Please bear in mind this was 1994/5!!!
I had a 1983 Austin Metro 1.0. It was the 'L' model.
My parents gave it to me (smashed up!) for my 15th birthday to keep me out of trouble with the local hoodlums. I worked on it everynight after school and nursed it like a child. Although I was a hoodlum inside. I taught myself to drive and ended up driving to school daily up until I was 16! lol.
I fitted; new back panel, new tailgate and repaired the rear wings, then fitted XR3i front seats using custom subframes that I made from plywood....
S) A Cherry Bomb Exhaust, MG Turbo wheels, Painted the bumpers gloss black, Fitted 2 x 12 inch subs, 6x9's, front components and 2 amplifiers. CD players weren't out then so it was all controlled by a (stolen) flip front clarion cassette player. I let out some hydraulic fluid to lower it and fitted a massive ''LOW AND LOUD'' sunstrip. Good god I loved that car. Shagged a load of birds in it aswell! lol.
I sold it to a mate who's parents were so ashamed of having it on the driveway that they made him scrap it. c**ts.
BFH217Y, R-I-P baby girl. You were my first love. x