The best car your Dad had....

[Hybrids]

Possibly not the best he had, but for an ankle biting car nut it was the most impressionable.
Amid the seas of Fords, Triumphs & Vauxhalls this was like being in a spaceship.

[Alfahorn]

A Lotus Cortina was the best car my dad had, unfortunately I was not born until 1974 and he had long since sold it then!

[rumple]

Not the best car he had, but my favourite, Capri 3000 gxl, midnight blue, wolfrace slots, vinyl roof, hella spots, rs bumpers, pioneer system, he kept it 7 years so it was a bit part of my childhood.

[Paul v8]

Growing up my dad only had cavaliers, but my uncle a true petrolhead picked me up from school a few times in this his manta, what a car it is







But over last few years dad has loved mine and my brothers cars

[Sbloxxy]

Not the best car he had (my Dad had lots of Alfas, inc Alfasud and GTV) but the most memorable was a Hillman Hunter GLS complete with Holbay tuned engine. Went all over Europe in that when we were kids.
Dad worked for Brico AE who ran a small collection of interesting performance cars which he regularly used to collect me from school. I remember being collected in Aston Martin DB6 and DBS, Jaguar Mk10 and Ferrari Dino 246.

[Gary C]

Paul v8 said:

Growing up my dad only had cavaliers, but my uncle a true petrolhead picked me up from school a few times in this his manta, what a car it is







But over last few years dad has loved mine and my brothers cars

Oooh, an Exclusive Coupe.

Had 4 manta's, the best handbrake turning car in the world

[anonymous-user]

Naaar, a Montego 1.6 is the best handbrake turny car in the World, but please don't tell my dad.

[FellowPazzini]

After the Allegro it was the era of the Cortina. They were OK but over the years he had about 5 of the flaming buggers (inc. 2 estates ).

[lotusmad2001]

Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo



Lotus Elise S1 Aluminium



Lotus Elise 111R Aluminium



Subaru Impreza WRX Blob Eye RED



Lotus Elise Supercharged Persian Blue (ours had white viper stripes yeah boy!!)



Ferrari 360 Modena Rosso Corsa





As you can see big Lotus fans! Has worn off on me too (now have an S1 Elise hankerin' after a 111r but might be a while yet)

Have to say my childhood favourite was the Fiat Coupe. I LOVED that car!

[anonymous-user]

A Fiat 20V Coupe Turbo in your childhood???? What are you, twelve? Now I really do feel old. I owned one from 1997 to 2002. A most splendid car. I am not my dad. I assume that I'm not yours!

[Lloydie33]

A 1926 Rolls my dad bought for £1200 back in the seventies, totally unrestored and 184k (IIRC) on the original engine. Smoked a bit but made us kids feel great that our dad owned a roller. Sold it many years later as he didn't have the £15k to restore it...
At the other extreme, it was the isetta bubble car we hated.

[Grovsie26]

Not a lot really. When i was young they were a bit pants. His curret MX-5 is probably the best, i quite liked the MG ZS 2.5 V6 he had as well.

[k-ink]

Breadvan72 said:

A Fiat 20V Coupe Turbo in your childhood???? What are you, twelve? Now I really do feel old. I owned one from 1997 to 2002. A most splendid car. I am not my dad. I assume that I'm not yours!

Exactly my thoughts too

[anonymous-user]

My dad, who worked in automotive engineering for three decades, thought that the Fiat was the best engineered car that he had ever driven, when he borrowed mine. I do wish that I had kept mine and not sold it. Some Barryboy chavster probably has it all blinged to death now. The 1990s GTVs have stayed classy and are going up in value, but the Coupe Turbo has become the preserve of the accessory shop auto-idiot and is now worth a tenner, alas.

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 16th April 09:18

[JameshGT]

The best car my Dad had in my eyes was an RX3. Cannot seem to find them anywhere now

[anonymous-user]

PS: I dread one day seeing my old car in a "Wikd Rimz m8, wotz yer dyno?" thread here in PH, although I probably won't be able to read the plate because it will have some nasty font and spacing*, so maybe I won't recognise the poor old thing.

• Or it will have been crudely blanked out in the piccies by some mouth breather who hasn't realised that everyone in the world can see the number plate on his car when he drives it noisily over the speed bumps to the car stereo upgrade shop.

[blueheron]

A 1992 BMW 535i. At the same time, my mum had an F reg BMW 325i

He now has a 2001 Skoda Octavia VRS.

Not that exciting compared to some of the cars in this thread!

[XJSJohn]

k-ink said:

Breadvan72 said:

A Fiat 20V Coupe Turbo in your childhood???? What are you, twelve? Now I really do feel old. I owned one from 1997 to 2002. A most splendid car. I am not my dad. I assume that I'm not yours!

Exactly my thoughts too

i am glad i am not the only one being made to feel old and decrepit here!!!

[lotusmad2001]

XJSJohn said:

i am glad i am not the only one being made to feel old and decrepit here!!!

Haha im 23 we had the coupe in 1997 when i was 8 had it 2 years and swapped it for the liz.

I thought i was getting old haha

[philmanns]

GhostDriver said:

peugeot first attempt to take on Mercedes end of the 70s, my dad bought this brand new.. about 10k i think!


It was the 604, 6 cylinder. Dark red. Lots of fun memories of it. After that he only ever bought Mercs, most of which were zzzzz

oh and it had the same rear curtains as that one above... classy eh?

decent photo from the front found:

Edited by GhostDriver on Wednesday 9th February 23:52

My dad had a 3.0S E3 BMW, I remember being in the car with him in Tolworth. He had a traffic light Grand Prix with a Peugeot 604, they were pretty well matched off the mark but then the Beemer took the lead. I ended up buying a 604 Gti many years ago and regret having sold it now. I'll have another one day ( and an E3 BMW!)