Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 9,553 
Club RR Member Number: 33
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 I've posted this one before, I'm sure. That's me (aged 2yrs 8 months) sat on the bonnet whilst Daddy Damaged looks sullen, stood by his '58 Zephyr. Of more significance is Daddy D's monumental quiff....bear in mind the date of the picture (June 1967) and the fact that Jimi Hendrix had just lain waste to the Monterey Pop Festival and The Beatles had just released 'Sgt.Pepper'....and there's pops aged just 22 and already looking like a Man Out Of Time. One of my treasured posessions for that very reason. |
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Dad's only 40 so he has not had that many cars and neither has he got many photos apart from a couple of sierras that are somewhere in the house (will edit them in if found), but I want to make a list of the cars I can remember him mentioning. try and get them in order if I can too. Mk5 Cortina estate Chevette that sat on the ground in red primer Mk1 cavalier Two Sierras, one with a Rover V8 Nova 2.0 MK2 XR2 Sure he owned a Rover SD1 And he owns my Mk2 Fiesta at the moment until he hands it over  There is much more but I just can't remember at the moment. |
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cool pic brian, i think the hair style is "pompadour"
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cup of tea in a layby what what what, uncle H + hillman hunter (might be late minx) circa '68  |
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No pictures I'm afraid but I was talking to my dad on this subject only last Saturday!
My Dad loved cars but never really had much money as despite having a good job (Fire man, then Paramedic) my Mum only earnt low wages as a nurse and as said elsewhere, credit wasn't easy to get back then.
My earliest memory was about 76 when my Dad went from a Triumph Herald to a mk3 Zodiac - I adored the fins! After that, we moved house and he bought a N reg (6 yr old) Hillman Hunter 1500DL in metallic blue. He then traded that in for what is most certainly the coolest car he ever had - An Audi 100 Coupe S (HTH500N) It was STUNNING in maroon, and it was the coolest car in the street. I became the envy of all the kids at school! My Dad became the local Steve McQueen overnight... That lasted right up until our next door neighbour bought himself a spanking new Mk3 Capri - The look on my Dad's face I shall never forget - ENVY. He promised himself that one day he too would have a Capri and indeed did later on...
After the Audi went, it got replaced with a 3 yr old Mk4 2.0l Ghia Cortina in metallic blue (Auto) which got written off in 3 months and lost my Dad a heap of money. He then went onto a Volvo 245 estate, A Metro, a Cavilier, and then said Capri - a 1.3 powered mk3! It even had 8" wide Slot mags on the back! He then trading that in against his biggest mistake - a Matra Rancho in red! I then became the embarassment of the street as it looked like we owned the Popemobile!
Nothing really of note after that other than a brief spell with a 2600 SD1 and at 66yrs old, he now drives a Y plate Mondeo. He hasn't yet seen my Cortina but I know he will love it!
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96 E320 W210 Wafter - on 18" split Mono's - Sold :-(
10 Kia Ceed Sportwagon - Our new daily
03 Import Forester STi - Sold
98 W140 CL500 AMG - Brutal weekend bruiser! Sold :-(
99 E240 S210 Barge - Now sold
02 Accord 2.0SE - wife's old daily - gone in PX
88 P100 2.9efi Custom - Sold
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