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Cars your dad had....BenzBoy
@benzboy
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Oct 28, 2004 19:55:17 GMT
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I was talking to my dad about cars that he's owned in the past, normally bought for peanuts and not really appreciated as they would be now - usually followed by the phrase "If only I'd have kept it... it'd be worth quite a bit now!" Cars he's had that I wish he'd kept (so I could have it ;D!) include: Mk 2 Jaguar which he totalled after hitting a pillar box  Mk 1 Ford Cortina VW beetle (brush-painted chocolate brown.... nice!) Vauxhall Viva, M-plater in Yellow  All were bought at a time when they didn't fetch much. Anyone else's relatives have anything they wish they'd kept hold of? |
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Davenger
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Cars your dad had....Davenger
@dminifreak
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Oct 28, 2004 20:01:29 GMT
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Oooh, now you're asking. 64 Singer Vogue 73 BMW 2500 2 Rover P6's 2 Bedford HA vans Moggy pickup Saab 99 MK5 Cortina, light blue with weller wheels  Renault 5 GTL That's all I can think of right now |
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Oct 28, 2004 20:02:36 GMT
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Riley 2.5 litre, his first car and he blew the engine A lovely looking car. He wishes he still has one, when we goto car shows and one is there. He stands talking for ages. Beetle 1303 reg SFA 99J. I remember this one! bright orange too, went on lots of family holidays in it as well. |
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I'm dressed in black again until someone invents a darker colour.
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Oct 28, 2004 20:11:39 GMT
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Well, here goes. Maybe I can get the comprehensive list. In chronolgical order. Not too sure on the years of stuff tho... Ford 100E (sidevalve!) Austin A40 Farina (Aubergine with black roof & wide steelies) Morris Oxford Series VI 1972 Morris 1300GT (Orange with Black Vinyl roof) 1975 Morris Marina 1300 (Sandglow? Harvest Gold?) I cried when they put on the ramps at the garage. I was two though... 1977 Audi 100 (white) 1970 Rover 2000 P6 (White & scabby bits) 1973 Renault 6 (blue) Top comedy 1978 Renault 20TL (white and very rusty even at six years old) reg. GTM966T 1980 Granada 2.3GL (gold) JCH348V 1986 Austin Montego Estate (beige) D819OKX 1987 Fiat Croma 2.0 (Silver) E345YKX 1981 Rover SD1 Vanden Plas (Gold) RVF 203W THe best car EVER! 1990 FSO Polonez (Red) G511YNM The worst car EVER! 1986 Skoda Estelle 105S (blue) D484SUR 1984 Skoda Estelle 120LS (baked bean orange) B118CVV - later went on to be my first love sorry car! Current: 1993 Skoda Favorit Blackline ("resting" at the moment), 1988 Volvo 760 Turbo estate (it just goes on, and on, and on, etc.) Crikey, what a list! See where I've got it from...  |
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RetroMat
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Oct 28, 2004 20:18:20 GMT
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my dad has never had an interest in cars, infact he didn't start driving untill he was 25 in my mums morris minor:
the list of cars goes
Minor
MK1 Escort 1.1
MK2 Escort 1.3
Marina<--worst car he had
Mirafiori estate<-- best car
another mk2 escort
MK3 escort
sierra saff
3 mondeos
a volvo s40
and now a Citroen C3 which he claims is better than all of the above bar the fiat
edit: i forgot the Talbot Samba
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Last Edit: Oct 28, 2004 22:17:06 GMT by RetroMat
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Davenger
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Cars your dad had....Davenger
@dminifreak
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Oct 28, 2004 20:22:31 GMT
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Ooh, I forgot about the Mirafiori, my dad had a pond scum green 1600, it went like curse word |
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Oct 28, 2004 20:53:04 GMT
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hes had
mk1 cortina
mk3 cortina
mk2 granada
vauxhall victor that he let me mum (at that stage hadnt driven for 15 years) in a ditch at the bottm of a single track hill in ireland on holiday
montego 2 litre (wow)
he keeps em a long time
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Oct 28, 2004 21:08:13 GMT
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bug
bug
viva
zephyr zodiac
viva
vw variant
mk1 cav
mk2 cav
metro !!!!!
beemer
that's the lot in over 30 years,
i've had more cars in the last decade,
not counting current 5 and those
which never got anywhere.
