Your First car

[Frosty]

Passed car test March 2009
First car phase 1 sigma dturbo
Bought for £200 but i had to do the head gasket on it
Insurance £1700

Only pic i got and this was after i 'pimped it up'. Oh i did think it was pretty cool back then.

[Nexus]

Passed around Feb 2004
1980 Leyland Clubman Saloon 1.0 Automatic
£550 from Ebay, delivered on a flatbed and never actually saw it prior to buying.
£1000'ish Insurance

   

The thing was a bit of a wreck but I loved it nonetheless. 50mph at a stretch! Cooling leak, speedo cable snapped, alternator went, tiny oil sump leak. Then the drivers floor rusted through. I did have one occasion of people shouting 'Mr. Bean, Mr. Bean!' at me.

Stuck it back on ebay and it went for £450 to some guys who apparently stripped it out and made it in to a grass track car. If I knew half as much about cars as I do nowadays I would never have gotten rid of it. C'est la vie!

[cpikey316_]

1996 XRDT, bought it for £800 in 2006. Should have kept it for my (to be ) mrs but sold it instead when I bought my 2nd 306!

[Matt-Rallye]

Passed test: 2008
First car: Mk1 Clio 1.8 16v 'Valver' (williams replica)
Price paid: £500 (Add another £1400 for mods)
Insurance: £Worth every f*cking penny for dat induction roar y0!

When i bought it:



Came with huuuge Allesio 17" alloys, slammed on its arse and a 5" slash cut exhaust

Transformed into this:





Kent Rn1501 cams, mongoose decat exhaust system with williams tubular manifold, GrpA skuttle induction setup and lowered on AVO coilies front with rear torsion dropped to match with avo shocks.

Really really wish i had never sold it.

[thododd]

Thats a serious first car!! Id love an RSi (valver) now!! That F7 is a peach, i loved the lump in the RTi laguna i had for a while. A lot of renaults have been butchered for volvo 340s in the last few years

[Matt-Rallye]

Thats a serious first car!! Id love an RSi (valver) now!! That F7 is a peach, i loved the lump in the RTi laguna i had for a while. A lot of renaults have been butchered for volvo 340s in the last few years

The RSi is an 1.8 8v developing 110bhp the 16v was a different motor altogether with the wider arches front and rear, different bumpers and of course the vented bonnet!

I had a naples red RSi as a runabout a few years ago, lovely solid motor!

F7p is the 1.8 16v and F7r is the 2.0 16v. Volvo 340 with an F7R on bike carbs makes a cool bit of funky retro power RWD

My Rsi: basically just an 1800 RT with sideskirts and rear discs





Few of my other old Valvers:













The last tungsten grey one has since had a full OEM nut and bolt restoration by the current owner and is now almost certainly the cleanest one in the UK

[Blaze Addict]

Passed: November 1999

First car*: 1993 K reg Renault 5 Campus Prima so basic it didn't have a clock or rear wash wipe

Price paid: £1995

Insurance: £349 (I even have the original cover note in my old files)

* In name my first 4 cars were my mums on the logbook for insurance purposes (back when you could get away with that) so as far as the DVLA are concerned my actual first car I was registered keeper for with insurance in my own name was a 1970 Mk2 Ford Cortina 1600E which sounds way cooler

[306carter]

Passed car test March 2009
First car phase 1 sigma dturbo
Bought for £200 but i had to do the head gasket on it
Insurance £1700

Only pic i got and this was after i 'pimped it up'. Oh i did think it was pretty cool back then.

What happened to this car? I would put money on me taking the wheels off it in a scrap yard in Leeds?



Edit - Dates don't add up. But the wheels came off a sigma DT with colour coded bumpers. And M3 mirrors!!!

[thododd]

An F7 v340 is cool .... for all of about 5 minutes until they eat their prop. Better off with a 360 and a volvo redblock

What where the F7P clios badged as? Just '16v'? I know the engines better than i know the cars. Though theyre few and far between these days. Bex would love one but im not getting rid of the AX and theres no other room

That tungsten one would look awesome on some turbines, never been keen on the daisies.

