Your First CAR !!??

[vk6zgo]

My first car was a 1962 Ford Anglia 105E, absolute rust heap that had been botched up with newspaper and bondo/filler when I bought in the early 70's for £15-00 Sold it a year later for £50-00 having fixed the sills with concrete and wire mesh.

That's funny!! You do what you had to do back then !! 
Your car reminded me of the 'Police' car, used in the "Heartbeat" TV series, set in the 60's in the Yorkshire
region in the UK. Imagine that car in the USA today, trying to get someone to pull over !! 

The cops in West Oz also used those in the 1960s, but they were really just general purpose " runabouts" for the "cop shops".

Serious pursuit was done using various things like Ford Zephyr Zodiacs (in early years, the Mk2) then later, Mk3s (which weren't normally sold in Oz) & Studebaker Larks (I think there were only a few of them), then Falcon & Holden V8s.

WA had a strange system, where outside the Perth Metro Area, the "speedcops" were actually "Traffic Inspectors" employed by the local Shire Council.
Most of their pursuits were done with motorbikes, but later, into the '70s, you might get pulled over by a Monaro GTS, a Falcon GTHO, or a Valiant E49 Charger.
The councils gradually gave up traffic enforcement to the police.

When I went to the UK in 1971, in Hampshire, where I spent most of my time, the cops used Ford escorts for the "runabout duties", but from memory, Jaguars, Volvos & Range Rovers for pursuit work.
British police forces were not very integrated when it came to equipment back then, and at least one force used Mark 5 Ford Zodiacs, as well as mixtures of those types already mentioned.

I saw a Morris Minor 1000 "Panda car" in London,-----much as I like the old "Morrie" I would rather be behind the wheel of the 105E at pursuit speeds.
We had a Ford 100E, which was a nice little car, with obsolete mechanicals, & driving it on Motorways with Jaguars & the like tailgating you was a little alarming,to say the least!

On a re-visit in 1974, I saw a big Chev with Dutch plates "hooning" down the Motorway, with a couple of Ford Granadas snapping at his heels.
He seemed to just be ignoring them!
They soon disappeared in the distance  only for me to come upon the Chev pulled over by a couple of Range Rovers a few miles on.

As james_s says, " You can't outrun the radio".

[G7PSK]

My first car was a 1962 Ford Anglia 105E, absolute rust heap that had been botched up with newspaper and bondo/filler when I bought in the early 70's for £15-00 Sold it a year later for £50-00 having fixed the sills with concrete and wire mesh.

That's funny!! You do what you had to do back then !! 
Your car reminded me of the 'Police' car, used in the "Heartbeat" TV series, set in the 60's in the Yorkshire
region in the UK. Imagine that car in the USA today, trying to get someone to pull over !! 

The village bobby had one as well when I was young, but prefered a push bike the reason he said was that he could see over hedges and other obstacles better and traveling slower was able to see more and better anyway. Apparently when the radio was keyed to transmit the car dropped ten miles an hour due to the load on the dynamo that supplied the radio. They were not fast in the first place mine only got 65 eventually.

[GlennSprigg]

At least they weren't as bad as the old English 'Reliant', with 3 wheels !! 
I liked it when "Mr. Bean" used to always cause one of those to roll over!!!
I actually saw one on a Freeway in England 10 years ago when visiting.
Evidently, someone with a MotorCycle license only, was allowed to 'drive' them?? 

[vk6zgo]

At least they weren't as bad as the old English 'Reliant', with 3 wheels !! 
I liked it when "Mr. Bean" used to always cause one of those to roll over!!!
I actually saw one on a Freeway in England 10 years ago when visiting.
Evidently, someone with a MotorCycle license only, was allowed to 'drive' them?? 

There were quite a few in "SOTON"------one I saw was covered with floral wallpaper.

[nali]

Reliant used to have a nifty version of their 3-wheeler called the Bond Bug, my mate had one when we were teenagers. Fun, but scary cornering!

