Your First car

[cully]

this should be an interesting thread!
answer the 4 questions


when you passed your car test?
what was your first car?
price you paid?
what you paid for insurance?


car test in 1988
first car 1000cc 1974 Mini Clubman estate
paid £200 borrowed the money from Dad
paid £250 Third party insurance only

picture taken from google as i cant find a picture of mine
   

[toseland]

i am surprised there were cars that long ago cully


Passed test: 2nd sept 2002
First car: Mk2 ford fiesta 1.1
Paid: £800, one owner, mint condition so a little more pricey cause there was absolutely no rust.
Insurance: £500 per year with parents as named drivers (I was still main driver though) TPFT

second car: Skoda Favorit GLXie 1.3i (polo engine), paid £300, sold for £350 after ragging the hell out of it EVERYWHERE
insurance, don't remember but it was dirt cheap as it wasn't a "boy racers car" so to speak, even though it was mental to drive, quick and handled really well considering its reputation

Third car: Mk3 GSi astra,
paid £too much
insurance £earthshatteringly high, more than the car

Sold it to a collector due to it needing more work than I could do myself (welding of arches), think its still going around White one.

[Dazecoop]

Passed test; late 2002/2003
First car: below
Price: around £400 ish I think.
Insurance: Honestly can't remember!

First car, the only photo I have, back in late 2002 I think! 998, crashed it a few days after passing my test. Standard  


Second car, 1275 Cooper SPI. I had many problems, cost me a fortune, sold about 6-8 months later


Third car, 205 GTI on bodies. I'll stop here. As you can see, things started to go downhill...    

[Toms306]

Driving test - 2009
First car - 1997 306, ph2 1.4 Miami in Diablo
Car price - £1200 (yes, more than any HDi or GTi6 I've bought since lol)
Insurance price - £1300, starting on provisional.





Only mod I made was cyclones, £130 for the set from Silky on here! The arch gap was interesting lol.

[1616six]

when you passed your car test? 1st June 2009
what was your first car? First car owned was a 1.3 Escort but it was given to me. First car I pruchased was a chavved up Peugeot 106 1.1 Independence, first car on the road was a 1.1 Citroen AX
price you paid? £800 for the 106, £120 for the AX
what you paid for insurance? £1100 on the AX

[toseland]

Why jj... god I need some eye bleach for that 106!

[1616six]

At the time it was awesome. Trust me.

[toseland]

beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I drove that skoda around for ages lol

[thododd]

August 06
1.1mpi Saxo for ~£700
~£350 insurance back when 'fronting' wasnt an issue

Did 35k in the saxo in 18months, then lost my license for 4months and popped the HG almost immediately after i was back on the road. Did a HG swap and have been spannering ever since

[puggered]

First and Second (google image as I haven't any of mine anymore)


1971 Honda coupe 9 s and then a turbo version of the same model.
Could leave a 911 for dead in the first 3 gears and do 115mph in 3rd @ 9500rpm.
Just didn't go round corners to well.

Passed my test in 1980
Paid $300 which was about £120 at the time.
What Insurance?

[zx_volcane]

when you passed your car test? - Around 2001

what was your first car? - Peugeot 205 1.1 aka 'the dream machine'

price you paid? - was on permanent loan on a 'roll or return' basis

what you paid for insurance? - was lucky enough to be on a motor trade insurance, when i got my own a few years later it was in the region of 1.3k for a 306 1.6 8v iirc

[Magenta Sunset]

1st car; mk1 1.3 astra estate (worst heap of - - - I ever paid money for)
paid about £500, then the same again for a recon engine
passed test; sometime in '82
insurance for it; not sure, think it was sub £200 tpft inc cover my then 'other 1/2'

[Ruan]

Can't find any photos of it, but I used to drive a Micra 1.3GX - I thought that thing was fooking rapid, which to be fair, 78hp in something that weighed as much as a crisp packet, it went OK... I distinctly remember leaving Fooby in his GTi6 down a road I knew well LOL! I then found out about removing the air filter, which made it sound f*cking amazing - I thought I was the f*cking don.

My own first car was my black ph2 306 DTurbo - paid £1150 and it was in reality a f*cking shed - but my god did I love it.

[thododd]

I distinctly remember leaving Fooby in his GTi6 down a road I knew well LOL

If you can peddle hard, you can surprise anyone!!

[Matt]

Passed in 2007
First car was a 5door 306 dturbo with a mongoose straight pipe cat back
Momo flat wheel
Wolf race 17" alloys and a custom purple/flip paint job

I was the dogs bollocks turning up at sixth form obviously

[bigcheez2k3]

Passed my test 30th April 2009 so 7 years tomorrow!
First car was a 106 1.5D Zest 3
£350 but needed an exhaust and brakes doing
Think insurance was around £700 while on provisional then shot up to double that once I passed. I may or may not have been the main driver

[ozonehostile]

Passed in 2010 

Technically my first car I had legally on the road was a ph1 306 nad but it literally lasted 20 miles on the way home  before it threw a rod returned to the seller who was nice enough to give my money back 

My first car that lasted more than a day was a Peugeot 405 turboD estate in cherry red, paid £500 for it off an old chap who only used it to tow his motorbikes around.  Genuinely one of the tidiest I've seen until I put it through a metal fence about a year later

Insurance was about £1500 iirc but that was worth it with how useful it was having a huge estate car when all my mates had 106s and that type of thing lol

[Poodle]

Ruan, that doesn't count for anything, i can still leave fooby in the nad.