[Adam CD P1]

Passed my test April 2014.
First came a '96 lwb Pajero 2.8 auto for €350 which was stolen after 7 weeks, it's still going round somewhere too lol.
Then came my Dad's 320d estate which I drove for a long while (still drive occasionally)
Now: Ariana, a '99 318i which I've been driving around since August 2014. I think my insurance was like 1,100 on this fully comp and went up to 1,300 in August just gone cause insurance companies in Ireland load cars over 15 years old.
I've had my '96 306 for just over a year which I bought from a friend quite cheap. About to shell out 1,800 or so on insurance fully comp cause it's "so old"

[procta]

Passed test: 2008
First car: Mk1 Clio 1.8 16v 'Valver' (williams replica)
Price paid: £500 (Add another £1400 for mods)
Insurance: £Worth every f*cking penny for dat induction roar y0!

When i bought it:



Came with huuuge Allesio 17" alloys, slammed on its arse and a 5" slash cut exhaust

Transformed into this:





Kent Rn1501 cams, mongoose decat exhaust system with williams tubular manifold, GrpA skuttle induction setup and lowered on AVO coilies front with rear torsion dropped to match with avo shocks.

Really really wish i had never sold it.

I bet that was a fun piece of kit!

[RetroPug]

I'd absolutely love a mk1 valver

[Redordead89]

Pre licence- H plate Ax GT, post licence- dark grey 306 1.4 xl, this needed a new engine when I bought it so got a donor engine from a saxo!

[Frosty]

Passed car test March 2009
First car phase 1 sigma dturbo
Bought for £200 but i had to do the head gasket on it
Insurance £1700

Only pic i got and this was after i 'pimped it up'. Oh i did think it was pretty cool back then.

What happened to this car? I would put money on me taking the wheels off it in a scrap yard in Leeds?



Edit - Dates don't add up. But the wheels came off a sigma DT with colour coded bumpers. And M3 mirrors!!!

I put it through a hedge and had to scrap it

[maxaret]

Just to add a little about my first car !

It was a 1956 A40 Cambridge with a 1200cc 'B' series engine and therefore fairly underpowered for a heavy car.
It was one of the first production Austins with a 'monocoque' construction - the previous A40 Somerset had a separate chassis/body.
The column change was very sloppy/worn and you had to 'scrape' the steering wheel with the gear lever to get 1st or 2nd,it had Drum brakes all round,the fronts were hydraulic but the rears were mechanically actuated by rods from under the pedal assembly  LOL.
It had a dynamo to 'charge' the battery but it was always flat - which is why the Starting Handle was useful .
Of course it had a manual choke - the choke control had no inbuilt friction so would not stay 'out' - it was quite normal in those days to carry an old fashioned wooden clothes peg to place over the choke rod to prevent it springing back in.

The Ford cars of the time had a much better design of column change which stayed 'tauter' but the gear 'pattern' was t'other way round with 1st gear selected away from the steering wheel.

When I was an apprentice (RAF Halton,Bucks) my family lived in Peterborough and the first time I drove the car home I went onto the M1 just to say I had been on a Mway (the Mway network was much smaller then) - and when I was thrashing north at probably 50mph I saw a 'Van' in my rearview going like the clappers - he shot past me doing an estimated 90mph and it was my first (fleeting) glimpse of a Range Rover (or it may have even been a pre production 'Velar')

The only good thing about the Cambridge was that it had electric wipers - a few of my mates had Ford cars with vacuum operated wipers - so if you took your foot off the throttle they almost flew off the windscreen   but when you were going flat out they would almost stop  .

[Redordead89]

Wow fook that matey!

[Matt-Rallye]

An F7 v340 is cool .... for all of about 5 minutes until they eat their prop. Better off with a 360 and a volvo redblock

What where the F7P clios badged as? Just '16v'? I know the engines better than i know the cars. Though theyre few and far between these days. Bex would love one but im not getting rid of the AX and theres no other room

That tungsten one would look awesome on some turbines, never been keen on the daisies.

Correct sir, the Valver was badged and marketed solely as the 'Clio 16v' (as it was the only production 16v clio at the time!) I want another so badly now after looking through all my photos!

But i do forget some of the bad bits, for example the standard ph2 clio immobiliser! having to blip the key before being able to start the car ate through key batteries and left me stranded on more than one occasion Also the gearbox / diff assembly was always its achilles heel! I blew 2nd gear out of the diff casing on the tungy one in the process of enthusiastically exiting a roundabout in hot pursuit of a corsa VXR

Also on another occasion (again in the 'tungy') i was waiting patiently in traffic, unbeknown to me at the time the exhaust manifold heat shield on the bulkhead had fallen off, the heat from the manifold melted and seized solid the throttle cable and the bonnet release cable luckily the bonnet opens the 'wrong' way on a mk1 clio and was fairly easy to force open and then set the idle too 4k and drive it home from swansea!

