Your dad's car....

[ComedyPilot]

Simple, remember (if you can) your dad's cars when you were a kid?

Well post them here.

Viva, first car I really remember- he span it on snow with the full family in it - mum was not impressed

Got a good job, so bought a Mirafiori

Then he went all 'Life on Mars/Sweeney' and bought a MK3 (cough) Cortina Twin Cam in Bronze

I left home.

 

[Glow worm]

One of these beasts...

Austin Maxi. There really is nothing to like about it whatsoever.
Can't believe it got us to Southern Italy and back one year. Still, beats Ryan Air I guess!

 

[tyred]

One of these beasts...

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Austin Maxi. There really is nothing to like about it whatsoever.
Can't believe it got us to Southern Italy and back one year. Still, beats Ryan Air I guess!

Ignore the build quality issues and questionable styling for one second, the Maxi was way ahead of it's time in many ways - FWD with end on 5 speed box, cable operated gearchange, practical hatchback design - reads like the spec sheet for any family car today. A MK1 Escort in comparison may have been more durable but it was yesterday's technology even then.

Edit - first car I remember was a 1973 MKIII Cortina 1.3L - the earlier model with the cool sloping dashboard.

 

[Cheddar George]

One of these beasts...

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Austin Maxi. There really is nothing to like about it whatsoever.
Can't believe it got us to Southern Italy and back one year. Still, beats Ryan Air I guess!

The seat was like sitting in your favourite armchair.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Wolseley something-or-other
Triumph Dolomite
Austin Maxi
Ford Escort
VW Golf

No idea how to do the picture thing - sorry

 

[Jason.T]

Mk2 escort
Mk3 2 door cortina
Talbot sunbeam
MG metro
Montego efi

A few more but to young to remember the others

 

[Salad Dodger]

1) Morris Minor
2) Vauxhall Viva
3) Vauxhall Cavalier (when they very first were made)
4) Mk2 Vauxhall Cavalier which he owned until he died

 

[Glow worm]

I better say no more then on that car, as the Maxi fanclub are clearly formidable foes

How about this monster, which my Dad replaced the Maxi with in about 1979?!

 

[ComedyPilot]

I better say no more then on that car, as the Maxi fanclub are clearly formidable foes

How about this monster, which my Dad replaced the Maxi with in about 1979?!

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Fwoarrr

 

[tyred]

Mk2 escort
Mk3 2 door cortina
Talbot sunbeam
MG metro
Montego efi

A few more but to young to remember the others

That would be an extremely rare car to have nowadays. I think I only saw 2 in my life.

 

[Jason.T]

That would be an extremely rare car to have nowadays. I think I only saw 2 in my life.

Yeah it was very rare, was a really nice car in gleaming white but someone came out of a junction and smashed into the side of it, he was gutted, they were that rare that he actually had a argument with someone a few years later as they didn't believe that the 2 door existed so didn't believe he owned one

 

[iandg]

My bike and my dad's car (1976). Another Maxi here too.


Pre-race preparation by windy_, on Flickr

His first car was an A40 Somerset saloon, followed by an Austin Westminster. Then came the Maxi, replaced by a Marina estate

 

[SteCenturion]

Volvo 240 estate I believe in a kind of -
Mucky - can't be arsed being blue shade.

Dull as loo-bloo but boy was it PRACTICAL.

 

[slowwww]

Austin Cambridge - 2 tone, maroon and cream
Vauxhall Viva
Morris Minor 1.8 Super (surely the most inappropriate suffix ever!) in beige
Ford Cortina Mark 4
Renault 20
Audi 100s
Renault 25
Rover 820 - consuming 1 pint of oil a week after 2 years (Rover dealer said this was 'standard' - no wonder they went bust!)

 

[Mark Grant]

Ford Thames van

Humber Super Snipe.