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Mine was a Nova saloon.
1.0 litre.
Cost me 900 notes
insurance was 500.
it was a 1981 a reg.
50 000 miles.
put a decent stereo and speakers in it and cruised the town like i was driving a ferarri !
Managed to get a 5-week old Punto Sporting (1.6 8v model) as soon as I started working. Pretty lucky I guess - almost new and nothing went wrong with it.
Mine was a 1.2 Nova 4 Hatch door in flat blue! 78k miles, cost £1200 and £770 on insurance. It had a bright yellow parcel shelf with 6x9 speakers and big Hella rally fogs on the front!! Rally sl*g style! No alloys! F81 THJ Owe I miss her!
Chinquecento Sporting, in bright yellow with a centre exit exhaust and big black sun strip! I was, the man! Was good to me though, just a washer bottle and clutch cable needed replacing.
vw polo 1.0 £500. rare model with air pipe that sat over the carb and froze over when driving hence cut off every 30mins and cut the engine off no matter where i was and i had to fire it up on the fly. nearly killed me about 10 times... then i had a £1500 rover 214sli (old shape) a lot better than the polo as it had power steering, comfy seats, better heating and squidgy suspension also had around 105hp !!!! lol. thats the only cars i had driven or owned really made me appreicate what i have and makes me laugh when most people complain about the cheap modern day cars like the clio.. my 172MKII is still inifinatley better than the other pieces of crap ive owned and ive never really had anyproblems compared with the other two needing new stuff everyweek.
Fiesta 950Pop..C reg cost 750 to buy and insurance was 850quid. Had it for 18months and put 26000mils on it visiting mates at Uni etc so pretty reliable. Needless to say after that my 2nd S1 RS Turbo was a little better.
Now on 50000, never broken down, no urgent repairs (apart from at MOT).
Nothing Sh*t about it, apart from the dials which look like they came of a car 10 years older.
i had a fiesta 1.1 ghia on a C reg (about 6 years ago) it took me ages to find a decent one, it cost me £600 & £700.00 to insure it.
as i was embarassed that it was a 1.1 i de badged it so it just said fiesta ghia on the back, i added a decent system to it as well.
sadly it met its death when one night i thought i could see more than i could & stuffed it head on into some railings & wrote it off, on a road i saw all the time!!
I got quite a bit of money for the spares as well, it was only then that i realised what a sh*tter it actually was !
nissan micra "E" reg 988cc wrote it off in 1st week of driving fixed for less than a £100 new door wing suspension strut and swaped a digital watch for a set of 15" alloys lol £600 sold it for £250 !! now a curry derlivery car ha ha
My god there are lots of very nice First cars here?, my first car was an very old beat up Mini 850cc.... top speed was only around 70mph and 0-60 in about 30 seconds.....lol.....