Your Dads car...

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.

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 )

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

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)

DeSoto Adventurer

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.

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.

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:

I always wondered why the fathers had the big cars, which they drove to their workplace and parked up all day, and the mothers had the teeny tiny cars, which they used to do the mega-shopping and ferrying a huge number of kids (not always only their own kids) around the place all the time.

Mother never drove.

Father (In my life time)
Corolla estate.
Corolla.
Corolla.
And umm a Corolla.

Beetle
Mini
VW Golf
Toyota Carina
Toyota Corolla (88)
Ford Fiesta (90)
Ford Escort Cosworth
Ford Escort (97,00)
Opel Insignia (2010)

That's all I can remember but he had Motorbikes aswell. Loved the Cosworth and I learned to drive in that but I also loved my Grandfathers Renault 5