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Cars your Dad/Mum owned when you was younger.
CaptainRobbo
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Could even be Uncles or mate from school's dad.
Start you off with a few notable ones.
Rover P5 3litre
Transit mk1 minibus
Granada mk2 2.8GL
Mini Clubman estate - learned to drive in it.
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Was going to post a picture of a horse and cart mateT_C_E said:9 -
First car my old man had was a Ford Popular. Was too young to remember it but it met it’s doom when the half shaft snapped and the back wheel came off and overtook us going down Death Hill by Brands Hatch. He moved to a Morris Minor then the Austin A55 below. I loved that car and was gutted when he sold it for a Hillman Avenger. Then a Mk5 Cortina that I also loved.
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My auntie and uncle (very wealthy, whilst we lived on temple hill Dartford so was obviously poor, posh as well think Mrs Bucket) had one of these below, as a very very special treat I was allowed in it.They drove me and mum to Cornwall overnight, in thick fog over Bodmin moor my uncle decided he took the wrong route pulled into a farm entrance and promptly reversed into a very pile of manure, which filled up the exhaust pipe, he got out to investigate the damage and my Auntie trying to be helpful put her foot hard on the accelerator and covered him in sh1t. 😀😀😀
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Same as you DaveMehmet my dad's car was Ford Popular. I also had one for a short while1
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(I’m guessing) it was 1959 when my dad bought one of these column change Vauxhall Victor Supers in two tone blue, possibly 1960.1 -
Austin 7 saloon
Frogeye Sprite
Austin Cooper S
Ford Zephyr 6 2.5 with Bristol cylinder head
all of which now worth at least 20 times what they were sold for
followed by years of the deeply unexceptional
Standard Super 10
Triumph 1300
Triumph Toledo
Mini Clubman Estate
Mini Clubman (which I got to drive when I reached 17)
Automotively, the highlight of my primary school years was my Dad's mate's Scimitar GTE,rare even in the mid 70's and the first car in which I rode that had electric windows, it sounded great and went like stink, genuinely thrilling to 8 year old me.
Around the same time our neighbour's brother would visit regularly in his black tulip (very dark purple) MG BGT V8.
A truly visceral soundtrack to my impressionable ears, the gorgeous body colour, gleaming chrome trim and alloy wheels, sowing the seeds of my (largely unrequited) petrol hedonism.
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his most exotic were:-
His one had a white roof though!
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My old man had a Ford Zephyr 4, B reg in British Racing Green from new. I used to love riding up front on the bench seat! He kept it until the late 70’s then changed it for a Vauxhall Viva which was a bloody awful motor.
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I must be getting old because lots of these cars your dad's used to own I've owned myself.8
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Full list:
Ford Prefect E93A
Ford Zephyr Mk III
Ford Zodiac Mk IV (what a dog - gearbox failed after 2k miles because it had never had any oil put in it from new.)
Jaguar Mk 2 3.8 (Beautiful very reliable car that clocked up over 180k miles before it died.
Austin Princess 2.2. (What a good car that could have been if the BL senior management hadn't messed it up.)
Morris Marina 1.8 (A complete pile of crap.)
Some weird Japanese thing - might have been a Honda Legend - very, very thirsty.
Nissan Micra x 2
Nissan Primera.
I once went up to Leeds with him in the Jag shortly after the M1 had been extended that far North. For the first 45 minutes on the M1 he averaged 117mph. But he had to slow down because you could literally see the petrol gauge moving. But having cleared London, we still got to Leeds in a little over two hours.1 -
Is that a Studebaker?gringo said:his most exotic were:-His one had a white roof though!1 -
Growing up, my dad had an Austin Westminster. Automatic transmission, 3.5L, Blue Leather seats, sat 3 in the front and 3 in the back and purred like a jaguar when being driven. He inherited off his Aunt who’d had it for 10 years and only used it to go to church on Sundays. Less than 2000 miles on the clock. Had it for at least 15 years. It was maintained by my cousin who loved working on it and only got rid of it because parts became difficult to get hold of. Sold it and bought a Vauxhall Cavalier.
