Favourite car your dad had

[cologne2792]

e8_pack said:

Capri Ghia, new feature: locking petrol cap!

I'll have one then! Lol

I had a 3.0S with remote drivers mirror and optional passenger mirror !

[cologne2792]

harlowrog said:

70 profile tyres on that Capri Ghia, oh for the good old days of comfort! Worth buying the Ghia for the luggage compartment light and the duel tone horn lol.

I remember the 2.8i arriving on the scene with 60 series - It's the end of the World ! Chiropractors will all be millionaires...
I look at the tyres on modern stuff and cringe...

[mightymouse]

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Not my dad, but can I own up to having had one of these ?
Same colour and actually was a good bit of kit and a 7 seater

[DUMBO100]

StuntmanMike said:

That's the one my Dad had.
Not that car but same colour /model.
He had worse cars, he had better cars, but none moved me like that one.
DNT 662L.

My Dad had one in yellow with the black vinyl roof and two black stripes on the bonnet. I thought it was the coolest car ever

[StuntmanMike]

cologne2792 said:

harlowrog said:

70 profile tyres on that Capri Ghia, oh for the good old days of comfort! Worth buying the Ghia for the luggage compartment light and the duel tone horn lol.

I remember the 2.8i arriving on the scene with 60 series - It's the end of the World ! Chiropractors will all be millionaires...
I look at the tyres on modern stuff and cringe...

I remember seeing a 2.8 parked in Shrewsbury, It really looked special, low mean, wheels filling the arches, slight tint to the windows, I would have been about 12.

[StuntmanMike]

DUMBO100 said:

StuntmanMike said:

That's the one my Dad had.
Not that car but same colour /model.
He had worse cars, he had better cars, but none moved me like that one.
DNT 662L.

My Dad had one in yellow with the black vinyl roof and two black stripes on the bonnet. I thought it was the coolest car ever

My old man's had Wolfrace slot mags on and Hella driving lamps, he owned it about 7 or 8 years, he sold it to a work colleague who promptly hand painted it with dulux, crashed it several times, then scrapped it.
fking shame.
I believe it was his favourite car as well.

[RobinBanks]

My dad had a Rover 800 Vitesse just like this one.

Then he had a Jaguar XJS similar to this one:



Contrary to expectations, neither ever broke down.

[loskie]

I remember dad had a Cortina ordered ( T reg 79 I think) Ford was on strike so he ended up getting a Fiat 131 Miafiori, then a brown Cavalier I think followed by another Cavalier the Orion injection Ghia(1987 just when I passed my test) followed by a Sierra

[Tasmin200]

Coatesy351 said:

Electric windows

Edited by Coatesy351 on Friday 17th April 20:18

Electric mirrors too. Crazy stuff for 1988 when your 14!

[Glade]

The first car I remember was a VW Jetta like this...



In about 1983 we lived in Saudi, and while I don't remember the car, I remember the plastic child seat with metal buckles being roasting hot and burning me...

My dad has recently got a bit of kit for his PC to scan slides to digital images... and there were loads of my mum hanging out of the back of a defender (pre me probably) as they ragged it over sand dunes... it was really weird - I never expected that from my parents!

[wolfracesonic]

A car with the distinction of being named after the last line in 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', (production even lasting till 1995 in South America) behold the Renault Fuego. If your thinking it's a cheese eating surrender monkey version of the Capri, you're right, the Fuego like the Capri even stealing its underpinnings from a saloon contemporary. Whether it starred in a TV show called 'Les Professionels' I'm not sure..........

Edited by wolfracesonic on Wednesday 22 April 21:03

[cologne2792]

wolfracesonic said:

A car with the distinction of being named after the last line in 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', (production even lasting till 1995 in South America) behold the Renault Fuego. If your thinking it's a cheese eating surrender monkey version of the Capri, your right, the Fuego like the Capri even stealing its underpinnings from a saloon contemporary. Whether it starred in a TV show called 'Les Professionels' I'm not sure..........

I recall at the time a quite vociferous altercation between Porsche and Renault with Porsche claiming that it was a rip off of the 924 and it's success damaging 924 sales considerably...I ended up with a Capri by '88 and still have one !

[SteveS Cup]

The first car I remember was my dads 518i (e28 I think). He bought my mum a Vauxhall Chivette!! Lol.

Then he had a 520i in the same shape, then a 535i in e34 guise then it all went down hill with a Vauxhall Carlton and then a Seat Cordoba. Luckily he got back on track with an e39 523i and now has a nice e60 525d.

I guess he likes 5 series!

[wolfracesonic]

Ok, so your dad most likely didn't have one these but it was the next one in the pile so here it is, responsible for sending more lazy motoring journo's backwards through hackneyed cliches than any other 1980's German rear engine sports car. It was still the daddy in the Porsche range then too: getting into one would cost you £3000.00 over its 928 cousin, though looking at values nowadays in the PH classifieds, it would have been well worth the extra if you had kept and looked after it.

[Gary C]

Christ I would love to have dads back catalogue

Lotus escort
Lotus cortina
Supercharged anglia 105E
944
Capri 3.0S (one of the last 10 in white ever made)
Capri 3.0 ghia
911 3.2 carrera
Series 2 landy lbw

Can only just remember the cortina, 105e was long before I was born but remember the rest

At least I got the carrera.

[StuntmanMike]

Yes your Dad was pretty cool.

I can remember my mum having an Anglia, with a 1600e drive train on it, it was a little beastie in its day.

[wolfracesonic]

So, your dad may have had one of these, though it's unlikely you thanked him for it, a Skoda from an era when they paid Jasper Carrott's mortgage. Obviously they've gone all VAG now, ironically a company that had it's roots in rear engined-ness hastening the demise of the last 'mainstream' rear engined car.

[Falsey]

My dad had some lovely cars when I was a kid. He was in the army stationed in Germany so had lots of money to play with. Picked up cars from the UK on leave and brought them back with him.

Highlights:

205GTI 1.9
Sunny Pulsar GTI-R
300ZX TT
Cosworth RS500
S13 200SX

[Insanity Magnet]

Mine had a Polski Fiat in a horrid mustardy yellow when I was v. small. Just about remember that (preferred my mother's Triumph 2000). He then moved on to a Citroen GS which was brilliant fun if prone to giving passengers motion sickness.

In the meantime, my mother had a Sud that she drove pretty much flat-out in. Lasted 2 years...

[qube_TA]

I love the OP's Capri proudly stating that they now had a lockable fuel cap as standard!

Reminds me of when having a passenger side door mirror would be an optional extra.

there's an awful lot of rose-tintedness required to make that era of automoting good.

My father had every model of Cortina then switched to Rovers when they switched to the Sierra, finally switched to Jaguars when they stopped making the 800. But despite the endless unreliability and rust problems he had with every car he's ever owned, I'd love to have a drive in an old 1600 mk4 or mk5 Cortina estate, just like the one I was stuffed into the back of for our annual day trip to Scarborough (10 people in one car, plus a dog and picnic stuff, must have been swift)