Inherited cars ?

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Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

178 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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J4CKO said:
Only joking, just getting in before the usual anti Rover stuff.
No worries! I wasn't offended. I just thought I'd get the rest of the story in.
It looked exactly like this but three door:

bigmowley

1,878 posts

175 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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Both my parents have passed away over the last few years. My mum went first and I inherited her 1974 1275GT Mini Clubman, 63K miles from new and well looked after by my dad, not mint but very tidy and original. My dad had tweeked it over the years with 1293, big valve head 731 cam, lcb, CR box etc etc. plus uprated suspension, minilites etc etc. It's bloody quick and bumpy but great fun. I do about 300 miles a year in it. It's a keeper until I die then it goes to number 2 son who loves it. Family heirloom.
When the old man went i won a powder blue Fiat Panda with a light blue interior, he was color blind! The salesman must have seen him coming. I sold that virtually the same day. I also won his 2001 Fiat Punto 1.2 Go which was ace, 23K from new and every panel was dented, the old man had lost a fair bit of visual acuity and taken to contact parking. Simply the best car we ever had, it did 2 kids through university, parked on the street every night in Coventry city center and Reading Uni. cost buttons to run, had amazing tyres on it hard as nails we did another 45,000 miles almost all as fast as possible and we never wore them out. It had a set of pads, one oil change and a set of plugs in 5 years and 45K miles.
It was the gift that kept on givingsmile A taxi obligingly ran into the back of number 3 son soon after we got it, so it got resprayed on the taxi's insurance. Eventually after another 5 years almost every warning light was on and it was on its last legs when an old boy ran into it when it was parked at the station. His insurance company coughed up £750 and it went off to the knackers yard. Brilliant brilliant car, bless you dad.

Edited by bigmowley on Tuesday 28th March 22:44

AgentM

47 posts

88 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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I inherited my Dad's pristine BMW 330ci convertible after he died. It was 10 years old with 30,000 miles. I too felt very connected to him by having it until some tool who was driving whilst on the phone rammed it up the back and wrote it off. It was to have been my forever car but alas it wasn't. We still have his rather nice reg number which makes me think of him.

williredale

2,866 posts

151 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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I have my grandad's MGB GT. He had quite a few MGs and the others were sold when he could no longer drive. The GT didn't have any interest and I got it just before he had a stroke and went into a home. I keep thinking I should sell it because I can't drive it at the moment but I can't bring myself to.

J4CKO

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41,287 posts

199 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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My in laws had her dads Fiat 132, it was used as a family pool car, treated like crap despite only having 30k miles having lived an easy life on Jersey, it ran out of MOT and he was going to scrap it, I said I would buy it, did it up a bit, was going to run it but my MIL said she wanted it gone as it had been her fathers, she hadnt been bothered with it there for two years but that was her perogative, sold it at a good profit, quite a nice motor, 2 litre twin cam.


BREMBOV6

496 posts

147 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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More recently we (As a family) have my Uncle's Jaguar S Type (2002) owned from new with 22k on the clock. Inside is immaculate, outside could be but it has a mark on every corner frown

Always serviced by Jag too. Myself, brother, cousin and a good friend only two weeks went on a road trip and done part of the North Coast 500. Was great fun, we also had to dress up like Tim Wonnacott.

I have gown a real soft spot for it but think we will be selling although worth so little.