Favourite car your dad had

[phast]

phast said:

I came home from the hospital in a Capri 3.0S... not a bad first ride

oh and later he had a one of the proper TWR XJR-S' The old man has taste!

[smilo996]

He had some real shockers. Vauxhall Victor and a string of Volvo estates. Several without power steering for which he had to be referred to the doctor for neck ache.
My mother's first new car was a white Ford Capri 2.0s with a brown interior and a black vinyl roof. He could not afford a Volve P1800. Ouch.

It did eventually get better, 2 SD1 Vitesse's, green and then blue and a red MKII VW Scirroco for mum.

[jamespink]

My father had a string of company cars: Standard Vangard (VOD 4 where are you) many shocking Vauxhalls (HA, HB Vivas anyone)? 1200 Anglia Super. Having spent 12+ years in the motor trade I have had ALL the cars mentioned in the thread come across my patch of stone chippings, plus some oddball ones. The two door 1300 Mk4 Cortina, laugh out loud tyre smoking 3000GT facelift Capri, manual Citroen CX Gti swapped for a 4.2 series 1 E-Type, Lincoln Continental Town car swapped for a land rover and trailor, Transit pickup with a 3.0 Granada lump... Happy days!

Edited by jamespink on Monday 24th August 15:24

[Wolands Advocate]

Lordy. Some of you really had to suffer in some awful old tat.

My father's list of cars hasn't been too bad.

He had a BMW 2002tii in 1976 when I was born and since then the list has run:

1978 Lancia Beta HPE
1980 Volvo 265 GLE estate
1983 Volvo 240 Turbo estate
1986 Vauxhall Senator 3.0 CD
1988 BMW 525i SE
1991 Range Rover Vogue 3.9 SE
1993 Range Rover Vogue 4.2 LSE
1997 Range Rover 4.6 HSE
2000 Audi A6 Allroad 2.7T
2003 Audi A6 Allroad 2.7T
2006 Audi RS4 Avant
2010 Audi S5 Sportback

Currently he has an A7 Sportback in a giffersome shade of grey-beige but with a most un-gifferish 3.0 biturbo diesel engine that goes like the clappers.

[Munich]

Of the cars I remember my dad having when I was a child...

1. Peugeot 604 Turbo Diesel (this was his 2nd 604, the 1st I don't remember)


2. Saab 9000 Turbo (D-reg, picked up on August 1st, 1986 - this was important to a young car fanatic...)


3. Jaguar XJ6 3.2


4. Lexus LS400


5. BMW 840ci (last of the company cars before retiring)

[Jimmm]

[Beno66]

Not the actual car my father owned but same colour and spec..

His was KFO 366P purchased brand new in 1976 from our local Chrysler dealer.

I was 10 years old and spent every weekend washing and polishing that car.

[JamesHayward]

First car I ever went in was my dad's MK2 Golf GTi - which is a bit of an irony as I'm not a fan of the GTi although the MK2 is one of the better ones.

Then a Sierra Cosworth (not RS500 which I think this image is)


Lancia Integrale non evo


Then E30 M3 cab


Then a UK Impreza estate in pale green which was the only one I ever saw in that colour. No pic, it's a classic impreza...

Followed by 964 Carrera 4 - pic is actual car


Then I left home and it went downhill with an E46 330D...

He's currently got a remapped Mk1 Fabia VRS and a 2015 Focus ST though.

[rastapasta]

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Edited by rastapasta on Monday 24th August 16:07

[bigtrev200]

SlimRick said:

My dad had one of these, I thought it was an amazing car!

I had this beauty until last year and it's still an amazing car (in an old skool, retro-ish kind of way). I was gutted that I had to sell it.

[bigtrev200]

I was pretty lucky because my ol' man was always into his motors, and my first car-related memory was riding in his Fiat 132 Twin Cam. After that it all went very 1980s....









After these he had a 190E 2.3-16, an E34 535i, an E32 730i and then a Camaro Z28. He went all diesel-like after that....

[tgx]

From across the pond as best I can remember them. Doesn't include the mums Corvair, Beetle, LeBaron, GranPrix


Plymouth Belvedere GTX 440 Magnum Dual Quad



Buick Riviera boattail



Gran Torino, yes like the movie.



Lincoln Continental w/Suicide doors


Cadillac Coupe De Ville

And finally, wouldn't be an American tale without the ubiquitous...pickups.

