What car did your Mum drive......

TheDriver

Following on from the hilarious Dad thread, what did your Mum drive???
Mine had 2 minis (proper original!!)
Renault 5 1982
Ford Fiesta Mk2

Remember a friends Mum had an old reg Manta, she was so cool!

carchaeologist

Haha, nice angle THEDRIVER, a neighbours mum had a mk1 escort VIN768,which we wrecked after it was parked up,cut the roof off and all,i still feel bad when i think of it now, as it was quite a good car,and would be worth quite a few quid now..!!:o

Firetrap

Mine drove a Renault 4, a car you rarely see around nowadays because they all rusted into oblivion. Then a couple of Ford Fiestas.

ImDave

Little red Toyota Starlet 3 door

Um most Mums from my generation didn't drive or work.
Mine chose to do both.
But even at that households only had one car.

It looks like we'll going back to that situation if they don't sort out some alternative to oil ASAP.

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Moonbaby wrote: »

households only had one car.

Was going to say the same thing ...

Ye must be all posh on this thread!!

~Marky~

My mum had a black Volkswagen Scirocco I loved that car And she had original mini as well when I was very small.

TheDriver

Your Mum had a Scirocco? Ya Jammy Bast**d

mobby

NSU Prinz 4 in red I remember when it was purchased from a Garage in Rialto now windsor motors http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2006/12/prinz3.jpg loads or room inside but a pile of ****e to be honest.

Orlee

Not as cool as a Scirrocco or Corrado but she had a proper old school Jetta

El Weirdo

Mine had 2 Triumph Heralds and an original Mini.

Steve_o

3 or 4 Nissan Micra's (All 80's ones), A volvo (piece of junk)... nowadays she drives an Opel Zafira....

johnf2020

I only just remember my mum driving before she got ill.

It was a bright Yellow FIAT BAMBINO 126

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WE LOVED IT.

carchaeologist

johnf2020 wrote: »

It was a bright Yellow FIAT BAMBINO 126

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WE LOVED IT.

Hehheh,little 2 cylinder engine in the back if i remember correctly!!!:D

WiCkLaMuLlA

carchaeologist wrote: »

Hehheh,little 2 cylinder engine in the back if i remember correctly!!!:D

LOL i had one as me first car back in 86, twas white with a blue 'racy' stripe down the sides..... i used to ferry me mates (5, yes 5 of us...) around Greystones in it and once it did 72 MPH on the way back from Rathnew........ i bounced it off a wall near Kilcoole and that was the end of it

GrahamThomas

My mam drove a 1987 red Nissan Micra. It's still on the go today, her friends son bought it off her a few years back!

Max_Damage

Let me see...

'72 VW Beetle (shít heap, couldn't exceed 75mph!)
Ford Escort Mk1 (stolen about a month after she bought it)
Hillman Hunter (converted to diesel apparently! :eek:)
'79 Fiat Ritmo (well, both my mother and father drove that, it rusted into absolute nothing!)
'81 Ford Escort Mk3 (the engine decided to go on fire...)
'86 Toyota Starlet (stolen in 1998, when we recovered it, it had more petrol in the tank than when it was stolen! )
'93 Ford Sierra (first good car my mother ever had)
'00 Mazda 626 (current car)

We also got the lend of an '87 Nissan Sunny coupé back in the early 90's (we were between the Escort & Starlet). I was fascinated with the fact it had a sun roof! Burnt oil like no other though.

bladybladyblah

My mother's first car was a mini. Then she got married and being the practical housewife she sold it so my parents could invest in a trailer for the cattle........damn Ireland in the 80's. Retarded priorities!

Now driving a volkwagen passat and it's not too shabby.

Me want mini back though:(

Rovi

Just been thinking back on this, and I've realised that my Mam is the only person in the family to have owned brand new cars!

Anyhow:
very early '70s - Mini
late '70's - Fiat 128 saloon
1988 - Toyota Sprinter
2000 - Suzuki Ignis
2008 - Suzuki Swift

The Toyota was the only secondhand car she's ever had, and that was only a couple of months old at the time.

Loopy

My mum had a couple of little minis and then splashed out then on an old triumph spitfire for herself..

L1011

Mammies in my day only drove the car when it was home in the evenings or weekends - well, in theory, but my dad took the train to work so she drove his Fiat Uno. Was the late 90s before she got a car of her own and currently has a Fiat Panda.

We're dead original in our family, 3 Fiat Puntos and 2 Fiat Pandas amongst the parents + kids

carchaeologist

Neighbours of mine had a panda, we used to call it the six pack,two in the front and four in the back,hilarious!!:D

watna

Orlee wrote: »

Not as cool as a Scirrocco or Corrado but she had a proper old school Jetta

Yup, my mum had one too, a green one. I say my mum but my family only had one car until about 5 years ago. My dad got public transport to work amd my mum ran us around in that car.

carchaeologist

A mk1 jetta like this?We had one too,you never see them on the road anymore!!

crosstownk

My Ma had two VW Beetles - one was KZC 974, the other KID 410. She also had a Datsun Cherry - 269 DZO, I think.

Anyone know what year county those registrations are? I know the Datsun was around 1980/81, but no idea as to the age of the Beetles. My Dad has the KZC Beetle plates hanging up in his shed

carchaeologist

KZC*** was issued by dublin co-council between 7/61 to 8/61
KID*** was issued by cavan co-council between 7/67 to 5/68
***DZO was issued by dublin co-council on the 6/81,it only lasted a few days as dublin ,as is the same today,was registering lots of cars very fast!!(dublin co-council went through ***AZO to ***EZO in the same month....:))Thats around 5000 cars.
Im thinking it was this version of the cherry ye had..

This is my own cherry,its a 1980 car,one of the very last of its type before the change to the one above.

watna

carchaeologist wrote: »

A mk1 jetta like this?We had one too,you never see them on the road anymore!!

Yup, it was called Zippy because the first to letters of the reg were ZP. It was a dark green colour. It was a great car, my mum took us everywhere in it! I think we had it until about 1996 and then it was scrapped and my parents bought a new car.

Good times man, good times!

mildews

First one I remember was a Mini Traveller in the very early 70's
Then a Fiat 127
Fiat Panda
Toyota Starlet
Then another Starlet after my brother crashed the first (not his fault)
Nissan Micra (Jap import)white of course!.
Nissan Micra (not import)
Nissan Micra
Fiesta (New)
Another '08 Fiesta

lolipop2005

I have to link both my parents as they both drove the same cars at different times.....

1: Triumph (not sure of the model) 70's
2: Ford Escort late 70's - early 80's model
3: Dihatsu Charmont (new) 1986
4: Dihatsu Applause (new) 1991
5: 1981 Imported Ford Fiesta (we got this approx 1991) - my dad drove this for a while but then my mam got it as my dad's was transferred in work and had an hour drive so needed the better car
From here its all mammy's
6: 1996 Ford Fiesta (which she got in 2000) - the 81 Fiesta was still running at this stage......
7: 2004 Ford Fiesta (new) - current

Quality

Oh she had an old old ford escort like the mk 2 shape...

Then she had a gold ford orion 1.6 ghia.

I remember a peugeot 405 gld it was a really nice model with pink & blue racing stripes

A Honda Accord.

And now she has a peugeot 307