What was/is your dads coolest car?

[Pat H]

Corsair GT



Volvo



Triumph TR4



Vauxhall Ventora



3.8 E-Type



Healey 3000



TVR Tuscan V6



Lotus Elan Coupe



Ford Zodiac



Ford Granada 3.0 Mk1



Lotus Eclat



Capri 3.0 Ghia



The 1971 TVR Vixen demonstrator, pictured outside the TVR factory. A young Pat can be seen peeping out of the Ventora.



The earliest picture of yours truly in the driving seat. Vauxhall Ventora, circa 1969.

[patmahe]

It was before I was born but my dad used to have one of these. This was when they already had two kids. Then I came along and it got a bit impractical, I still think they're sh1t cool



There's one in the town over from me and I swear to God if it ever goes up for sale I'm buying it

[Coco H]

Pat H wins - a comprehensive list of fantastic cars - most of which I have owned/wanted to own.
How cool are your parents?

[joesnow]

A 520 that covered 250,000, mostly covered by him.


Unusual kei car, the Honda Beat. A joy to drive - 3 cyl thrum, midengined handling, skinny tyres, unassisted powersteering, soft top.


Part Hyundi Stella, part turbo forced reardrive hooligan. Questionable handling, but road pressence and straight line grunt. Auto gives interesting kickdown!

road legal fast road/race TR4. Will set off car alarms in small side streets, and sounds like a plane between 3-4Krpm. Great fun, a bit stiff for rough roads.

Edited by joesnow on Tuesday 30th October 16:55

[joesnow]

Great cars chaps, reminicing reminds me of great rides in all of them.

[Balmoral Green]

Nice to see Pat H's collection of pics again, lovely.

[Rossini]

With abit of persuading from me my dad went from a Golf 1.6se, and a honda crv to a merc sl350 with amg body kit, and a 996 4s. Then changed both for E320cdi, 997 4s- I chose the colour red with black wheels!!!! SWEET....

[Harry Flashman]

80s Aston V8 Vantage in Jade Green metallic is the runner up.

But the car he should never have sold was the Shelby Mustang GT500. Coolest car ever.

[jackal]

anonymous said:

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thanks very much

i donth think we were though
thats actually about the time when it all started to go wrong
but they did end up together thankfully and still are today

[B19 RUS]

Several but faves were Rover p6, P5B coupe and v8s sd1

All very gansta

[SpeedyGonzales]

Some how my dad did manage to have some cool cars..let me think

MG Midget

BMW 318

BMW 316

Austin Mini

[loose cannon]

my dads collection consisted of
austin cambridge before i was born
triumph 1300
morris marina estate with burn your bum seats
my favourite of his cars though mum hated it was a mk1 cavalier 2l gls in bronze/copper uud695t
then a mazda 323 which i hated
then a mazda 626 saudi import with lots of toys
unfortunately he passed away in 1990

[cronk-flakes]

After my 3rd sibling was born, my dad thought he deserved one of these...



With a Chrysler Voyager as a support vehicle...

[restoman]

Morris Minor (great little car)
Cortina Mk 1 (a big step up from the Minor)
Austin 1800 (big, comfortable, boring)
Austin Princess (bit of a barge)
Talbot Alpine (Total rubbish)
Orion (anonymous 1980s Ford)
Rover 45 (much underated)

[Matthew-TMM]

Dad had a 1972 Ford Capri 3000GT, well before I was around though.

Mum owned a mark 1 Ford Escort 1300L as her first car and then a mark 2 Escort Popular 1100.

After they got married and Dad got rid of the mark 2 Escort (too slow for him), they had a Vauxhall Chevette which got written off (low speed though) with me in it aged 12 days.

Edited by Matthew-TMM on Tuesday 30th October 19:42

[superviggen]

ford capri
vauxhall cavalier 2.0 CD saloon - the fastest cavalier ever built, that car was much quicker than our friend's hatch version. plus it was in white and looked like an unmarked cop car so used to get waved through by traffic cops in town centres when my dad and his workmates were in it suited up.
saab 900 turbo in black - 68,000 miles in 18 months.

[ehyouwhat]

Probably one of these:



Rebuilt from not much more than a shell. Quite lovely.

This one isn't his, I don't have any pictures of his.

["JR"]

Capri Mk2 3.0s

still want one

[OllieC]

[quote="JR"]Capri Mk2 3.0s

still want one
[/quote]

good choice

my dad has a terrible car history, some of his previous crimes are as follows

Morris marina
Morris Ital (the marina was so good he bought another one)
Austin Allegro
renault 19
citroen ZX (decent car, but why not buy the way better looking but mechanically identicle 306)
rover 420 diesel
VW bora (crappy model golf, with an ungainly and impracticle boot, they drive absolutely terribly aswel)

he could quite honestly say his best car was a cortina GL mkV estate... yay dad.

[Leithen]

Sadly couldn't raise the cash to bring it back into the family... .....




I was allowed to clean the engine!




I was allowed to take it to London!