Sorry if this has been done before, couldnt find it on a search. As title suggests what was your first owned car,(not your mum/dads) something you paid for and memories.

Mine - Bright Orange Beetle 1300, BGB 628K, lovely car but I ruined it with spotlights , a side exhaust, stupid speakers,Golf GTI side stripes. and some engine mods.

And I shout at the Corsa chaps nowadays

Triumph Herald 1200 on 17th Birthday. Followed by 36 years of car owning pleasure. So far....

Oh no....remembering my first evey car.....mini metro 1 litre basic model, I even had to fit a radio and speakers , I went everywhere in it...freedom when 17 is great

2nd and 3rd cars where better as went to Nova, 1.2 then 1.4 SR brilliant cars to hoon around in
The only mods where spots on them and sadly a wall jumped out from know where when coming home from night shift in the SR.....I went Land Rover route then....made sure the next wall suffered if it jumped in front of me !  If it dont work.......burn it!

If the IId tool cant fix it.......burn the FF.

If the FF cant be fixed......buy a Land Cruiser!

If the LC cant be fixed..............................................BUY a horse !!

1965 mini van, the one with the floor button start and long gear lever! My dad got it for £25 off a work ate and we spent a month or so rebuilding it completely, put in side windows, 5j steel wheels, bucket seats etc. it got creamed by a Dawsons Music van in Warrington, so ended up with a 1980 mini 1000, usual buckets, small steering wheel, 6" fibreglass whip aerial!

Wolseley 16/60 automatic. Bought in 1974 for £150 and sold a year later for £155.Replaced with a Herald (Gaz)

A result never repeated since... Graham

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Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey

Wolseley 16/60 automatic. Bought in 1974 for £150 and sold a year later for £155. A result never repeated since...

Replaced with a Herald (Gaz) Graham

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Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey

Oooh double post. What happened there. Graham

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Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey

Must of been a better car than you thought, great days and dodgy cars, was in a MK1 GTI recently which was an early car of mine (1, and was amazed how small it was, cant believe it. We are so pampered these days

Mk 1 Golf way smaller than todays's Polo. Graham

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Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey

The first car that I brought was a 1960 Austin Seven Saloon, with a 997cc cooper engine, later changed for a 1380cc stage 2 cooper ! Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

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Bought a 1973 Series 3 2 1/4 petrol SWB purchased from Portbury docks when i was 16yrs old and was as rotten as a meddler!!!

Re chassied it (great fun driving it around a huge carpark without any bodywork)

Soon bought the first of many Mini's starting with a £40 1000cc from a mate at college Kept the Landy for a couple of years and sold it to a mate who still owns it to this day! Wont sell it back to me though

If it was anything like my old series 2A, I wouldn't want it back, way too many ball joints in the steering to go in a straight line for me!  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

I was 16 at the time and desperate for a car so I bought CUS 9B a 1964 Hillman Super Minx, cost me a fiver but there was no engine in it. Bought a second hand engine at the scrapyard and fitted it, then dad took the car into town and it stalled at every set of lights, turned out the 'new engine was burning as much oil as it was petrol

So I fitted a set of oil master rings and sold it for £65 and I bough my second car in time for getting my driving license, 103 KGD a 1963 Vauxhall Viva for the grand total of £20.00 Managed to keep this one for 10 months before rolling it to avoid hitting a stupid woman driver who crossed onto my side of the road

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I feel like my age (or lack of) will show here - Lexus IS200 SE... Really liked it and got sold when I was overseas... MY11 Vogue 4.4 TDV8 - "African Queen"

Interesting Gary, I had a Triumph Herald 1250 as my first car after a year of riding motorbikes. A well restored one and I learned my first car repair and maintenance skills on it. Easiest car in the world to work on !!! Many cars after that.

Good memories apart from dumping my bag in the passenger footwell one morning and hearing SPLASH (filled with several centimeters of water due to leaking doorseal). Bad heating, wearing full winter gear and gloves inside in winter. Lots of drifting in the winter thanks to the rearwheel drive.

Sold it to be able to buy my next bike and a cheap car (Beetle). MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
Have the Faultmate MSV2 Extreme to be tinkering with the settings etc. !!