My first car way back in 1965, what was yours?

My first car back in 74 was a Morris traveller with a huge 998cc engine !
It was about 15 years old and cost me the princely sum of £15.
At that time I still hadn’t passed my test so my mum was using it till I did.
Passed my test and then went straight to tell her the good news.
After a couple of hours my mum was most disappointed to hear me ask for the keys
as I wanted to go pick up my wife from her work.
Drove about 6 miles before I came to traffic lights and then realised I was driving alone !!
Since I had passed my test on her birthday we decided to take a run out and she asked
if we could also take her mum – no problem.
Her mum then made the most memorable comment when invited – did I have a licence to drive in her dark ??
That traveller did sterling service taking us all over the country, even if a tad slowly.
I then replaced it with another traveller which had the most annoying habit.
Whenever I went to the scrapyard for parts – it broke down !
It did this 3 times and I reckoned it was telling me something I didnt want to acknowledge !!
 
My first car was my mates dads old Vauxhal shuv it bought for £25 sold for £25 the only car I never lost money on it was all downhill from there. My all time favourite car I owned was a 1986 Audi Quattro when all my mates were still messing about with escorts I thought I was James Bond wish I had it today probably worth a mint.
 
nabsim said:
......................... Oh yes, first car for me was a 1200 Honda Civic
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Look on the bright side............
........... it could have been a Honda Jazz., cos almost everyone's too young to drive one of those. 😲 🤣
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Reiverlad said:
My first car back in 74 was a Morris traveller with a huge 998cc engine !
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That was my wife's favourite of car of all time. She still wishes she had one to this day.

Her first car was a Hillman Imp, which in no time at all I needed to change the engine for her 'cos it was quicker and cheaper than reconditioning.

Some time after that she wrote it off. 😲 ☹️
 
My mum & dad have been in the Morris owners club for years & have 2
One is a Morris Minor that was converted to a pickup, professionally done by another member.
They also have a Traveller which has been almost completey restored. about 98% done.
Unfortunately it is not something that they ever finish as health issues has meant giving up driving.
 
Reiverlad said:
Unfortunately it is not something that they ever finish as health issues has meant giving up driving.
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I am so very sorry for all of you on that score, hopefully you will take up the gauntlet and keep up the resto work on the Traveller so as to ensure you keep the twinkle of life going in their eyes.
Travellers, indeed all Minors are such brilliant Issigonis works of art and still so very useable in modern traffic, most especially if you put some decent brakes on them and possibly a nicely tweaked 1275 engine in them as well as a 5 speed box.I know to a purist that comment is sacrilegious, but they are still so many of them around and as I said before, they are such very capable machines........ love them to bits!
 
Millie Master said:
I am so very sorry for all of you on that score, hopefully you will take up the gauntlet and keep up the resto work on the Traveller so as to ensure you keep the twinkle of life going in their eyes.
Travellers, indeed all Minors are such brilliant Issigonis works of art and still so very useable in modern traffic, most especially if you put some decent brakes on them and possibly a nicely tweaked 1275 engine in them as well as a 5 speed box.I know to a purist that comment is sacrilegious, but they are still so many of them around and as I said before, they are such very capable machines........ love them to bits!
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Thanks for those kind words but I don't expect we will ever finish it.
I suspect it will eventually be sold as a project for someone else to enjoy
 
Millie Master said:
My first car way back in 1965 was a Heinkel 175cc bubble car, slow as a snail but good on fuel and I could drive it on my provisional motorcycle licence with L plates and without a passenger!

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My first vehicle was a Ford Thames motor caravan, 3 speed column change, in 1971 after passing my test in the RAF. After many years and many cars, I am now back to owning a motor home, just a lot bigger and better.
 
JNL539P was my first bike... suzuki gt250m ram air 250. Bought second hand from Harry Woods in Newcastle. They took my dosh and wheeled it outside, handed me the keys and left me to it! Didnt even have L plates so my first ride was through the centre of town. Talk about a baptism of fire...
Who needs H&S eh?
K ;)
 
my first car was a Morris 1100, the least said about that the better.

but first, of very many, motorbike was a Triumph Tiger Cub.

