Your dad's car....

[Cubist]

MG 1300, the princess shaped one
Wolsely 18-85 Bit of a tank!

Triumph 2500 Pi
Rover 3500 v8
Citroen 2500 pallas
Threee Renault 30s
A non- descript Volvo of some sort.

 

[Brandane]

Rover 110
Hillman Minx
Vauxhall Viva
VW Beetle
Ford Escort
Citroen GS
Datsun 120Y
Audi 80

 

[Brandane]

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

Are you mixing up your mk2 and mk3? The mk2 was rare in 2 doors, but the mk3 quite common. The mk3 was the one in the bottom photo of the OP, which @ComedyPilot originally (!) posted as a mk2. I was a bit of a car anorak back in those days , now they all look the same and share bits with each other.

 

[tyred]

Are you mixing up your mk2 and mk3? The mk2 was rare in 2 doors, but the mk3 quite common. The mk3 was the one in the bottom photo of the OP, which @ComedyPilot has wrongly posted as a mk2. I was a bit of a car anorak back in those days , now they all look the same and share bits with each other.

Maybe they sold better across the water but 2 door MK1 & Mk2 were quite common here but 2 door MK3, 4 & 5 were extremely rare and very sought after now. I definitely know my Cortinas, a lot of fond memories and I love them, even if they were a rustbucket with iffy roadholding, camshaft eating engines, useless brakes and fuse box that usually filled up with water.

 

[Paulus]

The first car I remember my dad having was one of these

and then

and then

 

[SteCenturion]

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.

Looks like you & yours lived on Wisteria Lane - a la' - Desperate Housewives !!

That would have been on bricks & on fire round our way.

 

[Jason.T]

Are you mixing up your mk2 and mk3? The mk2 was rare in 2 doors, but the mk3 quite common. The mk3 was the one in the bottom photo of the OP, which @ComedyPilot has wrongly posted as a mk2. I was a bit of a car anorak back in those days , now they all look the same and share bits with each other.

And I was totally wrong, just phoned the old man and he says it was a mk4 cortina but apparently still quite rare

 

[cyberknight]

Dad never learnt to drive, never had a car till we used the money given to the kids in the will when my mum died to buy a family car when we eventually got a step mum .
WE had a maxi

 

[nickyboy]

First one I remember was maroon Ford Anglia. Finally given away to the guy down the road who was a stock car racer. We went to watch at Warton Raceway (near Carnforth) which was actually the old slag tips. The bottom fell out of it after one lap

Next up was "sky grey mist" Mini Van as he was a plumber. We went all the way from Carnforth to Nequay overnight in that, my sister and I sleeping on a mattress in the back

Finally the winner; Orange Austin Allegro

 

[Spinney]

The first car I remember my dad having was one of these [...] and then [..] and then

The first one I remember was a 'van' version of one of these, I think. But I seem to remember little semaphore arms instead of indicator lights?

Then one of these:

 

[Paulus]

The first one I remember was a 'van' version of one of these, I think. But I seem to remember little semaphore arms instead of indicator lights?

Then one of these:

The earlier versions of the Morris Minor/traveller/van did have semaphore arms as indicators. If I remember correctly my Dads one was a 1961/2 one, 113 XPL was the reg. and it had indicator lights, plus the end of the indicator stalk had a little green light on it that flashed in time with the indicators.

 

[icky]

dad worked for a large company in Trafford park in the 70s early 80s were the lads would swap cars on a regular basis so he often came home in a different car than he left in so here go's mk1 Escort / VW Bettle / mk 2 Escort / ford cortina / Vauxhall viva / Lancia beta coupe / and the list go's on .

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Riley 1.5 ltr
Riley 2.5 ltr
Triumph 2500 estate
Peugeot 404 estate
Renault 12 estate
Renault 4 - we had 2 of those.

 

[MarkF]

My father had too many to recall. Three worth mentioning were:-

Datsun 120Y New August 1st 1976 all the neighbours came to look at it, was like a spaceship compared to the British Leyland crap.

Then he went and bought a bottle green Morris Marina, oh the shame.

After that he became fixated with Austin Princesses and Ambassadors. I think the former had a boot & the latter a hatch, strange cars.

 

[Saluki]

My Dad didn't drive but mother did.
She liked these things for some, unknown reason had a new one ever 3 years for as long as I can remember.