[vk6zgo]

Reliant used to have a nifty version of their 3-wheeler called the Bond Bug, my mate had one when we were teenagers. Fun, bus scary cornering!

I saw one of those sitting on the side of the road with a bloody great crack from side to side in that bottom "tub" section.
I'm not sure what the owner intended to do with it----maybe buy an after market fibre glass repair kit.
From memory, British motorists were pretty "laid back" in the '70s

[boffin]

When I went to the UK in 1971, in Hampshire, where I spent most of my time, the cops used Ford escorts for the "runabout duties", but from memory, Jaguars, Volvos & Range Rovers for pursuit work.
British police forces were not very integrated when it came to equipment back then, and at least one force used Mark 5 Ford Zodiacs, as well as mixtures of those types already mentioned.

The Hampshire constabulary used the same logic with motorcycles too.  There was one cop with a BMW, but the rest all rode CB200s

As for cars, it was Escorts in town, and Rover 3500s on the M3/M27 wasn't it?  but mostly Escorts, and if they needed to haul people away they called for a (made in Eastleigh) Transit.

[nctnico]

The Dutch state police used to have Porsches 

[vk6zgo]

When I went to the UK in 1971, in Hampshire, where I spent most of my time, the cops used Ford escorts for the "runabout duties", but from memory, Jaguars, Volvos & Range Rovers for pursuit work.
British police forces were not very integrated when it came to equipment back then, and at least one force used Mark 5 Ford Zodiacs, as well as mixtures of those types already mentioned.

The Hampshire constabulary used the same logic with motorcycles too.  There was one cop with a BMW, but the rest all rode CB200s

As for cars, it was Escorts in town, and Rover 3500s on the M3/M27 wasn't it?  but mostly Escorts, and if they needed to haul people away they called for a (made in Eastleigh) Transit.

Yeah, I forgot about the Rover 3500s.

And weren't Transits godawful things?

Ford Australia thought it would be a great idea to drop an Aussie Falcon six & 3 speed box into them, but didn't change the rear end ratio.
It probably had enough torque to pull a small tree down, but cruising above about 80kmh(50 mph), the poor old six was screaming all the time.
Not nice if you had to do long country trips for work!
We normally used Toyota Hi-Aces, which by contrast, were quiet & pleasant to drive, but on one occasion we got this "thing" as a "loaner" from the motor section.

Ford did the same trick with TD Cortinas, with less nasty results, but they seemed to be less zippy in performance than the normal 2 litre.

Holden did something similar with the Vauxhall Viva, but did it properly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Torana#LC

[BFX]

Not a first car but first new car (all my other was company, car rental or secondhand).
Arrived today 1.8, hybrid, Style and Tech packet
It's different here in Europe. I must say it's a great car

Previous one was WV Passat B5 1.8T sedan but secondhand.
But it's is excellent car only rust and common old car problems forced me to buy new car (20 years old) 

 

[vk6zgo]

The Dutch state police used to have Porsches 

Sweet!
The London Metropolitan Police had these things back in the 1960s:-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/classic/daimler-sp250-dart-60-unlikely-police-car-ever/

The cops used to have style!

[timmy88]

[ Specified attachment is not available ]My first car ever was a 1996 Ford Escort 4 Dr LX Hatchback and it was the best car for me and I miss this car too much. I sold it back in 2007 and bought a new Focus. To be honest, I would like to find my first car and to restore it. Maybe I will be able to give this car a couple of years of life. It is really a good car, and I was looking for it on the internet. I found one, that looks like my first car, and I want to buy it, but the problem is that the car is on the other side of the country. Well, a friend of mine helped me with that and told me that I can have a good shipping service that will transport my car across the country in a short time for a very good price. The service I have to use is shipaa.com/ and the prices are really good, more than that they have a lot of great offers for the car transportation.

[helius]

My other CAR is a CDR...

[Jester]

Early 70’s Ford Maverick, ex race car, I had a lot of fun in that car, looked a bit like this one, except it was Yellow with black stripe and the old school pro-stock style hood scoop.

