1st car ideas!!!

to be honest ill take anything. i wana spend less than a grand. but iv considered every thing from mk2escorts to a mk1clio to a perodua nippa to a suzuki sj. I'm open to anything.

How about a Triumph dolomite?..... the green on below was my first car. it was a 1500 hl and i picked it up for about £200 with 6 months MOT, don't get me wron it needed work but was a good car and alot of fun to drive. i then upgraded to the 1850 which is the yellow one this is currently of the road having an engine rebuild.
some ideas for you

id go with the skoda ideaate, it sounds to me like thats what u fancy so go for one.

KIA MENTOR

309 would be an off the wall choice. Not seen many done in the UK.

Lots of stuff "out there". Most of it is the luck of finding smething for sale at the right time and price.

i did look at chevettes as wellbut there a bit pricey!!!

I'm a year younger than you, I've just bought a Mk2 VW Polo saloon to be my first car. Loads of tuning parts, huge wheel and suspension selection, good looking and cheap insurace. Getting less common by the day, as you can tell from the numbers in the scrappies.

Adam

I'm not going to suggest a Herald because though they can be had for not a huge amount as I well remember from my new driver days they arent as cheap to insure as they could be.
What I would suggest are the two best of the heap of wrecks I had as a young driver, a Mini 850 or a FIAT Panda.

The Mini is an amazing car. It lives up to its legend in all but speed and the 850's the slowest one, but with handling like that in a car that small you wont be bothered! Just point it at some twisties and you'll still be grinning days later. I know Minis are generating a little bit of a scene tax of their own these days but the great thing is there are still so many of them about that the unglamorous models are not that expensive. Buy one or spend the rest of your life regretting that you never had one.

The FIAT Panda is a harder sell. An unglamorous little 1980s Italian car made out of tinfoil with a plasticy interior that bits break off it you look at it. Why do I think it's so good then? Simply this, the Italians make fantastic small cars. The engineering is nuke-proof even if the body isnt, the performance is acceptable and the controls have a "together" feeling you just don't get from competing southern European cars. Early FWD ones have solid rear axles so have more "fun" handling, later ones have independent suspension at the back so handle "better". And the 4WD version is probably the cheapest 4WD you'll ever find. The best news is the price though. No scene tax whatsoever, if you can find one still in one piece they'll probably pay you to take it away. Ultracheap insurance fun doesnt come any easier to get!

You need a 70`s opel\vaux rwd car, ie Opel Manta