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[Rusty Pelican]

Back in my early teens , around 79 to 82 it was common for us lot to bomb about in different mates cars going nowhere slowly , I had an Imp so i my car wasnt used much as 5 yoofs couldnt fit in it , so during the Summer , hours was spent driving in circles in various crap rusty motors trying to impress the wenches and failing miserably

Mainly used was Colins Renault 12 estate , got up to 7 smelly slobs in it , he was a carpenter and so made a glovebox , door cappings and a centre concole out of slabs of pine , he was the first to be able to afford a Audioline radio cassette and graffic equaliser so was prime target , we even fitted a webasco sunroof in it , it gradually rotted away and was sanded down lovingly by all of us , filled with isopons finest and brush painted , rot came back in days , took 3 days to change the clutch in it , such was our mechanical prowess
Lees MK1 Escrot 2 door was a cracking piece of shite , Various shades of red he was the dirtiest blove ever , the thing was filled with fish and chip wrappers fag packets and coke tins , leaked oil every where , so much so he used to come up my parents house and scroung old engine oil of my dad that he kept to paint on his lawn mower blades to stop rust and mix in with creasote for the shed , interior light gave up so he screwed a reversing light on the dash which took your retina out whenever you got in .
Dave had a Simca 1000 in yellow with a black stripe brush painted over the middle , broke down almost daily and was never the same after taking off on a humped back bridge and spewing its battery all over the road
Darren had a Viva HB that only ran with the choke on and had no exhaust to speak off , no licence or insurance either
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[Mr Lobster]

Great idea for a thread!

So, let me quickly dredge the back of my memory. Back in about 1992/3 I had a Mk1 R5 Le Car 2. Mates had (in no particular order) Maestro van with about 200k on it and utterly shagged, Mk1 Astra in Gold, fitted with spotlights and all the other tat you throw at a base model 1.2 Astra to make it look sporty - poundland wheeltrims, 'racing' seat covers, 'Oakley' sticker in rear screen, A reg 1.0 Polo with serious bottom end and rust issues, A reg Mk 3 Escorts with lots of XR bits thrown at it, Mk2 Fiesta Ghia, another with a Mk2 Fiesta - might have been a XR2 although would have been relatively new at that point, Nova with rear arches made almost entirely of Isopon, B reg Sierra -possibly a diesel but I can't remember. Struggling to remember much else tbh.
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Cavalier SRI Mk2's, GSI Mk3's, Calibra's featured heavily where i come from, i had a Cavalier Mk1 2dr saloon, besty mate had a Carlton 2.2 Mk1, at the time was working for ATS and got to roll in Merc 307's Pick-Up's, the CF2's they replaced were shagged
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[Father Ted]

John had a Viva HC which wasnt bad, but was replaced with an Orion Ghia which was a heap of shite, broke frequently and more rusty than a very rusty thing. It did have a Moss alarm though which was pretty state of the art.

Chris started off with an ex securicor Escort Van (which got nicked and used in the Nat West bank robbery in Preston in 1988) He moved onto a Subaru pick up after that. GR8 for hanging out the back of and showing your arse to passing pedestrians.

Dave had a Mk5 Cortina, as did Andy for a bit, before buying a Capri Mk2 that landed one of us dead and three of us in hospital for a while (and me with bollocks the size of buster gonad for a week).

Prize shite award went to Ste and his Fiat campervan. Cant remember the model but it was a small one a bit like a Bedford Rascal - he regularly stopped overnight in the college car park and it was a regular haunt during wet lunch breaks for a brew up and game of cards.

I had an Austin 1300 then a Marina, then a mini, then another Marina then a Metro..... All in the space of 2 years.
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[Slaighty]

Most of my mates had mopeds / motorbikes but Emmsy had cars too.

Hillman Hunter with Holbay? engine and no passenger seat for some reason.
Sunbeam Stilleto
Esky Mk1
Commer camper van

[pogweasel]

Some memorable ones, charting friends succesions from crap to proper cars...

Peugeot 104 > Ford Orion Mk1 > Vauxhall Frontera(EIGHT grand!!!)

Ford Fiesta MkII (crashed) > Vauxhall Astra 1.3 merit Mk2 (awesome car, took us everywhere) > Polo breadvan (crashed) > new fiesta (V-reg, he's still got it)

Chevette > Cavalier Mk2 (crashed) > Honda Accord coupe

Nova 4-door > Cavalier Mk2 > Cavalier Mk3 diesel > Cav Mk3 SRi 8v

Of course there were lots of other folk who went staight to the 'good stuff', Nova SR's being the weapon of choice for most. Girls usually got good stuff, due to insurance, so getting ferried about by lassies in 1600cc golfs, escorts and maestros was not uncommon, luxury travel compared to some thrashing 1000cc lad-mobile.
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[Mr H Sceptre]

Good thread.

My mate Ian had a MK V Cortina, Joe had a lovely Viva E, but the best of the bunch was Dave's brown Maxi 1750. Great car.

