Your Dads car...

fortwilliam

What did your dad drive? (Or mum if she had one}

Vauxhall Estate of some kind, circa 1982, more a bus than a car..
Nissan/Datsun Bluebird estate, circa 1985, brought the family on many weekends away.
Trimuph Toledo, His last sporty number, almost killed himself in that one.

Mother once had a car,
A "Simca/Simpca?" some kind of car/van combo, had a hole in the floor...

Your family motor?

Mint Sauce

A lot of Dastuns/Nissans. A couple of Fords including a Capri. Currently drives a Punto.

Mum drives a 307.

Mint Aero

Still alive, driving normal up to date motor vehicles.

Ford Escort/Sierra/Mondeo

whatsthetime

Ford Cortina is the first one I remember but I think there was a Mini before that.

Hande hoche!

Toyota Land Cruiser.

Ihatecuddles

Some sort of Mercedes in the 80's and 90's.

MadYaker

My parents had one of those cool minis back in the day, it was white. Now its a black Merc E-Class and a Mazda. Boring enough.

Keiweb

A Mini Cooper,a capri( was his fav) and amid 80's jetta are ones I remember fondly..drives a boring tida now:(

theblaqueguy

My dad drove a horse and cart back in the good ole days

Moonbeam

I will never forget the wine ford cortina,then a white audi 100,then a toyota corolla now a clk merc. That is all the cars from the last 25 or so years that my dad has had:)
My mothers 1st car was a Lada

pharmaton

Jaguar xj

martinedwards

1962 Landrover SIIa
diesel Merc 220SE
Austin Maxi
Volvo "240

monkeysnapper

my dad had a morris marina and my mum had a triumph/Datsun and a morris marina, oh yeh my dad had a austin princess. To this day i have a huge amount of nostalgia for datsuns. All i ever remember from my childhood was always breaking down somewhere.

tom_k

Toyota Corolla E20, Ford Escort Mk1 and Mk2.

Rasheed

Two Ford Sierras one after the other and then four Mondeos one after the other. Daddy loved his Fords. They have a jeep now. Easier on the aul hips to get in to.

Gee Bag

We had a unicycle with a bald tyre....







.....but we were happy.

roy rodgers

Honda 50. The good old days.

cml387

fortwilliam wrote: »

What did your dad drive? (Or mum if she had one}

Vauxhall Estate of some kind, circa 1982, more a bus than a car..
Nissan/Datsun Bluebird estate, circa 1985, brought the family on many weekends away.
Trimuph Toledo, His last sporty number, almost killed himself in that one.

Mother once had a car,
A "Simca/Simpca?" some kind of car/van combo, had a hole in the floor...

Your family motor?

Matra Simca Rancho?

Your mum was cool.

bnt

Peugeot 504 "Familiale" Estate, which was built like a tank with 7 seats. I was there when he took it for a test drive: only a 2-litre 4-cylinder engine, yet it was so much smoother than our previous car that we were doing 100mph before we looked at the speedo ...

Fat Nav

Cortina mark 2 , hillman hunter , Chrysler hunter , Chrysler alpine , audi 80 , vw type 2 panel van and Austin a40

vermin99

Dad had a starlet and then a crashed manta 400 which he done up and its still his pride and joy,Some power in it although he's a BMW now

michellie

He had a few capris and vans, mam had minis and mini metros, never forget the big hole in the floor of the mini, being able to see the road whilst driving:)

monkeysnapper

martinedwards wrote: »

1962 Landrover SIIa
diesel Merc 220SE
Austin Maxi
Volvo "240

Oh yes my friends mum had a austin maxi, it weight about 4 tons didnt it? but lost a ton a year off that weight in rust falling off

vandriver

My Dads best car was a purple Cortina 2000e like this one


1975 Ford Cortina 2000E by Stuart Axe, on Flickr

rainbow kirby

He used to work for a Volvo dealership, so drove a lot of demo model and secondhand Volvo estates when I was younger. A lot of them smelled like dog.

Femme_Fatale

fortwilliam wrote: »

Nissan/Datsun Bluebird

Mint Sauce wrote: »

A lot of Dastuns/Nissans.

Same here. The folks were mad for Datsuns. Looking at 80s Reeling In The Years, it seems the whole of Ireland was, actually. :pac:
They were supposed to have been very light on petrol - but seeing as they were utter rustbuckets, with bits missing off the floor so you'd have to kneel on the backseat, were they really that economical?!

moxin

A Fiat 127, car of the ghetto.

The Backwards Man

A Zetor.

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His first car was an Austin 1111.

In my life time, there was a Ford Escort, then A Ford Escort VAn that we put a bench and a floppy-up-and-down back on and that was the family car for 14 years! No seat belts or window. Fun though, I used to wedge my head between window and drivers seat as a seat belt!

Then Ford Courier Van. Now and old VW Bora.

Oh and a few tractors (Superdexta-still have it, first thing I learnt how to drive!, International, now New Holland 90hp). And numerous lorries. (Had a Scania 143 for 10 years. Put up over 1million kilometers on it. Spent many a summer in it, happy memories!)

Al Capwned

1977 Ford Fiesta SCI 362 - stuck it in a back of a tractor in about 1992, after having it from 1979.
Another 1979 fiesta - kept it till 95!!!!
1994 Ford Escort Van - bought in 1995
1996 Fiat Brava - bought in 98
02 Opel Corsa - new
06 Kia Rio - new
12 Citroen c3 - new
13 Citroen c4 - new

Mint Sauce

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Same here. The folks were mad for Datsuns. Looking at 80s Reeling In The Years, it seems the whole of Ireland was, actually. :pac:
They were supposed to have been very light on petrol - but seeing as they were utter rustbuckets, with bits missing off the floor so you'd have to kneel on the backseat, were they really that economical?!

