Your dad's car....

[martint235]

No wonder we have climate issues with you lot around.

My mum and dad have never owned a car while I've been alive. I've never owned a car either (never taken a driving lesson) so I now claim the right to feel all righteous!!!

 

[subaqua]

what scares me is that my 1st car has been mentioned here a few times now. and it hasn't improved with age either Vauxhall Viva estate maroon UEM 393M - with more wire wool and filler at the top of the slope to the boot suppports than I care to admit to ! Stuffed it in a ditch on Christmas Morning 1990

 

[ASC1951]

AlI that's ever spoken about my dad's Riley 1.5 is that it was forever breaking down. ...

Ours too. I have an early memory of standing on tip-toe in the footwell, peering through the windscreen as my dad wrestled with the starting handle in the rain. He was a very mild man, so "God damn and blast it to Hell and back!!" suggested that the remaining 150 miles to Cornwall were not going to go smoothly ....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Anyway, since this is being a bit sexist, in about 1990, my Mum, after spending years taking the train/bus everywhere bought a small red Nova hatchback which had had only one careful owner. Its regisration ended in 'REG', so it was instantly cristened 'Reggy'.

She then got another Nova from another 'careful owner' which was a gold/platinum colour. Unlike the first which was a hatchback, it was a booted version, so it's rear stuck out at the back and soon started to look a bit dated as cars of that shape now look. It was shaped side on like a hat.

I seem to remember my big sister learning to drive in it several years later and then managing to write it off.

After that, my Mum had a blue Corsa and then one or two other small cars after that including a silver Nisan Micra. Both my Mum and Dad now share the Ford Focus.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I've never owned a car either (never taken a driving lesson) so I now claim the right to feel all righteous!!!

Same here, in a family including some petrolheads, only myself and my Aunt don't drive. Also my Gran and Grandpa on different sides of the family never drove, but they are long since deceased so don't count now!!

 

[Linford]

I bought this 1947 Austin 8 about 20 years ago (8 being the Horsepower rating ) ...Had it for about 10 years. Based on the chassis and running gear of the Austin 7. They started making them in 1939 buthad to stop for the war effort. When the war ended, that was all they could make so they produced them for a couple of years and most of the 40,000 made went for export to Oz.
The dashboard was like an old radio. Suicide doors and flick out indicators. I had to sell it in the end to make way for a motorbike.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I agree!!!

Also, near my parents there were 3 cars I coveted, as a 14-15 year old
A 'british racing green' Triumph Dolomite Sprint
A (metallic peppermint??) Escort 1600Sport (mark 2)
Down on the big (Barratts) estate down in the village, there was a '66'/'67 Mustang (booted version)!!
Red, white stripe down the side (filling the concave swage line), side-pipes & Wolfrace alloys
Still remember the sound
Sometimes there's a 131 Sport at a show in Wakefield, still look at it with nostalgia
Here's a couple of pics - Mustang was this model!!

 

[stephec]

If my son posted on here he'd say that up to about five years ago his dad used to have a Capri that didn't get used as much as it should have, due to having company cars for the past fifteen years.

 

[Sara_H]

My Dad used to drive a Robin Reliant! He loved those cars, we used to drive all the way down to the south coast from Sheffield every Summer. The last one he ever owned was his pride and joy, a nearly new purple colour. We called it the purple pig.

In about 1979 he had quite a nasty crash, He'd only had the purple pig a few months, he got SMIDSY'd and went through the windscreen (this being the days before seatbelts were compulsorary). He had a nasty head injury and suffered from epilepsy as a result for the rest of his short life.
He wasn't allowed to drive for a couple of years until the epilepsy was well controlled with drugs, but then in 1982 he bought a green Skoda.
Mum always said green cars were bad luck, and lo and behold about a year later he died of cancer at the age of 37.

No one would buy the green Skoda off Mum, took her about a year to sell it after Dad died.

I think she was right about green cars, we had a green Rover when my ex husband had his meltdown and buggered off to have his midlife crisis!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

a wolsely
ford falcon (australian variant)
hilman avenger
renault 4
a couple of mini 1000s
numerous boring superminis

 

[inkd]

Allegro vanden plas was the worst. Sierra mk 1 was my fav. Lost count the amount dad has had.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Most of the time I was growing up my Dad rode mopeds and scooters, but in the mid sixties he brought him self a Bubble Car, like this one but in red http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/bmwisetta250.html it was the only car he ever owned, Mum sold it after he died in the early seventies.

here we go, I found an old picture

Thats a very young dave r at the wheel and my sister standing by the car

 

[Twelve Spokes]

In the late 70's it was an Audi.I liked the sound of it but im more intrigued by my stepmums Volkswagon Beetle.

 

[swee'pea99]

Earliest I can remember was a Vauxhall Victor estate. Then one of those poo-coloured Volvos (terrible car...always breaking down). Then a brand new Rover 2600 - comfy, smooth drive, nice-looking, shame bits started falling off on the way back from the showroom. Then a Honda - I think it was called a Quintet - classic '80s Japanese blandmobile, but worked faultlessly for north of a decade. Finally a Honda Jazz, which I eventually persuaded him to relinquish, on the grounds that he was a menace on the roads. (He had been for years, but eventually he accepted it.)

Never liked any of them.

 

[Yellow Fang]

My dad had something like this Toyota Corona. It was a good car. It hardly ever went wrong.