Eamonn Holmes has shared nostalgic memories of his first vehicle during a GB News broadcast, revealing he owned a Fiat 124 which he jokingly called "the Fiat worse than death."The presenter reminisced about the car while chatting with co-host Anne Diamond, proudly recalling how he had customised it with "go-faster stripes."Eamonn Holmes told GB News viewers: "My first car was a Fiat 124, the Fiat worse than death."Anne Diamond asked: "Was it like a sieve and looked like a Lada?"READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00The first car was a Fiat 124, a Fiat worse than death.
00:06Was it?
00:06It leaked like a sieve, it leaked like a ladder.
00:09It was the version, it was the light European version of the ladder.
00:12The Russians then bought the model and made a heavier version of it.
00:16But anyway, it was, I got go-faster stripes on it.
00:20Oh, they always used to do that, didn't they?
00:23They'd take on an old jalopy that, you know, goes at two miles an hour,
00:26but could put go-faster stripes on it.
00:28That was it, that was it.
00:29That was everything.
00:29My first car was my mum's Morris 1000,
00:32which was a good, solid, reliable little car,
00:35which I thought was really boring, so I sold it.
00:37What was it?
00:37Morris 1000.
00:39Oh, yeah, that would be worth a few quid now.
00:41Oh, it would, yeah, but unfortunately I sold it to buy an MG Midget,
00:44which burned more oil than petrol.
00:45Look, sorry, sorry, I don't know why.
00:47Where have they done that from?
00:48I don't know, but that was impressive, wasn't it?
00:51So there is my car there, and that is the rally lights on it.
00:55It was higher at the back and at the front, and yeah,
00:58so I was, what was what, 18 then?
01:01Oh, bless.
01:02That was it.
01:03You don't forget your first car.
01:04Every bit of it was rusted.
01:06I actually had to drill holes in the floor just to let the water pour out.
01:11Do you remember, it was always the floor that went in old cars, wasn't it?
01:14Rust got to the floor.
01:16If you were very careful, your feet didn't go through the floor.
01:19But I enjoyed that car, I enjoyed that car, it was very good.
01:21Lovely fond memories of your first car.
01:24Is that right?
01:24That was a 500.
01:25You remember that?
01:26God, that was a fortune for that.
01:27Yeah, it was.
01:29OK.
01:29All right.