Ours were in London. I remember one of them being able to see the road pass under your feet.

:eek:

buzsywuzsy

Dad had Opels until the late 80's and since then every car has been a Volkswagen.
Mam on the other hand, has had some pretty shït cars that generally fall apart soon after being bought.

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Mint Sauce wrote: »

Ours were in London. I remember one of them being able to see the road pass under your feet.

:eek:

Van the first had a leaky floor, so if it froze you'd go flying putting your foot on the floor. My sisters friend got in one day after a dry spell and remarked "Look no puddles" :eek::eek:

Lando Griffin

Dad loved the VW Beetle and had his last till around mid 80s then turned to Opel Ascona. Then mum took the Ascona and Dad got a VW Derby. Had it years and learned hiw to drive in it ( leagally )

saabsaab

Land Rover, Ford, Morris, several VWs Opel and Rover

superelliptic

I remember my dad going through a few cars during the first decade of my life.

Big green 1979 Opel Rekord - 2.2 petrol. Big car with furry corduroy tan coloured seats that eventually ended up stinking for some reason. Probably condensation, or just from the lot of us farting on long journeys in an enclosed space...

1983 Opel CD - 2.2 automatic.
Big silver thing that at the time looked like it had just arrived from outer space - tinted electric sunroof, digital clock on the dash, a "T" shaped gearstick with a safety button that you lifted with your index and middle finger to change gears that looked like it had been nicked from KnightRider or an F16. Just really cool to look at and generally an all around decent car for the time.
(just had a look at one of them on google - they haven't aged well...)

1988 Ford Granada
A fairly boring car but it did the job. Sold it and kept seeing it parked around town for the next few years on and off until it finally vanished. I didn't mind, it was fairly 'Meh'

This thread is really making me wish we could post pics in AH

Kaiser D

Peugeot 404
Opel Rekord
Ford Granada MK.II
Ford Granada Scorpio. He was the absolute bees knees with this at the time. It was one of the first models when released, bought it at a year old.
Mercedes E200 W124 model
Mercedes E240 W210 model - bought new in 1998 and he still has it.

Banjo String

My dad's cars bigger than your dad's car

pajor

Mum:
1989 Mazda 323 (tank of a yoke)
1999 Nissan Almera
2001 and then 2004 Ford Focus
2009 Skoda Octavia

Dad:
1987 (I think) Ford Fiesta
1994 Opel Astra (crashed)
1994 Opel Astra (insurance company bought in the same car in the exact same horrible wine colour)
1999 and then my mum's old 2001 Ford Focus
2010 Skoda Octavia

Maximus Alexander

The ones I remember from oldest to newest:

Opel Ascona (late 80s / early 90s)
Peugeot 405 (early / mid 90s)
Rover 620 (late 90s)
Audi A4 (2000s)
Opel Inignia (2 different ones in the last few years)

Spr1ngsteen

We were a Datsun family too. Think it was a Datsun Sunny.

Also remember the aul lad getting a loan of his da's Renault on occasion. Can't remember the model, but i remember it had an odd looking gear stick - kind of came out of the dashboard

Kaiser D

Spr1ngsteen wrote: »

We were a Datsun family too. Think it was a Datsun Sunny.

Also remember the aul lad getting a loan of his da's Renault on occasion. Can't remember the model, but i remember it had an odd looking gear stick - kind of came out of the dashboard

A Renault 4, worth a fair amount today!

donvito99

We were so posh, a Mark 1 Golf, then a quality Vento.

Gyalist

DeSoto Adventurer

ktm

My Dad had a Fiat 131 mirafiori, and apart from regular servicing he only had to make a few minor adjustments to keep it going. He replaced the cutch, gearbox, engine, 4 doors, bonnet and boot which he hand painted with a f**king roller, and finally clutch again! In the end it was like Triggers brush. True story.

Before that he owned a Fiat Ritmo, you'd think he would have learned from that but oh no, loved his Fiats.

johnny1x

the one's that i remember that my mum had

mini
mgb
fiat x19
porsche 944

and whilst growing up always thought she had pretty good taste in cars the only 1 that i would actually want nowadays would be the 1969 ford mustang fastback she owned.

Oops69

I remember back to 1973

Vw beetle
Ford escort
Fiat mirafiori
Fiat ritmo
Austin maestro
Mitsubishi lancer
Toyota carina x 2
Toyota corolla x 2
A family of eight went on holidays in most of these , how the f*** we all survived ill never know

Stellaluna

His first car was a Ford Zodiac Mk4, followed by a few Ford Capris. The last Capri he bought had the 2.8 litre engine with the recaro seats and was black with the thin red go faster stripes. I remember mum being really angry at him for buying it. That was followed by a few rather more sensible Honda Accords, and a Honda HRV for a short time.

Spr1ngsteen

Kaiser D wrote: »

A Renault 4, worth a fair amount today!

Yep, just googled it - the very one! Happy days

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

The first one I can remember was a brown Toyota Corolla in the 80s. Then he had
1986 Nissan Sunny
88 Corolla
96 Mazda 626 which was a rocket
92Nissan Sunny
94 Mazda 323

Hes currently in a 2003 Avensis.

He's got form, my oul fella :cool: