Your dad's car....
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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
I always thought what we had were Hillman Minxes, but looking at pics online the Hillman Hunter seems more familiar.
The first one was hijacked by the IRA and used to run guns over the border, before being abandoned and blown up by the Army. The second was stolen by joy riders, abandoned, and blown up by the Army. Not long after that we left Belfast.
Once over here, Dad retired on ill health, and Mum went out to work. She was briefly loaned some form of Simca, before getting a company car. How grand.
A Metro. In Buttercup yellow.
Still, it was one of the first Metros, when there was a big fuss about it being the first new British car for years, so people used to point at it from bus queues and so on. For quite a long time as we passed, as it wasn't a fast car.
We had three of them before she changed jobs, then she moved over to Vauxhall Corsas, she still has one now.
The first one was hijacked by the IRA and used to run guns over the border, before being abandoned and blown up by the Army. The second was stolen by joy riders, abandoned, and blown up by the Army. Not long after that we left Belfast.
Once over here, Dad retired on ill health, and Mum went out to work. She was briefly loaned some form of Simca, before getting a company car. How grand.
A Metro. In Buttercup yellow.
Still, it was one of the first Metros, when there was a big fuss about it being the first new British car for years, so people used to point at it from bus queues and so on. For quite a long time as we passed, as it wasn't a fast car.
We had three of them before she changed jobs, then she moved over to Vauxhall Corsas, she still has one now.
marknotgeorge
Hol den Vorschlaghammer!
- Location
- Derby.
I vaguely remember a Triumph Spitfire, and an Austin Cambridge, before:
Mk 2 Cortina, which dad sprayed bright orange with a black roof, before someone wrote it off while I was in hospital as a kid.
Vauxhall Victor. I remember dad had the sills replaced, and had to spend the first morning of our summer holiday patching up a melted wiring loom.
Renault 9. Our first new-ish car. Sadly money problems meant it had to go back.
Renault 16. Dodgy old motor...
Morris Marina. This is the car I learned to drive in.
Mk 2 Cavalier. Although aging, this wasn't bad, but dad replaced it with...
Mk 3 Ford Granada. This was a complete dog, that wouldn't even tickover properly. I did my sums, and offered the 'rents more board to help fund...
Mk 3 Vauxhall Cavalier, although an ex-taxi, this was an okay motor. By the time we got rid of it, the 'rents were in better financial shape, so could afford a 2 year old...
Vauxhall Vectra B. In green, with a 2.0 litre engine. This shifted. Then dad discovered French diesels, and invested in a brand-new...
Renault Laguna. Never saw much of this, and it was written off in a flood at my dad's work, so he replaced it with the car he has now, a...
Citroen C5. He's idly looking for something a bit newer...
Mk 2 Cortina, which dad sprayed bright orange with a black roof, before someone wrote it off while I was in hospital as a kid.
Vauxhall Victor. I remember dad had the sills replaced, and had to spend the first morning of our summer holiday patching up a melted wiring loom.
Renault 9. Our first new-ish car. Sadly money problems meant it had to go back.
Renault 16. Dodgy old motor...
Morris Marina. This is the car I learned to drive in.
Mk 2 Cavalier. Although aging, this wasn't bad, but dad replaced it with...
Mk 3 Ford Granada. This was a complete dog, that wouldn't even tickover properly. I did my sums, and offered the 'rents more board to help fund...
Mk 3 Vauxhall Cavalier, although an ex-taxi, this was an okay motor. By the time we got rid of it, the 'rents were in better financial shape, so could afford a 2 year old...
Vauxhall Vectra B. In green, with a 2.0 litre engine. This shifted. Then dad discovered French diesels, and invested in a brand-new...
Renault Laguna. Never saw much of this, and it was written off in a flood at my dad's work, so he replaced it with the car he has now, a...
Citroen C5. He's idly looking for something a bit newer...
ScotiaLass
Guru
- Location
- Middle Earth
My dad had quite a few different cars but I remember these very well....
A Ford Zepher (he actually had two, one blue and one in green)
and Ford Granada Estate - ours was brown with a thick gold stripe down the side
My brothers' first car was a Ford Anglia - no need for a pic of that!
Mine was a Volvo 360GLT in silver
A Ford Zepher (he actually had two, one blue and one in green)
and Ford Granada Estate - ours was brown with a thick gold stripe down the side
My brothers' first car was a Ford Anglia - no need for a pic of that!
Mine was a Volvo 360GLT in silver
iandg
Legendary Member
- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
Get plenty of bikes in the back of that Ford Granada Estate 
ScotiaLass
Guru
- Location
- Middle Earth
Hubby and I have one of these...Get plenty of bikes in the back of that Ford Granada Estate
LOTS of room for bikes
mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
- Location
- Egremont, Cumbria
My parent's first car was a Chrysler Avenger like this one, though I don't remember much about it.
After that broke they got a Chrysler Alpine, and then moved on to a Vauxhall Cavalier.
When there were six of us the cars needed to get bigger, so we had a Montego Countryman with fold up rear seat, and a Toyota TownAce imported from Japan.
After that broke they got a Chrysler Alpine, and then moved on to a Vauxhall Cavalier.
When there were six of us the cars needed to get bigger, so we had a Montego Countryman with fold up rear seat, and a Toyota TownAce imported from Japan.
philtalksbx
Über Member
- Location
- Oxford
So there was more than the two my Dad had? A dark green TL, too young to remember and a dark brown metallic (it was the seventies!) TS that handled like a boat but was spacious and comfy....ahem
My Dad never had a car, but I have owned all of those excepting maybe the Royale things. Not all for personal use, but I was a car dealer in the Middlesex /Surrey area in the seventies and eighties.
Bedfont car sales
Hanworth car sales
Balham Car Centre
Tolworth Car Sales
Twickenham Trade Centre.
Isleworth Cars
And maybe one I cannot remember, must say it all looks a bit dodgy when I write it down.
Bedfont car sales
Hanworth car sales
Balham Car Centre
Tolworth Car Sales
Twickenham Trade Centre.
Isleworth Cars
And maybe one I cannot remember, must say it all looks a bit dodgy when I write it down.
ScotiaLass
Guru
- Location
- Middle Earth
A'write Boycie!
ScotiaLass
Guru
- Location
- Middle Earth
Oooh my (then) boyfriend had one of those - it used to haul four of us plus a trailer of scramble bikes all over competitions in Scotland
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
I feel old now. 
MY first car was a Viva. Followed by a W108 Mercedes then a Triumph Stag - though to be fair most of them at the time were not much younger than me.
MY first car was a Viva. Followed by a W108 Mercedes then a Triumph Stag - though to be fair most of them at the time were not much younger than me.
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
swiss toni !Arthur Daley more like.
