what was your parents most embarassing car?

what was your parents most embarassing car?

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scoobykev15

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406 posts

206 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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my old feller had a wartburg knight!he was always shall we say"economical" by nature(read tight as a fishes arse,and really only bought it cos it had a freewheel system on the gearbox.he never bought a bottle of proper two stroke oil in his life and used to have one of those old-fashioned milk bottle carriers in the boot with milk bottles full of the cheapest 20w50 money could buy!i will never forget being dropped off in chester le street to get the bus to durham for college when i was 16 years old and for anyone who knows the area,him lifting off the throttle at the top of newbridge bank and virtually taking the last bend on two wheels in the most evil handling shite that ever came out of east germany.it was weird to work on though,3 coils and 3 sets of points which were a delight to set.i'm proud to say that i killed it on the a1m through co.durham on the way back from croft autodrome as it was called all those years ago.thrashing(or trying to!)its arse off and seized the motor up.he was gutted when he couldnt get a new engine and went on to buy a datsun sunny (the one with the awful wheel trims)

RobM77

35,349 posts

233 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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My parents once ran two Vauxhall Cavaliers. Oh, the shame! Now my Mum has a lovely 1973 MGB and my Dad's got a 320d and a 1948 MG TC. Oh, the relief! smile

Witchfinder

6,250 posts

251 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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My dad had a yellow Cortina estate that was more filler than bodywork. A proper mess. However, he suddenly found a fondness for Volvos when I was about 9 or 10. We owned three Volvo 340s, two of them at the same time, one of which was in such a shade of grey that it was practically invisible.

Horrible, horrible cars.

drummingbunny

121 posts

283 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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Brown Austin Princess with a vinyl roof that my dad inherited (he inherited the whole car, but it came with a vinyl roof). I think he hated it as much as we did, it was sold pretty quickly...

scoobykev15

Original Poster:

406 posts

206 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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was he one of those guys who wore a hat when he was driving his 340? my old man had a penchant for wearing trilbys in the summer and bobble hats with a pompom in the winter.he could never understand why i would lie down on the back seat on every journey!

Roop

6,012 posts

283 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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My dad once had a Morris Ital in a sort of Navy Blue colour. Don't know why he had it, just seem to remember we had it for a few weeks. I think it might have been a loaner whilst his car got fixed (I think he had the TR7 at the time). I was only young but I can remember it was pretty crap, even though it was the newest car we had ever had.

CraigW

12,248 posts

281 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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amc pacer

wideload

754 posts

207 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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I got to be in with a shout here, a poo brown talbot samba (poverty spec...)

edx

1,852 posts

206 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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Either the Triumph Acclaim or Rover 216.

sleep

Fortunately this lapse into deadly dull saloons was short lived.

J111

3,354 posts

214 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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Daf 66 Curiously Vague Transmission.

uk89camaro

1,399 posts

232 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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3 kids in the back on way t' skeggy. We had to get out on hills so dad could drive to the top!

A sweetie for guessing the car.


Zippee

13,438 posts

233 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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2 cars spring to mind -
1st was an Orange Austin Allegro
2nd was a Talbot Horizon.

Both of which I was dropped of at school for several years whilst my mates arrived in Jags and BMs

Twincam16

27,646 posts

257 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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My Mum had quite possibly the worst example of the Austin Metro ever to rattle off the production line. Beige on the outside, brown on the inside, a piece of plastic rattling around in the passenger footwell that we never identified, rock-hard (probably collapsed) rear suspension, moss growing in the window gutters that wouldn't budge no matter how hard you scrubbed at it, the parcel shelf had split in two at one point, and best/worst of all, at one point the passenger door handles snapped on both the inside and the outside, meaning everyone had to enter through the driver's door. It was a three-door.

I think the only good thing going for it was the fact that it had a 1.3-litre engine rather than the 1.1 that was around at the time. I still remember when it finally shuffled off this mortal coil - the scrap dealers wouldn't give her any money for it, and my Dad made her take the stereo out before it went as he reasoned it was more valuable than the car. It was a PYE auto-reverse tape deck - and this was in the late '90s when CD players were the thing to have. So he was still probably right.

Twincam16

27,646 posts

257 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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uk89camaro said:
3 kids in the back on way t' skeggy. We had to get out on hills so dad could drive to the top!

A sweetie for guessing the car.

Goggomobil?

edx

1,852 posts

206 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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uk89camaro said:
3 kids in the back on way t' skeggy. We had to get out on hills so dad could drive to the top!

A sweetie for guessing the car.

NSU Prinz?

silversun

4,372 posts

225 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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My parents had an Austin Maxi which I had to learn to drive on. Oh, the shame!

Mind you, it could have been worse - if I'd been a couple of years older, I would have been learning in a Marina Estate... yikes

uk89camaro

1,399 posts

232 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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edx said:
uk89camaro said:
3 kids in the back on way t' skeggy. We had to get out on hills so dad could drive to the top!

A sweetie for guessing the car.

NSU Prinz?
sweetie in the post.

scoobykev15

Original Poster:

406 posts

206 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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boocks!thought i had the ace in the hole with the wartburg but the crown is on uk89camaros head at the moment!

edx

1,852 posts

206 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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uk89camaro said:
edx said:
uk89camaro said:
3 kids in the back on way t' skeggy. We had to get out on hills so dad could drive to the top!

A sweetie for guessing the car.

NSU Prinz?
sweetie in the post.
woohoo

scoobykev15

Original Poster:

406 posts

206 months

Thursday 1st November 2007
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by the way uk89camaro,was it the same fetching shade of bathroom beige as in the photo?