Your dad's car....

[PpPete]

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An R6 !
At least my Dad never had one that colour.....
Mind you he preceeded it with several 4s and followed on with a 16 which felt like the height of luxury at the time.

 

[swee'pea99]

Back when I were a lad - this would've ben late '60s - my mate's Dad had a fantastic car - an ancient Bentley. Probably '30s, or '40s at the latest. It could take about a dozen kids in the back...getting in felt like going into a village hall. Purred along, all faded cracked mahogany leather and walnut trim.

 

[Shaun]

My dad had one of these:

Having six kids meant he needed a "roomy" car to fit us all in.

I have fond memories of sitting in the large boot space at the back on family days out with my tape recorder playing the Top 40 I'd recorded the previous Sunday (desperately trying to chop out all the bits where the DJs are talking ... ).

No rear seat belts either ...

(Note - dad's might have been a Mk3, but ISTR it as a Mk4 [Square headlamps + plastic bumper end caps]).

 

[gbb]

Triumph Mayflower was my earliest memory...yuk.

I then remember a Ford Prefect, an Austin A35 I think...
Then my favourite..the Vauxhall Velox (photo may be a Cresta)

Some gaps, then a Hillman Imp, then a Hillman Husky..

Some more gaps, then a Vauxhall Victor estate...Austin Allegro, Austin Princess (which broke down on the way home from buying it !!!!)
Austin Mini, brand new, T reg , rusted into oblivion within 8 years
Skoda 105..ironically, one of dads favourite cars, they were seen as inferior back then, cheap and poorly regarded, but it never let him down, up and down the A1...

Then he lost his sight..can't remember what his last car was ...

All photos borrowed from the internet, not my dads actual cars.

 

[JtB]

My Dad's cars:

• BSA 3-wheeler convertible with rear facing back seat
• Morris Minor with split windscreen (this is the one he had when I came along)
• Austin Cambridge
• Austin Allegro with square steering wheel (this went on to be my first car)
• Austin Allegro Estate
• BL Maestro
• Rover 400
• Peugeot 207 (this is the one he's got now)

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

My brother and I and my 4 cousins with my late Granda at Burnside, Harrington, Cumbria 1973 at a guess. I'm the one next to the wall brother furthest away, wearing matching t shirts. My Dad's Ford Anglia which couldn't get up Honister Pass.

On Holiday in Malta in the mid 70's with a stylish Fiat 124 hire car. My Dad had a Lada 1200 in racing green that was bought brand new in 1974. So I guess the 124 which it was based on was a logical choice of hire car, don't have any pics of the Lada (JAO 76N).

My Mum with my Dad's Austin A35?? I would of been a baby at a guess.

 

[Proto]

As a company sales rep, my dad had a lot of cars in his relatively short life, but as he climbed the corporate ladder they improved in status and cost, but not necessarily quality. He died in 1977, aged 51, and the grandest car he had was arguably the worst. A shockingly unreliable Fern Green 4.2 litre Jaguar XJ6L, which was continuously beset by electrical gremlins.

Austin A30 (black)
Austin A35 (green)
Ford Prefect A100 (cream)
Austin A40 (red)
Austin A40 (pale blue)
Morris Oxford (grey)
Ford Zodiac (white)
Austin Westminster (two tone grey/blue)
Rover 2000 (maroon)
Rover 2000TC (tobacco leaf brown)
Jaguar XJ6 2.8L (maroon)
Volvo 164 (that I can't remember the colour must be significant! It was possibly pale metallic blue)
Jaguar XJ6 4.2L (fern green)

 

[guitarpete247]

My dad learnt to drive in granddad's Ford V8 Pilot

then bought himself an Austin 7 Ruby

as his first car.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The only one i really remember was the Lada Riva, it was a creamy beige colour, i remember on cold mornings he had to use the crank handle to start it, and once whilst we were at harlech castle we could't get up the hill to the car park in 1st so he turned it round and went in reverse (which is managed?!) the rest are just a blur tbh.

What do you call a Lada at the top of a hill??

A Miracle!!

BOOM BOOM!!

 

[pubrunner]

View attachment 36303 View attachment 36304 Allegro vanden plas was the worst. Sierra mk 1 was my fav. Lost count the amount dad has had.

I've got the chrome radiator front, for an Allegro Vanden Plas on my garage wall ; not really sure what else to do with it

 

[mcshroom]

What you do is

My dad had one of these too.

My mate at work still drives one of those (though his is the rally version).

I forgot to mention earlier that we used to name our cars using the three letters on the numberplate. The Alpine had BKY and was called Beaky, the Cavalier was JWY - Jabberwocky, another was Sadie (SDE). This stopped abruptly when we got one with FKU .

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I forgot to mention earlier that we used to name our cars using the three letters on the numberplate. The Alpine had BKY and was called Beaky, the Cavalier was JWY - Jabberwocky, another was Sadie (SDE). This stopped abruptly when we got one with FKU .

..... Followed by WNK, PRK and CNT

 

[swee'pea99]

I've got the chrome radiator front, for an Allegro Vanden Plas on my garage wall ; not really sure what else to do with it

Make a nice key ring, no?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Most of the time I was growing up my Dad rode mopeds and scooters, but in the mid sixties he brought him self a Bubble Car, like this one but in red http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/bmwisetta250.html it was the only car he ever owned, Mum sold it after he died in the early seventies.

here we go, I found an old picture

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Thats a very young dave r at the wheel and my sister standing by the car

Great, my dad had a retro period with an Isetta and a (contemporary) Moulton that weighed a ton and felt like riding a very wet sponge. I remember getting him, me and my double bass into the Isetta at the start of term one year. And being quite glad that I was pretty much invisible as we went up the hill to school. It eventually caught fire on the M1 and auto-cremated itself.

Anyhow, the Ford Popular is the first car I can remember him driving.

 

[pubrunner]

Make a nice key ring, no?

At about 3 feet long, it's too big for my pocket.