Forum | Your First Car/Motor cycle. by onehunglow

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 12:05 - Aug 5 with 852 views

BarrySwan

Old box type Vauxhall Viva £60. lasted about 3 months.

Yamaha FSE 1e. £220 new whilst apprentice

Graduated to BSA Goldstar (forget how much) before car ownership

Still got a 70s Jawa 897 speedway bike as well as Rover 75 daily runner

Just prompted me to look up BSA GoldStar on the web I wonder if I could persuade the chap I sold it to to sell it back to me for the £150 he gave for it as they appear to be going for anything between £14,000 and £20,000.

Better investment than gold.

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 12:20 - Aug 5 with 836 views

Wow.

Westlake man myself

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 12:38 - Aug 5 with 834 views

A Black 1957 Wolsely 1500 Regn. UUW366 bought for £187 in 1967.

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 12:43 - Aug 5 with 832 views

They had a little poke in them didn't they. Seems to recall Riley 1.5 as the same but with some cosmetic differences .
Walnut dashboards and leather seats.We were spoiled

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 12:51 - Aug 5 with 831 views

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 12:43 - Aug 5 by onehunglow
They had a little poke in them didn't they. Seems to recall Riley 1.5 as the same but with some cosmetic differences . Walnut dashboards and leather seats.We were spoiled

My older brother had the Riley 1.5 which had twin SU carbs and was a bit quicker than the Wolsely.
I got 90mph indicated out of the Wolsely.
They had problems with their suspension bushes on their torsion bars, but were generally quite reliable.
I bought a 1600cc Sunbeam Rapier to replace it.

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 13:06 - Aug 5 with 825 views

Fook me,my old fella had 2 Rapiers.

One was a 1960 ,the other a B reg Mark IV.We need a room.!

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 13:44 - Aug 5 with 816 views

The later version was a good car and ahead of the rest.
Servoed Disc Brakes and electronic overdrive on 3rd & 4th gears.
Mine was a B or C reg, White with a Moonstone Blue roof.
The only downsides were it had a Solex Twin Choke Carb instead of a Weber and it rusted where the rear quadrant window wound down in to the roof pillar.
It was pretty reliable as I thrashed it too much and eventually broke a piston ring and burnt through a gallon of oil between Cardiff and Swansea.
The cost of getting that fixed taught me to treat it more gently.

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 13:49 - Aug 5 with 809 views

Dad had a moonstone and morocco ,if I recall and went to Harry Sheehan to have it sprayed under the wings to make it more Yank like.

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 13:52 - Aug 5 with 810 views

Joe_bradshaw

Eggshell blue Mark 1 Cortina BBO 112B bought for £85 in 1973.

It was four wheels and little else but it was a car which even made me more attractive to ladies.

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 13:55 - Aug 5 with 805 views

I used to cruise around with Wilfie Lewis is an almost new Morris Oxford,complete with Klaxon. Plenty of cruising then.ome guy had a Vauxhall Cresta resprayed in pink.A real finny magnet

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 15:03 - Aug 5 with 791 views

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 13:52 - Aug 5 by Joe_bradshaw
Eggshell blue Mark 1 Cortina BBO 112B bought for £85 in 1973. It was four wheels and little else but it was a car which even made me more attractive to ladies.

My fourth car was a white 65 Cortina GT with a mat black bonnet and a lightened flywheel.
You had to be really careful revving it or it flew in to the red band.
It's main radiator hose burst on the M4 and after the AA replaced it and refilled the rad it started with a loud donging noise from the engine.
I thought it had blown a main bearing.
After stripping the lower end of the engine outside the house in the street, the bearings were OK.
We rebuilt it and the donging was still there, it turned out that the inner of one of the double valve springs had snapped and the top half was slipping off the bottom half and hitting the cylinder head.
Those were the days when you could work on the car yourself without all the sensors and computers etc.

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 15:08 - Aug 5 with 790 views

Best_loser

Vw Beetle

Thanks for that Adolf

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 16:04 - Aug 5 with 766 views

Johnw102

Showing my age Ford Poplar the old sit up and beg 3 speed box no synchro wipers worked of manifold had to take foot off gas to make them go faster!

Never knew getting old would happen so quick!

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 17:55 - Aug 5 with 746 views

Flashberryjack

1970 Morris mini, british racing green with a white top, wooden steering wheel and racing car wing mirrors, thought I was the dogs b*llox.

Bought from C.K. Andrews Swansea £350 (I think.)

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 18:02 - Aug 5 with 741 views

This thread clearly show how old us feckers are.

Where are he kids and their Astras with big exhaust pipes

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 18:15 - Aug 5 with 732 views

Humpty

First bike: Yamaha DT50. I was bit of a Hell's Angel.

First Car: Mark 2 Fiesta 1.4 Ghia.

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 18:17 - Aug 5 with 736 views

Andy1300

Mine was a Singer Gazelle, £40 from a mate at work

How I wish I had kept it!

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 18:42 - Aug 5 with 723 views

controversial_jack

My first was a box type Vauxhall Viva bought for £85. Then a Triumph herald 1200, for £230, both lasted me a while. Next was a Hillman super minx, which was built like a tank thankfully as I turned it over on it's side going into a aqua skid in Fabian way and got out of it without a scratch.

I can't remember the years of the cars, but I remember how much they cost.I do remember it was more fun driving during the mid 70s than it is now

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 19:40 - Aug 5 with 703 views

swancity

My first car was a 1970 J Reg MGBGT it cost £1050 this was in 1979

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 19:53 - Aug 5 with 694 views

Neath_Jack

First car in 1990 - Escort XR3i, caspian blue. Registration MGA 260Y.

First road legal bike in 2019 - Husqvarna TEi 250. Just need to take my bike test now

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Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 21:11 - Aug 5 with 662 views

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 19:40 - Aug 5 by swancity
My first car was a 1970 J Reg MGBGT it cost £1050 this was in 1979

That must have been expensive to insure.

Your First Car/Motor cycle. on 21:13 - Aug 5 with 659 views