[Ug_lee]

Wartburg, don't really remember much of it apart from it constantly changed colours as my dad got bored. Black, black and white, white, yellow and white, all yellow. He whacked in a full length sunroof from a Citroen so we could hear the glorious 2 stroke motor up ahead even more!

Then got a 1.3 Austin Allegro that's in this shot, it was awful. He then bough the Cortina that's also in this shot off my grandma:


I liked this, was a 2.0 Ghia and always remember how comfy the velour seats were.

Next was a Mini, and again it went through clutches like nobodies business and was a generally a pain. Then he got paid off by British Gas and bought this:


Coming from the mini it felt like we'd stepped into the future!

[Hrimfaxi]

A Vauxhall Carlton is the one I remember the most, a serious Dad-mobile that was! Can't remember the specs, but I do know it was silver... the interior was black/grey and white checkered cloth!

Got us to Spain and back several times.

[Ninjajim76]

My dad had a Norton Dominator 99 and a capri, and then I was born...

My first memories were of the Austin minis we had floating around the place (I took an angle grinder to one at the age of 11 after my dad took the engine out of it - back then, it fitted (with a bit of cutting) into a skip!)

Then he had the one I've always had a hankering for - a dukes of hazzard orange renault 17. I loved this car, even if I now know it had a little 1.6 engine, and the reason for its rarity is that it rusted so badly, but it was the first car I ever got airborne in (I may have encouraged my dad a little bit, and mum wasn't with us!).

He then went on to a succession of non-descript horrors including a maxi (with the burn-your-bum-in-the-middle-of-summer vinyl seats), a metro (eek!), and a Renault 25. There were some slightly quirky ones too including a Toyota tercel (weird 4x4 estate which took us across Europe in the early 90s).

In latter years he's had a couple of Alfas, a massive Volvo (great fun for drifting on icy roads!), one of the first Subaru boxer diesels, and the current one - a Kia Sportage (I'll forgive him, but only coz he's got a garage full of motorbikes!)..

My kids are still not quite old enough to know whether dad's car is cool or not ('Not' in my case - an S-max is anything but sexy!), but it's only a matter of time... I wonder what they'll put down when this thread reappears in 20-30 years time?!

Edited by Ninjajim76 on Monday 24th August 17:34

[andburg]

Nothing particularly interesting

Pictures exist of an Opel Monza and an MG midget
First car I remember was a silver/green Mazda 626, it was A reg I believe and sold to the man who serviced the boiler.
After that came a burgundy Renault 25 GTS, kept this a long time, it drive us to st tropez twice.
Some time later he bought a nearly new Daewoo Espero which was ok, but after a year he decided the saloon wasn't practical for a 2+3 family and spent a long time looking at jap import MPV's, a Leyland Sherpa arrived as a second car but made way as it was horrendously expensive to insure and run.
Daewoo made way for a Toyota Townace 2.0TD which he kept for a while and was replaced by a Peugeot 306 TD.
Less space was needed as me and my brother had passed our tests and had our own cars.

306 was ran into the ground and replaced by a mazda 323 from my aunt, low mileage but rusted away quite quickly. 323 has now been replaced by a Megane Scenic 1.9cdi with leather and loads of toys.

Great memories in the Renault and the Town Ace, but a rather bland vehicular list

[Neil E 99]

Undirection said:

My dad had 2 of these, one quite nice but the other a full on Friday afternoon special. In 3 years the garage had it more than he did.

My dad had one of theses as well. leaks of various fluids come to mind

[trunks82]

my old man had a mk 1 escort 2 dr in yellow and a viva in brown.he also had a mini clubman estate and a mk 1 mitsubihi colt.he crashed all of them.he was a terrible driver!!

[caelite]

Well...



One of these in 1.4 flavour which he had for as long as I can remember (late 90s) to the early 00s when he binned it and replaced it with a mk4 Astra 1.6 till about 2010 when he replaced that with an Mk5 astra 1.6 which he still has today. He also had a 2.0 focus between an astra but that was a lease through his work. My dad isnt a car guy xD.

[Number 5]

Ug_lee said:

Then got a 1.3 Austin Allegro that's in this shot, it was awful. He then bough the Cortina that's also in this shot off my grandma:


I liked this, was a 2.0 Ghia and always remember how comfy the velour seats were.!

I regret to inform you that the Cortina in that photograph is not a 2.0 Ghia and looks like a poverty spec 1.6 L or 1.3 L