Your dad's car....

[subaqua]

ones i remember were

HB Viva in Blue HMB 580E sold and got
Mk 2 Cortina 1600E in Brown - sold before realised what it was actually worth no car for about 3 or 4 months
Austin Cambridge grey with a white stripe down it and a hotrrible red vinyl interior. rear passenger door wouldn't open. scrapped
Mk 3 cortina Blue 2000 GLX or GXL PUX777M known as the blue arrow as it burnt oil like a diesel - scrapped
Cortina 80 (wrongly called Mk5) Beige MTL818V scrapped
Ford Crusader Red Reg unknown PXed for
Audi 80 in white G543 JUK
then several Audis including an Audi 90 2.2 quattro ( rarish) onto Audi A4 S4 RS4 RS6 .

 

[stephec]

My dad seemed to change his cars quite regularly, in no particular order -

Ford Zephyr in a lovely brown colour

Ford Zodiac two tone blue and silver

MK3 Cortina, red with a big white Starsky and Hutch style stripe

MK4 Cortina
2.0L Ghia, metallic green with a black vinyl roof

Plus many others that my mind seems to have erased the memories of.

 

[MarkF]

These cars, all metal from front to back, lovely.

 

[Dave 123]

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.

Us too, in white. My dad customised it with a huge nicotine stain on the white roof lining. Nice.

 

[pubrunner]

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 much maligned Maxi, was in concept, a really excellent car !

I read recently, that the Maxi is actually shorter than a Ford Focus; and had more much interior space.

 

[pubrunner]

We had one of these . . . . . . . Austin Heavy 12/4

My father liked it so much, that he co-formed a Car Club for these vehicles - way back in the 1950s . . . and the club is going strong today. With membership numbers in the thousands, his membership number is . . . 2.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Oh dear god. That brings back memories... usually of being wet as I would rather have walked home in the rain than go in that.

Also, good caravanning hols in Cornwall. Will it make it... Wont it make it... the suspense!

 

[craigwend]

I remember my father had a Ford Prefect* & walking to the scrap yard with him to say goodbye, before we got our spanking new Mark 1 Escort

*Googled for a picture...don't remember it looking like this though...

Oh well ....

 

[Linford]

Before we went to HK, Dad had one of these. He bought it tax free in Singapore when he was posted there in the early 60's, and then had it shipped to the UK

Borgward Isabella.

 

[pubrunner]

Oh dear god. That brings back memories... usually of being wet as I would rather have walked home in the rain than go in that.

Also, good caravanning hols in Cornwall. Will it make it... Wont it make it... the suspense!

Again, like the Maxi, this had the potential to be a great car ! It had loads of room inside; it's torsional strength, was one of the highest ever rated. Shame the execution, didn't live up to the concept.

 

[stephec]

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!

Do you mean it took a year to get to Italy and back?

And I've remembered we had a white Hillman Hunter as well.

 

[Over The Hill]

We had a Ford Corsair. Dad got it new in 1963. It was a rare auto model with a bench front seat. We could sit three up in the front seats.
Was rather flash at the time. It went rusty really quickly and was towed away for scrap around 1970. Don't make em like they used to. We also went to Italy in it. Must have been the thing to do at the time. I can still really picture swinging round the hairpin bends in the alps with all the locals in little Fiat 500s whizzing past us.

 

[mr_cellophane]

Isn't that one the Ford Executive ?

 

[screenman]

Corsair, was the first car I bought and sold for a profit, it was what made me decide that buying and selling was better than mechanicing.

Bought for £50 and sold for £250 after a bit of tidying. Good money in about 1975.

 

[CharlesF]

Morris Minor – That took a family of five from Salisbury, Rhodesia to East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa which is about 1,300 miles and took three days. Most of the luggage was strapped to a roof rack

Morris Oxford

We flew to England and a brand new Wolseley 15/60 was waiting at Heathrow, we shipped it home on the Edinburgh Castle. That was 1959 and the flight, in Vickers Viscount, took more than a day

Austin 1800 – that was radical, people would flag the car down and tell us the tires were flat, they were radial tyres not seen before; also standard were seat belts. As a family we covered miles of dirt roads in game parks. I learnt to drive in the car

Peugeot 304 - very comfy and advanced with independent suspension, front-wheel-drive and disc brakes

Alfa Suds – at least three; at the same time my Mother drove a Renault 4 which was a brilliant car and very forgiving towards teenage drivers