Your dad's car....

[shouldbeinbed]

Austin Cambridge, 3 Hillman Hunters in quick succession, a Ford Cortina mk3, A Chrysler Alpine, an Austin Princess (we all hated it) another Talbot now Alpine. 3 Volvo's, A Subaru Legacy (lovely thing) & a Subaru Forester.

Mainly company cars & he got through a few as they gave him a new one on promotions or as part of a big pay settlement, even if they were the same type as the current one.

 

[Fnaar]

Morris Oxford estate
Morris 1100
A borrowed Anglia for a month or two
Corsair (coolest car he ever had)
Cortina Mk III
Cortina Mk IV
Morris Marina (why oh why oh why???)
Datsun Cherry
then he died

 

[ASC1951]

I can just about remember my dad's first car - a Riley 1.5. Split windscreen and running boards. Ours was very second hand and not at all classic.

 

[stevede]

I remember a ford Anglia, and also an estate version (but could have been a mk1 Escort)

Change of circumstances saw a run of brand new cars
A Vauxhall Magnum 1800 - Metallic Green
Followed by 2 x MkII Ford Capris
And finally a Fiat Mirafiouri (mum worked for Fiat and got a deal)

Another change saw a raft of forgettable second hand models including IIRC, a Humber Sceptre, Vauxhall Viva Estate and a Volvo 240 tank in beige.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I can just about remember my dad's first car - a Riley 1.5. Split windscreen and running boards. Ours was very second hand and not at all classic.

AlI that's ever spoken about my dad's Riley 1.5 is that it was forever breaking down. It had those indicators that would pop up (when they worked) between the doors.

 

[buggi]

he had a viva and then some sort of estate and he used to drop the back seat and all six of us would just climb in the back. In the days before health and safety lol

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

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

AS a kid/teenager

Austin Cambridge (A70??)
Bedford HA van (works)
Land Rover 109" Hard-Top (works)
Vauxhall Viva estate, as pictured above
Austin Clubman estate
Fiat 128 (wanted him to have a 131 SuperSport, as pictured above)
Vauxhall Cavalier (the 1st shape - I learnt to drive in that)
Datsun Sunny
Toyota Carina

 

[Accy cyclist]

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!

I had one of those in the same colour though i went and had it resprayed bright orange! It was not only a car but a room for the night as well, as the flattened rear seats offered a comfy bed after a night out on the tiles!

 

[Accy cyclist]

My dad took his test in 1967 he failed and never took it again. So we relied on his brother to take us out for day trips. I can remember going to Morecambe a lot as he thought Blackpool was "rough". He was a miserable type who kept the windows up on hot days,and the stink of those toilet type air fresheners he had in the car and the boiling hot leather seats we had to sit on made me throw up one day in his precious car!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My Dad always had company cars, so he never got to choose, although we (the kids) did get to pick the colour, so I remember a....

'Flame red' red Vauxhall Cavalier
then a
Blue Astra Estate which I remember telling my Dad would be the car I'd drive when I was a grown up. As I seem to rermember, he just laughed!

Then we had....

...... A white Citroen somethingorother which had a whole load of weird and wonderful hydraulic suspension settings on it so that the car could be driven at various different heights and angles. It only had one windscreen wiper in the middle, which we all thought was strange and great in equal measure and was the only white car we ever had as the colour was picked by my sister and I don't think she'd quite taken into consideration how dirty it would look!
It is still one of the cars I remember the most by far and I wish I knew what it was as I'd love to see one now!

Then we had....

Another blue Astra Estate, but the updated version, and this time a diesel (our first)

Ummm..... I genuinely can't remember after that, and it was only 10 or 15 years ago too, but they would have been estates of some type anyway

He's retired and now has a Ford Focus.

 

[Hitchington]

A beige British Leyland Allegro - living the dream.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Got a good job, so bought a Mirafiori

 

[SteCenturion]

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 ....

Dapper looking dude ?

Oh those threads !

Circa ?

Can I have 1st guess ?

Ta !

1972 ?

 

[LarryDuff]

My dad had a Ford Zephyr. It had a bench front seat that you get 3 small kids on - all unbelted of course.

 

[Alex H]

My dad's first car was one of these - a Hillman Minx

He won it in a competition to guess the attendance at a Chelmsford City football match. To get the winning number he took his Army number and knocked off the last 2 digits (I think). As he didn't have a license he sold it and bought one of these - Francis Barnett 250 (green not red though)

After a few years and trips round Scotland with me on the back, he got his car license and sold the bike and bought - a Hillman Minx