Passed test: July 2010
First car: P-reg Renault Scenic, which was quickly foisted onto the mother in law and i bought a 306 HDi
Price: Was given the scenic by my grandma lol, 306 was £1,150
Insurance: About a £1200 iirc, although i'd already got two accidents on my record by that point.

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First and Second (google image as I haven't any of mine anymore)


1971 Honda coupe 9 s and then a turbo version of the same model.
Could leave a 911 for dead in the first 3 gears and do 115mph in 3rd @ 9500rpm.
Just didn't go round corners to well.

Passed my test in 1980
Paid $300 which was about £120 at the time.
What Insurance?

That is cool as f*ck!

[bashbarnard]

First car 998 mini mayfair, never made the road. Passed test in 2007.
Then sold the mini due to lack or mechanical skill and bought a mk1 clio. Which i promtly crashed a lot. Into various things. And drive it through a river.

Paid about 1100 insurance.

[Niall]

when you passed your car test? November 2008, 2nd time around
what was your first car? Officially it was a mk2 Fiesta ghia but it never went on the road under my ownership due to chronic rust. First car i had on the road was a L reg 106 Key largo 1.0L lol
price you paid? £250. The Fiesta was free from my next door neighbour
what you paid for insurance? £2100

[procta]

when you passed your car test? 2004
what was your first car? Rover metro Rio
price you paid? £180 bought in 2003.
what you paid for insurance? on mums insurance for 1200, then £1700 tpft on my own, so got shot for the 306 phase 1 which was cheaper fully comp!


That was one solid car for £180! and it was on the road with in 48 hrs! Only needed a window screen and tax! ( mum and dad paid the tax for a surprise!)
my granddad used to call it a little banger haha, The day after I passed my test, we went to see my grand parents, my granddad said, if he has brought that car down on his own, I will kill him! he isnt qualified yet!! His response was, when I passed, ah well that's ok then!
I still remember my 1st ever drive with her, and the 1st ever drive on own. Also the 1st song on its radio too! my mum put a tape in the radio to see if it worked, and it did!
here is the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhF-wRjrycA

[Danny Wideboy]

Passed test at 23 in 2006.
First car was a classic mini from 197? That I kept on a farm for fun in 1997.
First road car was a mk1 G*lf 1.1 that never saw the road with me, was sold and replaced with a 96 1.1 106.
I payed £300 and had to change the engine a month later due to a newbie fluid error.
Insurance I believe was about £350 but I had a man on the inside when independent brokers were everywhere.

[306carter]

Passed test June 2006

First car 106 Inca 1.0 Paid £200

Insurance was £1200

After a few subtle mods...  

[Danny Wideboy]

Nice^

[chylledapps]

Passed test 1990
Morris Marina (TOL 677S)
Free from me Grandad
1st insurance £350 3rd party

Blew the head gasket 3 times and crashed it 3 days after passing test

Followed it up with an 86 Skoda rapide which also ate head gaskets, I was quite an expert back in the day

[Piggy]

Test passed: March 2005
First car: Fiesta 1.6 16v Si, quite rare, 90bhp. Bunch of mods
Paid some monies in total of £800
Insurance £1200

Will find a pic laters...if anyone is bothered

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(had a few cars before this, from a free nissan sunny 1.4 to a very early boxy micra for a tenner)

[Orta]

Test passed: May 2004
First Car: Ford Escort TD (eventually a GTi replica when I changed wheels and added skirts and rear bumper spats, never got the half leathers tho... Had like £2000 worth of audio equipment in it as well haha, it was cool back then
Paid: it was a W plate so WA so my 4 years old and paid £3500.
Insurance was: £450 (named on my dads policy)

Then had an s plate 306 dturbo-s, with stage 1 (much better)

[Toms306]

Passed test June 2006

First car 106 Inca 1.0 Paid £200

Insurance was £1200

After a few subtle mods...  

That still looks good nowadays tbh! Subtle mods ftw.

[maxaret]

OK I have had a couple of drinks so I will post on this thread
So if anybody else is worried about getting old .......relax

Passed test exactly 45 years ago 29/4/1971
First car - -- was an Austin A40 Cambridge
Price was........................................ £35

Insurance - no idea but it would have been TPFT - as third party was a lot cheaper than fully comp in those days LOL

If you think the car was cheap - I was earning £3.00 a week as an RAF Apprentice 

Austin A40 Cambridge - 1200cc's of pulsating power with a worn out column change and a very handy starting handle LOL
Not my car but same model and colour.

[miles]

2nd oldest one so far, 1987 but bought the Talbot avenger 1.6 GLS in 86 for £500.00 I think as they where not that old back then, Insurance was the same too, Had twin DCOE's and Janspeed system on it before I started to drive it so Sunbeam Ti spec as the GLS used the sport head so around 100bhp,