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« Reply #30 on: June 22, 2006, 22:53:31 »
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Hillman Hunter. 1976 gold and i paid 175 notes from a dealer. It had the 1725 lump in it...  :D[/quote

1725 gt in lime green and a triumph herald
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« Reply #31 on: June 23, 2006, 04:11:44 »
1982 escort XR3 in black with all the toys

nearly had to sell a kidney to insure it though
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« Reply #32 on: June 23, 2006, 07:09:50 »
i had a mki escort 1300e caj 111L purple velvet in colour soon put 1660 mexico engine in luvverly :D
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« Reply #33 on: June 23, 2006, 07:18:45 »
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um ... 1992 Granada Scorpio 2.0 DOHC Auto..... <evil grin> I only had the engine replaced er.... 7 times :>

I was a bad boy :-)


Well my first to drive was my dads Granada 2.8 v6 ghia x He let me use it when he was working in saudi. And i never blew the engine :P

The first i owned was a hillman avenger tiger 1972 what a car it was as well
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« Reply #34 on: June 23, 2006, 07:36:59 »
Austin A40 Farina with a 1300cc MG lump in it. Used to go quite well, but had a habit of chewing driveshafts. Wish I still had it. :(
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« Reply #35 on: June 23, 2006, 07:40:52 »
My first road car was a Vauxhall Victor, the one that you used to bash your knees on when getting in and out coz it had a very strange windscreen that was curved round, dunno what year it was built but I paid £20 for it in 1968, that was when you could get Four Gallons of petrol and still have change from a quid.
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« Reply #36 on: June 23, 2006, 09:44:03 »
suzuki santana  :D
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« Reply #37 on: June 23, 2006, 10:26:10 »
mum and dad got me my fist car which was a 1.2 clio R72DNV which i crashed in a carpark 2day after passing but was repaired then finally saw its death bout 2 years go when i was going through section of roadworks and hit a curbstone that had been left in the road and smashed the front wheel up causing 2.5 grands worth of damage...

first car ive brought and am still paying for is puggy.. a 2.0 pug 206cc in blue and its costing me a small fortune to insure and pay for it although i wouldnt have it any other way :)
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« Reply #38 on: June 23, 2006, 11:10:57 »
Quote from: "muddysteve"
nearly had to sell a kidney to insure it though

Today we have to sell a kidney and an arm, and a leg!  :shock:  :lol:
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« Reply #39 on: June 23, 2006, 11:13:31 »
1961 Ford Anglia 998cc estate cost £55 and as much again to insure !! :roll:
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« Reply #40 on: June 23, 2006, 11:21:29 »
1988 mk2 ford fiesta 1.0 popular lol, went on to have an xr2 then a 1.3 mk2 escort fully caged up, then a mk2 escort 1600 sport, then a mk1 rs2k that a nice lorry wrote off for me the p***k, now have a mk3 escort RS1600i and the my sj RS has to go tho  :cry:
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« Reply #41 on: June 23, 2006, 16:02:12 »
bol909k morris marina 1.3 payed £45 for it.. and £450 for insurance :roll:
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« Reply #42 on: June 23, 2006, 16:56:05 »
My first car was a 1974 Series III 88" (the one in my avitar) brought from my parents. i sold back to them when i needed a more reliable car for driving to uni every day.
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« Reply #43 on: June 23, 2006, 17:03:43 »
1972 Morris Marina Coupe 1.3! Bought it while I was learning to drive and passed my test in it. Couldn't bear it any longer and sold it before I was 18 and bought an MG Midget which I still have XX years later  :lol:
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« Reply #44 on: June 23, 2006, 18:07:31 »
Well, Fiat 128 Rally, import.
But what about a list of all cars owned, hell this could take a long time, but here goes.
FIAT 128 RALLY
FIAT 128 SPECIAL
DUTTON SIERRA (DONT ASK) BUILT IT MYSELF
XR2 MK1
BEDFORD HA VAN
FORD ESCORT MK2 1300
DATSUN PICKUP
SUBARU 1800 ESTATE 4WD WITH LOW BOX
JAGO GEEP
LAND CRUISER 70 SERIES
RANGE ROVER VOGUE 2.4D, THEN REPLACED 3.5 TD NISSAN
VAUXHALL CAVILIER SRI
LAND ROVER DISCOVERY S 200TDI
NISSAN D20 DOUBLECAB (BACK WHEN YOU HAD TO IMPORT THEM)
JEEP CHEROKEE 2.5D
LAND ROVER 90, 6.5 GMC
TOYOTA LAND CRUISER 80 SERIES
RANGE ROVER WITH ISUZU 2.8
FORD EXPLOYER LPG
DODGE RAM 5.2 V8 LPG
LAND ROVER 130 DC (BIG BLUE, 4.2TD LANDCRUISER ENGINE)
DISCOVERY 6.5 GMC
JEEP WRANGLER (N8 MUD)
LAND ROVER 130 CSW
RANGE ROVER (STRANGE ROVER-EX SULTAN BRUNI) OVERFINCH
DISCOVERY 2 TD5

STILL OWN - DISCO 2 TD5, AND LAND ROVER 130 DC(BIG BLUE)
Oh and the Green Beast.
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« Reply #45 on: June 23, 2006, 18:39:20 »
Quote from: "K9Jim"
B reg Nova with Sri body kit and massive sounds  :oops:

(Hangs head in shame)  :lol:


haha same here!

