Your First Car

[Old Stroller]

Mine was a 1974 MK3 Cortina, banana yellow like the one below. Erratic at best when I bought it in 1983, and eventually sold it for scrap to a Tipton tatter for £30 who loaded it up and drove off without paying me. 

I didn't realise then that the number plate, SUE 852M, would have been worth more than the car in years to come. Live and learn.



   

[Llandudno Baggie]

Another Cortina
1965 Mark One in Oxford Green
Cost me £90 in 1977
Eventually rusted to death after so many trips down to The Hawthorns. Aahhh those smelly wet carpets!
Check out the clobber …..    

[baggiebloke]

Mine was a 1974 MK3 Cortina, banana yellow like the one below. Erratic at best when I bought it in 1983, and eventually sold it for scrap to a Tipton tatter for £30 who loaded it up and drove off without paying me. 

I didn't realise then that the number plate, SUE 852M, would have been worth more than the car in years to come. Live and learn.

Some prosecution lawyer would love that plate.

SUE 852 M

[ferencpuskas]

I had a beautiful Triumph Tiger 100 bike, and me mother pestered me to sell it. She lent me £100, and I chopped the bike in and had a BRAND NEW!  Zircon Blue  A 35 van from Fred Corbetts in Netherton, reg. 9671 FD. I thought I was the dog's bollox!

[TadleyBaggie]

A 1956 Morris Minor (SOX 78). Numberplate would have been worth something if the Boston Red Sox had won the world series in 1978 (they didn't).

[baggpuss]

One of these:

[CA Baggie]

One of these:

She looks a good ride.

[baggpuss]

One of these:

She looks a good ride.

She was - and could take two in the front and two in the back!

[wba13]

Mine was a mini MOL600F bought on broad street early 70’s . The only car I ever remembered the registration of.

[fbaggy]

W Reg blue (Circa 1990) Vauxhall Chevette saloon, more rust than metal on the wings, must have changed the gearbox about 4 times.

It used to shake itself to bits between about 40 and 70mph on the motorway but if I could get it above 70 everything calmed down again