Your Dads car...

fortwilliam · 07-11-2013 11:01PM #1

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 · 07-11-2013 11:05PM

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

Mum drives a 307.

Mint Aero · 07-11-2013 11:07PM

Still alive, driving normal up to date motor vehicles.

07-11-2013 11:08PM

Ford Escort/Sierra/Mondeo

whatsthetime · 07-11-2013 11:08PM

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

Hande hoche! · 07-11-2013 11:08PM

Toyota Land Cruiser.

Ihatecuddles · 07-11-2013 11:10PM

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

MadYaker · 07-11-2013 11:10PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:12PM

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

theblaqueguy · 07-11-2013 11:12PM

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

Moonbeam · 07-11-2013 11:12PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:12PM

Jaguar xj

martinedwards · 07-11-2013 11:12PM

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

monkeysnapper · 07-11-2013 11:13PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:13PM

Toyota Corolla E20, Ford Escort Mk1 and Mk2.

Rasheed · 07-11-2013 11:14PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:15PM

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

.....but we were happy.

roy rodgers · 07-11-2013 11:15PM

Honda 50. The good old days.

cml387 · 07-11-2013 11:16PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:17PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:22PM

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

vermin99 · 07-11-2013 11:22PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:24PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:24PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:28PM

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

1975 Ford Cortina 2000E by Stuart Axe, on Flickr

rainbow kirby · 07-11-2013 11:30PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:33PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:50PM

A Fiat 127, car of the ghetto.

The Backwards Man · 07-11-2013 11:52PM

A Zetor.

eeeee · 07-11-2013 11:52PM

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 · 07-11-2013 11:54PM

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

Your Dads car...

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