What did you pay for your first motorized transport ?
One of my granddaughters turned seventeen this week and her mam and dad bought her a cheap runaround from her auntie for £250 (great little motor) to learn to drive in.
It made me think what I paid for my first, my first motorbike was a Francis Barnett 197cc which cost me £3.10s when I was 15 and my first car was a Ford Popular sit up and beg for £30 when I was 16 quickly followed by a Ford Anglia 100e which cost me £50 and the seller who I knew included a good running Lambretta scooter in the deal.
Over the next few years a few more cars came my way and a lot of bikes, one bike I remember buying with a mate (we paid half each) was a BSA A10 with a double adult side car complete with a spare engine for £14, we cleaned it up and decided we would share it one week each at a time, he had it for the first week and on day one wrapped it round a lamppost, we scrapped it after that.
Those were the days :)
What did you pay for your first motorized transport ?
I got my TY50 for my sixteenth as a hand me down from my elder brother, paid £145 for a Suzuki GT185 the following summer (1980) and £350 for a T reg Chrysler Avenger estate off my mates mum in 1985.
It’s atomising really, that 35 years later an old runabout is still so cheap!
What did you pay for your first motorized transport ?
My first car was an Audi Coupe 5 cylinder, paid £1995 for it back in 1989 and sold it 6 weeks later for £1700. The buyer paid in cash, the car was taken to Ireland and that night I slept with £1700 cash under my pillow [emoji3]