What car did your dad drive...

Pittybitty · 19-11-2010 12:43pm

My mam had a baby blue Fiat 127 - I LOVED it!! I cried when she got rid of it and got a 1985 micra

My dad had a yellow 1977 toyota celica (still has it, an ongoing restoration project) and then an 1987 toyota corolla

Now they have a 09 avensis - my dad is a big toyota fan

carchaeologist · 19-11-2010 8:01pm

Pittybitty wrote: »

My dad had a yellow 1977 toyota celica (still has it, an ongoing restoration project)

One like this? HAWT!
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Blue850 · 19-11-2010 8:52pm

Pittybitty wrote: »

My mam had a baby blue Fiat 127 - I LOVED it!! I cried when she got rid of it and got a 1985 micra

My dad had a yellow 1977 toyota celica (still has it, an ongoing restoration project) and then an 1987 toyota corolla

Now they have a 09 avensis - my dad is a big toyota fan

How about an 2nd ongoing project:D

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Baby blue 127 project lol

taffeta · 21-11-2010 10:19pm

The one that sticks out in my head is a silver Datsun Cherry with an orange stripe. That was early to mid 80's I think.

Pittybitty · 22-11-2010 10:18am

carchaeologist wrote: »

One like this? HAWT!

Yup - that exact one

carchaeologist · 06-11-2011 11:45am

Anyone else have any additions to this thread?:D

Lawrence1895 · 06-11-2011 2:24pm

carchaeologist wrote: »

Anyone else have any additions to this thread?:D

Yes, I would like to add my dad's Volkswagen Beetle. Those cars were just popular in Germany back in the 1970s.

chakotha · 07-11-2011 1:11pm

A mini in the early 70's.
Fiat 124
Silver Ford Cortina
Ford Escort
Datsun Bluebird
Volvo 240
Opel Omega
Another Volvo
Fiat Multipla (weird looking from the outside but comfy inside)
Land Rover

bbam · 09-11-2011 6:46pm

Here goes from what I can remember, not in exact order... some of these were my mam's too..

Ford Anglia
Austin A35
Chrysler Avenger
Chrysler Alpine (New)
Hilman Hunter (with dodgey LPG kit)
Morris 1100
3* Citroen GS Pallas (All new)
Mk1 ford Escort
MK3 Ford Escort (New)
Renault 12
Fiat 127 (New)
Ford Popular (Vintage Project)
Datsun 100A
Datsun Cherry
Renault 18TD (New)
Peaugeot 305
Renault 19

Looking back it was a very Eclectic mix, he was on the road alot clocking up the miles

Starokan · 15-11-2011 1:08am

my folks had the brightest orange VW beetle you can imagine.

i must try dig out a picture of it. The noise of it was unnatural!

taato · 22-11-2011 11:16pm

morris minor in early 70s followed by a gorgeous black VW beetle with those gorgeous red leatherette seats that you stuck to in the summer. I LOVED that car. Came home from school one day to see a sh!t brown metallic mark I escort - cried for days and refused to get in it. followed by mark II escort, then VW golf......jetta......golf again.....vento.....Now he has a kia ceed (his first ever new car and him over 70. Still miss the beetle tho.......nostalgia!

Navanmom · 03-12-2011 7:22pm

Green VW Beetle, which I loved
Orange Chrysler Avenger, which I was ashamed to be seen in (teenage years)
Navy Ford Escort (felt like royalty after the orange yoke)

My granddad used to drive a car with no windows - free airconditioning.

mondeo · 04-12-2011 2:51am

I have fond memories of an 87' Nissan Bluebird ZX turbo.

Thomas828 · 08-12-2011 2:35am

My dad never had a car and my mum has never had one (see what a deprived childhood I had?). I do remember my Aunt Maura had a blue Volkswagen Beetle in the early to mid-70s. And I remember my Uncle Joe driving us from Derry to Burtonport (or somewhere in that part of Donegal) in 1977 in a yellow Renault 4.

