Your First car

[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