qz

I sense a poll coming on, but you're right (but not about the Mercs), back to the topic!

aidan_dunne

Mercs, Beemers, jaysus! :rolleyes: Bunch of spoilt brats, the lot of ye!

Me? Mark II Ford Escort! Now there's a real car for ye! Get her arse swinging out and steer from the rear, as we say down in these parts! Ploughed up a field on my grandfather's farm in that baby....... literally! He didn't need to get the tractor out to plough it up after I'd taken the Escort out across it! The only car we ever owned in the family where I actually cried when it was being brought away on a trailer after my father sold it. I miss it to this day and would give anything for one last spin across the fields in her.

G'wan D'Escorts!

bazz26

My dad's old 1988 Nissan Bluebird from about 12 years ago. Comfortable car but midevil 1.8 with a 0-60 in hours rather than seconds makes a 1.4 Golf feel like a pocket rocket.

Had the handling of a runaway barge but at least it had power steering. Fortunately rust made it 100% biodegradeable.

dahamsta

I think the first car I drove unlicenced (with permission, in a driveway) was the mother's MK1 Fiesta. I'd love to restore one now.

First legal car would've been her Daihatsu Domino. Naff looking, but it was a great little car, never caused any trouble and it went like a rocket in the low gears.

After that I drove two Starlets - awful cars, as I've mentioned before - and a '94 Colt, which was another great car.

First car of my own was my current '93 525i. At 32. Late bloomer to ownership.

Have a hankering for a 7 series now...

adam

AlienGav

Shuurup Kitten!

Dooom

My dad's BMW 318Ci.
Course it being my first time behind the wheel of a car (I think my father doesn't like me sometimes), I didn't have a clue it was RWD and so more or less dropped the clutch and pinned the accelerator simultaneously.

Result: A lot of yelling, me shaken to bits, and the car very nearly buried into a wall. Can't wait to get my own

AlienGav

Anyways...

Back on topic

I sympatise with ya Bazz! A bluebird was the first ever car i drove too!

I was about 10yrs old and drove it about 10 ft! I felt like Juan Pablo!

The second time i drove, I was 16, in a cheapo 88 Fiesta, managed to get 11 ft in it this time... before i wrapped it around our garden gates! :mad:

Great little car tho

astec123

Had a quick move of a Landrover discovery 3litre, that was the first car I had a go in, was 15 at the time.

dahamsta

Spike wrote:

Course it being my first time behind the wheel of a car (I think my father doesn't like me sometimes), I didn't have a clue it was RWD and so more or less dropped the clutch and pinned the accelerator simultaneously.

Result: A lot of yelling, me shaken to bits, and the car very nearly buried into a wall.

LOL, I did much the same on my first bike (Cagiva Mito 125) about ten years ago. I was just after dropping into the old man to show off and popped the clutch a mite too fast, went bombing across two lanes of traffic on the back wheel. He just laughed his ass off at me.

Which was ironic, since I did the exact same thing about ten years before that the first time a mate gave me a spin on his trials bike. Ended up running behind it trying to get the frontend down, which is rather difficult whe your right hand is giving it more welly the harder you try.

adam

aidan_dunne

Spike wrote:

My dad's BMW 318Ci.
Course it being my first time behind the wheel of a car (I think my father doesn't like me sometimes), I didn't have a clue it was RWD and so more or less dropped the clutch and pinned the accelerator simultaneously.

Result: A lot of yelling, me shaken to bits, and the car very nearly buried into a wall. Can't wait to get my own

Ah yeah, you can't beat rear-wheel-drive for some serious laughs. Hence my love for the mkII Escort. Great crack!

bazz26 wrote:

Had the handling of a runaway barge but at least it had power steering. Fortunately rust made it 100% biodegradeable.

