What car did your dad drive...

carchaeologist · 20-05-2008 7:47pm #1

Self explanetry really,what cars did your dad drive and is there any funny stories attatched to them?
Mine had an 81 english import VW jetta at one stage that got so rusty the rear axle came away from the body, it was welded up and lasted a year or two more until the same thing happened again!!
Ah,pre NCT days eh!!
Im sure there is some funny stories to be told out there!!:D

Captain Slow IRL · 20-05-2008 8:09pm

He had 2 cavaliers (maybe 1 was a vectra?!), at 2 different points. 1 would just cut out without warning and bring on the engine light, leave it a minute and it would start and drive without hesitation - opel dealership couldn't pinpoint it.

The other cavalier was cool - recaro bucket seats and alloy wheels, and they were all factory fitted. Then the older brother wrote it off:(

Ruu_Old · 20-05-2008 8:10pm

We had a number of jalopies as we called them during my childhood years.

Fiat 127 (3rd series)

Fiat Ritmo (3rd series). I always liked that one.

A dreaded Toyota Corolla wagon type one, like the one below. Exhaust fell off several times, had to be held up by a wire hanger and finally a hole appeared in the middle of it so it sounded as though we were driving a Boeing down the street.

The paint job well...it was silver-ish and looked like someone used interior house paint on it.

Pigman II · 20-05-2008 8:21pm

Hillmann Avenger (although it was called Chrysler Avenger by the time we got ours).

Cool name for a cool car. We used to pretend it was the ectomobile.

admiralofthefleet · 20-05-2008 8:33pm

back in the 80's it was one of these..til the focus arrived

chuci · 20-05-2008 8:35pm

my dad had a new ford cortina and was teaching my mam how to drive when they first met and she crashed it into a tree.

anthony4335 · 20-05-2008 8:45pm

The one I most remember is a 1982 Toyota Starlet ,red ,I even still remember the licence plate 453 GIE. Used to sit me or my brother on his lap and let us steer it. my brother now does the same thing with his son. Before that was a Corolla in blue, after that was a Lada 1500 riva estate in cream (learned to drive in this one). My parents have a thing for the underdog when it comes to car manufactures, currently drive a Kia.

kelle · 20-05-2008 10:09pm

Triumph Toledo in 1974, followed by a Triumph Dolomite in 1977, then a Triumph Acclaim in 1988.

God, I remember the Lada jokes: What do you call a Lada on top of a hill? A miracle. How do you double the value of a Lada? Put petrol in it.

byte · 20-05-2008 10:15pm

I remember a Renault 4, with the mad L shaped gearstick sticking out of the dash!

Duiske · 20-05-2008 10:25pm

A Triumph Herald is the first car I remember my dad driving

followed by a Hillman Hunter estate...

carchaeologist · 20-05-2008 10:50pm

chuci wrote: »

my dad had a new ford cortina and was teaching my mam how to drive when they first met and she crashed it into a tree.

Haha, nasty,though seeing as you appeared he must have forgave her!!!:D

120_Minutes · 21-05-2008 2:50am

i can remember every car my dad's had since i was born, and most of the reg's, yet i cant remember yesterday....

renault 16
toyota cressida
toyota cressida (again)
opel ascona
peugeot 505
renault 9
toyota carina 2
mitsubishi lancer
toyota carina e
volvo s40

thalia_13 · 21-05-2008 1:47pm

haha my dad had some bangers, mostly fiats through the years, the ritmo I recall especially nosiy and shaky despite being new. My mum drove it through a flood up as high as the window and god love the car it didnt seize and made it though without any issue!

He had a lovely VW campervan, the hippy one, god knows why he got rid of it, it was class! Then it was a Hillman Hunter....

He went through alot of cars, mustve liked that new car smell! has a 96 merc now, against the trend! its some beast of a car, a bullock ploughed in to the front of it a few months back, and he was still able to drive her home. poor bullock was driven through the window (and subsequently had to be put down poor thing!)... german engineering must account for all likely incidents!

youcancallmeal · 21-05-2008 1:50pm

My Dad went through quite a few but one that comes to mind is the beautifully boxy Nissan Sunny:

Tzetze · 21-05-2008 1:53pm

First car I remember was a Mark 1 Cortina. There were a couple of Fiat 127s, an estate Passat (yellow ugh), a Vauxhall Viva. That's about all I can remember before the more modern cars.

brayblue24 · 21-05-2008 1:54pm

kelle wrote: »

God, I remember the Lada jokes: What do you call a Lada on top of a hill? A miracle. How do you double the value of a Lada? Put petrol in it.

What do you call a Lada with a sunroof? A skip

Jigsaw · 21-05-2008 1:56pm

Something like this

http://www.snuffledopple.com/images/4822g.jpg

humberklog · 21-05-2008 2:02pm

This little beauty. An Autin 1300 estate.

freddyf · 21-05-2008 3:28pm

My dad had about 4 or 5 different Mini's, then he got posh and bought a nissan micra. I think he had 3 of them, Now he drives a nissan van.

My dad dosent like change.

kevmy · 21-05-2008 3:39pm

youcancallme>al wrote: »

My Dad went through quite a few but one that comes to mind is the beautifully boxy Nissan Sunny:

We had two of these before we moved onto an Almera. New upgrade is expected 2009 - probably a Primera:rolleyes:

Pre-sunny days I have vague memories of a horrid green Renault which had the needle stuck at 70 mph

FatherTed · 21-05-2008 3:43pm

brayblue24 wrote: »

What do you call a Lada with a sunroof? A skip

Why do Lada's have rear window heaters? To keep your hands warm when you are pushing it.