[gorge441]

My first car was the Toyota Carina 2000 model .

[GlennSprigg]

My first car was the Toyota Carina 2000 model .

Never heard of that one. Must be a European release only!!  Looks quite modern to me!!!   
Toyota made components to last, and always had great lasting dashboards etc...

[Mechatrommer]

my first car maybe now melted as a steel block. or maybe disintegrated to many other cars or machineries i dont know. so there's nothing to show anymore really. ps: i'm not the one who responsible to get it sold to scrap junk yard after total loss incident, it was passed to my brother much earlier. and that car was a gift from my mother during my first day of work. before that i had a faithfull 2 wheels vehicles that i cycled everyday in college bought used with my scholarship money.

[GlennSprigg]

my first car maybe now melted as a steel block. or maybe disintegrated to many other cars or machineries i dont know. so there's nothing to show anymore really. ps: i'm not the one who responsible to get it sold to scrap junk yard after total loss incident, it was passed to my brother much earlier. and that car was a gift from my mother during my first day of work. before that i had a faithfull 2 wheels vehicles that i cycled everyday in college bought used with my scholarship money.

Yep...  Cars are 'fickle'. I've often wondered where the cars I originally had are today!!  I would like to think that SOMEONE has lovingly restored it, but I have to admit that it is probably a pile of rust in an old lost junk yard, or repurposed as 1000 baked-beans tins!! 

[rvalente]

My firts one was a 99 Peugeot 306, what a lovely car, simple and fun, was very similar to this one:



Now, peugeot 307

Next? Probably a 308 THP or a DS3, i can't help myself, love the french hot hatches.

[tautech]

A '60's something English import MK1 Cortina wagon with some oddball size original motor, 1340cc IIRC. Didn't like my lead foot and dropped a piston but was rebuilt with just a hone and a set of good 2nd hand ones from a mate in the trade....we were all poor in our teens. Later low speed crashed it and wrecked the front some and radiator.
A week of spare time in the workshop with the gas set and wire strainers pulled most of it out reasonably straight.....well good enough that a big pot of bog fixed the rest. 

MK3 Cortina 1600 OHV was next that quickly got a set of 185 tires and a fair hammering for the time I had it. A mate that worked with me had the facelift model 1600 OHC and the edge he had on me in power was nothing when it came to cornering such that the winner of almost daily races was the one that got away first. 
Was quite a good car that cost me bugger all.

A MK3 2000 OHC just a few years old was next.......had some money by then.......and had that one until I married at 23 when her and I got our first car together. Some ways sad to see that 2L go. 

MK2 Escort Sport coupe 1600 OHV English import. My last Ford ever ! This one went real well and we had lots of fun with it including a belated 5 week honeymoon 6000km trip from Auckland all the way around NZ's South Island where we averaged 38mpg which was pretty good for a twin throat carbed and extractor OHV motor in those days.
Never mind the couple of tune ups every 3000km to keep it going sweet. 
If only Ford had put a 5th gear in the bloody thing I might still have it instead of the next mistake.....

A new Suzuki SJ413 hardtop......a sluggish dog, the less said the better. 
Quit it before our first kiddy hatched.

Holdens, a couple first a VK 3.3L (202 Black motor) Commodore wagon, highly practical as by then we had 3 kids in tow ! Had for a lot of years until it even became my Ag contracting work hack.
Later a new Commodore VX11 3.8L V6 sedan that we still have even though the bitch cracked a head @ 225km. 
Other than a week in dry dock for a head job it too has been a good car that's fast approaching 20 years old ! 

Oh, and there's also been a much modified S3 Landy with a 186 Holden motor, aftermarket overdrive and Rover car 4.3:1 diff heads to make it reasonably economical for the tripping done hunting and fishing when the kids were small.
Latest hackabout is a Toymota Surf 3L TD that is miserly enough on diesel that I might keep it for a while yet.

Don't they say if it has wheels, tits or floats it's gunna cost you money !
Grabs hat and leaves...................

