What car did your dad drive...

dazberry · 22-05-2008 8:58pm

The 'ol lad worked** in FIAT so - from early days it was FIAT after FIAT...
** well clocked in and clocked out - whether he did any work is debatable.

(prior to my appearance/memory a Mini, and maybe a FIAT 500)
Fiat 600
126 I called it Herbie - but that didn't make it go any faster
127 (at one point we had both the 126 and 127 - it didn't last long)
Panda (due to the FIAT connection - it was ex-Garage - so for 5 years we drove around with a cream coloured Panda with 80s go faster stripes with Sweeney and Forte Panda on the side).
Ritmo (don't think anyone like this - but my 'ol lad had it for years after we all bolted)
96 Punto (sat in it once - never liked it. My mother had a 96 Corsa - it was far nicer).

D.

Run_to_da_hills · 22-05-2008 11:30pm

Da's cars
VW Beetle Oval 1956-1965
VW Type 2 Splitty Camper 1959 (Have similar again)
VW Variant Square back 1965-1969
VW Variant Square back (New) 1969-1978
Ford Thames Camper 1972
VW Type 2 Bay window camper 1975-1979
Peugeot 404 1978-1981
VW Golf MK1 (New) 1981-1999
Peugeot 405 1999-2003
VW Golf MK3 (Current car)

Gary ITR · 23-05-2008 4:48am

My dad had a long list of bangers....

Mazda 323 (208 DZJ)
Nissan Sunny Van
Nissan Cherry (Last generation, cool car)
Nissan Bluebird
Toyota Corolla DX '84, Irish model, stolen 4 days after he bought it and burned
Mazda 323 (1980) Had this car around 1994, perfect condition, garaged and one owner from new, also had just got a full respray... Stolen and burned

Nissan Cherry
Renault 9 Louisianne
Toyota Carina II, 85, lovely car
Toyota Corolla
Toyota Carina II Executive, (88 L 212)
Fiat Brava '96
Mercedes E200 '00

Hermy · 23-05-2008 12:20pm

Rover P6B
Ford Zephyr
VW Beetle
Fiat 124
Citreon CX
Vauxhall Chevette

carchaeologist · 23-05-2008 4:40pm

I never listed what the old man had that i can remember..
Reliant regal supervan
Ford anglia estate
a selection of MK1&2 escort vans
MK3 escort 112ZX
VW Jetta MK1
VW Jetta MK2 898UZK
89 and 90 VW passats
Mk4 golf
I have an 83 chevette and a 1980 datsun cherry now.

pow wow · 23-05-2008 5:09pm

Tiny old rustbucket Fiat with a hole in the floor that he sold into banger racing for about a tenner in the late 1980s. Then it was a Renault 5 in a fetching gold colour, followed by a 1990 micra (pops likes little cars)....he went 'modern' after that lol

TheDriver · 23-05-2008 5:57pm

Fiat Merifiori (think its a 131),
opel ascona luxes 4 speed diesel in beige (now lets see complain about slow!!!)
Another Ascona GL with 5 speed.

carchaeologist · 23-05-2008 6:23pm

TheDriver wrote: »

Fiat Merifiori (think its a 131)

Yep, the mirafiori is a fiat 131, they made a supermirafiori aswell.Horrendous rotters!!

DublinWriter · 23-05-2008 7:35pm

An Austin Cambridge.

It was built like a Sherman tank and was probably just as economical.

The starting motor was gone and I remember him regularly having to use a starting handle that went in just under the front bumper. He had it up to 1980!

The accelerator pedal broke and he fixed it using an elastic band from a model airplane that I got from Santy one year.

trout · 23-05-2008 7:42pm

Triumph Dolomite, followed by a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas (it spoke!) and finally, an Opel Senator, which I learned to drive in.

ollaetta · 23-05-2008 10:00pm

My father had the same Beetle from 1962 to 1980. I still remember him out putting boot polish on the tyres.

