What were your Dad's best cars? PICS PLEASE!

[chrisw880]

In 40 years of driving my Dad has had:

Wolseley 15/60

Vauxhall Victor 1800

Saab 99 EMS

Saab 96

Saab 92

Saab 99 Combi x3 (The first of which was a Turbo)

Vauxhall Cavalier

Austin Maestro

Austin Montego

Mitsubishi Space Wagon x3 (3rd was and 4x4 Import)

Mitsubishi Space Star

[Johnny50]

In 40 years of driving my Dad has had:

Wolseley 15/60

Vauxhall Victor 1800

Saab 99 EMS

Saab 96

Saab 92

Saab 99 Combi x3 (The first of which was a Turbo)

Vauxhall Cavalier

Austin Maestro

Austin Montego

Mitsubishi Space Wagon x3 (3rd was and 4x4 Import)

Mitsubishi Space Star

So he had decent taste when he first started driving...then old age took over

[Rob.]

Some awesome cars being listed here.. but really wanna see pix! come on!

Google the car, find an image, right click and select "open image in new tab", or "copy image url" to get the images url, and then use the little button that looks like a tiny Polaroid on your post to paste in the location and the image will appear in your post!

Edited 28 April, 2010 by Rob.

[Polo6n1600i]

The cars i can remember my dad having was:-

1979 Austi Maxi 1750HL

Then replaced with an Austin Maestro VDP "A802KNB" Dark Blue with the talking dash

Replace in the 90's with a Volvo 740 GLE from northern Ireland - over £1200 cheaper than buying in the UK - but unfortunately a clocker! "MiB5874" Replaced because my sister couldnt drift it round a wet roundabout when the rear end stepped out. Written off

Sample pic - but it was the same blue/green

The car my dad runs now is:-

Its an ex-police CID undercover car with the engine out of a T5R in it! Hmm 285bhp through the front wheels!

Again its wearing the same plate as the old volvo

[MattyD]

Here is my dads coolest car with me in, i'm sorry if that spoils the picture!

he also had a Citroen Xantia Activa which was pretty cool!

[Lady Elanore]

I really liked this thread when posters bothered to read the Ops first post.

POST PICTURES, DON’T JUST LIST CARS FOLKS!!!!!!!!!

Dad's Horizon was this colour. I hated drving it. 5 up plus a big dog and the 1.1 engine :(

[Calomax]

Some awesome cars being listed here.. but really wanna see pix! come on!

Google the car, find an image, right click and select "open image in new tab", or "copy image url" to get the images url, and then use the little button that looks like a tiny Polaroid on your post to paste in the location and the image will appear in your post!

Tried that, didn't work, given up. :'(

[Rob.]

BUMP!

This thread was mentioned in a list your car thread over in Fabia1 so I thought I'd re-start it!

Same as last time please, it's only really a picture thread because it's about looking at the older motors we all knew but had forgotten about!

So, Any more for Any more? What were your Dads coolest cars?

I'll start..

His XM, in this colour.. was following one of these the other day and my god they look like nothing else on the road now! I want one! lol!

Had it from it being 3 years old.. Sold it to my Grandpa who had it until 80k when the engine imploded.

Edited 2 September, 2010 by Rob.

[swedishskoda]

Mmm, car nostalgia Love the MG 1300 that mannyo posted. Back in the early 70's my best friend's dad had a Princess 1100 and John D's list definitely needs to be illustrated - Singer, Armstrong Siddeley...

My list will be short but sweet.

I was born in 1954 and same year dad bought a brand new Chevrolet, just like this one:

In 1961 he swapped it for a Studebaker Lark VI, although in better condition than this one:

It was still in his garage when he passed away in 1974. I drove it for a year or so, but petrol price had gone through the roof in 1973 and in city traffic you got 15 mpg so it was soon replaced by a Citroën...

[loskie]

Mmm, car nostalgia Love the MG 1300 that mannyo posted. Back in the early 70's my best friend's dad had a Princess 1100 and John D's list definitely needs to be illustrated - Singer, Armstrong Siddeley...

My list will be short but sweet.

I was born in 1954 and same year dad bought a brand new Chevrolet, just like this one:

In 1961 he swapped it for a Studebaker Lark VI, although in better condition than this one:

It was still in his garage when he passed away in 1974. I drove it for a year or so, but petrol price had gone through the roof in 1973 and in city traffic you got 15 mpg so it was soon replaced by a Citroën...

AUSTIN HEALEY 3000 Mk3

Various others plus motorbikes

Rover P2000?

Holbay Hunter

Renault 12Ts GSM828N

Ford Escort

Fiat 131 Super Miafiori Sport (bright orange)

Brown Vauxhall Cavalier GLS

Another Cavalier

Ford Orion Ghia Injection(I was 17 at that point good job he didn't know how I drove it)

Sierra

Rover 400 GSi

Passat2.0GL

Mitsubishi Colt Diesel

Currently Skoda Octavia Elegance

Plus in the early to mid 70's Dad was the development engineer for Kangol Seatbelts in Carlisle who supplied various manufacturers with seatbelts and designed fitment for their new models. We had various cars for short spells from VW Golf Mk1 gti, Porsches and other more mundane models. Unfortunately I was too young to appeciate these.

[tomsimes]

The coolest I remember him owning was one of these:

Ford Sierra 2.9 GLS 4x4 - Basically a Sierra XR4x4 in boring clothing, an awesome sleeper

Also owned two Fiesta XR2i's - MK1 in black and MK2 in red if I remember him telling me correctly - both were owned just before I was born!

