what were you driving?

[1300dolly]

following on from adams 'my wedge is a shed' thread. what cars were you driving in your late teens. (admiting to the year is optional)
mine were....
mums talbot horizon.
lots of minis
dolomite (for a week)
mk 2 cavalier (later fitted with an audi 5 pot lump ,then crashed cos the brakes didn't work )

[Lewis]

- 1971 Triumph 1500 (was FWD!) - Sprint powertrain, heavily modified (now sold)
- 1974 Dolomite Sprint - 3.5 Rover EFi, 5 speed box, tuned, new daily!
- 1978 1850HL auto, with some modern bits, (now sold)
- 1979 1500SE MOD, black HL interior, current daily
- 1980 Dolomite Sprint MOD (now sold)...

Every now and then, a Mercedes Benz C240 - usually when I'm between cars or trying not to drive one (well, when I sold the tuned 1500 I was trying not to drive it, in case the box blew up!)

I'll pick up a few different things soon, still, haven't reached my 21st birthday yet so got a few to go still

Still lusting for that De Tomaso!

[SprintV8]

1965 Fiat 500C Abarth Part's fitted
1967 Anglia 997 1600 Pinto
1973 Escort 1100 2000 Pinto
1965 Mini 850 1340 ex race lump

All Uprated/Modified by me before I was 24.

[DavePoth]

Hmm.

Vauxhall Corsa 1.5D
Ford Ka 1.3
1991 Vauxhall Astra 1.4i Merit
1996 Vauxhall Astra 1.4i (full factory bodykit though, and 15" alloys)

And that's all I drove as a teenager.

[Nick C]

My list of cars so far:

- '89 Mk3 Fiesta 1.1 (learnt to drive in)
- '89 Mk2 Fiesta 1.4S (Shed, sold to banger racers)
- '93 VW Polo 1.3 Genesis (sold)
- '89 Volvo 360 (broken, awaiting major heart surgery)
- '77 1850HL (less broken than the volvo)

Technically only the first two were while I was a teenager however...

[David6214]

Too many cars to list the whole lot (and too far past being a teenager)

First car - mini clubman, then a shove it, then a load more minis (all almost scrap by the time I got them) and a beetle baja bug conversion - they look ugly when you roll them.

Made it into sunbeams by the time I was about 20 IIRC.

Actually drove a load of cars though, stuff borrowed from mates and all that simca 1100 and a suzuki whizzkid being the most memorable (for good and bad reasons)

[Nathan Mwk 627G]

All i had as a teenager was my Mark 1 astra saloon, i passed my test at 18 and didnt get my next car, a 1998 ford fiesta till i was 21....iv been driving transit vans since i was 18 for work and also the works vintage replica model T delivery van!
Iv still got my mk1 astra awaiting restoration






Iv had this one since i was 14 and stripped it and rebuilt it for the mot....didnt know nothing till i got this



still in talks bout buying this as it hasn't been driven since i left in september and i was the only one who would ever drive it! Attended my first classic car show with a vehicle in 2003! Great fun to drive!!

[Mad Mart]

My first car was a Herald 12/50 (can't remember the year). Then I had an E reg. 850cc mini with twin carbs, wide wheels, big bore tail pipe, extra brake lights & one of those plastic dashes with extra gauges. Then a stage 1 tuned (hub caps removed) 1200cc black Angle box. Then a G reg. 1725 Singer Vogue which had "jack ups" on the rear suspension.

All paid for by me.

Ahh! those were the days.

[SprintMWU773V]

I've had a particularly unexciting cars owned to date list:

1988 Ford Fiesta D183 XRX- First car in 1997

1992 Rover 214SLi J982 HYS- Two tone grey and green with beige upholstery

1997 Rover 416SLi P151 LNH - Not my fave only owned for a year and 20k

2002 Ford Focus - Had since 2003, still like it but dull

2003 Daewoo Lacetti Saloon - A very reasonably priced car but an auto and my old company car. Two words, WHITE GOODS.

1980 Sprint - Owned since 2003, first classic car and not the last

My Fiesta currently resides in Thames Water's car park in Reading where it has been since 1998 when I sold it to a friend. My 214 is not known but it had 113k on it when I sold it in 2001 so probably gone now. My 416 languished at a used car dealer between March 2003 and June 2006 where it was for sale at a silly price. The Daewooooooo was bought by a lady that works at my local Shell garage.

[Jon Tilson]

were all Rileys...

a 1.5, then a 4/68 (Farina) and finally a Kestrel 1100...

59 the 4/68 was utterly brilliant.....cost me 18 quid and lasted 3 years.
Then I broke it and used the innards in an Oxford that I bought for 25 quid and sold for 60....

Jonners

[ecurie]

First my father's BMW 5-series ... until I crashed it into a Mercedes (minor damage luckily)
Then my mother's VW Golf GTI ... until someone saw me do handbrake turns with it and told my parents

Finally a totally knackered Mini 850 which I paid for myself, quickly replaced by a very nice one-owner Daf 33 (which I kept for 13 years)

Benoit

[george]

my first had to be a ......
63 mini..... after a slight bump and bit of worry just incase they found out what engine was installed
jag 3.8 mk11 triple carb bit tight in there
jag 3.4 mk11 just a jag
buick elektra nailhead
chevy impala 283 nearly swaped for a 3.8 e-type
mgb
does go a little into my very early 20's
it's around here i bought a dolly which now iv'e donated to richard 4040

and since iv'e had a few more !!!!!!! and driven many

[Mad Mart]

I thought this thread was about what cars you drove in your late teens...not every car you've had.

[Lee Flintoft]

First car, ORG 27R Dolomite Sprint, never been able to give her up
, but she's spent the last 11 years rotting away. Slowly coming back to her former glory, all be it with another shell.

[KWM338R]

I had a Dolly 1850HL as my first car, christened the Dodgy Dolly by my friends, few head gasket probs

Followed by a 1972 MG BGT that came in a few old teachests.

Got to drive me Mums MK1 Astra and me Dads Granada 2.8i Ghia Estate in Champagne Gold, what a monster that was!

Those were my teenage driving experiences, I had many of the same experiences Adam is now dealing with, but of course we didn't have the net back then! I didn't go to uni as a teenager, I knew I'd be kicked out after the first year though, I went back as a 'mature' student at the ripe old age of 25.