Your First Time.

[lfallgti 12]

Ok,

 

So talking to the mrs the other night, we got chatting about why I love 205's and how this little love affair started. She asked when my first time in a 205 was and if it was love at first (ride) sight ;-)

 

So I know similar questions have been asked before but specifically when was your first time actually in one of these cars?

 

Was it on a test drive?

 

Or as an unsuspecting passenger?

 

For me it would have been in about 95 at age 10 when my uncle popped to the offy in his Ford Orion Ghia and came back in a black 1.9. E483 ATL I believe. (he'd bumped into a mate at the shop and swapped there and then as his mate claimed it was too quick for him.)

 

I remember sitting beside him as we drove along Chatteris bypass with The Prodigy "no good" in the tape deck and just thinking how smart the half leathers and red carpet were and how everything just seemed to match perfectly. I remember the car being quick and my uncle mentioning something about corners and "s*it to a fur blanket" but I was more in awe with how cool it looked Inside. I can also remember getting chewing gum stuck to the backseat and scraping it off frantically whilst he was unsuspectingly driving and talking to his girlfriend in the front.

 

7 years later I bought my first one after he'd inspected it at a garage for me whilst I was at work and drove it back for when I got home, I remember him sitting beside me on my first drive encouraging me to keep the power on in corners and something about "s*it to a fur blanket" ????

 

Wow I reminisced more than I planned!

[Slo 283 1 Cars]

I always fancied one cos of the s*it to a fur blanket experience but only ever got into a position of test driving or owning one when a mate mentioned he'd just swapped for a cti and offered to swap my pristine escort cabriolet, having owned a 605 turbo for 8 years I instantly thought project and went to look at it. It was in a right state, flat battery, flat tyres, old dull reacted paintjob, dents, perished rubbers everywhere, torn seats (cloth) with collapsed bolsters, you know the usual rat state. I'd took another mate with me to view who instantly took a strong dislike and tried to convince me it wasn't worth getting out the car to look at it lol, anyway head held high I looked past all the crap and saw what could be achieved and had a test drive and was instantly hooked. We agreed on him paying me £200 and throwing in a set of leather seats and me keeping my wheels. Now the project is a reality although far from perfect its very good with s*it to a fur blanket handling godlike acceleration and great street cred a real head turner.

 

 

Edited September 16, 2013 by Slo

[jackherer 543]

I test drove a 1.9 in Maldon in about 1998 and the salesman kept telling me about police speed traps he'd seen in the town earlier and how I should slow down!

 

One thing I clearly remember is turning in to a mini roundabout with the steering loaded up a lot and I felt every bit of grip it had to offer, at that point I saw a future of driving all sorts of performance cars with lots of steering feel and fifteen years later I now realise not all fast cars are like that.

 

I didn't buy that 1.9 because I wasn't in the market for a car at that time, I was checking it out for a friend who did buy it and still has it. I got my first one about a year later and have had at least one since then.

[mowflow 67]

I was more into motorbikes when I reluctantly passed my driving test. It could possibly have been because as a student i had no money to buy my own car so had to use my mothers. It was a dull day blue Fiat Uno 1000. About a year later it blew up and my dad decided it was to be replaced with a Vauxhall Nova. Being young and of an age where i would be trying to pull birds in this thing I was not happy so I started my own search. I found a nice grey 205 Trio S in a local garage and it was soon bought.

 

This started an obsession with 205s which has grown into a lifelong addiction to cars, I used to drive around looking for GTis to admire and would often drive particular routes home/to work just to take in as many as I could. Around a year or so later in 1995 I started my first full time job and bought a 4 year old Cherry Red 1.6 GTi (H461 OSF). It was a private sale, I knew nothing about cars, I looked at nothing but 205s and I bought it without even test driving it. It was a 205 GTi and that was all that mattered to me. I can't remember the first drive but I remember clearly how that car made me feel every day I owned it. I covered so many miles, drove from Glasgow to Lands End and back and to this day is held as a legend by many friends as a car that performed certain heroics that only a 205 could perform when in the hands of a 20 year old with no sense of their own mortality.

[NFS 32]

Mine was when i was 16, my dad bought me a 205 1.1 as a first car, it was cherry red (orange) 5 door and with crap 14inch aftermarket wheels on, and from that day it was the best car i have ever had! i drove it a few times when i parents went out lol. i alway wanted one when i past as i broke the exhaust driving it, the rust didnt help it stay together much anyway so he sold it as he found out i was driving it without him knowing.

 

so ever since then till last novemeber i have been wanting one soo bad, so i heard of one going cheap from a friend with a 8v turbo in, turned up and it was a pile of s*it to say the least, but i saw potential in her, took her for a test drive and it was s*it! lol then bought it anyway, got it home

Mine was when I was 16, my dad bought me a 205 1.1 as a first car, it was cherry red (orange) 5 door and with crap 14inch aftermarket wheels on, and from that day it was the best car I have ever had! I drove it a few times when my parents went out lol. I always wanted one when I past my driving test as the exhaust rusted away and I broke it driving it, so my dad sold it as he found out I was driving it without him knowing.

so ever since then till last November I have been wanting one so bad, so I heard of one going cheap from a friend with a 8v turbo in, turned up and it was a pile of s*it to say the least, but I saw potential in her, took her for a test drive and it was s*it! lol then bought it anyway, got it home via a trailer, took it for a better drive, and it was s*it lol, thought to myself there must be something wrong with it as they are meant to be really good at handling, so I thought I would persevere. Went to get some parts of Baz, and managed to blag a ride in his Miami 1.9, and that’s when it HIT and it hit HARD, what these are all about, a correctly setup car would be my goal. That’s when I re-fell in love with the 205 again. Turned out that I had a seized rear beam and fubarbed lower arms lol

[jeremy 70]

I was lucky, due to my mums uncle and auntie owning Braileys (Peugeot garage in Five Ash Down Sussex) now closed. As such most cars our family owned from the mid 80s to mid 90s were Peugeot. My parents bought E257 DPE 1l Junior in silver with 17k on the clock, and I never looked back. I then had my sisters 309, then a 106. In about 1999 I got my 1.9 F979 ONK now C15 PUG, and then my 1.6 J966 WTW, and sold it to Baz a few years later (I still look back and think I should have sold the wife instead). I did actually get my GTI out of the garage last week for the first time in five years, and with some fresh petrol and a jump start it fired first time. The feel of the accelerator made me realise why I could not part with it as the car just feels so alive in comparison to my Td5 Disco with fly by wire.