what was your parents most embarassing car?
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pingu393 said:
Milks said:
my mum and sister all dived out of it commando style in full view of her classmates.
wot, no shreddies - that must have been embarassing 
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Worst two I can think of looking back now are;
MG maestro - much akin to the PH smoker but in white.
Note the pic below is just a random one from google images.
Astra GTE in white, which I'll admit I thought was pretty cool back then when they were brand spank.
Like the one below but white
Aside of a couple of blips they've general made pretty good choices.
My grandad on the other hand, who was a Signwriter years ago, used to love Ladas with a passion. Only car he ever had, aside of a Cavalier he bought brand new just before he died that he treasured.
Edited by Stu R on Friday 2nd November 01:34
Probably the first three cars my dad bought after being punted from the family palace, to whit...
1. 1977 Mk2 Capri 1600L. In white. With full body kit.
2. 1979 Yellow Datsun 180B with full and terminal tin worm
3. 1981 Mk3 Capri 2000GL. In pea green. With full and terminal tin worm.
Please note this was early-90s and he was mid-40s. There is no defence.
1. 1977 Mk2 Capri 1600L. In white. With full body kit.
2. 1979 Yellow Datsun 180B with full and terminal tin worm
3. 1981 Mk3 Capri 2000GL. In pea green. With full and terminal tin worm.
Please note this was early-90s and he was mid-40s. There is no defence.
Roop said:
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.
My dad had one of those. It was shite. My sister blew the back axle up doing a kangaroo start when she was learning to drive, and it dissolved a couple of years later. It was capable of 90mph though; it was entertaining on the motorway watching my mum's speed creep gradually up from 70 to 90 until she suddenly realised she was doing something illegal and slowed it down again.He then got a Maestro 1.3 HLE with the LED vacuum gauge on the dash, which my mum always used to turn off because it annoyed her. I suspect that my mum has something of the PHer in her which has never been allowed to develop because she is far too straight. I can't remember whether that car dissolved or just disintegrated.
He is now driving a 1.7 Astra diesel, which is dissolving, but he is determined to hang onto it for as long as possible because of the difficulty of replacing it with something with a mechanical-injection non-turbo diesel engine. I must say I sympathise.
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