First cars - anything interesting? or just a rotbox?

Well, that's a vague and loose query.

I suggest you get a Lamborghini LM002. Or a Perodua Nippa.

A mid 90's 2dr Nissan Micra, ultra reliable, cheap to run and lots of fun, look good dropped with alloys. (Please no colettes, odious rust buckets  )

If you pay less than a grand for one (easily done) tell the insurance it's worth about 1.1k. (you'll never get that back obviously)
It's been my experience that you get stung for driving anything less than 1k, due to it being too cheap to care about!

(Still can't get over the operator telling me i'd drive a £500 Sierra differently because it was cheap, it was in mint condition having been stored in an old boys garage.)

You'll probably get stung for anything over 1400cc unless you're willing to have a limited mileage, nightime curfew, classic car type deal.





I'm obviously a lot older than 17 now and although it pains me to say it, I may be a little out of touch with said 17yr olds insurance hurdles.
Plus I don't know whether you can still do the named driver on your parents policy thing if your the main driver.

This has been asked many, many times before and the answers all tend towards the same response (for fairly obvious reasons)

If this is completely hypothetical then Dbizzles response is pretty much on the button. If this is genuine question (and I am sure it is) then the link and info I gave in your very similar thread yesterday is probably as good a place to start as any:



Because threads always work better with pictures, here are the only photos I can find of my first car. I loved it...it was amazing, it took me & my GF to many awesome places and I will have another one just like it one day.

This is my first car







To me its interesting, to others it may be a rotbox, its down to what you like the look of really. Then you start looking at the financial side of things to see if its workable

1967 VW Beetle 1500





Slow, very uncomfortable, extremely unsafe, impractical and all the rest of it, but still pretty cool I think.

Not the first car I ever owned. But my "first car"

Learnt to drive, and took my test in...




Still used as my daily years later.

Whilst doing A levels my friend got one as well, which led to a 3600 mile trip to southern Spain




SS1 1300.
Cheap tax
Cheap insurance (well at the time!)

Varying reliability and maintenance costs

Oh and it's a goddam softtop, not many 17 years olds can say that!

my first car was a 13/60 herald, back in April 1997, and last driven in June 1997 (and still waiting for me to rebuild it). I had a strange way on deciding to get a herald as a first car. These were the days before the internet has taken off, so I bought a few classic car mags and chose the car based on what parts were available, by looking at the adverts in the magazines. It was ultimately going to be a spitfire or a herald, and I chose the 13/60 as it had 4 seats, disc brakes at the front, negative earth electrics and the visibility from a saloon was good compared to a convertible, and prefered the look of the badboy bonnet on the 13/60's compared to the earlier cars. since then I've had a mk3 escort and a couple of polos. Ive still got the herald and polos

My first car that I could actually drive: 1987 Peugeot 205 XS 1.4, bought when I was 16 with my first 2 wage packets.
Thats 14 years ago, car was £600 & insurance was £1300 & i was only earning £3000 a year doing 10 hour days lol.
Quite a fast first car, 2nd car was a 205 Rallye.



The first car I bought was a 1983 Mini Mayfair 1000cc, £50 when I was 14, it was bought to do up but all I did was take it to bits & scrap it lol.

All I can suggest is to pick 20 car's you fancy out on ebay & do a compare the market quote, just changing the reg number each time.
Some car's/specs cost alot more than you would expect.

I had a quote on a Ford Fiesta 1.8td @ about £660, a MX5 1.8 was £574.

Oh & get saving! lol

My first car was actually two HA Viva vans neither of which cost me more than £30 to buy. They were both underpowered and very basic but a complete blast. They even took me down to Brighton and back once at a top speed of 45mph on the Motorway.

This is not an actual photo of mine but one I've borrowed off the web but it's give an idea of them except mine weren't as pristine as this one.



If you're wondering why two vans well let's just say they were identical in every way.