Your parents coolest car

my old man's had a few cool cars.

He had an A55 Austin Cambridge before I was born, which was pretty sweet.

After that he had a V4 Ford Corsair, which he says was the worst car he evr had but I'd have loved it.

first car he had wehn I was alive was a FD Vauxhall Victor, followed by a FD Ventora. Both well cool cars.

The first one I remember with much detail was a bronze Mk1 Granada 3.0GXL very sweeny,

after that he had a Volvo 264GL which was cool too, and also bronze.

after that was a Mk2 Granada 2.8i Ghia (prefacelift) in pale blue metyallic with a matching blue vinyl roof and matching blue velour interior. very blue I loved that. GBC939T as I recall. Lovely.

I was well impressed with his next car, a 1981 W123 Merc 280E which he fetched from Germany as a private import. It was burgundy with a tan inteiror and he kept that for a fair few years.

After that he had Jags of various sorts.

mkII Scrote. purple paint inside, in the boot and under the bonnet and red tractor paint outside.

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Before I was born, my old man had a Rover P6 V8...

since then, the only car (of specific interest here) that has been 'cool' that they've owned was the Audi 90 quattro that I bought off them shortly after they bought it...

Trummy TR4a and a MK4 Tina, loved those cars so much so I had the plates made up and stuck em on me wall LOL.

My dad had a Arrow Hillman Minx when I was born, then 4 Triumph 2000s thru the 70's 2 MK1s and 2 MK 2s, he had a W114 Merc 280E before he passed away. My mam learnt to drive after that, her first car was a Fiat 127 then 2 Unos, then it gets bad,3 cylinder Corsa

First I remember being really impressed by was a Mk3 2000E, dad’s first company car when I was 8. Even had a louvre thing on the rear window. Way better than the lower-spec Cortinas with leg-burning seats we’d had previously. Later there were a couple of wedgy Alfa Giuliettas.

Stepdad had an XR4x4 which followed a 924 and a Manta and at least half a dozen Datsuns, but for his building work he had a string of things which I’d now think of as equally impressive – Acty, B1600, Chevanne, 204 estate, Escort Mk1 van, Minor van and pickup, all sorts of rubbish one journey away from the scrapyard.

Can we include grandparents? Better gloss over the series of Marinas owned by one, but the other had an E-Type and my Granny a MkII Jag up to the early-1980’s, when I suspect they got sold for a pittance having been run on a shoestring for years. Hmmm, sounds familiar… He’d had some quality things like Alvis and others back in the day as he did big miles in pre-motorway times.

my earliest memory is sitting on the pull out of the bench seat on my dads 66 zephyr six in blue with blue interior, he then had in order,
72 mk1 escort 1300xl
73 mk3 cortina estate,
74 granada 3 litre ghia
75 cortina 1600 xl
76 2 door cortina 2 litre gt
79 cortina 2.3 ghia
82 volvo240 dl
86 transit van
90 transit minibus
92 carlton

the granada was nice but the zeph was the coolest, he also owned a rolls royce with some pals while in the navy in the korean war, he was on hms glory an aircraft carrier and they had to dump it in the sea before re entering british waters ;D

Pre me being born mum and dad had a very quick mk1 mini which I've seen a few pics of. Dad also had a triumph Dolomite Sprint in green with beige interior, that was cool. That got replaced with a montego vanden plas and I remember doing a ton in it back from buying it...

My dads coolest cars have been a 1972 Elan Sprint in clover leaf
77 Reliant Scimitar SE6, 91 Prisioner edition Caterham 7, 86 Rover SD1 EFi Vittess, 72 MG Midget RWA that was seriously breathed on and went like stink!!! Then loads of Mk3 cortinas, escorts and before I was born he a 105e Anglia and an A35 van!!!