I had a white 1.3 SR, i though it was nuts at the time! Spent hours changing the bumpers to the MK2, adding clear lights, sunstrips... i'll stop there, getting too embarrassing!  :lol:
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« Reply #46 on: June 23, 2006, 19:17:34 »
Mine was a C reg 3 door Ford Escort popular 1.3L
It was great untill the engine seized...something to do with no oil?
(somethings never change)
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« Reply #47 on: June 23, 2006, 19:56:33 »
Quote from: "LOFTY"
FIAT 128 RALLY

BEDFORD HA VAN

SUBARU 1800 ESTATE 4WD WITH LOW BOX


Dad had a 'N' plated Fiat 128, a maroon 2door saloon.
He used to drive a HA van where he worked when I was a kid

I remember those coming out in 1978 & seeing them on a demo-day at Nostell Priory along with the then fledgling Daihatsus
(first one was the F20?)
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« Reply #48 on: June 23, 2006, 19:57:51 »
1980 Ford Escort Estate, MkII






Still got it now,


                   somewhere..........
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« Reply #49 on: June 23, 2006, 23:12:05 »
My first was a 4" Roof Chopped, deseamed 1974 Mini 998cc, with a steel flip front and custom paint job!

Wicked little thing, and went like stink when I dropped a 1293cc lump in it!
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« Reply #50 on: June 23, 2006, 23:29:42 »
First car 22 years ago...

1976 Mini Pickup with 1275 Gt lump but standard brakes  :roll:

Current cars

1964 Series IIa
1976 101

hang on a freakin minute  :shock:

oh an the Laguna and Disco phew...  :lol:
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« Reply #51 on: June 24, 2006, 09:11:10 »
First Car...

It's in my Photo Gallery. F620 FEC - Land Rover 110 CSW TD.
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« Reply #52 on: June 24, 2006, 12:17:06 »
First car I ever DROVE was my Dad's 1980 2 door Range Rover off road on private land when we lived in Scotland. Range Rover was new and I was 13!

First car I ever owned was a Triumph Spitfire WRV 509L. Bought it as a project, did it up with a mate of mine who was in the bodyshop trade and sold it after a few months of driving everywhere with the roof down (including through London on christmas day!) and made a tidy profit!

Next was a 1976 Mini 1275 GT in black with a 1293 blueprinted cooper engine, neg camber suspension, roll cage and single 1.75 SU carb. Best fun ever on a fiver of patrol.  :lol:  Sideways round roundabouts all the while! The RC40 exhaust sounded great and got through road rally scrutineering noise limits.

Then the rot set in - 1971 series 2a SWB petrol on 750 SATs in bronze green.

The rest is mainly Solihull history. Makes Dunsfold seem like amateurs!
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« Reply #53 on: June 24, 2006, 13:33:15 »
1968 Triumph Spitfire Mk3

Bought it with £200 of me hard earned cash then my Dad had to sub me so I could afford the £250 insurance !!!  21 years ago, gulp.
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« Reply #54 on: June 24, 2006, 18:30:15 »
first car was a 89 austin rover metro, one of the last in that shape, what a beast 1 litre, never could get it to a ton, i tried 95 max

im 22 been driveing 5 years and the list goes:

89 metro 1 litre

93 1.6 cavalier - wrote off

93 1.4 astra si

93 1.2 corsa - bought to make a profit ( only had it a week)

89 peugout 405 - was free !

86 1.3 astra - had been in a pile up but still worked and had an mot, was £50

89 suzuki swift gti - ragged hell out of it then stripped for parts

92 charade gtti

89 charade gtti - bought to break for a profit

93 1.6 escort

97 vectra 2.5 sri v6 - all the gadgets and used to much fuel

90 1.6 vitara - my first offroader, went rotten - broke for a profit

96 300tdi disco commercial - still got this one

89 200tdi disco 3 dr - rotten, bought to break for a profit

88 sj410 - rotten, bought to break for a profit

dont think that a bad list really  :D
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« Reply #55 on: June 24, 2006, 19:00:42 »
I didn't own these, but all I drove for the first 2 years though, srs 2a & 3 landys, lightweights/88"s & 109 in various guises :wink:

The actual first car I bought when I got back to uk was a escort mexico
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« Reply #56 on: June 24, 2006, 19:06:32 »
Volvo 340GLE 1.7i, the one with the gearbox and diff combined under the boot.
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« Reply #57 on: June 24, 2006, 19:51:18 »
First car I drove after passing my test was a company car!    At the interview the boss said 'have you got a full licence?' 'yes' says I, 'how long have you held it?' asks the boss  'a year and a half' says I, 'Is it clean?', 'yes' says I.

Starts job, drives car home, only told him a few months later that I hadn't been able to afford a car, therefore had not driven since passing my test......:lol: :lol: :lol:

Jeez but that drive home on my own was scarey.

It was a lovely little car, 1.6 Astra in light blue.

First car I bought was a royal blue, 1.8, marina.
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