i was just thinking about my first car. it was a 1982 diahatsu charde xte in black. i got it for my 18th birthday back in 1989. i loved that car and was sad to see it go when the head gasket went and i couldn't afford to get it fixed. just curious what other lifer's had as their first cars?
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I loved that car!!
This was mine
Bought in 1978 for GBP300.
Sold to "entrepreneur" (OK, Pikey) for GBP50 in 1983.
Had a great plate ALF 536H
Good old Alf, many happy memories, including what we thought was a record for the number of people in a Mini up on Blackheath one night.
Had an unfortunate habit of conking out in the driving rain as the alternator was right behind the front grill.
Got a tip to put a rubber glove over it and partially blocked the grill and all was good.
You can find out if any car you've owned is still on the road through the DVLA website. Using that enquiry I have sadly discovered that almost all of my ex-cars are no longer on the road, unless they've been exported I suppose.
My first car was a Morris Minor 2-door deluxe. "Deluxe" = 2-tone interior and a heater! Could see the road through the holes in the floor, but it never let me down and I got it pretty close to it's top speed once, which considering it was an old banger I thought wasn't bad. It came to a sticky end when I was trying to sell it and a friend of mine crashed it while he was test driving it!
Blue ford fiesta popular plus
Gift from dad for passing my test and it was awesome.
Basic and simple car. Didn't like the wet mornings or cold days
You could fix anything on it with a 13mm socket
For a 1.1 it was rapid and kept pace with my mates flashy 1.3ghia
Sold it to my sister for £10 and twenty B&h
Beautiful car, went everywhere in it including Ireland & France.
Bought it for a grand, sold it for half that i think years later to a lovely Italian girl.
I've had 2CV's ever since. My current one, Robyn, is coming out of slumber August bank holiday for the 2CV National in Winchester. Robyn is Red & White with a St George cross roof. KB bought me a metallic CAFC badge that i used to place on the boot. It famously appeared on a Spuds website as the Charlton team coach. I remember the feckers taking it as i drove across Blackheath one sunny day. She was also often housed in the toolbox car park in all her CAFC glory lol!!!
The metallic badge fell off one day :-( KB bought me a new sticky one which i shall put on for the national with pride.
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Took a young lady out for the first time just after it had just rained. Didn't realise the sun roof leaked and she spent the rest of the night with wet knickers. Which was nothing to do with finding me stunningly attractive!
That romance didn't last long!
although first owned for my 18th got new cooper(which i wrote off just before 21)
First car I ever owned was a beige 1.3 escort, 'Y' reg first time around which did the job for a few years.
205 1.9 GTi
Great car. The most fun you can have on 4 wheels IMO.
My street cred did however improve with MarkII Cortina 1600e and Capri MarkI and MarkII (Black JPS paintwork) to follow.
I can remember one charlton trip in this to bristol city, foghorn will remember, at one of the service stations to Bristol, I left my keys in the ignition and little dan( if anyone remembers him) in the car while I nipped into the services. Next minute little dan walked in with no keys and he had locked the car. I wasn't a member of any recovery organisation so we had to break the back side window. Glass everywhere. We then tied a england flag bearing the mighty Charlton on the cross over the now empty window and drove down to Bristol, bloody cold and noisy all the way there and all the way back. We parked in a side street near the ground and when we returned no one had stolen it. Then when we drove home it broke down and we had to be towed somewhere for it to be fixed. I told you it was poop!
Loved the car, so easy to fix.
Had mates who refused to travel in it, but it used to get me up to Bradford Uni when I commuted from London to Bradford for work. Also took me to Carlisle v Luton where me and my mate - who's 6 foot 5 and about 15 stone at the time - got threatened to be stabbbed by a five year old. Those were the days..... I saw a man with the widest arse I've ever seen.... and he was playing Stefan Pounewatchy was his name.
Then it drove to me to Tranmere in our 97-98 promo season got lost after going through the Mersey tunnel, found the ground just before the start of the second half but couldn't find a parking space where I thought the car wouldn't turn into a molotov cocktail on wheels.
In gold.
Sold it to Razil
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