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Oct 28, 2004 21:26:14 GMT
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The ones he`s told me about Austin 7 Cortina Mk2 1600E in silver, his fave car, which was stolen..... it was the cossie of its day in that respect Honda N600 in yellow VW Bus, which i managed to tear the side door off... Kicked off the handbrake and it rolled down the drive, took the door off on the side of the house !!! MK1 Transit renault 4 van pug 304 in green with orange velour pug 504 estate pug 604 V6 in Metallic S*it Brown/gold with Tan leather Ford Pinto in lime green with red and brown stripe up the side Tina MK3 in Modena Green Mk1 escort estate, later mine Citroen BX Diesel Estate....proper lemon  Citroen ZX x2 Citroen GSA... Later My first Road Car and 3wks later My first big shunt, excellent little tool that was Volvo 240 in pale blue Various Fiat Puntos lately Various Renault Traffics New Honda Jazz ...Current New Traffic........Current van |
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Oct 28, 2004 22:12:16 GMT
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My Dad had Cortine Estates but when he was going out with my Mum he had a Mk2 Jag which was totaled in a crash with a Capri.
I spent more of my childhood with my uncle then my Dad and he had Hillman Imps. Bloody hell its his fault! ;D
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BS Nymph
Singer Chamois Coupe
Series 3 Landy
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Oct 29, 2004 10:37:41 GMT
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Riley 2.5 litre, his first car and he blew the engine A lovely looking car. He wishes he still has one, when we goto car shows and one is there. He stands talking for ages. I love those - which model was it - RM (padded roof, ash frame & separate wings or the later Pathfinder? I'm guessing that he probobly over revved it - they had a very long stroke engine (120mm ) - peak power of 100bhp was at only 4500 rpm  In a Pathfinder, 90mph in overdrive is only 3000rpm ;D Back on topic... Dad's first car was a Seat 600, when he was living in Majorca (grandparents emigrated in the 1960s), which was written off when he was forced off a mountain road by a Porsche 911 that came round a corner on the wrong side of the road Fiat of some kind - biodegradable body! BMW 2002 Tii - very unreliable electrics Saab 99 early eighties - Pug 305 estate (when I arrived!) Another Pug, white Audi 100 Avant, green Another Audi, blue 89 - Volvo 745 (G436UYM or G436 UYW), blue 92 - Volvo 945 SE Turbo (J907 HUS) hus is apparently the Swedish for house ;D Nicknamed the hearse, as it was battleship metallic grey, even the 'chrome' bits under the windows... Mum managed to drive it 40,000 miles in 18 months Also in the 80s, L-R Lightweight (used as second / station car) 1937 Riley Lynx Sprite tourer (toy) - when it arrived in 1986 (yes, that is me  )  After, in 1993  94 - Volvo Amazon (everyday car, not toy!!! It's mine now  2001 - Volvo 855 (L reg) |
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Oct 29, 2004 11:03:49 GMT
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Austin 1100
Hillman Minx
Renault 16TL, I too knocked the handbrake off and it rolled down the road to be caught my Dad and our neighbour just before hitting a wall!
Cortina MkII Super (engine lived on after rebuild in my Westfield!)
Talbot Matra Rancho in effluent orange, great for holidays
Subaru thing
Subaru thing, newer
Subaru Justy 1.2 3cylinder van (cool) 4WD and still going after 15 years
Rover 416 with cloth cap hook on dash
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Oct 29, 2004 11:17:12 GMT
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Sound's like my late Grandfather....his history was like this: Morris 8 Hillman Minx Californian Morris Oxford Series VI (later my dad's) Marina 1800TC Coupe Montego 1600 Ford Fiesta MkIII Six cars in fifty years on the road! |
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Last Edit: Oct 29, 2004 11:17:38 GMT by nickb
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Oct 29, 2004 11:25:05 GMT
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my dads never really been into cars, but i know he had an old mini cooper and i belive an Anglia. Sadly he doesnt really have any photos or stories (apart from when he crashed the mini and his mate went through the windscreen!).
The first car i really remember him having in about '87 was an old Cavalier. Ive always hated Vauxhalls! lol
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Oct 29, 2004 12:18:46 GMT
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60's Hillman Minx
Hillman Minx Hunter shape
Triumph 2000 MK1 which a horse wrote off!!