Worth every second i spent under the bonnet though! Induction roar on them dwarfs a gti6 and standard for standard the car itself is 10x better than a gti6.

I bet that was a fun piece of kit!

Indeed it was!

I'd absolutely love a mk1 valver

Buy one now... they are rapidly appreciating! so much so i have often considered selling my rallye to fund a garage queen one.

[Adam CD P1]

Reading through this makes me kinda want a valver

[daniel909]

My first shed
Passed test 2012
Paid £500
1800 for a years insurence 

   

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[ozonehostile]

I've never seen rear lights with eyebrows before, and neither do I want to again

[daniel909]

There bleeddy ugly ahah

[powerandtorque]

Passed my test Feb '98

My first car was a company car - a '96 Xantia 1.9 TD - so insurance (and fuel) cost me £0... a huge perk for an 17 year old!

Proceeded to do 30k miles in 9 months without incident in that, before it was replaced by a shiny new '99 Ford Mondeo.

Something has clearly gone very wrong since then, as here I am 17 year later and I've only ever owned two cars newer than what I was driving as an 18 year old...

[Toms306]

Something has clearly gone very wrong since then, as here I am 17 year later and I've only ever owned two cars newer than what I was driving as an 18 year old...

My 306s have been getting older and older since the 2nd one. Few years time I'll be in a phase 1 by that logic!

2010 I owned a Y plate 1.4 (9 years old, worst one I ever bought!)
2011 I owned an X plate 1.4/1.8
2012 I owned a W plate HDi
2014 I owned a V plate HDi/GTi6
2016 I own a T plate GTi6

[bigcheez2k3]

At 17/18 I had a 98 106, I'm now on a 99 306 at 25 so I'm kinda the same.

[insomaniac45]

ok, so i passed my test in 2003

1st car was a Vauxhall Nova, (all the rage back then)

was given to me.

insurance was about £1300 with my mum on it.......






(generic pic of the actual car, in the actual color, although this one was not mine, but the one i had, was identical)

I forgot to mention who gave it to me.......







MY NAN!!!!!!

From that, i want to a 1.8 cavalier, which was worse than the nova as it was shot...
then a 1.4 fiesta which i sold,
then i killed the nova as i gave it to my mum,
from there i had a 1.6 sri almeara, which i scrapped,
1.6 efi ford Orion, this was my baby, and regret ever selling it. Full Kent fast road head inc cams, 2" straight through exhaust with twin silencer custom built by me , induction kit, uprated injectors, (not sure on that spec, but they came out of my brothers XR2i which was modded to hell and back) , lowered, drilled and vented disks, greens tiff pads, pepper pot alloys, de-locked, eye browed, all in all about 160bhp (110 as standard)

That ran like a freight train and embaressed alot of cars, inc a jag XJR upto 90... you have to love a good engine on a paper weight chassis but i foolishly sold it a while ago


Then i bought a Vauxhall Frontera Sport, and modded that to hell, 2" body lift, 2" suspension lift, turned it into a pickup, bull bar, stripped interior, and snorkel kit. all on 15" alloys with a side wall height of 8"



This was before i finished it, with the bull bars and twin spots, along with the finished paint

Now i have my Cabby alot of fun, yet to decide if it is better than my orion

[Xsikid]

Passed my test November 1991. Morris ital 1.6 was my first car paid £50 for it and £350 insurance from swinton! CBP955W from memory cool sideways fun :-)

[TommiePuglet]

when you passed your car test? 2016

what was your first car? Depends Which One You Count Had A 1.1 Saxo At 16 On The Farm, But My First Car Legally On The Road Was A Hyundai Getz Which I Was Given By My Nan. First Car I Bought Tho Was Honda Civic Sport.

price you paid? Saxo £200 / Getz Free / Civic £2200 -_-

what you paid for insurance? Getz Was 1100 A Year And Civic Was 1200

[gti6man]

Passed test? 2011

First Car: Peugeot 306 1.4 Miami in Diablo red, great little car



Price paid: £500

Insurance cost: £1400

[Uberderv]

Passed 1995.

First car Austin Metro.

   

Cost £900.

 Ins £ 400 odd.

[Alan_M]

Passed test in 2001 (3rd time lucky)
First car was a Pug 205 GTi 1.6 in red, 62k on the clock, really nice example. Someone rear ended it in November that year writing it off. Plenty of its parts live on in other GTis across the land.
Paid £2500 for it.
Insurance was £1200ish TPFT through Adrian Flux if I remember rightly.