When I moved away to Uni, the only one of us to have a car was my mate Mark who had a 1978 Toyota Starlet.
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[simmo]

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My mates mum worked in insurance and got us some fantastic deals so while most lads my age that started driving in the late 70s were aspiring to 1600E Cortinas and Modded Escorts we were a little more shitecentric. I have some photos somewhere of our various line ups Me posing on a P5b and my mates with Mk4 Zodiac, PC Cresta and a 2.5 Granada (Consul). I also had various A60s and 3-Litre Capri
We were all under twenty and looked like kids in huge cars we were always getting attention off of plod just to check we were legal.

Another mate who was a bit off message had a Lancia thing that I imagine is utra-rare now but as it had Ferrari stamped on some of the parts he was made up.

[Station]

Chevettes mainly. Couple of mates had mk1 and mk2 Escorts.
They then sold out and bought new stuff.
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[meggersdog]

In my youth I had a Mini 1275 gt,Mick had a MkII Capri the a couple of MkIII's,Vinnie R had a Toledo progressing to a MkIII Cortina 2000GT,Jim had an Esort estate MkI (seven of us in it going to a party in Cleethorpes) at 18 he bought Scirocco MkI GTi,Richard had a MkV Cortina (daddy gave it to him) and the best by far was Paul's Colt Celeste fitted with a CB and PA system.Hours were spent driving around the Asain area of town taking turns on the PA going "but,but,but,but" until Paul stalled the car at the traffic lights with all these angry Asian youths chasing after us.

Aaaah great days.

[retro80sboy]

as a teenager (early to mid 90's) my mate Phil had a few decent rides that we used to roll in.

He had a V reg Escort MK 2 rs2000 replica in yellow. big cibbies on the front too. Great fun, until it broke down one night on the way back from Hereford!.

He then had a MK 4 Escort van and a maroon E Reg Sierra.

My mate Mark had a Nova that he smashed up on the way from his Girlfriends one night and could only afford a crappy old 5 door Metro 1.1 as a replacement.

In college we used to regulary scab lifts off my mate Ian who had a nice two tone Talbot Horizon! another mate had an E reg Mini which we crammed in as many people as we could into.

Then I got my first car which was an MG Metro, that sadly had seen better days so I bought a Nova off my cousin for 500 quid that literally rotted away around me!.
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[r.welfare]

Not many of us had cars at school - in fact, I can only remember Danny's Mini Mayfair. His brother had a garage in Manchester, where he'd recently moved down from, and the car had received a lot of welding and a respray. Quite smart. He chopped that in for an M-plate Rover 220GSi at 19 - a fairly hot car for the age.

There was another guy whose parents bought him a brand-new Citroen AX on his 18th birthday - I recall another fella puking up in the back of it on Day 1

I didn't get my first car 'till I was 19. After I bought my Volvo 340, my best mate Fat Bob went out and splurged 4 grand on a year-old Cinquecento SX, complete with crazy sidestripes, from the garage that was recently subject to Station's Trading Standards enquiry on that "sold as seen" Alfa. IIRC this lasted him at least 8 years, pretty impressive. In fact, 13 years after buying the Cinq, he's only owned 3 cars, and still has 2 of them.

Dave went out and bought a C-reg Metro 1.0L, £500, then chucked a grand at the sound system. Silly boy. He then "graduated" to an XR2i, and sold that to buy a TVR Griffith. I would call him a jammy sod, but he still lives with his parents at the age of 32, so all things being equal...

Meanwhile my mate Tim progressed from a Mk1 Fiesta 957 through a Mk3 Scrote 1.6GL to a Renault 19 16V at the age of 19, and then onto a Nissan Pulsar GTI-R at 20. I passengered him once and it scared the hell out of me - it had been breathed on in some fashion. I always wondered how he afforded to insure it, but then after he got a job and was required to start paying his Student Loans back, he pleaded poverty and sold it, buying my old '78 Fiesta 1.1L for £75 for transport when I went to work in Guernsey.

Some lad left our school half-way through sixth form (failed his mocks) and got a job at Vodafone - he then turned up at the pub in a 3-year-old Montego which, amazingly, got him some respect. Times were simpler then.
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[Parky]

I started with a Mk 1 Renault 5, reg EMT 113V. Got it in or around March 1990. I remember it leaked every single fluid and had no business possessing an MOT.

My friend Dave had a better part time job and was able to get a Mk2 Cavalier, reg was A880 KUW. Various shades of red, it taught me how to chamge camshafts and brake pads as Dave was notoriously hard on his equipment. A total legend, Dave managed to write off two of his familes cars by ploughing into the back of his Dad at a set of traffic lights.

Dom had access to vans for his job but generally used his Chevette (NUF 546W which I bought off him when my Renault died) and occasionally a Henley blue Rover 213 owned by his Mum. At one stage he also had a Datsun 180SSS (I think) but cant remember why he had this.

Everybody elses parents worked for Fords in Warley and they all started with an all white Fiesta Swan. The school car park resembled a Ford dealers!

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i remember seeing afew of these when i was younger.. plus afew of other motors that used to be in the car dealer's window's..

1600E & 2000E





and could forget the cavalier calibre



as well as the convertable



and the commander who's wheel adorned every polce astra etc at one time



MG Metro Turbo



Astra GTE 16v


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Anglias, Viva HA, Mk 1 Cortina, Fiat 850, VW Beetle.