Triumph 2000 Mk1 no 2
Triumph 2000 Mk2
Triumph 2000 Mk2 no 2 (pattern forming here!)
Mercedes 280 E 1971, wish we had that now. Last car he owned.
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Oct 29, 2004 12:22:38 GMT
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Ford Anglia 100E
Ford Zodiac ( mk1 )
MGA twin cam ( HOW RARE !!!!??!?! )
TR4a
Rover P6 3500 ( only liked 5 star petrol ! )
Rootes Humber Sceptre - like a hunter, but with wood and twin carbs
Jensen Interceptor - still got this and he's probably going to keep it forever. ! ;D
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Rob
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Oct 29, 2004 12:26:12 GMT
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my dads not much of a car guy... the only ones i remember are...
a swamp green imp ( i loved that car)
orange fiat 126/7 sport... i liked that too...
he has a rover 214 now so I'm waiting for the paint to fall off so i can have the k-series! he's had the head gasket done recently so its good to go to me... probably ;D
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Oct 29, 2004 12:34:05 GMT
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Well, besides a line of Volvo saloons going back into the early 80s, I remember... a black Mini cooper with KGB as part of the number plate (very Russian secret poice!  ) a mid 70s Mazda B1800 pickup, and another one from the mid/ late 70s later that was customised in the Mad Max style, and carried scrap metal usually, A mk 3 Capri 2 litre pinto (can't remember much about it) A mk 2 Granada with 2.5 V6, (he always wanted a mk1 3 litre but he's never found a good one) A 3 door Chevette that I can't remember much about but I think it was gold and had wide rostyles on it at one point. And the afore-mentioned Volvos, from 144s, early 240s etc up to more modern 2, 7 and 9 series, always saloons oddly enough, he never bought a Volvo estate, always saloons he never did have a newer or flashier car himself, but he drove more than a few nice ones for firms he worked for, and I remember him taking home some odd stuff, including Colt Celestes, Sapporos, Merc 500SEs (!) and even on the odd occasion an early Rolls Royce Silver Shadow (which got plenty of attention when people saw him parking it in the East end, people thought he'd nicked it from his boss when they saw him cruising around in it, it was a well known car around here after that! Plus he had some nice lorries, stuff like his customised Scania 111 artic with a shortened three axle chassis, brand new sleeper cab, and a bigger than stock engine, plus huge chrome stack exhausts that looked like they were nicked off an American Mack or something! All paid for by the haulage firm he worked for of course, it was a hell of a capable motor, and good for publicity, looked nice in two tone green, BRG and mint green, one of my earliest memories is going with him long distance, Inverness-Liverpool etc under cover of dark. Memories eh? ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Oct 29, 2004 12:37:37 GMT
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My dads car history is quite unusual Morris Mini - tweed grey Morris Mini - Yellow with a black top Fiat 850 sport ;D Morris 1300 Gt - Cut up and burried Toyota 1600 ST Mk1 Ford Capri 1.4 Mk3 Which he built from a wreck with 2.0 pinto engine Toyota Celica ST Mk3 Fiat Croma Mg Maestro Various Company cars Lotus Esprit Mg ZS 180 Land Rover Freeloader  |
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Last Edit: Oct 29, 2004 12:39:14 GMT by Ministrone
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Oct 29, 2004 14:45:33 GMT
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My Dad's still well into cars, in the past he's had all sorts of stuff including (some of the more interesting ones) :- - A35 Van (with rear seat conversion no less!) - mk1 mini cooper - various minis from Cooper S's, Coopers, Vans, pickups, through to boggo mid 80's 998's. There are too many to mention - a few triumph 2.5's - Triumph GT6 - Triumph Dolomite Sprint (supposedly ex-works but unlikely, at best it was used as a recce car) - Rover SD1 V8S - Rover SD1 Vitesse single plenum - a couple of MGB's - a mk1 escort mexico (although that never ran) - A few Golf GTis and a Sirrocco GTi - Audi Coupe GT He's still got - An MGC with a downton triple SU conversion and knock on minilites - a mini pickup - a few modern cars Best opportunity missed though was he was offered a Jag XK120 lightweight (the aluminium bodied one with rear arch spats) for 1000quid (it was running and MOT'd too) unfortunately this was when 1000quid was a lot of money and he couldn't raise it ! |
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Cheers S
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In a Pathfinder, 90mph in overdrive is only 3000rpm ;D
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