The first car you ever drove?

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

mike65

This is the exact same as ours



which the last I knew was home to a chicken or three somewhere out by Fenor on the Copper Coast road.

Mike.

Gerry

1986 ( I think ) audi 100 turbodiesel. Had a fair amount of go when the turbo kicked in, was a baptism by fire really

whippet

I am only 28 now and proud to say that my first drive was a 1951 Riley RMA when I was about 15. The auld fella still has it. What a lovely car.

weemcd

one of them fúckin cars. It was a diesel too.
Hated it from the day we got it, till the day we sold it. Mainly because the colour (god awful burgandy), the interior was ****e, and it was a slow thing.

Can't say i liked driving it much either.

unkel

Isn't that the Saab 96, Mike? The one I posted is the 95, isn't it?


95 is very rare

frodi

Drove a friends escort (no licence or insurance) back in 1984 (don't how old the car was) Then a 1972 Honda CD175 for a year, then my dads mark one escort (ancient) then my real first car a 1980 renault 5.

Dooom

dahamsta wrote:

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

Lol, even I didn't do that my first time on a bike. Although my first time I let the throttle open fully and got some courage up on a track (was on a CR125 I think) I managed to crash and give myself a concussion

I can safely say now, that I can drive pretty much anything. Including bikes and BMW's - which has also set my mind that whatever car I get it has to be RWD

mike65

unkel wrote:

Isn't that the Saab 96, Mike? The one I posted is the 95, isn't it?


95 is very rare

Jesus you're confusing me now. I wish I could lay my hands on a log book.

I've just done some more googling and you are right, the 95 was the 3 dr estate body. Someone near us had a green one back in England. (Maybe I should remember this stuff but itis was all a long time ago!) Ours had the 3 cylinder 2 stroke engine which on a cold January morning laid down a splendid blue shroud! The front end changed a few times in its lifetime as well.

Mike.

Ray777

1984 Austin Metro :cool:

Alfasudcrazy

Alun wrote:

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

If we are talking very first 'drives' it would also be the same type 64 Anglia for me - I used to love jumping in to the neighbours unlocked cars and fiddling around with the buttons. One day I discovered what the handbrake was for and left it off. The Anglia rolled down their driveway and I jumped out to try and stop it - was a bit harder than my toy cars though - it struck a wall - not going very fast - I did a runner.

Strange the way cars attract some people from an early age - I clearly recall yanking the semaphore indicators in and out of our neighbours Anglia ( sit up and beg type) and knew all the different models around age 4 :rolleyes: