1982 Mark 1 Ford Fiesta 1.1L in Strato Silver (not any old silver , oh no, Strato Silver)
I had saved long and hard from my pitiful Saturday/holiday job earnings from the age of 15 and was able to buy myself the very second hand beauty above. It had everything a child of the seventies could dream of, steel wheels, Audioline cassette deck with green backlight, a 'The Fiesta Touch' decal in the back window, oh yeah I was the man and my motor was the best car in the world...except for the fact that the day I passed my test I dicked the front bumper into a granite wall, the constantly overheating radiator that couldn't handle traffic for more than five minutes (one day going so far as to explode), the stick I kept in the boot for hitting the starter motor every morning, the Doc Marten sole marks on my dashboard (thanks Nelson), the creaking passenger door (thanks DJ Wakner), the red hot glowing break disc brake that had a bit of gravel trapped between it and the pad (I did mention it had proper disc brakes on the front ??), the milk stains on the middle of the passenger seat (again Nelson, thanks), the shattered rear brake light cluster with the faint outline of a 50cc bike wheel in it, the vibration that made it nigh on impossible to steer at it's stated maximum speed of 96mph (and the brown trousers after trying to brake in way too short a distance afterwards).

But like Bagpuss I loved it very much.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 22 Apr 2010, 17:58, 1 reply)

i also
had a mark one fiesta - it was blue. I bought it from the gypseys for 125 quid. It didn't have a handbrake and you could open the door with any flat bladed key

IT WAS BRILLIANT!

i loved it

also don't belive 96 mph mine was only the 1l but i got 105mph (once)
(Batemonkey, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 12:07, closed)