[pardo-bsso]

 I found some old pictures of my first own car.

This is the day I brought it home:







And this is when I had to sell it:

[GlennSprigg]

A '60's something English import MK1 Cortina wagon with some oddball size original motor, 1340cc IIRC. Didn't like my lead foot and dropped a piston but was rebuilt with just a hone and a set of good 2nd hand ones from a mate in the trade....we were all poor in our teens. Later low speed crashed it and wrecked the front some and radiator.
A week of spare time in the workshop with the gas set and wire strainers pulled most of it out reasonably straight.....well good enough that a big pot of bog fixed the rest. 

MK3 Cortina 1600 OHV was next that quickly got a set of 185 tires and a fair hammering for the time I had it. A mate that worked with me had the facelift model 1600 OHC and the edge he had on me in power was nothing when it came to cornering such that the winner of almost daily races was the one that got away first. 
Was quite a good car that cost me bugger all.

A MK3 2000 OHC just a few years old was next.......had some money by then.......and had that one until I married at 23 when her and I got our first car together. Some ways sad to see that 2L go. 

MK2 Escort Sport coupe 1600 OHV English import. My last Ford ever ! This one went real well and we had lots of fun with it including a belated 5 week honeymoon 6000km trip from Auckland all the way around NZ's South Island where we averaged 38mpg which was pretty good for a twin throat carbed and extractor OHV motor in those days.
Never mind the couple of tune ups every 3000km to keep it going sweet. 
If only Ford had put a 5th gear in the bloody thing I might still have it instead of the next mistake.....

A new Suzuki SJ413 hardtop......a sluggish dog, the less said the better. 
Quit it before our first kiddy hatched.

Holdens, a couple first a VK 3.3L (202 Black motor) Commodore wagon, highly practical as by then we had 3 kids in tow ! Had for a lot of years until it even became my Ag contracting work hack.
Later a new Commodore VX11 3.8L V6 sedan that we still have even though the bitch cracked a head @ 225km. 
Other than a week in dry dock for a head job it too has been a good car that's fast approaching 20 years old ! 

Oh, and there's also been a much modified S3 Landy with a 186 Holden motor, aftermarket overdrive and Rover car 4.3:1 diff heads to make it reasonably economical for the tripping done hunting and fishing when the kids were small.
Latest hackabout is a Toymota Surf 3L TD that is miserly enough on diesel that I might keep it for a while yet.

Don't they say if it has wheels, tits or floats it's gunna cost you money !
Grabs hat and leaves...................

"Caught hat & brought it back!! hahaha...
Obviously you showed pride in what you owned/remember !! 

[GlennSprigg]

I found some old pictures of my first own car.

This is the day I brought it home:







And this is when I had to sell it:

Wow!!  I think with the now squashed in sides, you could now more easily fit down
those typically narrow old European streets!!!   

[pardo-bsso]

Wow!!  I think with the now squashed in sides, you could now more easily fit down
those typically narrow old European streets!!!   

First I'd have to ship it across the sea, that would be a nice way of spending the quarantine.

That crash was really fun, I made a couple of spins and then the car ended up in the sidewalk.If I had some expendable money I'd totally repeat it.

[GlennSprigg]

Wow!!  I think with the now squashed in sides, you could now more easily fit down
those typically narrow old European streets!!!   

First I'd have to ship it across the sea, that would be a nice way of spending the quarantine.

That crash was really fun, I made a couple of spins and then the car ended up in the sidewalk.If I had some expendable money I'd totally repeat it.

OOPS!... Sorry mate... 
I didn't notice at first that you are from Argentina!!    Hope the cat on the roof survived! (Joking).
Re: My 'European' reference though, I couldn't imagine the old gigantic 60's+ American 'Yank-Tanks' (affectionately joking!) squeezing their way around some of those ancient villages originally designed for Donkey Carts!, & buildings packed like sardines in a tin!, although I had one once here in Australia, just for fun. The 'missus' would have had NO SHOW reverse parking THAT!