jonnynitro · 09-12-2011 11:10pm

this car for 15 years thats me in the pics with my sisters

fryup · 12-12-2011 11:25pm

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ah, would ya look

The Falcon · 12-12-2011 11:51pm

My dad got our first car back in 1961 when I was very small. It was a beautiful blue Renault Dauphine. I'm no expert on years of registration but I'm guessing by the Dublin reg, XZA 397, that it had seen a few years before we got it! I can still see him under the rear bonnet blowing through the fuel filter (this was a regular excercise!). - I remember years later seeing the rally version of the Alpine Renault A110 and thinking that there was just a bit of a similarity - Well! You know what I mean!:o Renault Dauphine.jpg [IMG][/img]http://www.mltel.com/alpine/mc1971.gif

The old man moved on from Renalt following a bout of petrol poisoning - Got himself a brand new Anglia (the one with the 'sporty' slanty back window in maroon:eek:. This was followed by Mk1 (maroon!) and a Mk2 (Red) Escorts. The came the Capri! A beaut of a Mk1 1.6 in a stunning gunmetal grey with a black vinyl roof - He loved that car! Then came a red Mk2 Capri 2.0 and finally in 1981, wait for it... an Opel Kadett estate, polar white (the first of the front wheel drive Kadetts and looked pretty good in its day).

Kerrydude1981 · 13-12-2011 2:58pm

We had this kinda of model of Fesita in black for a few years in the 80s,before I was born my father drove a yellow Fiat 127

Then after another Feista,we moved on to an Opel Ascona,a bit like this model here

Which then was replaced by An Opel Kadett

Big Nasty · 13-12-2011 8:30pm

What I can remember:
2 X Mk I Granadas
2 X Mk II Granadas (one facelift)
2 X Sierras
1 X Renault 21
4 X Mondeos (still driving the last one)

Shhh · 13-12-2011 10:21pm

Yellow Renault 4L
Blue Renault 4L
Silver Renault 14
Gold!? Renault 19
Then boring golfs and passats.. Now he's a trendy Prius driver..

carchaeologist · 13-12-2011 11:07pm

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

We had this kinda of model of Fesita in black for a few years in the 80s,before I was born my father drove a yellow Fiat 127
Then after another Feista,we moved on to an Opel Ascona...
Which then was replaced by An Opel Kadett...

Any reg numbers for those KD1981?:)

Kerrydude1981 · 13-12-2011 11:51pm

carchaeologist wrote: »

Any reg numbers for those KD1981?:)

There in the photos

foxinsox · 14-12-2011 12:21am

Loving this thread

My Da had the following cars:

The colours are right, I might have got the order mixed up a bit.

After this it just goes:

Escort
Fiesta
Escort
Escort
Mondeo
Mondeo
Mondeo

My favourite was the Alfa Romeo - Alfetta - Would love it now. The sound out of it was wicked.

Owen · 14-12-2011 12:24am

My Dad had mostly company cars, the ones I remember were a Jetta, Bluebird and Carina II in gold. The Jetta ended up on Glenroe, Miley was driving it for a while.

My Mum had mental cars. She'd a Humber Sceptre, a Mini, an Audi 80 when they just came out. She always had big cars that were hard to handle. She's terrified of the things these days

Stovepipe · 16-12-2011 3:40pm

Great thread! My dad's first car was a Fiat 850, which was a complete bucket. It was battleship grey, with red vinyl seats. It was 6194 PI. Next was a yellow/mustard Mini 850, which took absolutely ages to heat on a cold morning. Reg. 202 NPI, followed by a red Mini City and later a succession of Corsas and dull Japanese cars (Yaris,etc).
My first car was a white Mk 1 Golf Diesel OZN 611, (Ozzie) as slow as glacial drift, followed by another Golf Diesel, 111 CNI (Nicky...names given by girlfriend), followed by a Jetta (unburstable but slow and rolled like a boat), a 1.3 Starlet, a 1974 BMW 2002 (sigh), a SEAT Toledo and other modern rubbish.

regards
Stovepipe

foxylock · 19-12-2011 12:09am

We had three, yes three Fiat 127's but the best and worst was the Kadett estate with no brakes and I used to have to travel in the boot. Until one day I convinced the sister to jump in with me and I left of the handbrake and planted it in the ditch. I got a boot in the arse for my trouble and my privileges were revoked so I had to sit in the back seat like a "normal" child.