After the Escort we had a 1987 Opel Ascona. 2-litre, fuel injected engine. Quite a step up from a 1.3 carbed engine, I can tell you! :eek: The car itself was shíte, body wasn't in great nick, always seemed to be breaking down or had something go wrong with it but, my God, that engine! Absolutely savage! You barely had to touch the accelerator, literally just breath gently on it, and the bítch took off like a rocket. Amazing power. I scared myself (and my father! ) a few times in that car, I can tell you! :eek:

Luckily bazz, as you say, your Bluebird had power steering. Our Ascona didn't and with it being such a big, heavy car with that big, heavy lump of metal up front and it being front-wheel drive, it was a real pain in the arse, or should I say arms, to drive. No need to go to a gym, all you had to do was take that car out for a 20 minute drive and you'd come back with arms on you like Arnold Swartzenegger!

chicken_food

First car i drove was an 89 porshe carrera. The classic flat top spoiler ones. It was an automatic so it doesnt count as 'driving' in my books. First time using clutch and gears was a ford mondeo V6. Nearly planted it into a wall in UCD.

aidan_dunne

First automatic I ever drove was a 1988 Nissan Bluebird. Of course, not being used to driving an automatic, I instinctively kept pushing my left foot down onto the floor and reaching for the gearstick and I had to keep reminding myself it wasn't necessary.

DubTony

Holy Crap. Porsches, Mondeo V6's, Beemers, a Volvo S80. Who are you people?

My first drive was a Fiat 127. Magic little thing. My mother owned it and when my folks were out I'd take it for a spin. I was 16, so no licence and obviously no insurance .... Jesus, not even any lessons. I was 16. Smacked a kerb one night and blew the front left tyre. Changed the wheel and got my girlfriends mother to buy a new tyre next day. Had to put that on the car and drive it a bit just to dirty it up. Great fun, but when I think back :eek:

First legal drive was a Renault 18 GTS. Yup, Daddy's car. It wasn't until he bought the second 18 that I started to smash them up. :rolleyes:

dahamsta

chicken_food wrote:

First time using clutch and gears was a ford mondeo V6. Nearly planted it into a wall in UCD.

Best place for a Mundane tbh.

causal

Ford Cortina mkII


causal

Squirrel

Maserati Ghibli, that was when I was 12, I also used to drive alot of V6 Audi's and Golf Gti's along with the more mundane VW's and weaker Audi's.

IANOC

mr2 turbo

Stephen

First car I drove was an early '90s vectra 1.6. I was about 14 at the time and nearly crashed it into a tree (this was not on the road, fortunately). It was a few years before I got to drive again
Then it was an 800cc Daewoo Matiz belonging to my mother... a beast indeed. After that it was her 1 litre Corsa, after a few months of that I finally passed my test and got my own car ... 1.25 Fiesta Zetec.

$lash

A mini 850 City ...

AlisonB

An Xr2i ...

dpr

my first drive was a 94 escort, had about 3/4 lessons from the father when i was 17. in around the raheen industrial estate in limerick with all the other drivers. I was going way too fast driving down hill to a bend, paniced, stuck my foot to the brakes, pulled up the hand brake and did a 180 turn. Didn't bother learning to drive properly for another 4 years!

Alfasudcrazy

First car I ever drove (by myself) was those old boxy Fiat 124's - was petrified I would smash it up as I was driving through a town but I managed to get there without any problem.
Even though I had a provisional licence I had just got a job in a garage and told the boss I was well able to drive when in fact I had only ever before driven a mini a few miles on a straight wide road. :rolleyes:

Pretty soon I was flying around in Granada 2.8GL's and RS2000's as if I had actualy been driving for years.

ds20prefecture

Maserati Ghibli, eh? I can beat that... Purple Morris Marina 1.8 Automatic, in the driveway when I was 9.

First car on the open road was an 1.3 Opel Kadett, when I was 12. (for shame)

First car legally was a 2.0S Opel Rekord. Quite a nice car, if memory serves.

