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Cars your Dad/Mum owned when you was younger.
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YesDaveMehmet said:
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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Hillman Minx. It was built like a tank. It would squash modern cars0
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My Dad had one of those for his first car.jose said:An Austin A30 like this.
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My dad is one of those Rover nuts, so my childhood comprised of:
Rover 414 (no power steering)
Rover 820 (head gasket blew)
Rover 825 (stolen bizarrely)
City Rover (rebadged car from India)
Rover 45 (head gasket blew)
When I turned 17 I was encouraged to buy a Rover, so I bought a '97 Rover Coupe but as soon as I drove it home the head gasket blew.
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Must've come as a massive shock to you when Rover went bust?cafcnick1992 said:My dad is one of those Rover nuts, so my childhood comprised of:
Rover 414 (no power steering)
Rover 820 (head gasket blew)
Rover 825 (stolen bizarrely)
City Rover (rebadged car from India)
Rover 45 (head gasket blew)
When I turned 17 I was encouraged to buy a Rover, so I bought a '97 Rover Coupe but as soon as I drove it home the head gasket blew.1 -
Mum and dad both had a VW Beetle, then sold them and got a Volvo 300. Me dad the chopped that in years later for a BMW 3 Series (E30) in a deep dark green. Stunning motor, I remember going with him to collect it from the dealer, probably the most excited I've ever been
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That picture definitely predates "Turkey Teeth".DaveMehmet said:
No way you'd be allowed on telly today with a set of gnashers' like that.0 -
My Dad had a white one, quite a prestigious car back in the day and a step up from the Austin Cambridge._MrDick said: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.
After that he had a Hillman Hunter, then an Austin 1800.
All had one thing in common, a lovely round Charlton Athletic Badge stuck on the rear screen.
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The 161 and 122 bus for me.
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The earliest cars I remember my dad having were a red sunbeam alpine and a brown/Gold coloured Ford zephyr. The latter constantly overheated and when we used to go to the Isle Of Sheppey on holiday back in the mid 70’d we had to take gallons of water with us to top up the radiator on the way down ! Ah the good old days!0
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My grandad had an Austin Cambridge and when he gave up driving, he gave it to my Mum. My sister and I used to cringe if Mum picked us up from school. Dad had moved on to a Triumph 2000 by that stage and we didn't mind being seen in that.queensland_addick said:
My Dad had a white one, quite a prestigious car back in the day and a step up from the Austin Cambridge._MrDick said: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.
After that he had a Hillman Hunter, then an Austin 1800.
All had one thing in common, a lovely round Charlton Athletic Badge stuck on the rear screen.0 -
My dad's first car was a 1953 Daimler Consort, he went to buy a Ford Console but fell in love with Daimler. I had to meet at Covent Garden Market where he worked as a porter, My Mum gave me an envelope which unbeknown to me contained the deposit (£175) I was 14 at the time. Three years later he taught me to drive, it had a preselect gearbox which the same as London buses at the time.0
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My Dad had a Renault 12 in that yellow colour. When he moved on to newer car Mum took it on and it was the first car I drove once I passed my test. The R12 was a pretty bulky shape from what I remember and being custard yellow it would really stand out nowadays but it just looked normal back then!killerandflash said: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...1 -
Just remember Dad had a Singer Vogue before the Triumph 2000.ME14addick said:
My grandad had an Austin Cambridge and when he gave up driving, he gave it to my Mum. My sister and I used to cringe if Mum picked us up from school. Dad had moved on to a Triumph 2000 by that stage and we didn't mind being seen in that.queensland_addick said:
My Dad had a white one, quite a prestigious car back in the day and a step up from the Austin Cambridge._MrDick said: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.
After that he had a Hillman Hunter, then an Austin 1800.
All had one thing in common, a lovely round Charlton Athletic Badge stuck on the rear screen.
