What happened to your first Car & Motorbike?

[punyXpress]

First Bike:
Lambretta Li125, seen here during Isle of Man International Scooter Rally 1962



First car : 1930 Austin 7 on towing duties c1960:


The top one's my dad's Rover 90 @ about 85 on Dalby rally road before it was surfaced.

First car, triumph Toledo, big ends went before I even got it legal, scrapped.

First bike was back in 1988, Yamaha dt50, bought for £50, used and abused it off road, sold for £50 about 6 months later.

I had a KX80 that was stolen from my garden and my first car was a Peugeot 205 XS sold it to my sister and her lump of a body friend thrashed it to death

First car was/is Saxo 1.1 which has just clocked over the 100,000 mile mark and is still chugging along (touch wood!) Needs the drives shafts replacing now as they're starting to knock.

First bike was a GS 125, bought for £300 and sold for £600, quite happy about that ha!

Once it eventually got above 50mph the speedo went mental and indicated between 85 & 100mph! I looked like an orangutan on a mini bike when riding though.

[DryRob]

I had a 1.6 Escort Ghia that used to be the family car and had over 100k on the clock. Got a nice Christmas present when I got home from uni, my dad had scrapped it for me as I couldn't afford to renew the insurance or run it.

First bike was an MBK (Yamaha apparently) MachG scooter which I sold to my brother after a year. I think he sold it on to a mate who wrecked it but I was paying more attention to my Escort by then.

[Popy Fresco]

First bike was a CBR 125 8 years ago; still sitting at my dad's garage waiting for me to pay some attention to it.

No cars yet; and don't think will buy one anytime soon

First car that was effectively mine was my mum's Volvo 480. It met it demise when it needed about £1000 worth of repairs to pass its MOT (suspension mounts were rotting, the electrics had gone before I started driving it and head gasket was about to go) and it was worth about £300. Driving it from the garage to the scrap yard I blew out the cooling system doing a burnout on the Thursley road. This meant that I had to do the last two miles to the scrapyard on a potholed dirt track at 40+ to stop it overheating. That was fun. I knocked the exhaust off and put a stick through something vaguely important in the engine bay.

First car which I bought and owned was a MK3 Golf GL TDI, with oval aftermarket alloys that resonated at 74-78 mph, the electric windows didn't work so you had to go past the toll booth on the Severn crossing and open the door to stick the money in. And I put a couple of dents in it when the door looks stopped working and I had to climb in through the sunroof. The only thing to did to it was replace the drivers side door lock in three years and a few oil changes. bought for 850, sold for 950. Was well happy.

First bike is (hopefully) sat out the front of work. see my avatar. Just has three times as many miles on it as when I bought it.

Motorbike catastrophes to many to mention as a 15-17 year old but the most spectacular was going flying after hitting a ford[burn/stream] at 60+mph
First car 1947 Rover 14,I went over a hump back bridge at 70mph[down hill] and the chassis snapped in half. Back to the scrap yard and got something else to "Salvage"

Yes I was a nutter as a kid


Current project 1989 [24year old] Yamaha 400 FZR

[L3nny]

First moped was a TSX50, sold it to some girl to use as a farm bike, only lost £100 on it.

First proper bike was my SV, sold it to a guy on here for £50 less than I paid for it, suppose after 2 years it's about time he found out! He proceeded to do all kinds of weird things to it like paint it white

First car was a Peugeot 206 1.0 XL had it for less than a year and sold it to a friend of a friend who kept it for a good few years.

Touch wood I have never scrapped or written off a car and technically not written off a bike (only because I crashed the Fireblade on track lol)

Chinese 'dirt pro' 125 that cost me £200. Lasted 3 months until I was kicking down gears approaching a roundabout and the whole cushdrive/sprocket sheared from the hub and my chain wrapped around the mess locking the wheel.

Didn't come off, but I did have to push it home with a locked wheel.

Sold it to a mate for spares, then 5 years later last year the dvla sent me a letter saying it was still in my name and fined me 40 quid for leaving it unlicensed.