First Car.

[melv16]

What was your first car and how much did you pay for it?

[Quizproquo]

By the way, I bought it in 2002, not 1992.

[shoota]

Was that the one that didn't have synchro on 1st gear Stuey?

[tonyav]

An uprated engine I beleive, shoota.

[Quizproquo]

My next car was from 1971 though :)

[stuey]

What does that mean, shoota?

[shoota]

We shouldn't get attached to motors but we do don't we?

[tonyav]

Yeah.

[shoota]

Synchromesh gearbox. Thinking about it, it was the hump backed Saab that had no synchro.

[tonyav]

Was your Volvo like this, stuey ?

http://ipocars.com/imgs/a/e/m/l/z/volvo__volvo_444_humpback_1956_1_lgw.jpg

[stuey]

I really don't remember. It was soooooo loooong ago. I wish I still had it!

[SlackAlice]

Ford Popular de Luxe bought about 1965 for about £100. Was soon down the 'breakers' because I was unaware it did not have a heater as standard and it was about December when I bought it!!

[stuey]

Close, Tony, but I'm sure it had four doors.

[tonyav]

Prefer this one, stuey.
http://www.grs-motorsports.net/fotos/jeandsm/misc/list/4cil/hunchback.jpg

[stuey]

I was wrong about the doors: https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVr7rlzNXbbsADownnIlQ?p=1967+volvo&fr=yhs-mozilla-003&;fr2=piv-web&hspart=mozilla&;hsimp=yhs-003
Sixteen rows down and three across. Told you it was a long time ago:)

[tonyav]

An Amazon, stuey.

[ToraToraTora]

some posh folks on here! chill had a new car! completely out of reach for me, even now I wouldn't buy one even though I can afford it! When I bought the angle box I scraped the £30 together and did question the wisdom of spending all that on a car, that was 1980! I suppose we can tell the ages on here by what and how much we paid. Oddly enough though my Anglia was more reliable than many a motor I've had since.

[maggiebee]

Reg. 946 AGD - paid £60 and boy did I get my money's worth out of it.

[Togo]

Rover p4 (Rover 90) Never paid money for it, but I did a weeks work delivering coal for a bloke winter 1964/65. At the end of the week he couldn't pay me so I took his car. I had no licence or beggar all but drove it all winter. Similar to the one shown but chocolate brown and cream. The fool had lost all his money on the dogs and I was young and hungry, besides being fit as... I sold it for £15 after 4 months. Never saw a log book or any paperwork.

http://i63.tinypic.com/2zel574.jpg

[Arrods]

Mine was a Ford 100E van with a window conversion and an old London Transport bus seat for the rear passengers. Cost £50 - the same as the insurance - so little has changed relatively speaking.

[twix123]

1962 Austin 7 Mini, 36DXY, red with a black roof. Paid £245 in 1965. I put a straight through exhaust on it, illegal now, trouble was that my Mother shared the car, and you could hear her driving to church on a Sunday morning, still in 1st gear at 30mph. She eventually insisted that we go to the local Rolls Royce dealers in Bromley and trade it in for their cheapest new car, which was a Fiat 500 at £500 on the road!! (sigh - how I missed old Dixie!!).