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First car I remember was a mk 1 Cortina as above but with a white roof. I would sit between my Mum and Dad on the bench seat in the front, no recollection of any seat belts! Other early car memories are of a Triumph Herald, an Austin 1100 automatic, a Fiat 124 estate before a brand new Maxi in Flamingo Pink arrived! I actually quite liked the Maxi, loads of room for us kids in the back and my regular lift to many home and away matches in the 70s.
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M dad was a part time rally and racing driver. His best daily drive was a AC Aceca with a Bristol engine and for racing a Cooper 500 with a JAP engine.3
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AC Aceca, that’s some daily driverlancashire lad said:M dad was a part time rally and racing driver. His best daily drive was a AC Aceca with a Bristol engine and for racing a Cooper 500 with a JAP engine.1 -
DaveMehmet said:
AC Aceca, that’s some daily driverlancashire lad said:M dad was a part time rally and racing driver. His best daily drive was a AC Aceca with a Bristol engine and for racing a Cooper 500 with a JAP engine.
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There was one on Bangers and Cash recently which didnt sell, because the owner expected around £150k, I think it only got up to £90k ish!0
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During our late teens and very early twenties my brother has a policy of buying dirt cheap old bangers that had an MOT.
Join the AA, and get third party only insurance.
The AA basically serviced the vehicles whenever they broke down (often), and when the car virtually died you could always get around £50 scrap.
Some of them lasted a few months, but others went on for a couple of years or so.
Never any danger they would get stolen, and scrapes and scratches were ignored as long as the car kept running.0 -
Austin 11 and Austin Princess are the two I remember. Motorbike and sidecar before that.0
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Can't remember most of them but I know we had a Humber Sceptre like this one, although ours was blue.
For some reason, I even remember the reg number, even though I can't remember the reg for most of the cars I've owned myself.0 -
whats an Austin 11? - 1100?StreekDerek said:Austin 11 and Austin Princess are the two I remember. Motorbike and sidecar before that.0 -
My mate Stuart's father-in-law should post on this thread.
They managed to track down the Aston Martin DB5 that he sold for £1,400 back in 1974.
He only posted this yesterday https://www.instagram.com/p/DdO8oI0DW4R/?img_index=1
My old man had a more modest Hillman Imp when I was in nappies in 1976.
After that we had a bright orange Mini Clubman until 1986 when it was crashed into by a drunk driver outside our house...and Dad upgraded to a brand new Ford Escort.
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My Dad (a Charlton fan) was disabled (MS) so had an automatic with hand controls fitted as couldn't properly use his legs. For years drove a Renault R8. First car I think with push button auto gear change on the dash. Same colour as this one.
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My Dad was a Cortina man, during my younger days.
Starting with the Mark 2:
(Not our actual car, but identical to it)
Mark 3:
(Not our actual car, but identical to it)
Mark 4:
(Not our actual car, but identical to it)
Mark 5:
(Not our actual car, but identical to it)
They all ended up with the same smell of old petrol. Not sure of that was a Cortina thing, or because my Dad ruined so many clutches!😄
On the Mark 5, he went through so many clutches, that his regular garage gave him free clutches for the remaining lifespan of the car.😆1 -
Dad’s first car, a cream Ford Anglia (circa 1956) PXY 115……..remember driving along my road and seeing PXY 116 on another car, what were the chances of that.🤭0
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Stefco said:My Dad was a Cortina man, during my younger days.
Starting with the Mark 2:
(Not our actual car, but identical to it)
Mark 3:
(Not our actual car, but identical to it)
Mark 4:
(Not our actual car, but identical to it)
Mark 5:
(Not our actual car, but identical to it)
They all ended up with the same smell of old petrol. Not sure of that was a Cortina thing, or because my Dad ruined so many clutches!😄
On the Mark 5, he went through so many clutches, that his regular garage gave him free clutches for the remaining lifespan of the car.😆
I learnt to drive in a Mark 3 Cortina. These days driving instructors all seem to use the smallest cars they can find.0