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What my Dad had when I was a kid , loved riding pillion
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CaptainRobbo said:
Is that a Studebaker?gringo said:his most exotic were:-His one had a white roof though!
yup a champion, my mum hated it because she had to push it everywhere - 50 years later she still moaned about it when I bought him a model of one for crimble.1 -
Hilman Avenger.1
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Rover 200, same car (and colour) as Richard and Hyacinth Bucket drove.
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No Bentleys or Rollers yet.0
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Rover 2000. I have a memory when I couldn't have been much more than 3 of the car being loaded onto a plane which took us across the Channel and some of the way of our holiday to Italy. This is 100% true.
Then this from about 1973 ish
Hillman Avenger (Green was metalic and a touch darker and it was the 4 headlight version. My dad bought a second hand kit on holiday and converted it so it could run on both petrol and gas. He was clever like that. In later years he had a Talbot Alpine (It was the Chysler Alipine shape but was badged as a Talbot) and a Talbot Tagora which was rare on the road but I loved the look.
I really love a wedge although the car was a failure in terms of sales. It was a lot better than its reputation.0 -
This was a Honda Civic if I remember rightly with different heaflights. I thought the Rover headlights improved the look.North Lower Neil said:Rover 200, same car (and colour) as Richard and Hyacinth Bucket drove.0 -
It was interesting how these cars took inspiration form American design.letthegoodtimesroll said:(I’m guessing) it was 1959 when my dad bought one of these column change Vauxhall Victor Supers in two tone blue, possibly 1960.1 -
Also fun to sit in the back shouting "mind that pedestrian, Richaaaard!" at random intervals and getting told off for making whoever was driving jump.MuttleyCAFC said:
This was a Honda Civic if I remember rightly with different heaflights. I thought the Rover headlights improved the look.North Lower Neil said:Rover 200, same car (and colour) as Richard and Hyacinth Bucket drove.1 -
A succession of austin / rover montegos... the least cool family estate on the market... and then an Alan Partridge Rover 800!0
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Also a blue Vauxhall Astra estate that I'd have to sit in the boot of when we had grandparents with us for a day out and there was 6 of us.
This type:
My mate's Dad was a plumber with a van and he'd give a couple of us a lift home from school in the back of the van now and again, with saws, hammers, pipework etc all rolling around between us.
Different times, think you'd get pulled over for that these days.
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My first car was a Vauxhall Victor, cost me £5.00, lasted me one year till the MOT was due, you could see the road through the drivers footwell, and it burnt a gallon oil on a trip to Margate once, and smoked like a trooper, you couldn't have the window open for the fumes coming through the heater vents, I think I over paid...🙄letthegoodtimesroll said:(I’m guessing) it was 1959 when my dad bought one of these column change Vauxhall Victor Supers in two tone blue, possibly 1960.
My parents car was an Austin A40.1 -
I think it had its build quality faults but was unfairly criticised. And the Turbo version was rapid. In the region of 130 mph top speed.paulsturgess said:A succession of austin / rover montegos... the least cool family estate on the market... and then an Alan Partridge Rover 800!0 -
We had a turbo diesel. Engine was a right racket. To be fair, it went on forever that one.MuttleyCAFC said:
I think it had its build quality faults but was unfairly criticised. And the Turbo version was rapid. In the region of 130 mph top speed.paulsturgess said:A succession of austin / rover montegos... the least cool family estate on the market... and then an Alan Partridge Rover 800!
They had fold-up rear-facing seats in the boot for kids which me and my brother used to enjoy sitting in giving two finger signals to bemused drivers behind us0 -
Purple Carpri , was my old man's pride and joy0
rare even in the mid 70's and the first car in which I rode that had electric windows, it sounded great and went like stink, genuinely thrilling to 8 year old me.