I remember we had:

Beetle(Blue):

Escort:

Kadett:

tc20 · 21-05-2008 4:00pm

The ones i can remember - (from the early 70s onwards)

Grey Ford Anglia (the Harry Potter job)

Brown Mini (summer hols all round Ireland in this)

Yellow Vauxhall Viva (gearstick came out in his hand a number of times)

Green Ford Escort Mk1 (4325 ZC) (loved that car, i recall the clock going around 100,000 miles and Dad beeping the horn when it did!)

Red Renault 12 (807 CIK) first car i drove

Yellow Opel Kadett like Father Teds brown number above ^ (first car i crashed, well wrote off actually

)

Blue Ford Fiesta (823 NNI) car i bought him to replace the above...

Got me own wheels at this point!

BrianFantana · 21-05-2008 4:03pm

Ah yes..

Ford Cortina (broke down going though some flooded road the day he bought it and had to roll up his trousers and push it out),
Mark 1 Golf
Another Mark 1 golf
Opel Ascona.
Then came my fav an 87 Nissan Bluebird ZX Turbo in Black..loved it.
Next 1.6 Primera.
1.9 Passat,
2 Renault lagunas.
Lexus IS200
Lexus IS250

carchaeologist · 21-05-2008 5:04pm

120_Minutes wrote: »

i can remember every car my dad's had since i was born, and most of the reg's, yet i cant remember yesterday....

renault 16
toyota cressida
toyota cressida (again)
opel ascona
peugeot 505
renault 9
toyota carina 2
mitsubishi lancer
toyota carina e
volvo s40

What were the regs?Im a bit of a number plate enthusiast!!:DThere is hardly a cressida left in the country now i would say!
Im liking the stories, keep em coming!!

milod · 21-05-2008 5:18pm

'72 Ford Escort 2 door Mk1 (1.3)
'74 Hillman Avenger
'76 Citroen GS 1.1
'78 Fiat 131 Mirafiori (head-on collision after 6 months)
'78 Citroen GSA 1.25
'81 Nissan Bluebird 1.6 Saloon
'84 Mazda 323 1.3
'88 Citroen CX
'91 Opel Astra 1.3
'95 Mitsubishi Lancer
'00 Skoda Octavia

jos28 · 21-05-2008 10:26pm

The first car I remember is a Grey Ford Anglia 1965c
The next was a Vauxhall Victor Reg RZC 801-I think it was 1959
http://shane-conway.fotopic.net/p44028966.html
My Dad's was grey/wine coloured. It was a huge car with a bench seat in the front and the gear stick on the steering column. The entire family could fit into it, and we did !
Mam, Dad, 3 kids, Granny and Auntie all drove from Dublin to Kerry for the holidays in it.
After that he bought a Hillman Avenger Reg TIN 883. It went round the clock when my Dad had it and then it went on to be a taxi.
My Dad worked on the assembly line for the first mini back in the 50s, pity he did not get free samples.

WiCkLaMuLlA · 21-05-2008 11:24pm

well i member Da had,
Ford Cortina
Ford Corsair ?
Bedford Van (white of course)
Morris Marina (reg. 9947 ZU)
Ford Escort 1.1 an ex-demo model which he got rid of asap as it 'drank loike a fish son'.
a yella Datsun Cherry reg. 88 GNI
A red Nissan Cherry reg. 342 KNI
Nissan Micra reg. 115 PNI (i learned to drive in that one)
Mitsubishi Colt reg. 87 WW 656
Renault 19 Chamade reg. 90 WW ???
God alone know what came after that lot but i tink he's driving a Pug 307 now !!

ps. Up Wickla !

anthony4335 · 22-05-2008 12:01am

Ah the lada jokes, I have not heard them since my parents traded it in 1990 for a Proton 1.3GLS. Horrilbe car to look at but not too bad to drive, rear wheel drive and all. There quite a few of them around back then but they dissappeared in 1990, as my parents were about to get another one.

brayblue24 · 22-05-2008 12:14am

carchaeologist wrote: »

What were the regs?Im a bit of a number plate enthusiast!!:DThere is hardly a cressida left in the country now i would say!
Im liking the stories, keep em coming!!

You asked for it:
Blue Vauxhall Viva CZJ 371
Blue Vauxhall Viva 6053 YI
Blue Ford Cortina 930 OIK
Mustard Toyota Corolla K20 722 FZC
Beige (LOL) Renault 5 770 CNI
Brown Fiat Panda 86 D ???? (I think I might have got a life around about that time!)..

giftgrub · 22-05-2008 5:49pm

It was 1978, I was a baby, it was my parent's first car when they moved back to ireland from South Africa where the old lad had been working

It was a Hillman Hunter

The f***er actually got stolen, and we got it back! The ignition was ripped out, my old lady had to rub two wires together to start it

WiCkLaMuLlA · 22-05-2008 8:57pm

ok i have to admit loving them Opel Kadett's in the pics above:) i actually went to look at a 1980 one last year, red so twas, the later square headloight model, very low moiles and feck all corrosion......yummy 1.2 enjun and it actually had headrests......jaysus i need to lye doon now:rolleyes:

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