What was/is your dads coolest car?

[NiceCupOfTea]

Not many "traditionally" cool cars, but some interesting ones!

• Triumph Herald (used to corner on 2 wheels!) painted purple over white with orange wheels
• Escort Estate Mk.II, actually quite nippy and fun to drive apparently
• a couple of Hillman Imps including a Sport
• several Saab 900s and 9000s including a couple of turbos
• Mk.1 MX-5 1.8
• Berkeley T60
• Suzuki Cappuccino

He is currently lusting after a V12 XJS convertible but I think his next purchase will be a Porsche 944 S2 convertible

[millband]

He never had much money to put into his cars, but his gold + black Sunbeam Rapier Series V was his favourite, and mine too.

[threesixty]

A Gold Capri 3.0 S, as per the profesionals.

Not quite old enough to remember well. It all went down hill after that

[car.chic]

My dad doesn't drive. Far more into bikes instead!

My mum has had a number of interesting cars:

Alfa Spider 1967 Boat tail (sold last year)
Alfa Spider 1963 (the replacement)
Audi UR Quattro
Audi RS4
Ford Capri 3.0 (before my time!)
Mercedes SL500
Mazda RX7 (before they became chav choice!)
Toyota Supra TT manual

[rhys27]

- Escort Mexico
- Several souped up Mini's
- Landrover Freelander
- Ford Mustang Coupe
- Landrover Defenders with all the kit, winches, snorkels, checkerplated (company cars)
- Toyota Camry V6
- Old School Jaguar 3.8 S-Type
- Old (early/mid 90's)BMW 535i.
- American Spec Landrover Discovery TD4
- Landrover Discovery HSE TD5 (CURRENT)
- Toyota Camry v6
- '63 E-type 3.8 roadster (in bits, being restored by my old man) (CURRENT)
- Truimph TR4A to be restored by old man (CURRENT)
- S3 Lotus Esprit (owned from new) (CURRENT)

Edited by rhys27 on Tuesday 4th December 19:08

[Blue Meanie]

My dad used to have a MkII escort, with Lombrad rally sticker on the windscreen... Was very cool at the time!! He also has what was, and is, the most rare car ever created. The renault 18... Only one I ever saw...

[biggbn]

2 dr volvo amazon,2dr v4 corsair auto, bright red tr7 with cibie oscars and minilites, 2x citroen 2cv6, mk1 vw scirroco..currently owns an aygo and a smart car for the weekends..

[VictorMeldrew]

Datsun 180B. Not exactly cool, but as a 13 year old I was impressed. It was way better than the Anglia he had before it anyway.

Turned in a pile of rust inside a year though.

[Cabana]

Before my dad became a Dad,he owned an incredibly cool collection of stuff including:
A 997 Mini Cooper
A 998 Mini Traveller
A 1071 Cooper S
A Mk 1 Escort Mexico
A Triumph Dolomite Sprint
A Mk 1 Escort RS2000
A JPS lotus Europa (along with the Mexico this is one of the few that he wished he still owned)
A Mk II Escort 1800 (although this probably fights them for loyalty!)
Then lots of capable if boring BMWs...spot where I became a consideration.

Although recently another Mk 1/2 Escort or some sort of kit car has become a major topic of discussion, it's clear the petrol head and urge to go side ways,everywhere, is stillwithin him!

I Think the easiest way to describe it is by sayng I wouldn't be the same without my dad

Edited by Cabana on Tuesday 30th October 02:14

Edited by Cabana on Tuesday 30th October 02:22

[drivin_me_nuts]

There are lots of great things I can say about my dad; fantastic comb-over this side of Scargill, a great line in Kipper ties and flairs, bad dancing and worse musical taste...but cars are where he excelled himself... Cars went fron a sh*t sand coloured mini, through assorted POS british cr*p including Marinas, Itals, and Rovers in all their dreadful guises until I clubbed him over the head and told him to buy something decent....he never did (his latest one is a Pug 207).