I gave my 12 year old american nephew his first drive in my Citroën DS last year. It's kind of lost on his buddies when he boasts about it, as they have no idea what that is.

loz

Talbot Sunbeam 1.3 - rustbucket ! lol - but cost me 200 quid - and i got back 200 quid after i i sold it a year later to buy my mk2 escort mexico

xzanti

The first car I ever drove was a Subaru Impreza... my bf's, tried to teach me how to drive in the Pheonix Park a couple of years ago.. I have a nissan micra now which is the first car I ever owned, great little car, never gives me any trouble.. (touch wood)

prospect

God almighty you people make me feel old,

My first drive, a 1984 Citroen BX 1.9 diesel.

egan007

86 Talbot Solara
Nothing like it
Revolutionary for it's time -ran on gas and had switch over to pertol

fletch

How do you guys remember at this stage! I'm 21 and can't.....i think i was about 5yrs old and my dad used to let us drive his 900cc diesel charade (it was a learner car so he did the pedals from the passenger seat & we did the steering)

prospect

fletch wrote:

How do you guys remember at this stage! I'm 21 and can't.....i think i was about 5yrs old and my dad used to let us drive his 900cc diesel charade (it was a learner car so he did the pedals from the passenger seat & we did the steering)

I as talking about 'actually driving' the car.
I sat on my dads lap and steered his Alfa Romeo Guiletta around our driveway when i was about four, but i didn't think that counted!

Alun

Making a bid for the wrinkliest person here ... a 1964 Ford Anglia.

qz

Alun wrote:

Making a bid for the wrinkliest person here ... a 1964 Ford Anglia.

Sold!

Alun

qz wrote:

Sold!

I should add, of course, that the car wasn't anywhere near new when I started driving it I actually passed my test in a 1968 MG 1300, and the first car I actually owned was a 1962 Ford Cortina MkI. Cost me £100 to buy and £125 to insure TPFT. Those were the days

prospect

Alun wrote:

the first car I actually owned was a 1962 Ford Cortina MkI. Cost me £100 to buy

You posh fecker!
It musta been the one with sat nav!!!

Alun

prospect wrote:

You posh fecker!
It musta been the one with sat nav!!!

I should add again that this was in about 1976 so the thing was already 14 years old at the time! It had the most god awful paint job ... someone had repainted it, by hand, with a brush (!), in the most disgusting shade of purple with the stripe along the side in white. It got written off a year later when someone drove through a red light and rammed me from the side, but that's a story for another day.

kdevitt

E30 320i... but no one told me you don't use your left foot to brake....

bazz26

I remember when I was around 14 a friend of mine bought his first car, a 1970 I think Mk 1 Ford Escort in bright yellow (with a black bonnet and white strip) for £40 plus a knackered BMX bike. The car was around 20 years old at that stage and there was a hole in the floor just below the glove box. We used drive it around his field during the summer. First gear was gone so we had to push the car and jump in the passenger side while it was moving trying to avoid sticking your foot in the hole. You could see the cloud of dust around the field and every day we would pick up bits and pieces that would fall off including the exhaust which made it sound like a dragster. When we got out of the car our faces and clothes were full of dust from the hole in the floor.

Ah, the joys of youth.

DubTony

Alun wrote:

I should add again that this was in about 1976 so the thing was already 14 years old at the time! It had the most god awful paint job ... someone had repainted it, by hand, with a brush (!), in the most disgusting shade of purple with the stripe along the side in white. It got written off a year later when someone drove through a red light and rammed me from the side, but that's a story for another day.

Must have been a Cortina enthusiast.

unkel

Alun wrote:

Cost me £100 to buy and £125 to insure TPFT. Those were the days

More expensive than it is now!

1974: cheap semi in a cheap suburb of Dublin: £2000. Insurance £125
2005: cheap semi in a cheap suburb of Dublin:€300000. Insurance at the same ratio....


...€18750 :eek:

mike65

Ha! Forget Lambos and Beemers my first drive was in a 1965 Saab 95 now thats exotic esp in this country! - "what the hell is that...?" etc

The first car drove on a regular basis was a Fiat 127 in orange.

Mike.

Boggle

Learned to drive in a 88 nissan bluebird. Oh, and it was a left-hand drive one at that which used to make overtaking a treat...

unkel

fletch

prospect wrote:

I as talking about 'actually driving' the car.
I sat on my dads lap and steered his Alfa Romeo Guiletta around our driveway when i was about four, but i didn't think that counted!

In that case I suppose it would be a 1983 VW Golf 1.5