I had a 3 cylinder Kawasaki, mine was the fore runner to the KH series, it was a S1 250, one of the very first in the country. Now what would that be worth today in pristine condition I wonder as not many were ever sold before the KH250came out.
it always seems that when someone mentions a bike I’ve had one. It’s really not true but I’ve had rather a lot.

Here’s a pic of my T100C, now sold, and behind it a ZZR1400, also sold. A10E06E6-84E4-4DC0-AAB0-30E38C35DD7F.jpeg
 
I may as well ask on here, as no doubt some bikers will be visiting shortly - I’m looking for a Triumph Trident T160 if you know of one for sale.
 
Thanks, I’ve already got my eyes on these, but it’s always useful to hear about something that someone actually knows about.
I’ve just spent 10 minutes into ebay advising them about some fraudulent offerings on there, 2 off them were T160s. Not one from carandclassic btw.
I've used them to help sell before, I sold the T100C using them, within a fortnight.
 
alun100 said:
An Austin A40 was my 1st car. This was a great little car at the time. Then this was followed by an Austin 1100, Morris Minors, an MGB, a Lotus Elan but then I got into rallying and got a big winged Mk1 Escort and another and a Talbot Sunbeam. Great days they wereView attachment 52384
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In some ways these were the forerunner of hatch backs or the next model
Also had a handy indicator type stick which did much more!
as with modern cars
 
No use to me now and never owned one BUT
the Mr Smith 3 wheelers were great and now sell for big Deutschmarks
 
few people have listed their cars on hear, My wife says there's not enough pages here to list mine lol !
Have had 28 Volvos
21 fords
14 vauxhals
8 hillmans
1 singer
3 rovers
7 mini's
5 vw cars
6 vw dormobiles (1 x splitty and 5 bay windows)
12 fiats
1 x lada
1 x wolsley
1 x sunbeam
1 x lotus europa
4 x lotus elans
over 50 MX5's (first in 1990, have photo's and copies of reg docs for them all) was Scotland area rep, then later Tayside area rep)
Also had 8 motorhomes from Mercedes 709 Elddis conversion to currant Autotrail Imala and 2 six wheelers.
Probably forgot some but thats more than enough.
Have moho, VW T4 and to Volvo estates at home now !!
 
I keep vehicles a long time so have only had a few cars:
Ford Escort 1100 mk 1
Nissan Sunny
Citroen gs
Citroen bx 14re
Citroen bx 19 trs
Citroen 2cv*
Citroen Xantia 3.0*
Ford Mondeo 2.0 ghia
Nissan Qashqai 2.0 hdi*

* still have these
 
I left school at 15 in 1979,started working on a construction site and 3 weeks later brought a 1968 Ford Falcon,which was the first in a long line of various Falcons over the next 20 years.
 
Millie Master said:
I am so very sorry for all of you on that score, hopefully you will take up the gauntlet and keep up the resto work on the Traveller so as to ensure you keep the twinkle of life going in their eyes.
Travellers, indeed all Minors are such brilliant Issigonis works of art and still so very useable in modern traffic, most especially if you put some decent brakes on them and possibly a nicely tweaked 1275 engine in them as well as a 5 speed box.I know to a purist that comment is sacrilegious, but they are still so many of them around and as I said before, they are such very capable machines........ love them to bits!
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My old man had a couple of Moggies when I was a lad. Regularly used the 2nd one to tow his ex army trailer full of scrap railway chairs from work to the scrapyard. Usually around 1.5tons per trip but occasionally he would go over the weighbridge at over 2tons tare weight! Eventually snapped the bodyshell in half while towing a load of dried pit slurry home on the m62!
 
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nabsim said:
Must say that’s a new one on me, that’s a lot nicer than many comparisons:) 👍
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Never a typo with LJK. Mechanical typewriters didn’t have predictive text.😚
 
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