Who's had the crappest first car?

[Bob Falfa]

Mine was a Fiat 127 - actually, that was my mother's car. The first one I actually bought myself (and put petrol in) was a 1971 Morris Minor Traveller in trafalgar blue. That might be described as crap, but I did used to fit six student nurses in the back on a regular occurance...ah memories...

Edited by Bob Falfa on Sunday 22 October 16:21

My first car was an E-type - one of the rare plastic bodied ones

Edited by Bob Falfa on Sunday 22 October 16:22

[ELAN+2]

A bright yellow (inca yellow!!) 1978 Morris Marina 1.3 reg ELP48T!!!
absolutely bog standard base model, with vinyl seats

[the beard]

i had a maestro 1.3 hle in brown with a crap brown velour interior!!!!!

[Spearmint]

1.4l 8v Astra Merit.

[wiz 1]

[quote=ELAN+2]A bright yellow (inca yellow!!) 1978 Morris Marina 1.3 reg ELP48T!!!
absolutely bog standard base model, with vinyl seats [/quote]

Had one of those too 1973 in orange

Got an Opel Ascona 1.6 soon after metallic blue coupe with black vinyl roof, that was a great car DRH 911T, should have kept the plate though.

[dfen5]

Austin 1300 GT followed by Avenger 1600 GLS, Austin 1800, Princess 1800 HL

Oh the shame...

[The Hitman]

My first car was a Citroen AX 1.1 Forte and was a very good runner surprisingly. It survived all of my excursions, some of which involved some really nasty dirt-tracks and a little off-roading. Also, the steering was so responsive it was unreal, its a shame the grip wasn't as good

[shadowninja]

Had a Nissan Cherry. The windscreen surround had rusted in parts so when it rained, the water leaked onto my lap. Yes, I looked liked I'd pissed myself.

[Bob Falfa]

dfen5 said:

Austin 1300 GT followed by Avenger 1600 GLS, Austin 1800, Princess 1800 HL

Oh the shame...

Oh my - you just didn't learn, did you! LOL :-)

[ELAN+2]

wiz 1 said:

[quote=ELAN+2]A bright yellow (inca yellow!!) 1978 Morris Marina 1.3 reg ELP48T!!!
absolutely bog standard base model, with vinyl seats

Had one of those too 1973 in orange

Got an Opel Ascona 1.6 soon after metallic blue coupe with black vinyl roof, that was a great car DRH 911T, should have kept the plate though.[/quote]

replaced mine with a poorly ex street machine cover car!! MK2 cortina 1600E, with a V6 in it, black perspex windows, flames and a jack up kit complete with rear fog lamp to illuminate the rear axle!!! car was called "Highway Star" JTM720F. I sold the engine to a bloke and gave him the whole car!!

[percy flage]

1960's Hillman Imp, BPJ627B.

One cylinder had a chip out of it, so the head gasket used to blow every two months or so. One screwdriver, one 7/8" and one 1/2" whit spanner and a trolley jack were pretty much all the tools needed to change the thing. Except for the occasion when the timing chain decided to drop into the sump, which meant I had to call on my mum's antique silver crochet hook to fish the thing out.

Had to carry gallons of water with me on longer journeys, to top up the rad with.

Oh, and a bag of sand under the bonnet to make the steering a bit more predictable.

I loved that car.

[paulrhodes]

Most of those are faaar to cool.

How can you call an imp a crap car...?!!!!

I win, definitely..

At 18 - Brown Y plate OHV 1.0l 3dr Nova that when learning to drive, wegded on a post, caving the n/s door in and then poorly chose a colour that didn't match and resprayed the door..
Here's the bit that means I win.. I decided that it would look better with 15" Gold team dynamics Monza's and a chrome tailpipe tip, rally giants on the front and a very dodgy sub and amp combo that I butchered the original wiring loom to fit.

That car is my stonewash jeans and luminous socks.....

[percy flage]

Paul, the Imp as a car was a great car. Mine was crap.

[ingrowtn]

VW Polo Mk1

Went through 5L of oil for each tank of fuel.

That was when it didn't break down.

[Badbug]

would an Austin Maestro 1.3L be classed as a crap car

if so I win

[DamienCBR]

ingrowtn said:

VW Polo Mk1

Went through 5L of oil for each tank of fuel.

That was when it didn't break down.

I started off with a Polo too, it was a W-reg. A combination of colours including Maroon, grey primer and rust

The battery would go dead everynight so would have to bump it down the drive in the moring to start. You could not open the drivers door from the outside, the passenger window used to fall into the door, speedo did not work, or the dash lights. Of course coat hanger as an ariel and a couple of house speakers in the boot for extra bass.

I remember those days.

[aussie john]

Had a 1955 standard 10, went halves with a mate at £3.50 each to buy it, it oiled the plugs every 40 miles or so, our mates in the back seat cleaned the spare plugs while we drove on, it was a deathtrap with the rust in the floors covered with flattened oil drums pop rivetted over, lots of fond memories, John.

[negative creep]

B246 JMX - a 1.0 Nova Swing in a two tone Diamond white and rust. Would stall every time you slowed for a junction, no grip whatsoever, go over a bump too hard and the tailgate would pop open. Lasted about 6 weeks before I crashed it. Loved it to bits though!

[Scoop940]

1975 Austin Allegro in Harvest Gold - MG Metro front seats and a metro steering wheel to replace the square one! Gearbox broke on my driving test so I bought a 1.3 MK2 Astra Estate..

Allegro had one party trick though, sat at the lights first engaged and the handbrake on by bouncing the clutch on the bite you could get the rear to rise and fall about 9" on its suspension travel! Even better with peole in the back!

[PaulFFox]

Started by inheriting my brothers Fiat Panda 750L in Cov City Blue, complete with deck chair seats and canvass roof. Even ventured upto an indicated 100mph on a long downhill section of the A34 - Jeez I had big balls then.

Upgraded to a White 1000 Fire - An boy you feel the extra power..