VW New Beetle
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My first car was a 1966 beetle, all original and I payed £180 for it. I got a bank loan. That was in 1977. I took the bumpers off, put a bag of cement in the spare wheel well to lower it a bit. Photo before the mods. Loved it. 
Great photoMy first car was a 1966 beetle, all original and I payed £180 for it. I got a bank loan. That was in 1977. I took the bumpers off, put a bag of cement in the spare wheel well to lower it a bit. Photo before the mods. Loved it.
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I still look that that. 
………..honest.
………..honest. I’ve just seen an ad for the new DS No.8…
Looks like a huge Allegro, given some sharp edges to make it ‘modern’.
Even comes in gold by the look of it
Beat me to it.....
My first car was a white 1961 Austin 7 mini and I paid £30 for it.
That was my muscle vest, but my body forgot the muscles.Is that your younger sisters vest top ?
Was that a Magnum version with the twin headlights and the Rostyle wheels only they made them with up to a 2.3 slant 4 pot too, supposedly half a V8 but a torquey motor rather than rev happy.
They made the Firenza coupe version too and the sought after one was the 2.3 droop snoot, trying to think who used to field them, Gerry Marshall or Blydenstein... long time ago now.
No mine was a 1.3 GLS, a magnum lookylikee.
The 2.3 slant engine went on to appear in the Lotus Sunbeam and Esprit (turbo’d) and the Chevette HS albeit with 16V heads.
The 2.3 slant engine went on to appear in the Lotus Sunbeam and Esprit (turbo’d) and the Chevette HS albeit with 16V heads.
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Forgot about the Shove it, they put the droop snoot on that too.
Matching that Viva dressed up to the nines Ford did the same with the MK1 Escort 1300e, as a kid I carried a bit of a torch for that one especially in the purple metallic, my Dad had the 2000e MK3 Cortina a while later in pale blue metallic, a much better car than the 2.3 V6 MK4 Cortina he had next.
Matching that Viva dressed up to the nines Ford did the same with the MK1 Escort 1300e, as a kid I carried a bit of a torch for that one especially in the purple metallic, my Dad had the 2000e MK3 Cortina a while later in pale blue metallic, a much better car than the 2.3 V6 MK4 Cortina he had next.
This is turning into a race to the bottom... but if I can add, again from last century, I once had a three year old Talbot Solar that I had bought as salvage, repaired (new boot lid, rear panel and bumper) and then used as our family car.
It was a 1981 car at a year old and when I sold it in 1985 for our next car all four doors had pinholes along the bottoms of the doorskins where they were rusting through from the inside, the engine at 34,000 miles sounded like a failed dual mass flywheel and I was lucky to break even when unloading the POS sold as seen at four years old.
The hatchback version of that car, the Chrysler Alpine, was car of the year in 1976, the only redeeming feature of our Solara was the airy pale grey interior, truly rotten car.
It was a 1981 car at a year old and when I sold it in 1985 for our next car all four doors had pinholes along the bottoms of the doorskins where they were rusting through from the inside, the engine at 34,000 miles sounded like a failed dual mass flywheel and I was lucky to break even when unloading the POS sold as seen at four years old.
The hatchback version of that car, the Chrysler Alpine, was car of the year in 1976, the only redeeming feature of our Solara was the airy pale grey interior, truly rotten car.
Harvest Gold per chance. My dad had Marina’s and Itals DUT690K in aqua blue, MEA808P in brooklands green, BFP708T in vermillion and VNR161X in dark red.
Amongst many my favourite cars my dad had were a Vauxhall Cresta PC. It had bench seats and a steering column gear lever. I had spotted it sitting in a yard for months on my way to school and begged my dad to buy it. Much to my surprise he did and as he was a mechanic had it running sweetly soon after. My next fave was a Vauxhall VX4/90 in green, manual with overdrive. My dad would give it some welly because I loved it, that thing went like stink.
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