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Cars your Dad/Mum owned when you was younger.
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You must have had the estate which I think actually looked great. Us Brits are good at talking ourselves down and the car wasn't as bad as some say.paulsturgess said:
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 us
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yep that was it. Think we had 3 different ones across 20 odd years. boot capacity got us around a lot of family holidays, I was fond of them despite the stick i got from my mates at school!MuttleyCAFC said:
You must have had the estate which I think actually looked great. Us Brits are good at talking ourselves down and the car wasn't as bad as some say.paulsturgess said:
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 -
paulsturgess said:A succession of austin / rover montegos... the least cool family estate on the market... and then an Alan Partridge Rover 800!
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I think the 2.8i was one of the most beautiful cars ever. And it went. I recall going to the British Grand Prix with a near neighbour John Miles (son of actor Bernard Miles) and his son, my age. It was the most thrilling ride of my life and scared the shit out of me too. He drove it like a racing car and it was rapid.fenlandaddick said:Purple Carpri , was my old man's pride and joy
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So my dad had a black Standard 10 (see above) in the early 70’s & I was about 12.
It was so bad it regularly broke down & it seriously struggled to go up steep hills.
Us kids were in the back traumatised.
It’s reg was 364 emu so obvs we called it emu.
Eventually Dad sold the car in despair.
Some years later Charlton were away at Oxford and dad was driving.
We were close to Oxford doing about 50 up a dual carriageway and **** me emu goes streaking past in the outside lane doing about 80.
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This was the one I remember most fondly as a child. Dads was in grey with red leather seats.
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I lost my dad when I was only seven but I don't think he ever owned a car - not sure he even had a driving licence. My mum never drove.The first car in the family I can remember was my older half brother's Hillman Minx around 1967.
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Triumph 2000 straight 6 Reg LPA 17D, dad bought off his brother who had it from new for £200 in 1970ish, sold it for £205 some 5 years later. Many trips back to Ireland in it, remember him & his mate taking the engine out and rebuilding it. The bonnet opened towards the front.
Before the triumph, he had a VW Beetle in Ireland, that’s me hanging off the door handle.1 -
My dad had a Citroen Safari, that thing with its hydraulic suspension could climb trees1
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As if one of these wasn’t bad enough, the first car I can remember my dad having was a pair of Austin Maxi’s, a white one and a blue one, neither with the “cool” extras that this one has…0 -
Before we moved to Germany in ‘64 my Dad had a Ford Anglia.
The family moved to Germany because my Dad got a job as a printer with the US Army there. Better salary there he upgraded to a Chevy Corvaire.
Followed by a BMW2002
Then a 528i
And a 316
Followed by a 1st generation Honda Accord
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Back in the seventies into the eighties my Dad used to waft around in Jags, when on business I was the chauffeur and would listen to conversations with potential clients I would collect, after a while we picked up the Terry and Arthur tag, although I wasn't a tough guy by any means, loved the Jags though.0
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My dad bought a 1750 new in 1974 (GKR403N) in a delightful shade named 'sand', but miserable mustard would have been more accurate. It cost him £1,745 and replaced a blue C reg Austin 1800 which as a small child I loved as there was so much room in the back to lie down and go to sleep, topping and tailing with my sister. The family fox terrier would sleep on the parcel shelf. Never had the same affection for the mustard maxi.Fumbluff said:As if one of these wasn’t bad enough, the first car I can remember my dad having was a pair of Austin Maxi’s, a white one and a blue one, neither with the “cool” extras that this one has…
Edit: sand glow was the full name of the colour, apparently
Thought it was a big car at the time but when I see one now, rarely, they look tiny.0 -
My Dad only ever bought Renaults, I think the first was a Dauphine and then an 8, 12 ( i learned to drive in!), 18,19 and 5 in no particular order.his last was a blue metallic 19 and when he died it was about 20 years old. I couldn't bare to have it scrapped so @Daggs took it and did it up.0
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We were fairly poor so it was a Talbot hatchback, then a Ford Sierra estate then a Fiat Panda then an Austin Maestro. All of them looking back were absolute shit boxes, did we care as kids? Nah.0
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My dad also had a white one, which was much loved and took the whole family and our luggage to Spain on a couple of occasions. Decided to PX for a brand new Maxi 2 in blue. Got it home, looked around it at all the mismatched paint (the car was different colours front and rear), with rust bubbling under, and ill fitting panels (A proper BL Friday afternoon special). My Dad rarely got angry, but that day he was furious and he took it straight back, dumped it on the forecourt. He still had the spare keys for his old car, told them he was cancelling the deal, and came straight home in the old white one (I had never heard of anyone doing this!).Fumbluff said:As if one of these wasn’t bad enough, the first car I can remember my dad having was a pair of Austin Maxi’s, a white one and a blue one, neither with the “cool” extras that this one has…
The next week went out and bought a new Honda.2 -
My parents didn't drive but a Charlton connection to my first car a Vauxhall Victor FB series .Column change, bench seats .It was well past its best by the time I bought it in 1978.Anyway I had a very short lived career selling insurance, knocking on doors ..I was in Victoria Way ,returned to the car ,sat down on the bench seat and promptly found myself somersaulting backwards onto the back seat ( the whole front seat had broken free of it's. moorings!)
