The best car your Dad had....
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Beeva said:
Shewie said:
Don't think my dad ever forgave me for having to sell his beloved MGB for a 1600E Cortina when I came along, although he did have the last laugh when his grandson was born last year and I had a similar dilemma with a Boxster S....
I think for me the 1973 Capri 3000GXL (OEP 99L - The DVLA database still has it as registered!) he had when I was an impressionable three year old left the biggest mark on me and probably turned me into the petrolhead I am now. One of my earliest memories is of him filling it up in the local "Jet" petrol station and telling me he'd put "jet fuel" in it. To prove this point he turned onto the road and floored it , pinning me back in my child seat as we shot off up the street. Apparently from then on, everytime I got in the car i'd just shout "daddy do a wheelie" at which point he'd oblige by sticking his foot down - to roars of laughter from me in the back. I remember being gutted when he chopped it in for a Mimosa yellow Dolomite Sprint which turned out to be the most unreliable car he's ever owned.
Since then he's owned plenty, including an "Opel Manta wannabee" Cavalier GLS coupe several more 3L and 2.8i Capri's before reaching a low point in the mid nineties when he had a couple of Rovers (a 420i and then a 620ti). More recently its all been about BMW's with a 330D and a beautifully restored 2002tii currently sitting in the garage.
I think for me the 1973 Capri 3000GXL (OEP 99L - The DVLA database still has it as registered!) he had when I was an impressionable three year old left the biggest mark on me and probably turned me into the petrolhead I am now. One of my earliest memories is of him filling it up in the local "Jet" petrol station and telling me he'd put "jet fuel" in it. To prove this point he turned onto the road and floored it , pinning me back in my child seat as we shot off up the street. Apparently from then on, everytime I got in the car i'd just shout "daddy do a wheelie" at which point he'd oblige by sticking his foot down - to roars of laughter from me in the back. I remember being gutted when he chopped it in for a Mimosa yellow Dolomite Sprint which turned out to be the most unreliable car he's ever owned.
Since then he's owned plenty, including an "Opel Manta wannabee" Cavalier GLS coupe several more 3L and 2.8i Capri's before reaching a low point in the mid nineties when he had a couple of Rovers (a 420i and then a 620ti). More recently its all been about BMW's with a 330D and a beautifully restored 2002tii currently sitting in the garage.
If so,.. Wonderful
Brum_Brum said:
Beeva said:
Shewie said:
Don't think my dad ever forgave me for having to sell his beloved MGB for a 1600E Cortina when I came along, although he did have the last laugh when his grandson was born last year and I had a similar dilemma with a Boxster S....
I think for me the 1973 Capri 3000GXL (OEP 99L - The DVLA database still has it as registered!) he had when I was an impressionable three year old left the biggest mark on me and probably turned me into the petrolhead I am now. One of my earliest memories is of him filling it up in the local "Jet" petrol station and telling me he'd put "jet fuel" in it. To prove this point he turned onto the road and floored it , pinning me back in my child seat as we shot off up the street. Apparently from then on, everytime I got in the car i'd just shout "daddy do a wheelie" at which point he'd oblige by sticking his foot down - to roars of laughter from me in the back. I remember being gutted when he chopped it in for a Mimosa yellow Dolomite Sprint which turned out to be the most unreliable car he's ever owned.
Since then he's owned plenty, including an "Opel Manta wannabee" Cavalier GLS coupe several more 3L and 2.8i Capri's before reaching a low point in the mid nineties when he had a couple of Rovers (a 420i and then a 620ti). More recently its all been about BMW's with a 330D and a beautifully restored 2002tii currently sitting in the garage.
I think for me the 1973 Capri 3000GXL (OEP 99L - The DVLA database still has it as registered!) he had when I was an impressionable three year old left the biggest mark on me and probably turned me into the petrolhead I am now. One of my earliest memories is of him filling it up in the local "Jet" petrol station and telling me he'd put "jet fuel" in it. To prove this point he turned onto the road and floored it , pinning me back in my child seat as we shot off up the street. Apparently from then on, everytime I got in the car i'd just shout "daddy do a wheelie" at which point he'd oblige by sticking his foot down - to roars of laughter from me in the back. I remember being gutted when he chopped it in for a Mimosa yellow Dolomite Sprint which turned out to be the most unreliable car he's ever owned.
Since then he's owned plenty, including an "Opel Manta wannabee" Cavalier GLS coupe several more 3L and 2.8i Capri's before reaching a low point in the mid nineties when he had a couple of Rovers (a 420i and then a 620ti). More recently its all been about BMW's with a 330D and a beautifully restored 2002tii currently sitting in the garage.
If so,.. Wonderful
I would pay any money for it now.
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