Changed it reluctantly for a Mazda 323 which was rusting within three years. Very much doubt if that made it to 18 years!

carchaeologist · 23-05-2008 10:23pm

ollaetta wrote: »

My father had the same Beetle from 1962 to 1980. I still remember him out putting boot polish on the tyres.

Changed it reluctantly for a Mazda 323 which was rusting within three years. Very much doubt if that made it to 18 years!

Nice one,where did the beetle end up?I use boot polish on my own classics tyres now!!:D:D
The 323 wouldnt have been a patch on the beetle...

skyhighflyer · 23-05-2008 11:16pm

The following (he's only in his mid-40's though so not such a long list)

'83 Opel Kadett
'88 Peugeot 205
'89 Corolla
'92 Renault 19 - red hatchback (the first one I have proper memories of - sitting in as a young lad - I remember listening to the radio when he won Billy Joel tickets for the River of Dreams tour - odd

)
'94 Renault 19 - white saloon
'96 Alfa 146 Boxer - Loved that feckin' thing, I conviced him to buy it as an 11 year old car nut! Bought before there were many Alfa's on the road here - it was so loud you needed earplugs for a long journey - oddly, the most reliable of the lot too! I've been keeping an eye on Autotrader for a tidy one as my first car - hard to find now as they apparently only made them with the boxer engine for a year or so.
'00 Focus
'02 Laguna (absolute heap of ****e - depreciated by 10 grand in two years and finally flogged it clapped out after 62k miles:eek:)
'04 Golf - boring but does the job

jos28 · 24-05-2008 1:47am

carchaeologist wrote: »

I never listed what the old man had that i can remember..
Reliant regal supervan
Ford anglia estate
a selection of MK1&2 escort vans
MK3 escort 112ZX
VW Jetta MK1
VW Jetta MK2 898UZK
89 and 90 VW passats
Mk4 golf
I have an 83 chevette and a 1980 datsun cherry now.

Pics of the cherry please !

24-05-2008 2:16am

Before my time he had a Fiat 124. Up until about 5 years ago he had a 1990 Seat Ibiza with a 903cc Fiat engine, the same one as in the 127 (maybe even the 124). Sounded very loud even for a 1990 car and had its fair share of problems, after about three head gasket failures the engine had to be replaced, apparently the engine was knackered because the previous owner allowed it to rust by only using water as coolant. Higher end Ibizas from that era used 1461cc Porsche engines.

He moved on to a 2000 Fiat Punto HLX which he still has today but also still has the Ibiza. It's in the driveway with an electrical fault - he wants to get it back running again, hehe.

stovelid · 24-05-2008 2:19am

We didn't have one. I feel deprived.

carchaeologist · 26-05-2008 11:05am

You asked for shots of the cherry..and if anyone knows of another let me know,as far as i know this is the only original irish one (the FII version)left on the road in this country,though i would like to be corrected!!.

WiCkLaMuLlA · 26-05-2008 11:42am

carchaeologist, was the Cherry the replacement moniker fer the Datsun 110aFII ??? i remember those cars very well. the 120y was a goodun too, i tink they did a swanky looking coupe version aswell ??? In Malaysia, Borneo etc they still drive these auld Datsuns about, some look really dangerously worn out and some look fairly good though. Is that yella wan your own car and is it still rust free after all these years ? cheers WiCkY

Heisenberg. · 26-05-2008 4:08pm

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carchaeologist · 26-05-2008 5:34pm

WiCkLaMuLlA wrote: »

carchaeologist, was the Cherry the replacement moniker fer the Datsun 110aFII ??? i remember those cars very well. the 120y was a goodun too, i tink they did a swanky looking coupe version aswell ??? In Malaysia, Borneo etc they still drive these auld Datsuns about, some look really dangerously worn out and some look fairly good though. Is that yella wan your own car and is it still rust free after all these years ? cheers WiCkY

The cherry was always called the 100A,mine is the F11,the version before mine up to 1975ish was the N10 type as you can see in this pic..

The green car behind it...

is a 120Y supposedly the bigger brother to the cherry, but the cherry has more room inside believe it or not! This is the coupe version..