K-9 · 19-12-2011 4:01am

Very much a Ford house:

All Cortina's from Mark I to V, I only remember the Mark III, 2 versions of the Sierra, an Orion and 2 Fiestas as they got older.

goldenwonder · 28-12-2011 2:18am

driving test car.
no insurance or anything

Orando Broom · 05-01-2012 5:38pm

Ford Escort Mk 1 (BO - Before Orando)
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Ford CortinaRed Nissan/Datsun Sunny Sentra (crashed by Mama with Orando and Sibling on the job too)
Blue Nissan/Datsun Sunny Sentra (Totalled by a Drunk Driver in a Morris Minor - said Sunny contained Orando, Papa and sibling of Orando.)
Green Nissan Sunny 1.7D (There are modern radio controlled cars with more power than this! It was on the road up to very recently being driven by it's second owner. (I learned to bomb around the meadow after the grass was cut in this)
Ivory coloured Nissan Sunny 2.0D (rough but quick learned to drive leagally in this)
Navy Nissan Primera 2.0TD (quick. Passed the driving test in this one)
Dark Green Renault Laguna 1.9DCI (Lovely car loads of extras. A round baler's intervention put this one to the sword. Neither Papa or sibling were seriously hurt)
Blue Renault Laguna 1.9DCI (six speed nowhere near the same amount of bells and whistles as the previous one.)

CamperMan · 05-01-2012 5:43pm

he drove buckets of $hit about

a beat up old Austin Maxi, most of the time we were pushing it!

a beat up old MK 1 Ford Escort estate, I remember the McPherson strut popping through the bonnet when my mum sat in the passenger seat

a beat up old Commer minibus

then a beat up old Ford Cortina

pdbhp · 05-01-2012 10:01pm

A Ferrari.................NOT!

Seriously though first car I remember my dad having was a renault 4.
Good lord it was a heap of shít, he still (nearly 30 years later) says that it could get up to a 100mph, nonsense the thing bairly moved.

Then we upgraded to an escort MK3 1.6 I think it was, much better than the R4 but still naff as it was a scaldy gold colour.

Think he got a Rover 218 diesel, loudest car on the planet, smokey and shoddy, that was when it was brand new, it got worse the older the car got:(

Chuck was taken · 07-01-2012 6:32pm

81' Audi 80

Same as this;

Finally died after 8 years of abuse

monkey tree · 10-01-2012 3:04am

I remember when I was around 11 years old Dad bought a Lada Riva Estate and as a result bearing the brunt of manys the joke from the extended family. One such joke was, "how do you double the price of a Lada?...You put 2pence on the dash.

It was a bloody petrol guzzler and nearly crippled the poor man, needless to say he only hung onto it for about 6 months. He drives a corolla now and he still talks about 'that mistake'!!!

james1410 · 10-01-2012 1:57pm

that i know of

mini mayfare
mg midget in british racing green
mg roadster in white
ford capri mk1 3 litre in white (he really liked this one! he siad it had great power)
opel manta coupe in orange
toyota landcruiser 2.4 turbo in red with graphics i think it was 1988
toyota landcruiser 3.0 lx 1995 his current jeep and he bought it new its one of 6 of this model sold new in ireland

he had numerous cortinas rover 2000s capris ect.. as he was a mechanic and he bought and sold alot of cars back then alot he used him self.;)

i myself am a retro head to and only drive pre 1993 cars!

ToyotaMad94 · 12-01-2012 4:06pm

My father used to drive ke71 Toyota Corolla and then a kp starlet...wish he still had them

Manda76 · 29-01-2012 2:46am

We didn't have a car when I was growing up in the 80s. My cousins did and to go in their car was such a treat, I envied them having one, on school mornings when it rained they got a lift and so on. It's funny though now to think back then parents only seemed to give their kids a lift to school when it rained or the weather was bad, most days they walked.
My Dad finally got his first car a Nissan micra when I was 19 and just before I moved out..bleeding typical.

fryup · 29-01-2012 11:45am

Manda76 wrote: »

It's funny though now to think back then parents only seemed to give their kids a lift to school when it rained or the weather was bad, most days they walked.

very true i cycled nearly everyday, alot of kids these get a lift home when they only live up the road from school...no wonder theres so much obesity

Manda76 wrote: »

My Dad finally got his first car a Nissan micra when I was 19 and just before I moved out..bleeding typical.

esp considering that half the country learnt to drive in a micra:pac:

Sindri · 30-01-2012 5:46am

Can't really remember the make, but it I think it was an ancient red Ford Fiesta. The thing was all angles and completely out of place with every other car on the roads. I remember having to push start the thing on numerous occasions and it would eventually chug into life.

