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Kazz
15-09-2006, 10:24 PM
What was your first ever Motor - mine was an old MKII ford escort :) it was gold in colour and called "Hi Ho" don;t ask why.
I had to put a blanket over the engine in the cold weather so it would start and turn the key pump the accelerator a few times then turn the key again. An art form in motion :) once in motion.
Mags
15-09-2006, 10:27 PM
What was your first ever Motor - mine was an old MKII ford escort :) I had to put a blanket over the engie in the cold weather so it would start and turn the key pump the accelerator a few times then turn the key again. An art form in motion :)
Ours was a Ford Escort too....I can remember it always struggled with the hills!:roll:........and it hated the cold weather too!
Donna
15-09-2006, 10:32 PM
Mine was a Vauxhall Chevette - and every time I drove it a bit fell off!!

The exhaust, the propshaft, wheels LOL

Got a Mk II Escort after - a luxury after the clown's car!!
dinahsmum
16-09-2006, 02:12 PM
I had an Austin A35 - remarkably like the one in this picture


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Dinahsmum/std_Austin_A35_1959.jpg


No heater, but it did have indicator lights rather than little yellow lugs which came out from the sides between the front & back doors. The indicator switch was a huge clunky thing in the middle of the fascia.



http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/12/12_7_4.gif
Edit: forgot to add her name - Hettie!
Moli
16-09-2006, 03:27 PM
We had a Ford Anglia.......
dinahsmum
16-09-2006, 03:34 PM
Those were the days - when there were only about 20 different makes and models and they all had reasonably memorable names! Not like now.
Moli
16-09-2006, 03:38 PM
Those were the days - when there were only about 20 different makes and models and they all had reasonably memorable names! Not like now.
I love our old car, although if we got 30 out of it we were doing well!!:D
Sweet
16-09-2006, 03:46 PM
:oops: Skoda here, enough said.......heard all the jokes LOL x
Naomi
16-09-2006, 05:25 PM
A little Vauxhall Nova, 1000cc which did 0-60 in about as many minutes :D

I loved the little thing altho everytime you went round a right hand bend a bit quick the passenger door would fly open :shock: Luckily before I had Louise we changed the car
logoes
16-09-2006, 07:48 PM
a 1929 Morris 8. cost I think about £15 - OK, It was a long long time ago !! You couldn't have the headlights on and the windscreen wipers at the same time! Think we sold it for a profit and got a Morris 1000 Van instead. Logoes
yola
16-09-2006, 08:17 PM
DM - my hubby had an Austin A35 . . . he actually lived in it for a while whilst at art school in the late 60s :shock: He had one of the pale blue ones and funnily enough we saw one today and he remarked on it!!!

I had a rust-coloured Renault 5 . . . 'P' reg (1976). Got it for my 18th birthday and it was the biggest pile of rust n rubbish you could hope for, I had similar performances of pumping the gas pedal, thumping the starter motor with a metal bar, driving for ages on full choke the the blighter warmed up etc etc!

Still - it served me for 3 years whilst at art school in the West Midlands and ferried me and my friends regularly into Birmingham to the Powerhouse on Wednesday and Saturday nights (ahhh - those were the days)!!!
dinahsmum
16-09-2006, 08:30 PM
Still see an odd "Hettie", coughing round the country lanes.........!
Mine was classic dark green - but matt, rather than shiney as in the pic
EmmaG
18-09-2006, 11:06 PM
Ford Capri 1.6 GL in gold, decided I wanted more speed so I changed the engine over for a 2L and painted the car black :)