The coupe is a nice car,but can be tail happy in the wet!!!
Yes the yellow car is mine, its not rust free,but not rotten either, so im happy enough with her!!
Hope this is of help,there isnt alot of these type cars left in ireland these days...:(

WiCkLaMuLlA · 26-05-2008 6:26pm

God i remember every one of those cars so vividly ! with the stock 120Y i tink ya cud specify or even fit yer own rectangular spotlights into the front grill as i'm sure i remember seeing those at one time. Man each and every one of those cars have real Kudos !!! now wheres me medallion.....

carchaeologist · 26-05-2008 6:39pm

WiCkLaMuLlA wrote: »

now wheres me medallion.....

Haha,no,you'll have to get a capri to wear your medallion in!;)

WiCkLaMuLlA · 26-05-2008 6:53pm

carchaeologist wrote: »

Haha,no,you'll have to get a capri to wear your medallion in!;)

ahh no i was never really a Capri(sun) fan, sher theres still quite a few of them on the roads. MKI escort now yer talkin'...........s'just a pity they fetch such HUGE money even ferra bare shell.
God i just remembered there was an old Ford Anglia in me uncles field down in Tipp. and i peppered the shoite out of it with some Ely no. 4's years back, the last time i looked there wasn't too much of it left as nature had all but reclaimed it. Twas the first car i ever drove (albeit up the field) and when i took off, sped up and slowed down the bucket of warm milk sitting between me uncle Donal's legs sloshed out over the top lip of the bucket and drowned him!! oil go looking fer the remains of that car later this year.

carchaeologist · 26-05-2008 7:06pm

WiCkLaMuLlA wrote: »

ahh no i was never really a Capri(sun) fan, sher theres still quite a few of them on the roads. MKI escort now yer talkin'...........s'just a pity they fetch such HUGE money even ferra bare shell.
God i just remembered there was an old Ford Anglia in me uncles field down in Tipp. and i peppered the shoite out of it with some Ely no. 4's years back, the last time i looked there wasn't too much of it left as nature had all but reclaimed it. Twas the first car i ever drove (albeit up the field) and when i took off, sped up and slowed down the bucket of warm milk sitting between me uncle Donal's legs sloshed out over the top lip of the bucket and drowned him!! oil go looking fer the remains of that car later this year.

Haha,good story,post up some pics if you do get to find it!!:D

Davedubh · 29-05-2008 6:28pm

My dad had a renault 4.When the tail end of hurricane Charley hit in 87 the bonnet got blown off.

Ponster · 29-05-2008 10:39pm

My Grandfather ran 3 garages in Clonmel in the 1970's/80's which were Talbot (Chrysler) dealerships so we went through:

1 Talbot Sunbeam
1 Talbot Horizon
1 Talbot Solara

and more Alpines than I care to remember

carchaeologist · 30-05-2008 12:07am

Alpines are a scarce old bus in ireland now!!!

Loopy · 04-06-2008 12:04pm

Ponster · 04-06-2008 12:14pm

carchaeologist wrote: »

Alpines are a scarce old bus in ireland now!!!

Not surprising as they would have had problems passing a MOT back in the days when they were still only 3 years old. Asking to have one pass 20-odd years later is a bit of a joke

I'm off to the Talbot factory just outside Paris next week so I'll take some pics

Max_Damage · 04-06-2008 1:21pm

Well, I'm not to sure of the cars he had before this list, but starting from the Toyota Starlet that both my parent's shared, my aul lad has had the following since 1998:

'85 Rover 213 (nice car, got rear ended after some woman swerved to avoid a cat and ran into the back of the car)
'85 Mazda 626 (nicest car of the lot, he somehow managed to blow the engine in it, don't ask....)
'89 Fiesta (first of the many Fiesta's he has had)
'88 Fiesta (it was one of the first cars I ever drove, nice enough, engine eventually died in it though)
'95 Fiesta (got stolen and burnt out in the end)
'97 Fiesta (current car, very nice to drive, although it's a bit hard on petrol)

What car did your dad drive...

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