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17 year olds first car
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16/01/2024 22:48
16/01/2024 22:48
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Posts: 23,314 North Wales
Theresa
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Mazda MX5 ![laugh laugh](/forum/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif) Eldest grandson passed his driving test first time, just after Christmas and I'm very proud of him for doing so. He's a car enthusiast and has been coming to car shows with me since he was about 2 years old. He's always liked the MX5's, especially the Mk1's, but never expected him to own any of the models. Insurance is horrendous on anything he looks at, but I unexpectantly saw a cheap and local MX5 for sale on Saturday and we ended up buying it ![laugh laugh](/forum/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif) It's a Mk2 and he's extremely happy, so one happy grandson ![laugh laugh](/forum/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif) Good thing is, is that he can't have 4 or 5 mates all squashed in the back either ![laugh laugh](/forum/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif)
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: Theresa]
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18/01/2024 15:38
18/01/2024 15:38
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Nice to hear some good news Theresa, happy trails.
I'm an old git & happy with it,most of the time
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: PaulL]
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19/01/2024 06:42
19/01/2024 06:42
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He'll probably manage to squeeze for or five girls in though !!!!!! Sequentially or simultaneously? (ooer missus! ![laugh laugh](/forum/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif) )
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: Theresa]
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20/01/2024 15:07
20/01/2024 15:07
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The first car I drove was my Mother's 12 seater Bedford Utilabrake on an airfield aged 13.
Aged 14 I had flown a DeHaviland Chipmunk and by 16 I had driven a Ferguson Tractor and a Land Rover also on airfields, retrieving gliders and towing launch cables from the winches to the flight line and flying Slingsby T21b gliders.
The first car I actually owned was a 1933 Morris Minor with a central accelerator pedal, which was different to my mothers and also the driving schools Morris Minor 1000s
16VT and X1/9 1500
We must all do our part for the planet. I unplugged a row of electric cars that nobody was using.
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: Edinburgh]
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20/01/2024 16:02
20/01/2024 16:02
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My first car was a Datsun 120a F2, little 1200cc engine that was super economical, but the bodywork was rotten as hell
She's alive!
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: Theresa]
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20/01/2024 16:47
20/01/2024 16:47
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Today we bought the first car for our son. A second generation Panda. My first was a Peugeot 306 diesel from my employer.
Last edited by jaaps2; 20/01/2024 17:16.
20VT, build in 1997, first used in 1998
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: PaulL]
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20/01/2024 19:37
20/01/2024 19:37
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New cars are a bit like microwaves, too many gadgets, when all you want to do is cook a baked potato.
New cars are full of chips though.
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: Theresa]
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20/01/2024 21:43
20/01/2024 21:43
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PaulL
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: Theresa]
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20/01/2024 22:25
20/01/2024 22:25
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barnacle
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My first car was a mini that someone had previously squeezed a 1700 engine into... I have no idea how; I was young and innocent then.
I had later (after a Nissan Sunny, a MK1 Escort, and a Datsun Bluebird) a Datsun 120Y which was a hoot... I dropped a five speed box into that one, just to see if it was possible, and that led to a Datsun 240Z, an Escort-based kit car which ended up with a 120Y lump in it, and a couple of Fiats, pandas and unos and puntos, a 127 powered kit car, a Nissan Silvia, more Fiats, the 16v coupe, a further selection of Fiats, a 20vt coupe, more fiats, a Seat Leon Cupra, a 20vt powered kit car, more fiats, and finally the current French Thing[tm].
It seems I have a strange taste in cars. Many of the above overlapped.
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: barnacle]
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04/02/2024 23:55
04/02/2024 23:55
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Theresa
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He's starting to discover the 'joys' of a 20 year old car ![laugh laugh](/forum/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif) Central locking playing up. ABS light has come on. Check engine light on, then off. Handbrake warning light on and off. Something hanging down and making a noise at the rear of the car (which I suspect is a handbrake cable ). Told him to join an MX5 forum ![laugh laugh](/forum/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif)
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: Theresa]
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26/02/2024 23:34
26/02/2024 23:34
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Well, it's now a write off ![grr grr](/forum/images/graemlins/default/mad.gif) Grandson is ok, but he's been a d!!k and the car has now gone for scrap ![frown frown](/forum/images/graemlins/default/frown.gif) Oh no ![shocked shocked](/forum/images/graemlins/default/shocked.gif) Thank goodness he's alright. Prang is bad enough but could have been so much worse....
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Re: 17 year olds first car
[Re: Theresa]
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27/02/2024 10:08
27/02/2024 10:08
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