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Name something in your first ever car that isn't in your current car?

204 replies

OneUmberJoker · 22/12/2025 11:02

A tape slot

OP posts:
Tallestone · 22/12/2025 20:54

A choke

macshoto · 22/12/2025 20:59

Manual gear lever.
Both current cars have ‘flappy paddles’ - one a full automatic and the other an automated manual.

Road atlas and London AtoZ.
Mostly use Waze these days, though we did use a paper map on a touring holiday in Spain this year.

Spare wheel.
Both cars have the injection foam for a puncture and no spare wheel.

Fabric seats.
Both current cars have leather.

hidinginthebathroomagain · 22/12/2025 21:01

Tape player and a lighter.

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 22/12/2025 21:03

Motorola push button radio

Blingismything · 22/12/2025 21:07

A hole in the floor, you could see the road surface through it. A dodgy (synchromesh?) gearbox in reverse and first gears. A pull up aerial.

StCuntyMcCunterson · 22/12/2025 21:08

Cd player!
also a stereo with removable face - the height of sophistication.
a home made parcel shelf and some 6x9 speakers. Current car does have a subwoofer but it’s integrated with the upgraded sound system and not in the boot.
window winders
ashtrays and a lighter
a fan belt that fell off if I accelerated too hard but only just enough to keep putting it back on.

lorisparkle · 22/12/2025 21:08

A choke, a tape machine, a piece of wood to hold up the boot, a broken door handle that if you wiggled enough the door was open, a light lever that would switch off the light when you went from dipped to full beam or vice versa.

Vitriolinsanity · 22/12/2025 21:15

My BF had a DAF car inherited from her DM. It was a fucking death trap. She had a bin nailed to the floor as an ashtray/bottle bank and when we stopped and got out so did a blue pall of smoke from the engine.

YYURYYUCICYYUR4ME · 22/12/2025 21:19

A paddling pool!!!!

121gigawatts · 22/12/2025 21:20

Randomchat · 22/12/2025 11:07

Aww, a turquoise Fiat punto. I loved that car. A tape player, then I upgraded to a cd player where you could take the front off and carry it around in your handbag. And handles to roll down the windows.

It didn't have power steering.

This was my first car, same colour too. I still remember the registration! It was a 98 plate.

snowibunni · 22/12/2025 21:21

Paint job that was brush painted on.
Manual choke
Handbrake was a button on the floor
No head rests
Tape deck/manual radio
Wind down windows.
Spot lights
A General Lee type air horn
CB radio
Arials on the roof
No heated rear screen

SabrinaThwaite · 22/12/2025 21:47

Snooks1971 · 22/12/2025 20:30

Yes it’s the embarrassment at that age. After my mini died (the floor fell out, how the hell im still here I have no idea) I bought an ancient chunky Vauxhall Astra for £600. Totally forgot about the choke on the way home, left it out and engine flooded. Stalled on a bridge in Lincolnshire. Its one of those things I need to let go but it sticks in my mind at 54 Grin

My Mini’s wheel fell off going round a roundabout. I hitched a lift to the local garage and the owner drove me back to the roundabout, crawled around picking up the various bits and then put the wheel back on for me. And all for no charge.

That Mini was a legend - broke down on a very wet August Saturday on a busy high street, someone shut their shop to help me move it and then called their local mechanic - turned out he’d been the guy who’d sold it new 18 years earlier. Countless people stopped me to say they’d owned it at one time or another.

Sold to a friend who promptly wrote it off - useless twat.

SabrinaThwaite · 22/12/2025 21:49

notimagain · 22/12/2025 20:49

Mine with pedal for dip/full was a Morris Traveller, but you've got me scratching my head about the Mini, 'cos had one of those at one point but can't remember the details (other than holes in the floor).

I had a 1967 Mini - no foot pedal for the headlights.

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 22/12/2025 21:49

A 17 year old boy 😀

Specialagentblond · 22/12/2025 21:59

Spare tyre
manual gearstick
Holder on windscreen for car tax disc.

Ticktockwatchclock · 22/12/2025 22:03

A leaking air con radiator that caused me to break down on the M25 with a car full of children and camping gear

Parky04 · 22/12/2025 22:06

I've still got wind up windows, no central locking on my 64 plate VW Up!

PodMom · 22/12/2025 22:10

No seatbelts on the back seat.
no kiddilocks on the back door
manual choke

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 22/12/2025 22:10

Petrol tank

rosyvalentine · 22/12/2025 22:12

A tape player
Wind-down window handles
Cigarette lighter and ashtrays
A spare tyre (ridiculous!)

JoyintheMorning · 22/12/2025 22:21

Nourishinghandcream · 22/12/2025 13:17

A floor mounted switch to operate high-beam (early Mini).

We borrowed a big car perhaps a Humber to go on holiday and the starter was like that.

NormasArse · 22/12/2025 22:22

A choke.

Wind up handles for the windows.

Small push out windows at the front (I think!).

A manual lock on the door.

Go faster stripes 😁.

Radio cassette player.

Fiat 126 about 40 yrs ago (was already old then!)

rainbowsparkle28 · 22/12/2025 22:24

A CD player 😔 Love my Apple CarPlay but there was just something about playing CDs!
Oh and a manual gearbox if that counts - automatic now and would never go back! 😂

Hannahthepink · 23/12/2025 13:49

Neon lights in the foot wells 😂

localnotail · 23/12/2025 14:30

The whole actual car ))))

One of my old cars had a choke (not a choker, hahahaa). Bet not many know what that even is.