What was your first car?

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Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac: Jersey is an island. It's nine miles by five. And if you drive *very* slowly, you can take a whole hour to go right round it.
And Jim's car originally came from Northern Ireland and kept it's original ji number plate...they just move the i over to the right and made it a 1...so, it looked Jersey.

It was JI 610 and then J 1610 for the series.
 

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My first car and the one I learned to drive in was a Subaru Justy mk2, nippy little car with switchable 4wd and 1.3 3 cylinder engine, really liked it until it was stolen (likely by the RAF squaddies when they needed to get home from the hotel I worked at when they were ****ed), never saw that car again.
 

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Just followed a restored Triumph Stag in red with roof off, that was my dream car 40 years ago..

Mercedes SL500 R231
 

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Morris 1300 - not this one but the same colour
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My brothers first car was one of them, but with the black vinyl roof and the side trims to make it look like a GT version. I borrowed it once to get a brake calliper for my Viva, while he was at work, as I negotiated a hairpin on Winter Hill behind Bisham, the gear lever came out in my hand. He then had an Agro (Allegro) a bit darker than the one in the pic. They had the square steering wheel. It overheated on us once, so wired a switch for the electric fan into the dash so it could be turned on when the temp gauge got to a certain point.My Dad had a Maxi, FUR435K, but teal blue not the lighter blue in the pic.
 

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View attachment 49172 Sorry missed this thread....one of these

My first boss had 1 of those, same colour, with a full length Webasto vinyl sunroof APL111T (apple green). That was his first company car that followed a Marina TC in puke yellow/green. His 2nd Co car was a 2.8 injection capri blue over silver with the tennis racquet headrests, NAN678X. Followed by a XR4i. Then a Scorpio. Then a XJ6.
 

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Just followed a restored Triumph Stag in red with roof off, that was my dream car 40 years ago..

Mercedes SL500 R231

I would still love one to-day, but it would have to have had the Rover V8 conversion :)
 

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1972 Volkswagen Beetle 1300cc rustbucket, I think it was YKH556L. Spent months getting rid of the rustand bolting the wings back on only for the engine to pack in after about 6 months. Replaced it with a 1982 Nissan Micra that I drove all over the country and it never skipped a beat.
I had a 1984 micra from new. Did 125000 miles in it mostly driven hard as I was always late for work and it was faultless the whole time I had it.(Though the gearbox was making some absolutely dreadful sounds when I traded it in)
 

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I would still love one to-day, but it would have to have had the Rover V8 conversion :)
Leyland P76 conversion was the done thing in NZ. The P76 was an Aussie derived family car powered by a long stroke 3.5 Rover V8 to give 4.4 litres. More power and torque with none of the slipped liner shenanigans of the Rover 3.9, 4.2 and 4.6 variants. Made the Stag into a serious road rocket.
 

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Leyland P76 conversion was the done thing in NZ. The P76 was an Aussie derived family car powered by a long stroke 3.5 Rover V8 to give 4.4 litres. More power and torque with none of the slipped liner shenanigans of the Rover 3.9, 4.2 and 4.6 variants. Made the Stag into a serious road rocket.

I think that the overheating/gasket blowing of the original 3 litre V8 can be resolved with a larger radiator. But I still could not trust it sufficiently to own one with the 3 litre lump. :(
 

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Mine was a Morris 1300 on an H plate, 1970 perhaps, in grey but with leather seats and radio. Had a few Austin /BLMC cars and admit to owning an Allegro in “baby sick yellow” at some point.
Didn’t really get into cars for a while as you may have noticed.


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I just had a horrible turn, my ex wife's first car was an Austin 1300 of similar vintage, and I hate thinking of my ex wife. :shock:Personally I had an Austin Princess 2200 which I actually liked, nice and smooth, loads of space and never broke down, I must have been lucky, I traded it in for Mk.V Cortina 2.3 Ghia. :)
 

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I think that the overheating/gasket blowing of the original 3 litre V8 can be resolved with a larger radiator. But I still could not trust it sufficiently to own one with the 3 litre lump. :(

wasn't it just internal politics that prevented the Buick V8 from being fitted to the Stag



(it was really the better of the 2 lumps .... :rolleyes:)
 

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