Still has the Cibie lamps off the MK2 in the garage

I know he started his driving career with one of these, not sure on the year or colour though:

Also had these over his car history:

Escort XR3i Series One:

Rover 827 Vitesse:

Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0 16v:

Peugeot 406 Executive HDI:

Landrover Freelander 1.8 K-Series engine (Headgasket went twice and after 3 years, it only had 1st, 4th and 5th left in the gearbox - all in 60,000 miles! Luckily it was a company car):

Also recently had two of these, after the first one was written off when somebody pulled out on him at a roundabout:

Oh, he also brought one of these home from work for a weekend once too:

A fairly cool collection of cars in my opinion (save a couple that are in there!) - although now he's gone all sensible and bought a V70 2.4 TDI, although it's still a very nice car to drive!

[adiamond]

His coolest car was the Austin Healy Bug-Eyed Sprite but it ended up in a ditch... still got the grill off the front though!

(not the actual car)

[vRSy]

my old man had one of these years back. insane car, he sold it before i was old enough to drive though

lotus carlton

Edited 2 September, 2010 by janner_Sy

[mrbushrat]

1974 Hillman Avenger 1.6GLS, in white. (NTM 636M)

The good old avenger

[mrbushrat]

Just a few of the old mans rally cars.

Heartwell Imp

Avenger 1600

Cooper S Was running 130bhp

Avenger 1600 (Yes another one)

Note tthe same spot lights on all the cars lol They now on mine

[Dmac1969]

The first car I can remember my dad having was a Mk1 Mini DeLuxe , in Yellow with a Red interior

He got rid of that fir a white H reg HB Viva that was a POS!

Then he had a Mk1 Escort 1100 , in Tawny Brown met , which I loved! Reg no was GJR 192L

He then moved on to his only new car , a Mk1 VW Polo in Riyad Yellow (pre facelift) SKS 325T

Next , after an interlude riding a Scooter... Austin Metro City in Red , E143 AVU

His last car before he died was one of these , Proton MPI Saloon. in white.

Before I was born he had a Morris Minor , but I cant remember that obviously!

[Rob.]

Right.. It's been 2 years now...

MEGAAAAA BUUUMMMPP!!!

Come on, I know there's new members to post on this thread now.. but remember.. PLEASE POST PICS!

Doesn't have to be the actual car, just a nice example of it found on the internets...

I'll post another up... to get the ball rolling, again..

Dad, then Mum.. had a mk2 Granada for a while..

Edited 18 November, 2012 by Rob.

[grr666]

Only cool car my dad ever had. Fiat 132.

Ours was a 1976 2 litre, I still to this day remember the reg LTJ 374R

Bizarre what sticks in your head, reminds me of a 3 series bimmer.

Ours was silver too

[Aspman]

Hmmm despite being a petrol head my Dad has always bought remarkably dull cars.

A notable low point was the nova saloon in beige

Things got a bit better when he got one of the first decent Seats, a Cordoba

I started to learn to drive in that but it was a tricky bugger with a very high rear window.

The high points were nothing to do with his choice. He got a couple of 318s an E36

And and E46

Which although maybe not the greatest cars in the world were pretty good to drive in when you're 18 since I was a named driver on his work insurance and I got the car a lot to put his mileage up.

After the beemers it's a been a dreary run of people carriers and now a derv focus.

[James I]

My Dad had loads of sheds! He had transit vans that needed half a can of easy start every morning to get going, he had a renault 16 with column change that he swapped concrete for! He had all these sheds as work cars that carried his tools for keeping the Foden running!

I don't have many pictures but here is a really old image we found when going through his things after he passed away.

I do know he had some decent cars too in his youth, Mini Cooper S, Vauxhall 101, Humber Super snipe.

His last car was a Passat, he bought this in the USA after his suburban blew the gearbox to pieces, his US colleagues asked what this little car was but after three years 6 people had bought VW after driving his car, this image was taken camping in Monument Valley.

[seboni121]

[Porkballs29]

Growing up in the late 80's/early 90's I all ways felt as if my old mans car choices were a little sad back in the day but looking at them now they were actually pretty cool.

Ok maybe not all of them were cool - Citroen GS

My two favourites Cortine Mk3 1600 GT and Ventora FE 3.3 6cyl

Ventora FD 3.3 6cyl

Another Favourite Renault Fuego Turbo

Capri 2.0S in this same orange colour

[Gaz]

Only cool car my dad ever had. Fiat 132.

Ours was a 1976 2 litre, I still to this day remember the reg LTJ 374R

Bizarre what sticks in your head, reminds me of a 3 series bimmer.

Ours was silver too

I've had four 132's. Loved them at the time, rose tinted glasses no doubt, but I wonder what I'd make of them now.

My Dad's has to be:

Ford Thames van he put windows in: (three-speed gearbox and the clutch died while on holiday in Germany)

I used to sit in the tin engine cover between to two front seats. If I was lucky I got two bits of carpet to stop the back of my legs burning!

Austin 1800 (the 'land crab'), which was the family car and towed a caravan all over the UK for hols - first car I ever drove too:

And undoubtedly his favourite would be his 1980 Colt Sigma - coz it want like stink (compared to an Austin 1800!):

Gaz

[matt_theforce]

'H reg' Fiat Tempra 1.9tdi (Same colour as pictured)

Always thought we were the coolest kids as our dads car had a digital dashboard and on the tdi you got a funky Turbo Icon which showed you how much Turbo Boost you were using

My dad also had the engine tweaked and went like stink

The other car he had that I liked was a

2l auto Granada Ghia, same bodykit/wheels as below but my dads was dark gray (almost black)

He had a few other cars but they weren't as nice as these two.

Matthew

[danposs86]

Favourite is his current car:

Well, I did grow up on a farm haha.