What was your first car?


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Lets be a bit more patriotic, years ago the british used to fly in wellingtons now anything goes, trainers, flip flops.

When being a kid was much simpler   

Tip for all the Audi gang if you move your seat forward more you could get even closer to my bumper.

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Those car prices look a bit high! Dealer prices though - I couldn't afford them! I used to love the private car ads in the EP - especially on Friday nights! I bought my motorcycle and four of my first five cars through those ads: Triumph 500, Austin A35, MGB, Austin 1800, MGB

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A 1969 SWB IIA Land Rover, I brought it off a farmer I knew in Langar in 1975, he wanted to get rid of it quickley, we were in the Unicorns Head pub and I made an offer jokingly saying £40 and he accepted it, and when I went into the army I sold the Land Rover for £180. £140 profit it was the first and last time, I have made a profit when selling a car.......

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RGR that picture of the Ford Squire brings back happy memories. Mine was 998 AAL. I got tired of the wiper antics after a few months and changed it for an Anglia (raked back window type) 2146 UB, which I eventually wrote off in a rather nasty accident turning right into the A52 at Thoresby Road, Bramcote - before they put traffic lights there.

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5-10-2012_030-1.jpg?t=1353811458A Ford Squire is replete with "Shooting Brake" style woodwork with a split horizontal tailgate.Newark Nottm 1998.

That car has a Caithness registration plate!

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11-25-2012_002.jpg?t=1353889285Stephen always thought the Squire was a classy ride,this is old photo showing how we use to put the wood grain on Chevy wagons back in 1983.Two bathtubs at each side of the line to dip the vinyl wood grain in and then apply to the side of the wagon.
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Mine was a 1968 Morris Minor Traveller that started its life as one of the fleet vehicles of one of the TV dealers and service engineers in the City. It was bought by their mechanic as his personal car who sold it to me in 1974 for £350. It had 79000 on the clock and I ran it for three years and traded it in with 109000 miles for a Vauxhall Viva Estate - not one of my better decisions!

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A fascinating video of what traffic was like back in the 60s - thanks Cliff Ton.

But apart from the volume and style of traffic on the roads, little else has changed.

At the 8 second mark, watch the grey car in front on the right hand side have to swerve back quickly on to the correct side of the road in order to miss a head on with the oncoming red car...close!

A short time later, let's disregard the central road markings re no overtaking.

Then we have the loser in the outside lane who does not like moving over and when he does, gives the universal salute a few times for good measure.

The we have the universal moron and his mate in the little red car (Triumph Herald?) who must pass our car any way possible, including on a left hand bend against the direction of the central road markings.

The same little red car then meanders from side to side while the driver points out road side features to his passenger and then it pulls in to the left, graciously waving our driver on.

A little later on, back comes the red car with a vengeance, overtakes and then immediately cuts in between our car and the slow moving truck directly in front and then....within a few metres, pulls into the truck stop at the top of the hill.

No, nothing much has changed has it?

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I didn't have my own car in Nottingham but I had the use of a friend's minivan for a while. When I moved away from Nottingham I had a lovely little red Mini that I drove for several years until the floor gave way, in the end it was like driving a dodgem cos it didn't have a floor!!

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First car when I passed my test in 1975 was a 1960 Anglia 105E bought for £50 from my uncle. 3rd party only insurance cost me £80!

Luckily, it had the optional extra heater fitted so wasn't too bad in winter, apart for the footwell filling up with water when it rained/snowed and my having to put a paving slab in the boot.

Ran it for eighteen months, including a holiday to the Scottish highlands, during which the windscreen wipers stopped working. The drive back down a rain-swept M6 was, err, interesting. As was the time it's electrics packed up late one night as I was driving down the Fosse to Leicester.

Flogged it for what I paid for it, although at the time I had no idea that number plates were valuable in their own right. Otherwise, I would have held on to its registration 32 HRR, and not let someone else make the two grand it later went for. :(

The replacement Mk1 Escort i bought was by far the worst buy of any car I've subsequently owned.

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It was interesting to see the bus conductor in Cliff's video, signalling that the bus would be turning right?

Was that standard procedure?

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A fascinating video of what traffic was like back in the 60s - thanks Cliff Ton.

I'd forgot I ever posted that, nice to be reminded.

Looking again, one thing struck me which is very different to today - the almost total lack of white paint on the roads. Drive anywhere now and you are surrounded by lines, arrows, hatching, grids, and all kinds of instructions on the road; but back then the roads look strangely bare.

And for those who believe that everything in the past was better than it is today, it's nice to see there were idiots and morons on the roads then; they aren't a new phenomena at all.

we have the universal moron and his mate in the little red car (Triumph Herald?) who must pass our car any way possible, including on a left hand bend against the direction of the central road markings.

That little episode demonstrates that at least some parts of the video were set up and arranged, it's not a candid camera view of the world. One minute we are seeing the Triumph Herald in the rear view mirror - then we see a view of the whole scene from behind the action. That means a second camera, or shooting the whole thing again from another angle. So it's all a bit false.

It was interesting to see the bus conductor in Cliff's video, signalling that the bus would be turning right?

Was that standard procedure?

I seem to remember seeing that occasionally, but presumably the conductor couldn't always be in the right place at the right time for every corner. He was probably just a bit bored.

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:biggrin: My very first car was an MG Magnette: Solid, Silver and Old, boy did it have some tales to tell ................................... never let me down; that is why today I still drive an old car.

Faithful and Loyal Forever that's me, to something that gives me Good Service; a Partnership.

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Wow am impressed , an MG Magnette was my dream car ! They were always more than I could afford .

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:biggrin: Hi DavidW, bought the car from a friend for the grand price of £100 - this was back in the 70's. Always wished I'd kept - my cars become my best friends. The MG went to an avid collector in Wales; here's hoping she's still gracing the lanes ................. :cheers:

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