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Your First CAR !!??

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GeorgeOfTheJungle:
I was counting the days till my birthday, to get the drivers licence and a car.

Doom-the-Squirrel:
Good times!

I got my Saturn used. I think I was either the 3rd or 4th owner.

Mapmaker:
First car? A 1968 VW Type 1 (Beetle). Got me back and forth to college in the late 70's, in some pretty rough northern Ohio winters. Like all Type 1's it had 'issues'; the worst being the pervasive rust that destroyed generations of cars on the salt crusted roads of the American 'rust belt'. But the car was mechanically reliable, easy to work on, cheap to operate and taught me a lot about automobile mechanics.

I'm no dewy-eyed nostalgia fool - cars today are far better built and far more reliable, safer and better performing. But there are times I think that a nicely restored Type 1 in the driveway would be just the thing...

IanJ:
In 1983 I got my first car, a 1978 MkII Escort 1300L....photo below.
Reg = XSO289S
So it started with a 1300cc engine, but I soon built a 1600cc engine of my own c/w Kent fast road cam.

I always had Escorts as a youngster.......my favourite being a white MkII RS2000. I had this car in the mid-late 80's......and sold it 1989ish. Then, a couple years ago came across it at a car show......couldn't believe it was still alive, photo below (note the T-shirt!).

Ian.

nali:
First car a 1977 Vauxhall Chevette. As a 17yr old I thought it was the Mutts Nuts owning such a new car until I wrote it off after about a year.

Second car was a 1969 Lotus Europa which definitely WAS cool  8) Trouble is I couldn't afford to run it so had to sell it a couple of years later  :'(



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