My first car was a '75 Triumph Spitfire 1500, and i bought it in England in 1984, in Coventry.
Was recently looking for a "newish" 2003-2005 MG ZT-Tourer, but no luck. Don't like SUVs that much, but i agree there are some advantages. But i think especially those BMW SUVs are b...-ugly. As is the new Range Rover 'Evoque'. Which "Designer" perpetrated this.. thing?! :doh:

Bought 3 cars in my life. 2 are a Clio I

Three in the tree 283 short block V-8 1960 Chevy Impala
 

^ I had seven; still got two Toyotas with 200,000 + miles; But my first was my favorite! Acquired in 1969 for $200.00; I drove it for seven years including a cross-continent trip to the Big Apple; wish I still had it!:Kaleun_Crying: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...f2fc1dac8e.jpg

I wish I had a few bob for each car I've bought....even at my tender young age :)

Renault 4
 

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My first car was one of these: petrol blue with a single wide yellow go-faster stripe down the middle of the roof and bonnet (hood).

I wish I had it too. :D The Impalasof those years were beautiful cars. I find myself gravitating toward them at car shows. Then again, the same thing goes for the GTO's or " Goats " or anything that was well restored.

Aktung, you should have kept it!.
A friend of mine currently restores an Impala, just phantastic looking cars..

Also saw this rear bumper stocker "Vlad the Impala" :03:

Was a nice car, very good suspension and a big boot you could enlarge by folding the rear seats, and the retractable roof made it a cabriolet, in summer. A friend of mine had one, was fun to drive with the fascia-located gearlever.
And in comparison my Spitfire 1500 felt like a real sportscar :haha:

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. I have a few cars I said the same thing. Now I ply the back country roads in my 54 Buick. I always wanted a car from the 50's. I was not going to do the shoulda, coulda, woulda on that bucket list item.

Sentiment aside: it's the "stocker shock"! Those puppies go for $35 K+ these days in low-rider country. Driving your cool car is one thing,:smug: having an additional bank account is another. :damn: I had turned it in for $100 on my second car which was really my first 'sports car'... An orange 1976 Honda Civic https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...3af1cf6823.jpgwith McPherson strut suspension:yeah: No A/C(just go faster:salute:) Front wheel drive 1488cc CVCC transverse-engine with choke; bucket seats with 4 stick manual. That puppy lasted me 'till 1992 and 400,000
++ miles appraising homes in the steep roads of the Santa Cruz Mtns. Best car I ever had. Cheap; easy to maintain-when I was still into my own mechanic-werke :nope:; and nimble in all traffic.

OMG, a Katrca (Slovene nickname for the R4) :/\\k:
We used to own one when I was a kid, the thing dind't care about winter. One time my father had to tow my neighbour and it's luxury model Honda Accord up the hill to his house because the R4 eats snow, not just drives over it :D

I really wanted to buy one, but an R4 that's not a chicken coop or a pile of rust costs at minimum €5000 :wah:

http://i.imgur.com/GH1WrJ2.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._detainees.jpghttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...3af1cf6823.jpg HEY EICH! We were ahead of our(spare) time!:timeout: :()1:http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2014/07/black_and_white_is_the_new_ora.html

I don't have a photo of my first car, a 1970 Mercury Cougar which I bought from the former owner when it was 12 years old.

Just a pencil drawing I did at the time of what that four-eyed monster did to my bank account over the next two years.

http://pyxis.homestead.com/1970_Mercury_Cougar.jpg

Memories...flood the corners of my mind. Misty, watercolor memories of the lemon I owned.

Hi guys, sorry I've not posted in a while, still keep calling in here occasionally.

Yep still got the zook, toned down the paintwork a tad and got a new roof and tyres in the last year or so. I also finally managed to get some Chevy Tracker badges off ebay too :)

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