So upon reflection, I can say I truly had a (cool car) deprived childhood because my dad never EVER had a cool car. Not once, not ever not even borrowed one for the day.. <sigh>

<turns on mournful music - something suitablly miserable; Tom Waits, lights Cohiba, pours a decent Islay and cries into the early hours of the morning....>

Edited by drivin_me_nuts on Tuesday 30th October 02:43

[BCA]

'97 TVR Cerbera 4.5


Still his everyday driver+competition car for the past 70k miles, long may it continue...

[crofty1984]

2 cortinas. one blue one silver.
Mk1 fiesta (was just an old car then)
VW beetle
Merc 190e
Pug 205
Innumerable bitish bikes "wen 'e were a youngun'"

[LotusNova]

In-between a string of VW camper vans for the family hols, he bought a Rover P6 3500S.

Edited by LotusNova on Tuesday 30th October 05:37

[CommanderJameson]

A Wolseley Six in BRG. Comfy as anything.

Edited by CommanderJameson on Tuesday 30th October 08:16

[XJSJohn]

My Dad went through a long list of cars in his motoring days, some cool, some more for function but of the cool ones here are a few (they would all have been new or at oldest 2 years old at time of purchase)

Frogeye sprite (his first car)
MGA twincam
Morris 1000 Traveller
Mini Cooper
after the death of the cooper a mini van with said cooper engine transplanted
BMW2002
E12 BMW 528i
Renault 5 (with the gearshift that came out teh dash board like a 2CV)
vauxhall magna
rover SD1 vitesse
morgan +8
911 2.4t
Triumph 2000
triumph 2500
Mk1 Golf GTi
Lotus Carlton

there are other boring & practical ones, but he figured out that in the 40 years that he had been driving (he had to give up for medical reasons a few years ago) he had owned 78 cars, all his own privately owned and in his name.

[falkster]

My dad had loads of rubbish cars before I was born.....I dont think he started driving until he was 20.

When I was born (1974) he had a Mazda RX3....went downhill for a few years apart from the Sweeney Granada Mk1.

1985 had a 3500 Rover Vitesse
1990 Calibra (not really cool anymore)
1992 Jaguar XJ40
1995 Jaguar XJR
2007 Toyota Corolla (just to show how un-cool he is now)

[JaymzDead]

Before I was born he had; '60s Ford Anglia, 1974 Fiat 128 Coupe
Since I've been around he's had a 1974 VW Sirocco, and a few barges, namely a Vauxhall Carlton 2.0 CDi and a Rover 825i he also had a 'mid-life crisis' car which was a Ford Cougar but that wasn't really all that good. He used to rent an office in a small complex where they were all mates and used to borrow each other's cars and in that time I got picked up from school in a Porsche 924, an E21 323i and an E28 528i, which was pretty cool!

[bob1179]

Back in early 1984, my dad bought the coolest car he has yet to own, a Ford Sierra XR4i. It was a true beast and I remember all the neighbours coming round to look at it. That was replaced by a company Montego in August 1987...

Before I was born he owned loads of Minis, a Reliant Regal an MGB GT, and a couple of Volvo's.

[R39S1]

Long before I came along my dad had a standard Swallow or Swallow sports as they were also know. This was what turned into jaguar, very rare now, when he owned it was just a cheap old car. In the 70's he used to bring home lots of cars from the Autocar test fleet, I think this is what turned me into a car addict!

[PomBstard]

Hmm, not sure any would be classed as cool - more sort of naff...

Late-60's Austin/Morris crap
Some 70's Ford crap
Renault 16
Lots of 70's and 80's Ford crap
Some 70's Jap crap
More 80's and 90's Ford crap

Of all the special stuff that came out of BL and Ford in the 60s/70s/80s - Escort Mexicos, RS, Dolomite Sprint amongst others - we had precisely none