What was the car your mum/dad had when you were a kid?

[Quhet]

I'm 28, in my lifetime my dad has ha 3 cars - white peugeot 305 estate 198? - 1996. White peugeot 405 grdt 1996 - 2006. Beige Citroen Berlingo 2006-present

[essayer]

Around 1993 we had a Bentley Turbo R, Sherwood Green, black leather. H reg IIRC.

Went over Europe in it. Once, I dropped the keys in a harbour - in Spain. Someone fished them out with a magnet and RR UK had to talk my dad through disconnecting the alarm as the key fob didn't work.

I was NOT popular

[Jim AK]

Pica-Pica said:

Snap. Reg no. VMG 181

My cousin had one as his first car. We brush painted it dark blue one weekend in the road outside his house!!

XDV 264

[Eyersey1234]

Dad
B reg Nova when I was born (lost licence in it for drink driving)
A reg Maestro
C reg Montego saloon
C reg Montego Estate (first car I properly remember)
F reg Nova
J reg Hyundai X2 Gsi
A reg Fiesta mk2
H reg Fiesta mk3 (stolen and burnt out)
C reg Metro
G reg Maestro
A reg Polo
G reg Granada
C reg Mazda 323
D reg Polo
P reg Punto
R reg Citroen Xantia
03 reg Punto
04 reg BMW MINI
55 reg Fiesta
06 reg Fiesta
52 reg Punto
04 reg Ford Galaxy
02 reg MX5
2010 Mondeo

Stepdad
E reg Metro
N reg Fiesta
03 reg Fiat Multipla
09 reg Daihatsu Sirion

Grandparents
E reg Escort mk4 (bought soon after I was born to replace C reg Mk3 Escort)
H reg Citroen BX St Tropez (first car I remember of theirs)
J reg Citroen ZX
M reg Fiesta Equipe (my first car, inherited when my gran gave up driving)

[daveofedinburgh]

I feel rather lucky to say the first cars I remember my parents driving were; Mum- breadvan Polo and mk2 Golf, Dad- mk2 Cavalier and Audi 80.

Now that I think about it, I dont feel that lucky...

[kieranblenk]

My dad had a white Astra GTE 16v when I was born which he owned from 1990 to 2000 (I was born 96) and my mam an M reg Punto. My mam drove a variety of Fiats (3 Bravos, 3 Puntos) up until 2009 when since she's had a Mini, a DS3 and now an A1 Sportback. When the 3 year lease is up next year on the A1 it'll be the same again or a Mini.

Since the GTE my dad had a few boring Vectras and an Astra, then more recently 4 SEATs, (1 Altea Sport, 1 Altea FR and 2 Leon FRs), an Audi A4 Technik, a BMW 320d M Sport and two Evoque's; first a white ED4 Pure Tech Coupe and now a SD4 Dynamic 5dr in Loire Blue. I have a feeling next year he will upgrade to an E-Pace.

[kuro]

The ones I remember,

MK1 cortina (used to tow a Fletcher speedboat)
Vauxhall cresta V6
Ford zodiac v6
Triumph 2.5 pi
Triumph stag (briefly)
Fiat mirafiori
Three Granada 3 litre ghias
Rover 827 vitesse 2.7
Nissan QX
Nissan primera sport which I took over when he stopped driving.

He once had a mates yellow Rolls Royce for a month. Now an Irishman in a roller in the late 70s was not a good combination. He was stopped by the police one day and for some reason they didn't accept his reason for having the car and he spent a night in a police cell while they verified his story. They thought he was some kind of high ranking member of the IRA!

[vikingaero]

Triumph Toledo in Beigey-orange
Peugeot 304? Estate (quite a nice place to sleep in the boot on long journeys!)
Volvo 264?GLE
BMW 728i

Then they went all posh and got 2 cars:
Toyota Carina and Toyota Starlet
Honda Accord & VW Jetta
W123 E280 (about 5 variants of them)
W124 E280 & A Class
W126 E300
W124 E320
W124 E36 + SL500
E55 & Lexus Hybrid 4x4 RX350?h

Interspersed were various crap cars to keep the mileage off the Mercs from 1.4 Corsas to 1.4 Micras.

[Hasbeen]

You kids haven't lived.

The first car after WW11 was a 1926 Chev roadster.
Mechanical brakes meant you went down hill in second gear.

Next a 1930 Dodge 4.

Then a 1936 Dodge Sedan 6. That was the first one I drove legally.

[mickmcpaddy]

First car that I remember was one of these (SInger Vougue)


For some reason I rember the reg plate YDB 815, no trace of that plate now, probably died with the car.

After that



Gear stick used to come out of the box quite regularly.

Then tragically



It developed a fault where the wheel used to rub and catch on the inner wheel arch, since repairing a Metro years later I now realise this was a worn radius arm.

Back on track.



Although after a couple of years the air filter caught fire and burned all the paint off the bonnet. He then proceeded to hand paint the bonnet with a tin of gold hammerite paint, looked lovely.

I ended up with the Granada when he retired when I was 18 and he dug his 1950s push bike out of the shed.

[cologne2792]

A diesel Morris Oxford
A diesel Vauxhall Cresta PC
A turbo diesel Mk1 Granada
A diesel Peugeot 404
A diesel HB Viva
A 1.6 PETROL MK5 Cortina (then 1,8 diesel)
3 Diesel Citroen CX
Many Diesel Citroen XM

[LuS1fer]

A few..colours as follows
Zephyr 4

Singer Gazelle and a Hillman Imp at the same time... (briefly)


Briefly because he never liked it

Zephyr 6 - I have put it in police livery as it was an ex police car

Mk II Cortina 1500 GT (his favourite)

Then into my teens, a Firenza 2000SL

[mickmcpaddy]

^^ That was more like the Cortina GT my dad had, I remember the wheels.

[kuro]

mickmcpaddy said:

After that



Gear stick used to come out of the box quite regularly.

That used to happen on my old 1600e along with the hydraulic pipe for the clutch melting through on the exhaust manifold. Another time I had smoke coming out of the dash so went to turn it off only for the key to be red hot. It burned an imprint into my thumb and finger, a bit like that scene in raiders of the lost ark.

[Pica-Pica]

miniminter said:

The car my dad had when I was a Nissan Micra.

Sidecar!

[Johnnyboylard]

Mum had a s**t brown morris minor 1000 two door that had holes in the floor through which you could see the road.
Dad had a green volvo 144 saloon with black vinyl seats that stripped the skin from your legs when they had been exposed to microseconds of direct sunlight.
My grandpa had a dark blue triumph dolomite sprint. I distinctly remember the rather dodgy fake wood veneer on the dash. Didn't matter because it was pretty quick and sounded great.

[kowalski655]

From what I can recall,in no particular order-
Mum
Wolseley 1100(?)
Austin Cambridge
Morris Oxford
Mini Traveler(woody)
Mk 1 Fiesta
Morris Marina
Mk 3 Granada

Dad
Mk 1 Cortina
Capri
Granada Estate
Orion
Sierra
Always a Ford guy till he changed to a Honda Accord

[johnxjsc1985]

great thread. Earliest one I remember is a two tone Hillman minx 320LMB.

[Fckitdriveon]

Mum and Dad had a variety of cars that I can remember

Saab 900 turbo
Bmw 3 series

Then they got skint and it was
Rover metro
Vw polo from the Stone Age
Cortina with different colour doors : ( - use to die inside pulling up to school in it.

Then they got rich again and its been
Porsche’s
Audi’s
BMW’s
Ever since

[ez64]