that was my first ever car!
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I drove a C1,,,once.if anyone is looking for cheap motoring have a look at those Peugeot 107 , citroen c1 , Toyota aygo's japanese engine £38 for a service kit , £20 for a tyre , £20 a year road tax 66mpg about £40 to fill the tank & the lowest insurance band can be picked up for less then £1000
My wife had a Talbot Horizon we called it nail car because as you said the engine rattle was so bad, it had a pop up sunroof and ever time we hit a big bump my head would him hit the sunroof surround trim.My first car was an act of desperation in an attempt NOT to be given an old allegro that my mum had.
£75 worth of Talbot Horizon
An unbelievably clattery engine, but they all had that.
It had the old Simca engine if anyone remembers those.
Sounded like a cement mixer full of spanners.
It was a 1.5 and those were quite rare. So when the gearbox failed a previous owner had fitted the only one he could find which was from a 1.3, he made it fit somehow.
As a result it accelerated like a stabbed rat but ran out of revs at about 65 mph, and reverse didn't work.
So you either had to find an uphill sloping parking space or stick your leg out and push it backwards.
That thing certainly gave me an intensive lesson in DIY car repairs
You can make them backfire to order, boot it hard in second or third gear then lift off the throttle completely, Hnnnning hing hing BANG!Whiiiiiine,,,harrumph,,,,whiiiiiine,,,, harrumph
Anyone over a certain age can identify a Moggy accelerating while blindfolded.
The weird trombone parp noise they make when you change gear
They stopped making those the year I was born but there were still loads on the road as I was growing up.
I too had an Imp as my first car, I was 17 years old in 1976 and was fed up borrowing my mums Mk2 Cortina so in 1978 I bought an Imp van from my (at the time) boss’s neighbour, he had bought from my boss previously, my boss had put side windows in the back of it and had also had the cylinder head skimmed and rebuilt with a paper gasket, he also had twin 40 Dellorto carburettors put on it and a sorted exhaust. Unfortunately when I got it the carbs and exhaust had been replaced with standard kit, the clutch was on the way out and the head gasket had blown but still it got us to all sorts of places. It used to go through the rubber drive donuts like they were going out of fashion. I had to scrap it in the end and bought a Mk2 Cortina 1300 deluxe in Lagoon Blue on an “H” plate, now I have a Mercedes-Benz C class
I still own these today.
That Granada was the same version I had as a company car,probably the nicest car I have ever driven,was a real mile muncher,but the traffic was less in those days, Love the Rover as well,My first car was a mk2 Vauxhall Cavalier in 1988. Ran this for a couple of years then brought an Opel Manta. I loved this car and still have fond memories of this.
Although around the same time I brought a series 2a Land Rover and a mk1 Escort Mexico, so had three cars on the road.
When the Manta went, I purchased Mk3 Ford Granada 2.8 Ghia. That was a lovely car to drive for which I kept for a few years. Followed by a BMW 735i.. After this many Range Rovers, before going Japanese with Nissan Pathfinders.
Also in my collection is a Rover TP Vitesse.
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