Also remember when he went to get a new one and he had to have it crushed as it was near ****ing worthless, couldn't even trade it in and the state of it, it was becoming illegal to drive, think there might have been no seat belts in it.

fryup · 30-01-2012 6:10pm

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

learnt to drive in one of those, burnt the clutch out of it:o

Niles · 30-01-2012 7:50pm

I remember an old white Ford Sierra. 85 reg so must have been an import.

cade · 01-02-2012 2:52pm

Not my Dads first car naturally but the earliest I remember him having was an 1987(I think) Ford Capri 1.6L. I don't remember the early things but have been told that it was getting stolen almost weekly from the house, even with my dad staying up all night on countless occasions he could never catch people doing it. Still though he always got it back. Anyhow when he got a job with a company van the car got put into the garage for years until we needed to use the garage for some metalwork.

I think the car was outside the garage only a few days before it was destroyed bodywork wise by someone keying all along the side of it and the local scumbag kids climbing up onto the garage roof and jumping down as hard as they could onto the car roof & bonnet ultimately caving it in.

I'm always reminded of the car whenever I see that episode of the simpsons when Bart gets a Trampoline and then gets rid of it , that night Jimbo & Curly decide to jump on the car instead.

Satts · 03-02-2012 12:10am

Morris Minor
Escort Mark 1
Escort Mark 2
Fiesta Mark1 1981
Escort Mark 3 1983
Opel Kadett 1987
Ford Orion 1991 1.3
Toyota Corrola 1996
Focus Hatchback Mark 1 1999
Focus Saloon
Focus Saloon
Focus Saloon
Fiesta 2009 1.4 Diesel
Toyota Avensis 2011 2.0 Diesel

The Ford Orion was my favourite, red with spoiler.
Almost broke my neck a few times getting in and out of the Mark 2 Escort when I was a child, tripping over the ad-hoc wires going to the rear speakers.

demanufactured · 07-02-2012 3:16am

Green toyota hiace 81' reg

Red tabot express dont know the year.

87 nissan bluebird

Renault traffic 2l petrol

Renault 5 van

Renault 21 estate

93 toyota carina E estate

Currently a very clean 97 wv transporter that spent years in storage and had only 12,000 miles on the clock when it was bought in 2005

Pique · 08-02-2012 1:24pm

one of these when I was born

Then one of these for years...great yoke.
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Conzea · 08-02-2012 9:09pm

Nissan Sunny....(Ferris Bueller music plays in background)

Ben D Bus · 14-02-2012 11:42pm

Mini (cream with a black top)

Chrysler Avenger
Ford Cortina Mk3
Talbot (or was it a Chrysler?) Sunbeam

fryup · 15-02-2012 7:40pm

Pique wrote: »

Then one of these for years...great yoke.

my old man had one of those as well same gammy colour too, good car however

macroman · 16-02-2012 12:47am

I'm sure there's some he missed...

Morris Minor
Datsun 100A
Datsun Cherry
Ford Cortina Mk4 x 2
Mini 850 x 4
Mini 1000 x 3
Mini Van
Metro
Fiesta Mk1
Nissan Bluebird
Rover 213
Rover 213 SE
Ford Orion
Opel Kadet
Corolla E70 - hand painted by previous owner with Dulux :rolleyes:
Corolla E80
Datsun Vanette
Nissan Urvan
Hiace - old column gear type
Transit Mk3
Transit Mk5
Peugeot Partner x 3
Opel Combo
Rover 620
Astra G - first brand new car
Ford Focus
Laguna II
Volvo S40
Ford Focus new shape

browner85 · 16-02-2012 12:51am

the maqmmy had a mk 2 escort and dad had renault 18 for 10 yrs!!

theteal · 16-02-2012 12:59am

My auld lad was a Renault mechanic when I was a grommet so he had a few of them that I don't remember tbh. The car I remember, the car of my formative years was the immense:

Austin Montego

What car did your dad drive...

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