I was playing football for LAC rovers at the time and our beloved Chairman Eddie Cecil wasn't far away down at LAC hq just off the lower road in Greenwich. He was able to weld the seat back but when I went to pick car up he'd forgot to mention that in doing so he'd set fire to the cars carpeting.
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Was Eddie Cecil the Lewis coaches driver?lolwray said:My parents didn't drive but a Charlton connection to my first car a Vauxhall Victor FB series .Column change, bench seats .It was well past its best by the time I bought it in 1978.Anyway I had a very short lived career selling insurance, knocking on doors ..I was in Victoria Way ,returned to the car ,sat down on the bench seat and promptly found myself somersaulting backwards onto the back seat ( the whole front seat had broken free of it's. moorings!)
I was playing football for LAC rovers at the time and our beloved Chairman Eddie Cecil wasn't far away down at LAC hq just off the lower road in Greenwich. He was able to weld the seat back but when I went to pick car up he'd forgot to mention that in doing so he'd set fire to the cars carpeting.
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An Austin A30 like this.
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Vauxhall was owned by General MotorsMuttleyCAFC said:
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 1960.0 -
My Dad is a massive car addict and had all sorts of cool cars growing up through the 80s, 90s when I was a child / teenager and into the early 00s
1987 Golf GTI
Volvo 480
Porsche 944
Lotus Esprit S4S (absolutely loved this)
Porsche 911 Targa 4s
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The first car I remember my mum having was a little A30 as pictured by Jose, except hers was a sort of ivory colour. I remember a lot of cursing on days it wouldn't start, and the starting handle making frequent appearances.
This was followed by an A40 (9820VX) in turquoise, a much more spacious thing, but still lacking a heater.
In turn followed by a 1971 morris 1100 which became my first car.1 -
Love the Studebaker. Was it model where the front and back were very similar?gringo said:his most exotic were:-
His one had a white roof though!0 -
First was a Bedford Dormobile. Loved it though, not when we went camping. Mum and Dad slept in the Bedford all cosy, warm and rain proof, us three kids had to share a cold wet, insect infested tent:(
Ford Anglia followed, which was a cool shape but a squeeze to get us all in.
and last, the Mini Countryman. Mini’s were cool, not sure the countryman was? Same colour as below.
Interesting thread.4 -
heres the backsillav nitram said:
Love the Studebaker. Was it model where the front and back were very similar?gringo said:his most exotic were:-His one had a white roof though!
Apart from the split rear window not that similar.1 -
My father changed his 2 door Morris Minor Series 2 for a 4 door Austin 1100 when I was born. That car rusted badly, and was replace by a Renault 4TL, the first car I remember, something like this one. Definitely the classic I would buy for a childhood nostalgia trip. When that R4 was replaced, I remember the sense of loss, like if a pet dies... It had a bench seat at the front, I remember 6 people crammed into that car, with me in the middle at the front
That was replaced by a Renault 12TL, then a Mk2 Ford Escort 1.3L, then a Citroen Visa Super E, another charismatic small French car.
Then an Austin Maestro 1.6L, followed by an Austin Maestro 1.3 Special, which became my first car until it was written off after someone in a Toyota MR2 drove into the back of it on the Holloway Road...
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Pre War Austin 10 that ended up in a scrap yard followed by a Standard Vanguard a Standard Ensign a Mini and a Triumph Herald.
“Modern” era included a Morris Marina, Volvo Estate and a Rover 80
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Very modest, short list.My Dad started with a Ford Popular, then he got this Morris 1100. Vhe was very proud of it with its 4 doors and "Hydromatic" suspension. And TBF he taught me to drive in it, and I passed first time without any instructor lessons. Unfortunately, he did not mention that it would be a very bad idea to drive it at 60mph in a posh part of Forest Hill, after leaving the pub and with my buddy in possession of some weed. Fortunately plod was in a remarkably benevolent mood.
Lots of cool cars here, but the one I envy most is @DA9 with his Citroen Safari. When I was a kid I had this Corgi toy, it was my favourite , and it felt like an impossible dream to ever take a ride in one. It's definitely what led me to be one of the very few people to own a Citroen DS5 (and now a DS4)
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My dad had loads during my youth, Zephyr Zodiac, Triumph Spitfire. It would take me forever to list them all. The safari really did stand out. I saw one recently parked up near the war museum in Lambeth area.PragueAddick said:Very modest, short list.My Dad started with a Ford Popular, then he got this Morris 1100. Vhe was very proud of it with its 4 doors and "Hydromatic" suspension. And TBF he taught me to drive in it, and I passed first time without any instructor lessons. Unfortunately, he did not mention that it would be a very bad idea to drive it at 60mph in a posh part of Forest Hill, after leaving the pub and with my buddy in possession of some weed. Fortunately plod was in a remarkably benevolent mood.
Lots of cool cars here, but the one I envy most is @DA9 with his Citroen Safari. When I was a kid I had this Corgi toy, it was my favourite , and it felt like an impossible dream to ever take a ride in one. It's definitely what led me to be one of the very few people to own a Citroen DS5 (and now a DS4)1
